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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Graduate students talk about options

by Tom Lopez
Published January 16, 1997

The second graduate student organization in a week discussed its opinions on important policy and administrative decisions that will affect their constituents directly. The Council of Graduate Students...

Union drive may not stop for years

by Jennifer Niemela
Published January 16, 1997

If the faculty does not vote in favor of a union in February, they can expect another union drive in a few years. The current unionization attempt is the third in two decades. The first two attempts,...

Ex player answers calling as coach

by Aaron Kirscht
Published January 16, 1997

Tom Gunderson, former basketball coach at Harding High School in St. Paul, remembers a certain ninth-grader striding into his gym nearly 10 years ago. Cara Pearson had only begun playing basketball the...

Pohlad’s ballpark plan is a good start

Published January 16, 1997

Twins owner Carl Pohlad last week opened the ante in his bid for state funds to build his team a new outdoor ballpark in downtown Minneapolis. Keeping in line with the good faith the Twins have maintained...

Freeman as excited as ever about 28-year romance with U swimming

by Ryan Schuster
Published January 16, 1997

She is always animated as she runs around, waving her arms enthusiastically and shouting out instructions to her swimmers along the edge of the University Aquatic Center pool. After 28 years in the Gophers...

Newsflash: It’s wintertime in Minnesota

by By Mike
Published January 16, 1997

There were two plane crashes, the Legislature was starting up, two people were murdered and two were killed in accidents, one involving a busload of kids. But what do you suppose led the Twin Cities news...

Legislators have few questions

Published January 16, 1997

Tenure was on the minds of members of the House Higher Education Finance Division on Wednesday as University President Nils Hasselmo stumped for more federal funds. The legislators were impressed with...

Parachute technology at all-time high

by Patrick Casey
Published January 16, 1997

Using a supercomputer one thousand times faster than a personal computer, researchers at the University are trying to create the perfect parachute drop. Researchers from the University's Department of...

Denial denied

Published January 16, 1997

Elmo opened his email and read the dear jane reply. Is there a right way to creatively rearrange another's soul? No longer feeling guilty or anything at all he wrote today's low will be -18 with a high...

Would-be governor speaks to students

by Tracy Ellingson
Published January 16, 1997

State Senator Roy Terwilliger appealed to the University's College Republicans Wednesday night to help him win the governorship in 1998 when current Republican Gov. Arne Carlson's term expires. "I come...

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