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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Weather takes its toll on U players

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 14, 1997

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- This is what two Gophers baseball players, enduring their fourth postponed or canceled game in the last week, were reduced to: Eric Welter and Ryan Beers, sitting in a hallway inside...

Award-winning columnist to speak at U

by Joel Sawyer
Published April 14, 1997

Molly Ivins has never been afraid to say what she thinks. The nationally syndicated political columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has skewered politicians for years with her razor-sharp wit, incisive...

Gophers softball sweeps Penn State

by Michael Rand
Published April 14, 1997

When car keys get lost, nine times out of 10 the place they turn up is obvious -- a jacket pocket, a table or even a car door. But sometimes they end up somewhere obscure, like the refrigerator. The Gophers...

Bills show differingviews on education

by Chris Vetter
Published April 14, 1997

Although the Minnesota House and Senate both expect to consider funding bills for higher education this week, their respective proposals offer dramatically different approaches for students and universities....

U loses two of three on road

Published April 14, 1997

Tim Klobuchar STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The Gophers baseball team's win over Penn State in the final game on Sunday, and the way they won it, might go a long way towards healing the memories of its first...

Crime down sharply, especially in the suburbs

Published April 14, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans experienced significantly fewer violent crimes in 1995 than in 1994, with rates for such acts as rape, robbery and assault down by 12.4 percent, the Justice Department said...

U women get higher grades than men

by Nancy Ngo
Published April 11, 1997

Those who claim women are smarter than men might have more evidence to back up their claims if the grade-point averages at the University are used as an example. An analysis of fall quarter's grades by...

Museum to unveil interactive program to spice up its telecasts

Published April 11, 1997

The University's Bell Museum of Natural History will not unveil its newest live interactive education program until next October, but work on the one-hour broadcast has already begun. The program, in which...

Local restaurants hungry for input

by Nancy Ngo
Published April 11, 1997

Representatives from local food businesses said they want the option of placing bids to move or add their operations to University territory. Leaders of the Dinkytown Business Association invited University...

Tension overshadows Med Center’s celebration

by Kelly Wittman
Published April 11, 1997

Fairview-University Medical Center employees and administrators gathered in a lull before the union election storm Thursday to celebrate the first 100 days of the merger between two hospitals. The National...

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