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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Statistician weighs the NCAA

by Peter Kauffner
Published March 14, 1997

As employees place their office pool bets on the "March Madness" NCAA men's basketball tournament, some are seeking the advice of Bradley Carlin, an associate professor of biostatistics at the University. Carlin...

Clinton plan would allow tolls on interstates

Published March 13, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) --President Clinton's $175 billion program for new highway projects could hit some of America's drivers in the pocketbook: To help foot the bill, the plan would allow states to charge tolls...

Students display robots at Coffman

by Peter Kauffner
Published March 13, 1997

Robots for pouring wine, cleaning CDs and tossing coins into a piggy bank were featured Wednesday in the Lots of Robots show in Coffman Memorial Union. The robots were built by students enrolled in Professor...

Justice wasn’t served in animal-rights sentence

by By David
Published March 13, 1997

Justice is blind, right? In an ideal world punishments always fit the crime, the innocent never suffer, and the guilty never go free. It's the American way! However, in some cases, justice seems to be...

REV 105, the Reader and life on main street

Published March 13, 1997

Picture an average small town. It's not too wealthy, perhaps a bit rough around the edges, but at the center lies a town square. There you find a dozen, maybe 20 stores: a pair of corner groceries, a shoe...

Computer rankings trouble coaches

by Michael Rand
Published March 13, 1997

Craig Dahl and Jim Boeheim should get together sometime. Maybe they could hang out and talk about coaching over a cup of coffee. Dahl, the hockey coach at St. Cloud State, and Boeheim, the men's basketball...

Jury selection startsin gym coach’s lawsuit

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published March 13, 1997

A dispute between the University and former women's gymnastics coach Katalin Deli returned to Hennepin County District Court on Wednesday, about a year since the last court appearance. At issue is whether...

Elmo will survive

Published March 13, 1997

At first Elmo was afraid. He was petrified. He just kept thinking he couldn't live without her by his side. But then he spent so many nights just thinking how she did him wrong. He grew strong. He learned...

Regents sworn in today

Published March 13, 1997

After three months of public interviews and legislative lobbying, the regent-search process ends today as three new and two returning regents are sworn in at this month's Board of Regents meeting. H. Bryan...

Gophers depart for NCAAs

by Tim Klobuchar
Published March 13, 1997

The Gophers' last home game was a week ago, but Williams Arena (the parking lot anyway) was still filled with Gophers men's basketball fans Wednesday morning. More than 200 pompon-waving Minnesota supporters...

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