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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Men’s CC team beats jet lag, places ninth

by Ryan Schuster
Published November 18, 1996

Minnesota's men's cross country squad suffered from a bad case of jet lag over the weekend. The Gopher's flight out of Minneapolis on Friday night was delayed because of a rain storm. The team was forced...

U soccer loses in second OT

by Aaron Kirscht
Published November 18, 1996

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Upon learning that her team would play Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Gophers women's soccer coach Sue Montagne said she liked their chances. Granted, the Huskers...

Women’s swimmers beat No. 11 Nebraska

by Ryan Schuster
Published November 18, 1996

Last year, the Minnesota swimming and diving programs started having Gophers swimmers throw white shirts adorned with the team logo into the crowd after winning an event. Saturday night at the University...

U v-ball gets two wins on the road

by Tim Klobuchar
Published November 18, 1996

The Gophers volleyball team is quickly turning what should be an intriguing theme into a tiring one. Minnesota's players have encountered various challenges over the past few years, from losing seasons...

WWII survivor has taught here for four decades

by Tracy Ellingson
Published November 18, 1996

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,"...

Drug laws infringe on basic rights

Published November 18, 1996

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...

MPIRG celebrates its 25th anniversary

by Bei Hu
Published November 18, 1996

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...

Football team breaks 13-game streak

by Jeff Sherry
Published November 18, 1996

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...

Potential Hasselmo successors are revealed

by Brian Bakst
Published November 18, 1996

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...

Win takes load off Wacker’s mind

by Todd Zolecki
Published November 18, 1996

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...

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