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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Students question O’Keefe, other regent candidates

by Tracy Ellingson
Published February 6, 1997

During a reprieve from a long legislative interview process, some regent candidates vying for open seats spent time answering questions from the people whom their decisions will affect most if they are...

Policy changes proposed for GAPSA

by Tom Lopez
Published February 6, 1997

To members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Taking steps to eliminate problems before they arise, GAPSA members instituted two policy...

Two IU football recruits to play basketball as well

Published February 6, 1997

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Indiana received signed letters Wednesday from 24 football recruits, including a pair whose decision may have been influenced by a promise from basketball coach Bob Knight. Levron...

U considersbus pass plan

by Lynne Kozarek
Published February 5, 1997

The University wants to trade its current Route 52 bus service for a hike in student service fees and a universal student bus pass. Parking and Transportation Services introduced plans to redesign campus...

Country-wide business scam hits U

by Jim Martyka
Published February 5, 1997

A University instructor reported receiving a letter from a Nigerian doctor soliciting money for a supposed business partnership. The letter, signed by Dr. Jeff Bada from Lagos, Nigeria, read, "We are...

Bargaining unit will protect academic freedom

Published February 5, 1997

Academic freedom -- freedom for unrestricted inquiry and expression in our research and teaching -- is the foundation of our profession and of a free society. Most of us presume that tenure is sufficient...

FBI forensic follies reveal flawed system

Published February 5, 1997

Bombs exploded last week in the bank and courthouse of Vallejo, Calif. A third bomb was discovered near the public library. The case was solved through classic police work: a combination of determining...

Embassy hostage’s wife weathers long wait

Published February 5, 1997

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- It's a ritual. Every day, Beatriz Gumucio steps onto a 14th-floor balcony of a Lima apartment building to look down at the Japanese ambassador's compound and the mansion where her husband...

High time to kill high tuition, high aid

Published February 5, 1997

In the political hubris of the last legislative season, Gov. Arne Carlson banded together with both a former legislator and a former representative and proposed the high tuition-high aid policy for higher...

MnSCU tries to keep up

by Tracy Ellingson
Published February 5, 1997

The University became the state's first higher education institution in 1851 -- seven years before the state itself was established. Almost a century and a half later, the University is still the state's...

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