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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

How do you tame the urban jungle?

Published November 26, 1996

Mile upon mile of four-lane highways clogged with exhaust-belching, horn-tooting automobiles. Drab strip malls and garish fast-food huts squatting amidst oceans of asphalt. Massive, imposing parking ramps. Expressionless...

Beware: the art of creativity is a hoax

by By Joe
Published November 26, 1996

Most people's creativity died, according to creative consultants, when a well-meaning adult taught us as children to color inside the lines. Creative consultancy is a boom industry these days. Walk into...

N. Michigan’s move causes mixed feelings

by Michael Rand
Published November 26, 1996

When Northern Michigan officials announced this summer that the school's hockey team was leaving the WCHA to rejoin the CCHA next season, few people were shocked. Athletics director and head hockey coach...

U v-ball looks ahead

by Tim Klobuchar
Published November 26, 1996

The Gophers volleyball team will find out Sunday who and where they play in the NCAA tournament. The brackets for the tournament will be announced live at 5 p.m. on MSC. With two matches left in the regular...

UMD is a roadblock to plus-minus system

Published November 26, 1996

If students work hard to receive an 89 percent in a class, do they deserve to get a plain old B on their transcript? This same ordinary B would also be awarded to students who skip class and sleep through...

Good language skills make good medicine

by Lynne Kozarek
Published November 26, 1996

Surgical lasers can't cut through the growing language barrier in medicine. But one University student might have the solution to the problem of hospital patients in the United States who don't speak...

Study debunks belief in media bias

by Douglas Rojas
Published November 26, 1996

Throughout the 1996 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Bob Dole claimed that campaign media coverage had a strong liberal and pro-President Clinton bias. A University research study, however,...

U swim squads win big

by Ryan Schuster
Published November 25, 1996

A hand printed sign on the door of the women's swimming and diving team's locker room at the Aquatic Center on Sunday read, "this is Gopher territory." Both the men's and women's swimming teams lived...

Hijacked Ethiopian plane crashes in Comoros Islands

Published November 25, 1996

MORONI, Comoros Islands (AP) -- Tourists clad in bathing suits watched from the beach Sunday as rescue workers pulled bodies from the partially submerged wreckage of an Ethiopian jetliner that ran out...

A reporter’s paramount conflict of interest

by By Kevin
Published November 25, 1996

This article was originally published in the Iowa State Daily on Monday, November 18, 1996. The Society of Professional Journalists has a code of ethics that includes a section entitled "Act Independently." It...

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