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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Friends support ill alumna

by Jeremy Taff
Published November 25, 1996

It began as one of her usual stomachaches, but within days University graduate Jennifer Plucker found herself in a strange hospital bed in a new town and without health insurance. But now Plucker, 24,...

Fairview is confident on antitrust issue

by Lynne Kozarek
Published November 25, 1996

State Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III called on the University and Fairview Health System on Friday to seek exemption from Minnesota antitrust laws for the merger between University Hospital and...

Dorms are cramped home sweet home

by Michelle Kibiger
Published November 25, 1996

College of Liberal Arts sophomore Emily Echola lives in Comstock Hall, the same place she spent her freshman year at the University. She said the residence hall's proximity to the Minneapolis campus and...

Professor, priest debate assisted suicide

by Bei Hu
Published November 25, 1996

The issue of physician-assisted suicide confronts more than the question of who should determine when life should end. It also brings ideological and practical considerations into play. David Mayo, a...

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...

Hockey team splits series, stays in tie for first place

by Michael Rand
Published November 25, 1996

MARQUETTE, Mich. -- After Gophers winger Mike Anderson scored his team's second goal in a 35-second span of the third period Friday night -- a stretch that turned a 2-2 tie into a 4-2 Minnesota lead over...

German professor discusses scientist who aided Einstein

by Peter Kauffner
Published November 25, 1996

Although many biographers claim that Albert Einstein was so confident in his theory of general relativity that he was never troubled by conflicting experimental results, letters he wrote at the time and...

Elmo’s auto service

Published November 25, 1996

"Here, there, and everywhere, hip, hip, so hip to be square," Elmo sang in ode to his durable late-seventies Plymouth. He knew it would start today. Elmo had a fleet of older American cars and was tempted...

U.S. Christian values lost, speaker says

by Chris Vetter
Published November 25, 1996

Americans must keep Christian ideas from vanishing from history textbooks and rediscover the truth upon which this nation was founded, said Dave Barton on Friday to a Coffman Memorial Union audience. Barton,...

Grad students discuss unions

by Tom Lopez
Published November 25, 1996

California graduate students' strike ended Friday, but unionization and collective bargaining rights remain issues at college campuses across the nation. And while most graduate students at the University...

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