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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Union voter eligibility still undecided

by Jim Martyka
Published December 4, 1996

Now that the inclusion elections are over, University and faculty lawyers met Tuesday to discuss voter eligibility in the upcoming faculty union election. The Crookston campus' status in the union vote...

Former student admits to theft

Published December 4, 1996

Hennepin County prosecutors charged a former University student Tuesday with stealing money and merchandise from Gray's Campus Drug. Matthew D. Falk, 23, worked for the Dinkytown drugstore for about two...

MPIRG delays

Published December 4, 1996

The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group and Minnesota Student Association postponed MPIRG board elections scheduled for today until the second week of winter quarter. The two groups decided last week...

With subway bombing, terror returns to Paris

Published December 4, 1996

PARIS (AP) -- A bomb tore apart a packed subway car in the heart of Paris on Tuesday, killing two people, wounding dozens and bringing fears of a new bombing campaign like the one that terrorized the city...

Presidential finalists to visit campus next week

by Joel Sawyer
Published December 4, 1996

The three finalists for president of the University are coming to town. Next week, the finalists will visit the University and meet with the Board of Regents, faculty, students and local media in public...

Tenure proposal and supporters are suspect

Published December 4, 1996

Sullivan II is a proposed new tenure code for the University that on Dec. 5 will be considered by the Faculty Senate. It is the second version of a policy offered by Law School Dean Thomas Sullivan as...

Endowments increase as funding falls

by Michelle Kibiger
Published December 4, 1996

While the tenure debate rages and professors fear the elimination of entire departments, some University faculty members and administrators are working quietly to insulate their disciplines from the future's...

How K-Mart stole my Christmas

Published December 4, 1996

Thankfully, the holiday season comes but once a year. Any more often than that, and I might need therapy. Don't get me wrong, I try to avoid likening myself to Ebenezer Scrooge or Dr. Seuss's Grinch, but...

MSA poll favors Ramaley as president

by Tracy Ellingson
Published December 4, 1996

If the Minnesota Student Association had the final say, Judith Ramaley would win the University presidency in a landslide. Ramaley, the president of Portland State University, received 45 votes -- 38...

Don’t cry for Elmo

Published December 4, 1996

"Down with the tyrant!" chanted the mob outside Elmo's palace window. He looked down on the crowds through narrowly parted curtains and resolved to maintain his despotic course. The weather is not subject...

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