The Minnesota Daily

Michigan puts Gophers under .500

by Michael Rand
Published April 21, 1997

In a conversation Thursday afternoon, Michigan's Carol Hutchins didn't speak with the confidence one might expect of a coach who has led a team to four Big Ten titles in the last five years. The reason...

Grand Forks will survive the floods

Published April 21, 1997

ome home, Sammy. We're trying to save our city." Those are the words my mother said to me on the phone Thursday night. Idon't think I've ever heard that exact matter-of-fact tone from her before. I knew...

Playoff hopes die for Gophers women’s golf team

by Ryan Schuster
Published April 21, 1997

The Gophers women's golf team's worst fears were realized this weekend as the team was eliminated from postseason competition in its last regular season meet of the year. Minnesota finished sixth out...

Men’s tennis has worst finish under Geatz

by Aaron Kirscht
Published April 21, 1997

Gophers men's tennis coach David Geatz has played up the doubles performance of his team all season long. "We just don't lose the doubles point," he said earlier this season. "That's a huge advantage...

U baseball’s bullpen gets burned by sun

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 21, 1997

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As Minnesota's Ted Zrust prepared to pitch to Ohio State's Jason Driscoll with the Gophers' tenuous last-inning lead in peril on Saturday, the sun slipped from behind the clouds, illuminating...

Morris chancellorwill retire in ’98

by Kamariea Forcier
Published April 21, 1997

In a campus assembly in Morris last week, University of Minnesota--Morris Chancellor David Johnson announced to students, faculty and staff members that he will retire in June 1998. "I feel I am seeing...

Crookston opens up to flood victims

by Lynne Kozarek
Published April 21, 1997

As the Red River continues to rise and wreak havoc on towns along the border between Minnesota and the Dakotas, about 3,000 people from the Grand Forks area have been evacuated to nearby Crookston, Minn. Between...

Ellen’s gay … so are thousands of others

Published April 21, 1997

It has got to be a tough gig being a homosexual in the age of "political correctness." Who really cares that this is America, "the home of the free?" The country that prides itself on being the nation...

U’s Knaeble earns All-American honor

by Susan Filkins
Published April 21, 1997

The Gophers women's gymnastics team has managed throughout the course of the season to break just about every record it has ever set. This weekend, it continued to make history. For the first time ever...

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...