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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Gophers men’s CC runners finish seventh at Big Tens

by Ryan Schuster
Published November 4, 1996

Many people consider seven to be a lucky number. Those people, however, do not include Minnesota's men's cross country team. The Gophers harriers ran to a seventh-place finish Saturday morning at the...

V-ball sweeps two at home

by Tim Klobuchar
Published November 4, 1996

The first match had drama, an intriguing subplot and hundreds of fans disguised as the Gophers' coach. The second match had no suspense, and only the Gophers' mascot was dressed up. For entertainment...

U women’s CC 5th at Big Tens

by Ryan Schuster
Published November 4, 1996

An excerpt from this year's Wisconsin women's cross country media guide claims that one of the team's strengths will be that no one runner stands out from the pack. At the women's Big Ten Cross Country...

Pace starves Gophers’ D with pancakes

by Todd Zolecki
Published November 4, 1996

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Forget Paul Bunyan. Forget how he created the Mississippi River and formed the Grand Canyon. A new giant is quickly gaining folklore status in the Midwest, and he's dwarfing the lumberjack...

U hockey splits series at Wisconsin

by Michael Rand
Published November 4, 1996

MADISON, Wisc. -- Following a week of midterm exams, the Gophers hockey team Friday night offered students everywhere a definitive manual on how not to take a test. After 55 minutes of uninspired play...

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...

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