The Minnesota Daily

‘Governance with teeth’

by Brian Bakst
Published October 18, 1996

With a faculty union election looming in the University's future, clarifying what a potential union would resemble tops the agenda for union organizers. Retaining a faculty governance structure and avoiding...

U women’s hoops down to 8 players

by Todd Zolecki
Published October 18, 1996

Things keep getting worse for the Gophers women's basketball team -- and the season hasn't even started yet. Minnesota lost forward Sarah Schieber for the season on the Gophers' first day of practice...

U soccer faces foes, weather at home

by Aaron Kirscht
Published October 18, 1996

Football players have a reputation for being tough. But look closer: They wear pads, play only once a week and -- here in Minnesota, anyway -- have a big white Teflon dome over their heads. The Gophers...

Kremlin upheaval: Yeltsin ousts Lebed as Security Chief

Published October 18, 1996

MOSCOW (AP) -- Sacked by a livid Boris Yeltsin amid charges he was plotting a coup, national security chief Alexander Lebed wasted no time Thursday serving his own gruff notice: He will be out to campaign...

Indecision reigns at faculty meeting

by Kelly Wittman
Published October 18, 1996

Two Faculty Senate committees debated but could not decide whether to take definitive action regarding two proposed plans for revisions to the Law School's tenure code. At a Board of Regents meeting last...

Scholar says the media are less biased than ever

by Chris Vetter
Published October 18, 1996

In mid-July Bob Dole criticized NBC's "Today Show" host Katie Couric as being too liberal because she repeatedly questioned him about campaign funds he received from the tobacco industry. Politicians'...

Women’s swimmingholds a senior edge

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 18, 1996

Twenty-four years ago a college junior named Jean Freeman joined the Minnesota women's swimming and diving program as an assistant coach. When she took over as head coach for the 1973-74 Gophers swim...

Mmm, tastes like … Minnesota

by Lynne Kozarek
Published October 18, 1996

Call it Spam-chic. Never before has Minnesota's most famous processed-meat product featured so prominently on the menus at Coffman Memorial Union. But never before has University Food Services taken on...

Goaltenders use different methods in new lead role

by Michael Rand
Published October 18, 1996

Steve DeBus and Judd Lambert don't mind sharing. As half-time starting goaltenders for their respective teams last season -- DeBus with Minnesota, Lambert with Colorado College -- each player flourished. But...

Home HIV test raises difficult questions

Published October 18, 1996

"I feel a lot better now that I know," concludes a young woman in a TV commercial for Confide, the first do-it-yourself HIV test. Granted, for the overwhelming majority of people who will test negative...