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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Voice-mail message sparkscharges of discrimination

by Nancy Ngo
Published November 5, 1996

The Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action may decide by Wednesday whether a complaint alleging discrimination by the diversity and outreach director for the University's Office of Student...

A look back at the fabricationof the U.S. Bill of Rights

by Brett Knapp
Published November 4, 1996

f asked, most Americans could recall having seen at least one painting of a roomful of men wearing powdered wigs and knickers and engaged in what appears to be serious legislative business. Such images...

Office-bound Elmo

Published November 4, 1996

"I can't get out of here!" Elmo screamed. He had been stuck in front of a computer for the last eight hours and no end was in sight. It was a weekend, for God sakes! Elmo longed to be in front of the T.V.,...

Mauren slate wins Local 320 election

by Lynne Kozarek
Published November 4, 1996

The votes are in from the first Teamsters Local 320 union election in 25 years. Teamsters Local 320 represents public employees in Minnesota. Local 320 has approximately 9,000 members in Minnesota, 1,500...

Sleazy editors became free-speech heroes

Published November 4, 1996

hey were scumbag editors, Jay Near and Howard Guilford, pseudo-moralists who were right about a few things, wrong about most. They were morally right about organized crime in Minneapolis and corruption...

Censorship in America may be on the rise

by Scott Rogers
Published November 4, 1996

ook-burning. It is hard to imagine a more reviled word in the United States. To say the word is to conjure images of Nazi stormtroopers and Bolshevik mobs; it is to conjure the myth that it can't happen...

Student paid dearly after witnessing the protests in Beijing

by Kamariea Forcier
Published November 4, 1996

niversity graduate student Lili Pan's life was turned upside down in 1989 when he stumbled into the student protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The demonstration drew thousands of students...

Electoral college is where the election is truly won or lost

by Chris Vetter
Published November 4, 1996

Tuesday's presidential election presents Americans with clear choices for the nation's next leader. Citizens directly affect their destinies by sending individual votes that, when counted together, create...

U.S. defends pilot’s firing at Iraqi missile site

Published November 4, 1996

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. F-16 pilot fired a missile Saturday when he thought he was being targeted by an Iraqi missile site, but no Iraqi radar attempted to lock on to the aircraft, the Pentagon said...

Students take issue with harassment law

by Joel Sawyer
Published November 4, 1996

ittle did members of the Student Organization for Animal Rights know that their protest of a deer hunt in 1994 would spawn a battle pitting the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech against a Minnesota...

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