The Minnesota Daily

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...

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...

Officials debate mandatory HIV test

by Michelle Kibiger
Published October 25, 1996

A movement to mandate HIV testing for all pregnant women is rippling across the nation because of research about preventing mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus. But some Minnesotans feel there...

Men’s CC preps for next week’s Big Tens

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 25, 1996

As the weather in Minnesota gets colder, the Gophers men's cross country team is just starting to heat up. The Gophers are hoping that their good showing last Saturday will carry them through this weekend's...

Marriage should apply to all orientations

by By Bart
Published October 24, 1996

This is in response to Tuesday's opinion piece by David W. Fuller, "Domestic-partner benefits cheapen marriage," that questioned the right of same-sex domestic partners of University-employed gays and...

U hires first women’s hockey coach

by Kristian Pope
Published October 24, 1996

John Mariucci is commonly known as the Godfather of Gophers hockey. To this day, the former player and coach is remembered as the man who made it the dream of every young boy from Minnesota to play for...

Forceful diplomacy can spare Burundi

Published October 24, 1996

If people want to fight, they will fight. No amount of intervention, even by the world's sole superpower, will stop them. And of all forms of conflict, ethnic clashes are the most deep-seated and difficult...

Nuclear officer…

by Jenniffer Wise
Published October 24, 1996

Nuclear officers spend 50 percent of their career at sea and are away from their families more than two months at a time. Despite this, United States Navy Cmdr. Arnold O. Lotring spent the last two days...

Chemical sends unwanted birds on a strange trip

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published October 24, 1996

In an attempt to reduce the campus pigeon population, University Environmental Health Services was forced to use its last resort earlier this month: get the birds drunk. Anyone who has recently noticed...