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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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...

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...

Israeli, Palestinian cabinets approve Hebron agreement

Published January 16, 1997

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A bitterly divided Israeli Cabinet agreed Wednesday to withdraw troops from most of Hebron and rural West Bank areas, approving an accord that some of Benjamin Netanyahu's own hard-line...

Judge: jury pool is racially balanced

by Jim Martyka
Published January 15, 1997

A judge ruled Tuesday that the pool of possible jurors for the murder trial of Louis Cardona "Butch" Buggs adequately represents blacks and is not prejudiced, striking down a defense motion made Monday. "The...

Public art can draw attention

by Joe Carlson
Published January 15, 1997

"The big silver thing by the bookstore" is both a common reference point for East Bank pedestrians, and one of several examples of public art on campus. The true purpose of public art is debatable, some...

Police respond to football fans’ scuffle

by Jim Martyka
Published January 15, 1997

As the National Football League's best teams battled each other in the playoffs over the weekend, emotions ran high for at least two Minnesota Vikings fans. Two men were charged with assault Friday night...

Legislators: Minnesota loses in deal

Published January 15, 1997

Dear Legislator, Last week a Brinks armored security truck flipped over while driving across a highway overpass in a poor district of Miami, Florida. Food stamps, coins and bills rained down from the heavens,...

Alaska coach alternates his goalies each score vs. Huskies

by Michael Rand
Published January 15, 1997

Had he gone into commercials instead of hockey, Alaska-Anchorage hockey coach Dean Talafous might have been typecast in Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials. The mid-1980s advertising campaign for the...

Yudof begins orientation in 2nd visit

by Joel Sawyer
Published January 15, 1997

Mark Yudof returns for his second tour of the tundra today, as he begins a week-long series of briefings aimed at bringing the president-elect up to speed on University matters. Yudof, the executive vice...

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