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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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,...

Target Center will feel like home for U men’s basketball

by Todd Zolecki
Published November 26, 1996

The move isn't permanent, but the Gophers men's basketball team will trade its raised floor at Williams Arena for the parkay at Target Center tonight for its game against West Virginia. It might not be...

Man bunks down in Coffman entryway

by Jessica Steeno
Published November 26, 1996

University Police cited and arrested a former University employee in two separate incidents in Coffman Memorial Union last week. Edgar Romeo Coleman, 43, has a history of arrests by the University Police...

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...

Living in a different world

Published November 26, 1996

etting off the elevator on the sixth floor of the University Good Samaritan Center is like entering a different world. The sporadic, anxious yells and the quick, jerky movements of the residents might...

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...

Former Gopher heads to trial again

by Kamariea Forcier
Published November 25, 1996

Former Gophers football defensive tackle Kevin Holmes is again headed to trial in Hennepin County District Court for charges stemming from a 1995 incident. University Police charged Holmes with carrying...

Seniors reflect on U football career

by Jeff Sherry
Published November 25, 1996

During the third quarter of Minnesota's 43-24 loss to Iowa on Saturday, Gophers defensive tackle Jerome Davis aggravated a nagging groin injury. As it turned out, the injury was career-ending. Davis,...

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