Editor's note: This is part three in a three-part series about the University's response to urban sprawl in the Twin Cities. Seen from a car, the paved roads lined with neat suburban lawns and cookie-cutter...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin point guard Ty Calderwood says the instructions he gives his teammates during practice have nothing to do with one-upmanship. "I'm not trying to be above them, I'm trying...

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...

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...

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...