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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Aluminum bats not good for college game

Published November 21, 1996

Gophers baseball coach John Anderson typically stresses the importance of pitching and defense to win games. He insists that these aspects of the game also win championships. With the advanced technology...

Graduate student debt is skyrocketing

by Tom Lopez
Published November 21, 1996

Graduate and professional students across the country face mounting debts with no relief in sight. Since 1993, borrowing jumped 74 percent. "I think it constitutes a prospective crisis on the horizon,"...

Purdue women’s basketball player suspended for violation

Published November 21, 1996

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- Purdue women's basketball player Ukari Figgs will miss the Boilermakers' season-opener because of a one-game suspension for violating NCAA rules, the university announced Wednesday. The...

Physics prof blasts holes in science of Star Trek’

by Peter Kauffner
Published November 21, 1996

With real-life spaceships crashing into the Pacific replacing the Soviet Sputniks which once circled the skies, millions of Americans now explore space vicariously with the starship Enterprise and its...

Duluth drags feet on grading

by Jim Martyka
Published November 21, 1996

A new plus-minus grading policy which once seemed likely for the University system is stalled, as Duluth campus officials wait to consider the proposed changes. The Morris, Crookston and Twin Cities campus...

Usually bumper stic…

Published November 21, 1996

Usually bumper stickers, no matter how hard they try, don't move me to contemplate their meanings or take action for the causes they promote. Visualize world peace? Yeah, OK, now what? Think globally,...

Kerr experiences golf at the world level for Canada

by Susan Filkins
Published November 21, 1996

Last summer a committee in Canada sat down to pick four of the country's top golfers to represent them in the World Amateur Tournament. Basing the decision on each golfer's previous two years of tournament...

U women’s hoops team down to seven players

Published November 21, 1996

Gophers women's basketball player Lynda Hass is out of the lineup indefinitely after undergoing an emergency appendectomy Wednesday morning. Hass, a sophomore, is a reserve forward on the team who averaged...

Lawyers deem profs’ free speech priceless

by Kamariea Forcier
Published November 21, 1996

When campus police removed photos of two University of Minnesota-Duluth professors from a history department display case, two Minneapolis lawyers stepped in and offered to defend their freedom of speech...

Vanishing hopes

Published November 21, 1996

In her final attempt to make him and the rest of the moronic clan mad the queen witch ordered for the white stuff once again. Good ol' Jean stood and began her ceremonial dance. "Snow, snow snow on the...

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