The Minnesota Daily

Drug lords offer to implicate Colombian president

Published March 7, 1997

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The United States refused the Cali drug cartel's offer to provide evidence implicating Colombia's president in drug corruption in exchange for a promise not to pursue some cartel...

Long road ends with Griffin in baseball

by Tim Klobuchar
Published March 7, 1997

Ben Griffin, preparing for his fourth different school and enduring his third injury in four years, was making a visit to an academic counselor in June of 1995 when he decided to stop by the Gophers baseball...

Media honors Bobby Jackson

Published March 6, 1997

Postseason awards are starting to be divvied out to the nation's top men's basketball players and Gophers shooting guard Bobby Jackson looks destined to win his share before the year is over. The United...

U’s low graduation rate is improving

by Jim Martyka
Published March 6, 1997

University administrators emphasized the importance of increasing graduation rates when they developed the University 2000 plan three years ago. Because the University is such an important contributor...

Surplus shouldn’t bring tax rebates

Published March 6, 1997

Thanks to everyone who recently sent in questions to Miss Anthrope. However, I have a few things to get off my chest, so Miss Anthrope's smart-aleck advice will have to wait. First of all, let me remind...

Stauber sits at top of world with U

Published March 6, 1997

Todd Zolecki Staff Reporter This whole thing is a bit unusual for Aaron Stauber. Not everybody gets to play on the second-ranked men's basketball team in the country. And yet, here he is, a walk-on senior...

Residential College: the ‘best of both worlds’

by Jennifer Niemela
Published March 6, 1997

Still a new program, Residential College invokes some of the oldest traditions in academia; administrators call the college a vision for the University's future. Perhaps one of the most successful new...

Some fears quelled, but questions remain

Published March 6, 1997

What is U2000? Beyond the now-traditional refrain of "Nils Hasselmo's restructuring plan for making the University a world-class research institution," it's not an easy question to answer. Sometimes, it...

orrection

Published March 6, 1997

Correction In a graphic accompanying the story "IT down about latest grad school rankings" printed in Monday's Daily, the rankings from the 1996 U.S. News & World Report's ratings of graduate programs...

Carlson sees what we’ve been seeing all along

Published March 6, 1997

The steam plant is really ugly. I mean, uuug-ly! Have you ever seen it? It's the rusty brown cluster of four smokestacks visible from the 35W bridge. If you've ever walked across the 10th Avenue bridge...