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The Minnesota Daily

Halloween horror humbles host

by By Doug
Published October 31, 1996

NORMAN, Okla. -- At Halloween parties, beware of the small and sheeted. The wind shrieked through the oak tree outside my tiny apartment, sending a barrage of leaves swirling through the air. A faint...

There is a very…

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 31, 1996

There is a very noticeable void that fills the chlorine-filled air of the University's Aquatic Center. Something is clearly missing from the right side of the wall at the far end of the building. The...

NCAA too tough on recruits

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 31, 1996

In the age of college recruiting violations, scandals and sanctions against major collegiate athletics programs, the athletes themselves are often the ones who suffer the most. Such is the case with Chad...

PSO decries threats to academic freedom at U

by Joel Sawyer
Published October 31, 1996

Academic freedom faces serious threats from tenure reform and U2000, University President Nils Hasselmo's plan to restructure the school, said members of the Progressive Student Organization at a meeting...

China sentences dissident to 11 years in prison

Published October 31, 1996

BEIJING (AP) -- The trial lasted four hours, and the verdict was harsh: 11 years in prison for Wang Dan, one of the last active leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. With Wednesday's...

Students get a preview of Nintendo 64

by Will Bourne
Published October 31, 1996

University students were given a technology fix as the 1996 Nintendo 64 Holiday Van Tour arrived in front of Coffman Union for its Minneapolis visit. When students entered the unmarked van on Wednesday...

OSU linebacker lives up to No. 45

by Jeff Sherry
Published October 31, 1996

Andy Katzenmoyer doesn't understand what all the hubbub is about. Katzenmoyer, an inside linebacker for the Ohio State Buckeyes, thinks of himself as just another player on the second-ranked team in the...

The University…

by Sam Black
Published October 31, 1996

The University's Law School got some good news recently: It was ranked in the top five law schools where women students can excel by professor Linda Hirshman, the director of the Women's Studies Institute...

Trick’n Treaters Elmo

Published October 31, 1996

"Shhh! They're gonna hear you," Elmo said to his friend Spiffo. It was the time of year Elmo had grown to despise, brats running from house to house with their hands extended, beggin' for candy. This year...

U men’s swimmers reload for a repeat

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 31, 1996

Seventeen individual Big Ten championships, 28 All-American awards and three national titles. That's how much last year's dominant senior trio of P.J. Bogart, Derek Williams and Bernie Zeruhn contributed...

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