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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

In Zaire, refugees flee rumored impending attack

Published October 25, 1996

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- An exodus of 300,000 Hutu refugees from camps in eastern Zaire grew more chaotic Thursday as rumors spread that Tutsi rebels were planning to attack the provincial capital. U.N....

School policies show lack of common sense

Published October 25, 1996

In the mid-'80s, director John Hughes made a career of portraying high school administrators as incompetent ninnies. In films like "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," maniacal principals'...

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...

Store will sell confiscated items

by Jessica Steeno
Published October 25, 1996

Merchandise that once sat collecting dust in police storage will be sold at discount prices at a new store opening today. The City Store, 1037 E. Franklin Ave., sells items confiscated by police, like...

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...

Publicity mayhurt search for president

by Joel Sawyer
Published October 24, 1996

The search for a successor to University President Nils Hasselmo is proceeding on schedule, said members of the search committee in charge of naming the next leader of the University. But considering...

U freshman leaves Finland for Minnesota cross country

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 24, 1996

Eight hours and seven time zones away on a farm outside of Illo, Finland, Minna Haronoja's parents sit and wait. Their daughter is thousands of miles away in America, a strange and foreign land to them....

U district candidates hold ‘heated’ debate at Coffman

by Chris Vetter
Published October 24, 1996

One is a 21-year-old University student. The other is a 24-year incumbent state representative. And they rarely see eye to eye on the issue of public policy. Republican Tom Gromacki, a College of Liberal...

Open arms Elmo

Published October 24, 1996

Elmo wiped cold sweat from his face and stumbled to the fridge. An exhausted haze blurred his vision as he pulled out a plastic bowl of tapioca pudding he'd opened yesterday in hour 38. He was now pushing...

Career Day puts ‘resources at fingertips’

by Joe Carlson
Published October 24, 1996

Despite the fact that few of the companies present were hiring, hundreds of University students showed up to shake hands, trade phone numbers and network with possible employers. The 1996 Agricultural...

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