The Minnesota Daily

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...

Varied career led Springer to TV

by Allison Schlesinger
Published November 4, 1996

s Jerry Springer sees it, everyone has something in their lives that is worthy of a talk show. Springer, the only talk-show host on television who has been a lawyer, a television anchor, a politician...

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...

Dole would bring integrity, leadership to highest office

by By Jigar
Published November 4, 1996

Bob Dole has always been a soldier, from his trying World War II days to his dedicated years on Capitol Hill. This old soldier has come back for a battle on behalf of his country, and is deserving of...

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...

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.,...

University alum refined use of First Amendment

Published November 4, 1996

Chief Justice Burger wrote influential decisions on many notable First Amendment issues. ù Wisconsin vs. Yoder (1975) held that the Wisconsin compulsory school attendance law could not require the...

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...

Actor and U graduate Arthur Peterson dies

Published November 4, 1996

Arthur Peterson, University graduate and lifetime character actor, died Thursday in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 83. Peterson graduated in 1935 from the University. During a 60-year career in theater, Peterson...