University English professor John Hurrell said students today are more passive than in the early 1960s when anti-war activism prevailed around campus. "That was the beginning of the anti-war protests,"...

John Stuart Mill wrote on the subject of liberty more than 100 years ago, in 1859, when it was an ideal that people around the world were striving to create in their countries. In the 19th century, governments...

While many of his Harvard Law School peers were making six-figure incomes and working in corporate legal firms in 1971, John Herman was working out of a shabby office and taking home considerably less...

For nearly three hours Saturday night, the Illinois-Minnesota football game at the Metrodome was everything it was expected to be -- and maybe less. A gathering of 34,321 people, the Gophers' smallest...

After months of private meetings and deliberations, three candidates were publicly identified Friday as possible successors for University President Nils Hasselmo. The candidates, who have yet to be labeled...

For the past week, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker said he felt like a wet washcloth. He didn't get into specifics, but the cloth he referred to probably looked like one found stuck to the bottom of...

Twenty-two-year incumbent Phyllis Kahn has become very comfortable in her state Legislature seat; the Minneapolis Democrat did not run ads and didn't print new literature for this year's campaign. Nonetheless,...

and Todd ZoleckiIllinois football coach Lou Tepper has coached college football in some capacity since 1967. After all that time, Tepper picked a critical moment in the Illini's 23-21 loss to the Gophers...

Although they have been ignored until recently by cosmologists, dwarf galaxies might answer some of scientists' questions about star formation and the development of the universe, said Evan Skillman,...

WASHINGTON (AP)- A new drug, which in some tests of healthy elderly men restores memory almost to that of young people, soon will be tested on patients with Alzheimer's disease, the fatal brain disorder...