Just minutes before the Gophers volleyball team started play Wednesday night, women's athletics director Chris Voelz made her rounds through the Sports Pavilion, with an eased look of contentment on her...

At least one of three candidates for the job of University president is looking at another presidential position at a different school. Judith Ramaley, president of Portland State University, started a...

Don't get the Gophers men's basketball team wrong -- it enjoys its No. 16 national ranking as much as anyone -- it just doesn't want to cross the line between a confident team and one which expects to...

Under current administration plans, the University will require every student to purchase a portable computer starting in 1999. Such a policy has been in effect on the Crookston campus for several years....

You've got to love those people on the Board of Regents. First they schedule the presidential candidate public forums for finals week, when most of us will be too busy or crazed to attend. Now we find...

As a historian I am constantly amazed at the lack of originality displayed in the telling and the retelling of the "General College" story. The fact that General College continues to capture the attention...

A former University assistant professor may appeal her case, which states she was unfairly denied tenure, to the highest court in the state of Minnesota. Beth Bertelson, attorney for former General College...

Nobody likes to get a parking ticket. But some drivers dislike it so much that they seek revenge. Three years ago, a campus parking enforcement monitor had her University-issued car stolen while she was...

News of the possible discovery of ice deposits on the moon this week flooded the astronomy community with enthusiastic discussion of the potential for lunar colonization. Early Thursday morning, the unmanned...

When University officials pitch their case to the Legislature for higher funding next year, there won't be a separate subcommittee to sift through the budget request. Under new committee alignments announced...