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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Organizations prepare fee requests

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published January 8, 1997

About 35 campus organizations and services will begin on Friday their annual campaign to secure a slice of University students' tuition dollars. Nonacademic organizations both big and small must submit...

New trend, mixed views

by Michelle Kibiger
Published January 8, 1997

As universities across the country try to keep up with increasing demands and shrinking government support, traditional models clash with more corporate styles of management. The University is struggling...

Elmo’s First Contact

Published January 8, 1997

A cloud of steam billowed out from under the newly landed craft. Its ramp came down, and a tall, lordly being with sharp features appeared. "Live long and prosper," it said. "Tell me about your world and...

Parity in WCHA makes for interesting season

by Michael Rand
Published January 8, 1997

It's exactly halfway through the WCHA season, and unlike recent years, there hasn't been a small pack of teams that's raced away from the rest of the field. Although that may still happen, it appears...

U wrestlers avenge loss, top Nebraska

by Allison Younge
Published January 8, 1997

The Gophers wrestling team was looking for revenge Tuesday night from its loss against No. 3 Iowa State on Saturday, and Nebraska just happened to be the victim. Minnesota interrupted the Cornhuskers'...

Polluted rivers threaten Gulf of Mexico

by Lynne Kozarek
Published January 8, 1997

The Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers are making a killer contribution to the Gulf of Mexico, say University researchers. C. Ford Runge said the rivers are the source of 70 percent of the pollutants contributing...

Students protestnew welfare law

by Kamariea Forcier
Published January 8, 1997

Their voices carried halfway across the State Capitol grounds -- blocked from reaching downtown St. Paul only by the interstate traffic roaring past. "Stop the war on the poor! Hey politicians, we're...

Huge week for U men’s hoops starts at Indiana tonight

by Todd Zolecki
Published January 8, 1997

Players on the Gophers men's basketball team might say every Big Ten game is important, but the truth is, the next two games for Minnesota are about as big as they get. The No. 11 Gophers play at No....

Buggs trial nears, date for May’s set

Published January 8, 1997

Two important legal cases involving members of the University community face action in Hennepin County court soon.ù Louis Cardona Buggs is awaiting trial for the murder of University student Kami...

Duluth may shorten reins on school paper

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published January 8, 1997

Controversy can cast a long shadow -- a lesson that Ron Hustvedt, editor of the Duluth campus newspaper, is learning the hard way. Nine months ago, the UMD Statesman published a satirical April Fool's...

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