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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Gophers KO Spartans, 81-74

by Todd Zolecki
Published March 7, 1997

All season long the Gophers men's basketball team has said it is a team that relies on no one player. If a shooter has a bad game, a player off the bench picks up the slack. If a big man gets into foul...

Keyser to avoid sophomore jinx

by Susan Filkins
Published March 7, 1997

Gophers gymnast Cathy Keyser knows a lot about balance. Nearly everyday she gets up on the balance beam, which is only 4 inches wide, and manages to hold her center of gravity. This year, Keyser is attempting...

Cave-dwelling teen gets offers of help

Published March 7, 1997

OCALA, Fla. (AP) -- A homeless 17-year-old boy who lived in a cave for two months was back above ground Thursday, deluged with offers of money, adoption and television appearances. "It's just overwhelming,"...

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...

U edges Cyclones in bottom of ninth

by Tim Klobuchar
Published March 6, 1997

The Gophers baseball team temporarily solved its first-inning woes Wednesday night against Iowa State, but still needed some late-inning heroics to beat the Cyclones 6-5 at the Metrodome. Senior Bob Keeney...

Sciences and math losing students

by Kamariea Forcier
Published March 6, 1997

and Peter KauffnerNathan Hunstad, a University sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts, could have been halfway done with his science degree. Instead, he called it quits after his first month at the...

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...

Colombia suspends drug eradication program

Published March 6, 1997

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) --Colombia is temporarily suspending its drug crop eradication program, the government announced Wednesday in a direct response to Washington's decision decertifying it as an ally...

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...

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...

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