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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Ex-inspector raises frightful FAA doubts

Published April 4, 1997

In this decade alone, commercial airplane crashes have taken the lives of hundreds of Americans. Yet the Federal Aviation Administration and the airline industry it oversees insist that the risk of dying...

Taiwan’s education innovator visits campus

by Brett Knapp
Published April 4, 1997

The University will receive a visit today from an international pioneer in education reform. Taiwanese Minister of Education Dr. Wu Jin will lecture on educational reform in the Republic of China at 2...

Community vital to students

by Nancy Ngo
Published April 4, 1997

The importance of an interactive University community to freshmen and sophomores has increased considerably, according to a recently released University survey. Researchers in the Office for Student Development...

U has outside shot at NCAAs

by Susan Filkins
Published April 4, 1997

Last year at this time, junior Bob Hubbard entered the Cooke Hall Gym for practice in preparation for the men's gymnastics NCAA East Regionals meet. But instead of warming up to work out, he was told...

Experimental surgery pays off

by Kelly Wittman
Published April 4, 1997

Bob Zgonc served as an officer of the Minnesota Highway Patrol for 28 years. He was an outdoorsman who loved to hunt, fish and walk in the woods, but that was before the tremors, shakes and muscle rigidity...

Break-in victims tell their stories

by Kamariea Forcier
Published April 4, 1997

and Andrew TellijohnTwo of three victims in an October rape and burglary incident near the University were the first to take the stand in the trial against Puiassance J. Andersen on Thursday at the Hennepin...

Elmo’s favorite rag

Published April 4, 1997

Elmo sat in the coffee shop reading one of his favorite parts of the Daily, the A&E. It was a ragged copy he found on the floor. Elmo was on campus Wednesdays and Fridays, so he wasn't able to get...

Gophers must stop Hoosiers this weekend to finish at top

by Michael Rand
Published April 4, 1997

The type of finish the Gophers softball team experienced Wednesday night could foreshadow how the rest of their season is going to unfold. In compiling a 23-6 non-conference record, Minnesota played its...

U hopes to regain edge at Indiana

by Ryan Schuster
Published April 4, 1997

Minnesota's women's golf team is hoping that a trip to Indiana this weekend will help them scrape away the cobwebs that accumulated during its three-month layover. The No. 17 Gophers will compete Friday...

New series format highlights Big Ten

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 4, 1997

It might not be as revolutionary as the major league's adoption of interleague play, but the Big Ten is making a scheduling change of its own this year. Now, the first (Friday) and last (Sunday) games...

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