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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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...

When Judy Mahle …

by Susan Filkins
Published November 21, 1996

When Judy Mahle Lutter held up her blue gym suit from sixth grade, she commented on the snaps up the center of it and the elastic waist. Some members of the audience snickered, remembering the era before...

Texaco race reform comes under pressure

Published November 21, 1996

It's funny how a waltz in the media spotlight can radically change the racial equity policies of the 14th-largest corporation in the nation. After news of company executives making racial slurs surfaced...

Conservatives are a minority at U

by Chris Vetter
Published November 21, 1996

State House minority leader Steve Sviggum said conservative students face overwhelming odds when they come to the University. "It must be a difficult chore being Republican on the University of Minnesota...

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -…

Published November 20, 1996

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- Pair a cash-poor young farmer with a successful landowner ready to retire from dairying and you could have the formula for revitalizing the nation's milk industry. It's called sharemilking. The...

Hungry weevils may help state lakes

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published November 20, 1996

As soon as weevils hatch, they find breakfast. These tiny beetles with big appetites lay eggs on the tips of Eurasian watermilfoil, an exotic plant that forms dense mats of vegetation in lakes. Soon after...

Winning will make football a cash cow

Published November 20, 1996

Watching the Gopher football squad on Saturday afternoons is a lot like watching reruns of "Gilligan's Island." While the antics are entertaining at first, after a few episodes the utter hopelessness and...

The world can’t back down on Africa policy

Published November 20, 1996

You put the troops in, you pull the troops out ... so goes Bill Clinton's foreign policy hokeypokey in Central Africa. Clinton announced last week the deployment of 4,000 U.S. troops to Zaire as part of...

The war on drugs has failed, is unjust

Published November 20, 1996

Applause for the opinions pieces about drugs, "Is drug legalization the answer?" in the Nov. 18 issue of the Daily. I'm a University student currently on exchange to Hunter College in New York City where...

O.J. judge bans Fuhrman evidence

Published November 20, 1996

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- The judge in O.J. Simpson's wrongful death trial barred Mark Fuhrman's previous testimony, a big blow to the defense but also Simpson's best ammunition for a possible appeal. Judge...

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