The Minnesota Daily

laws under scrutiny in final debate

by Tracy Ellingson
Published April 22, 1997

Observers and panelists at the second and final debate held Monday between candidates for the top spots in the Minnesota Student Association seemed more interested in the candidates' weaknesses than their...

Other MSA offices

Published April 22, 1997

Editor's Note: The following statements were submitted by candidates for the Minnesota Student Association Forum when they filed for the election. Students running for two positions will be allowed only...

Gophers salvage series split at Ohio State

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 21, 1997

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At times during the first two games of this weekend's series at Ohio State, the Gophers experienced moments of joy. The feeling at the end of both games, though, was exasperation, as...

Credibility eroding, tobacco giants talk

Published April 21, 1997

Last week's revelation that Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco are holding secret settlement talks with plaintiffs suing the tobacco industry represents a critical development in decade-long efforts to curtail...

Image portrayed by Spice Girls is counter-productive

Published April 21, 1997

The Spice Girls annoy me. It's not that I'm jealous of them because many men are gaga over them or anything like that -- they just really annoy me. They dress in ridiculous clothes, brag about being promiscuous...

As students move in, community moves out

by Joel Sawyer
Published April 21, 1997

Frank Zaragoza remembers a time when the Motley neighborhood of Southeast Minneapolis was a quiet place with a strong sense of community. "Forty years ago it was like a little village. Most people who...

Workshop encourages novice gardeners

Published April 21, 1997

The ground has just begun to thaw, yet experienced gardeners have been planning their summer landscape for more than a month. But members of the University's Minnesota Landscape Arboretum held a spring...

U signs guard to replace Jackson

Published April 21, 1997

The Gophers men's basketball team dipped into the junior college ranks to find a replacement for Big Ten Most Valuable Player Bobby Jackson, and it hopes it has one in Kevin Clark, a guard from Cowley...

Elmo, accountable

Published April 21, 1997

"Elmo! Give an accounting of yourself!" God was standing waist-deep in the Red River on what used to be a county road. "Ah ... The serpent tempted me and I did--" "That's been done! And it doesn't apply...

he Identities of Cedar-Riverside

by Joe Carlson
Published April 21, 1997

Nestled between the University, Interstates 35W and 94 and downtown Minneapolis, is an eclectic community known as the Cedar-Riverside area. Although most people could point to Cedar-Riverside on a map,...