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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

The only thing standing between you and spring break

Published March 16, 1997

It's Friday of finals week. You're sitting in yet another study session, this one in Willey Hall 125. The room is full of restless students trying to get a clue about what your test -- your last test of...

Ask not what Ican do for you … but what you can do for me

Published March 16, 1997

You decide that making the speech might be worthwhile after all, since the disgruntled students seem to know something about the man. Hesitantly, you wade through to the center of the protesters and grab...

Thriller of a time

Published March 16, 1997

You feel precious time slipping away, and you realize your best educated guess is all that will save your Spring Break. You follow your nose, because you smell a rodent. You realize you have to, just this...

Running down a dream

Published March 16, 1997

You only pause a second before running off in the direction of the darkly clad man. "Forget the test!" you say aloud. Then you see the man ahead of you, within earshot. "Hey, you!" you cry. Someone stop...

The near-beating of a college professor

Published March 16, 1997

By the time you reach Kaplan, he is surrounded by the usual claque of admiring students, saying goodbye and making their final comments, as though they are graduating from high school instead of just having...

Ooh, ooh that smell

Published March 16, 1997

You emerge from the burning wreckage disoriented by the smoke and flying glass shards. You stumble a few steps into the road, confused by the smell of frying bacon. The odor takes you back to the kitchen...

Sweating bullets

Published March 16, 1997

You have to think fast. You swiftly decide that the mysterious villain has taken off down the sidewalk to your left, passing the Law Building and heading toward the entrance to Willey Hall that faces the...

Here’s a little ditty …

Published March 16, 1997

Although you were curious about the shadowy figure, the magnetic presence of Nils on the balcony lures you toward the house. As you stumble toward the radiant Hasselmo, you realize you are not alone. Throngs...

Non-quiet times in the library

Published March 16, 1997

Inside Walter Library, students are frantically searching Lumina and rifling through the microfiches. "Aaah, the madness of finals week," you think as you approach the check-out counter in the main lobby. "Books...

Break on through to the other side

Published March 16, 1997

You figure there is no way you will catch the speeding car, but you are angry and you want your ticket. And if you can't have your ticket, you want your money -- NOW. There is only one rational thing to...

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