The Minnesota Daily

Speaker discusses identity issues

Published October 25, 1996

Leaders of the Association of Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Student Organizations and Their Friends said that members of the community have much more than their sexual orientation and gender identity...

QB defects to Michigan for chance at Rose Bowl

by Todd Zolecki
Published October 25, 1996

Jim Wacker envisioned the future when he saw Eden Prairie quarterback Jason Kapsner. The Minnesota football coach thought Kapsner would be the next Cory Sauter. Kapsner, regarded as one of the nation's...

Grassroots candidatearrested at protest

Published October 25, 1996

Phil Willkie, the Grassroots Party candidate from the 4th Congressional District, was arrested Thursday morning for trespassing at Alliant Techsystems in Hopkins. The 4th district encompasses all of the...

Gophers men’s hoops holds in-squad game

by Todd Zolecki
Published October 25, 1996

Fans starved for their first dose of Gophers men's basketball can get their fix Saturday when Minnesota holds an intrasquad game at Williams Arena. The Gophers have debuted during Midnight Madness in...

Second six to run for U women’s CC

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 25, 1996

Four Gophers cross country runners jogged on one side of the street while a fifth ran alone on the other side. Practice had just concluded Wednesday, and the runners were finishing their cool-down jog...

U puck reigns over UMD

by Michael Rand
Published October 25, 1996

Statistics probably mean more to sports commentators and journalists than they do to most other segments of the population -- particularly players and coaches. Baseball players rarely know what their...

Law School proposal rejected

by Jim Martyka
Published October 25, 1996

The University's Faculty Senate sent a message to the Board of Regents at its meeting Thursday by rejecting the regents' tenure proposal for the Law School. But, after a close vote, they also left the...

Patient is first to try diabetes pill at U

Published October 25, 1996

All eyes at the University's Clinical Research Center will be focused on a teenage boy from Illinois this weekend. On Sunday, 13-year-old Daniel Mikos will be the first person to take a recently developed...

V-ball team plays best and worst in Big Ten

by Tim Klobuchar
Published October 25, 1996

The Gophers volleyball team will take an ambitious trip this weekend. The journey will cover both the north and south poles of the Big Ten standings, as the Gophers travel to first-place Michigan State...

Gophers soccer looks to crumble mighty Tarheels

by Aaron Kirscht
Published October 25, 1996

You have to wonder if North Carolina women's soccer coach Anson Dorrance has a little Genghis Khan in him, the way his team has dominated the college ranks over the last decade. Genghis, who oversaw an...