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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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...

Holiday has come a long way

Published October 31, 1996

It is the time when leaves fall from the trees, a harvest moon lies low in the sky and carved pumpkins flicker on doorsteps. Halloween is here. Today many consider Halloween in terms of tricks and treats,...

Clinton has earned a second term in office

Published October 31, 1996

In 1992, America was in the middle of a recession, entangled in an inept aid mission in Somalia and facing an ever-growing deficit. In that election year, President Bush asked the American public if they...

U volleyball finds recipe for success

by Tim Klobuchar
Published October 31, 1996

Midterms and the mid-point of the Big Ten volleyball season converge this week, making this an appropriate time to conduct a different examination. The Gophers were picked to finish eighth by conference...

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