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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Kids’ beauty pageantsare an ugly subculture

Published January 22, 1997

Provocative photos of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey have blanketed the media since she was murdered in her Colorado home and, reportedly, sexually assaulted. The national fury about the story is prompted...

Hoosiers hand Michigan third conference loss

Published January 22, 1997

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Indiana went small and came up big. Neil Reed scored 20 points and A.J. Guyton added 15 and grabbed a game-saving rebound in the final seconds Tuesday night as the 21st-ranked...

Coaches enthralled by parity in men’s hoops

by Todd Zolecki
Published January 22, 1997

It seems no team is safe in the Big Ten this season. The conference schedule has already produced some early upsets, which leads a few men's basketball coaches to believe the league is balanced this year. Some...

Requirements aren’t tasty, but they’re filling

by By Karrie
Published January 22, 1997

One of the biggest gripes on most college campuses today is that students are forced to take too many general education requirements. Many students forget that having a degree does not mean "well trained...

Speaker addresses Israel’s identity

by Elizabeth Reinecke
Published January 22, 1997

"Territory, sovereignty and power -- those are three issues that have never before been issues for the Jewish people," said Dr. Daniel Levine, the director of interdisciplinary studies at the University...

Canada’s biggest city faces major changes

Published January 22, 1997

TORONTO (AP) -- A few months ago, Toronto was aglow at being ranked the world's best city. Now, municipal leaders sound like doomsday is at hand -- and blame their own province's premier. "It's like the...

Gingrich made many bad decisions

Published January 22, 1997

Here's an interesting piece of trivia: Newt Gingrich aspired as a child to be a zoo keeper. Considering the ethics imbroglio he now finds himself in (again), perhaps he should have avoided the Beltway...

Nation pays attention to U experts on welfare reform

by Jacqueline Couillard
Published January 22, 1997

When a pair of University faculty members speak, people listen. People like Uncle Sam, the Minnesota Legislature and Cornell University. All three institutions -- and others across the country -- will...

Pop quiz: students take on the staff

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published January 22, 1997

The University administration and Radio K will be among teams participating in an annual clash of brains at Coffman Memorial Union today. The tournament, sponsored by the University College Bowl program,...

Orfield resumes tuition-relief fight

by Tracy Ellingson
Published January 22, 1997

Last January about 200 students gathered on the Washington Avenue Bridge, ignoring the cold weather and shunning their classes in a show of support for a tuition-relief bill sponsored by Rep. Myron Orfield,...

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