The Minnesota Daily

Students should care about faculty pay

Published January 29, 1997

If the University hopes to become a Super Bowl-caliber institution of higher learning in the coming century (as University 2000, an administrative restructuring blueprint, purports), it must adequately...

Schedule will favor No. 6 Gophers

by Todd Zolecki
Published January 28, 1997

A player or coach probably wouldn't be caught saying it, but the Gophers men's basketball team has a favorable schedule the next two weeks before it plays Purdue and Iowa back-to-back on the road in mid-February. The...

Bill Gates: Visionary or techno-dreamer?

Published January 28, 1997

Bill Gates is everywhere. His tousled hair, stooped posture and disheveled attire routinely graces the covers of national magazines. The A&E cable network declared his life story the "Biography of...

Iverson blends with other stars in Big Ten

by Aaron Kirscht
Published January 28, 1997

Gophers' center Angie Iverson and Penn State forward Angie Potthoff have more in common than the obvious. Both are the centerpieces of their team's respective offenses. Both average double figures in...

Abortion clinic bombing not a Christian act

by By Tom
Published January 28, 1997

Early last week the Daily editorial cartoonist John Nilsen presented a cartoon that had but one purpose -- to portray Christians as crazy killers who go around bombing abortion clinics. Let me first say...

Wisconsin takes surprising leap in WCHA standings

by Michael Rand
Published January 28, 1997

Obviously, the Gophers hockey team benefitted the most from the past weekend of play in the WCHA. After all, Minnesota jumped from a tie for third place into sole possession of first, leaping past St....

Post-holiday debt can put strain on student budgets

by Melanie Evans
Published January 28, 1997

For college students, the new year doesn't always mean a fresh start. January and February can become a stressful time for students on a limited budget as they struggle to balance holiday credit card...

Travel to Mars on Han Solo’s back

Published January 28, 1997

"Star Wars" will re-open this Friday in theaters across America. The film will take most of us back to childhood memories and a time when our world was very different. It was a world in which we had sent...

‘Ambassadors’ teach English

by Kamariea Forcier
Published January 28, 1997

Just a block away from the University's Superblock of student dormitories is a tiny classroom inside of a house, overflowing with chatter, laughter and love. This is the classroom of Kathleen Macosko,...

Neel defends place on board

by Joel Sawyer
Published January 28, 1997

Among those interviewed Monday for the five open seats on the University's 12-member governing board were current Regent H. Bryan Neel and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland. The end of...