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...

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...

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...

"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...

Coaches from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State -- the teams in the College Hockey Showcase -- have always maintained that the tournament, is a good opportunity for four Big Ten schools...

The NCAA basketball tournament regularly offers- up champions of obscure conferences as sacrifices to teams from big-name ones. The volleyball tournament works in much the same way, and at first glance,...

Gophers center Angie Iverson's 16-point, 25-rebound performance Tuesday night at Colorado State wasn't enough to prevent her team from losing its second straight game, 78-60. The Gophers took a season-high...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paul Wellstone came to the Senate saying he despised arch-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms because of his "racist politics." Now Wellstone has something new to say of Helms: "Mr. Chairman." Wellstone,...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals decided Tuesday that a former University assistant professor was not discriminated against when in 1995 she was denied tenure for a second time. Aparna Ganguli was a math...

NEW YORK (AP) -- British Open champion Tom Lehman was selected the Golf Writers Association of America's player of the year. Lehman, who won the season-ending Tour Championship to take the PGA Tour money...