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The Minnesota Daily

Season-ending knee injury troubles Walek, soccer team

by Aaron Kirscht
Published October 10, 1996

Athletes who suffer a major injury often share a common feeling: disbelief. For Gophers soccer player Jennifer Walek, who tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the fourth game of the season, there was...

Really, I can start any time I want

Published October 10, 1996

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. As we reach the two-week mark of the new quarter, this little saying really hits home. Does this...

Ghost stories haunt nation’s campuses

by By Janet
Published October 10, 1996

College Press Exchange Almost every campus has its ghost story, and most stories are full of enough chilling details to send tingles up the spine. At Huntington College in Montgomery, Ala., the "Red Lady"...

Palestinian police practice crowd control;Talks continue

Published October 10, 1996

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) -- The "rioters" -- two dozen Palestinian police officers dressed in jeans and T-shirts -- hurled stones Wednesday at their helmeted colleagues, who took cover behind a phalanx of...

Tenure reformon deck for Law School?

by Brian Bakst
Published October 10, 1996

Although the Board of Regents is constrained from changing tenure for the majority of University faculty members, regents are likely to present tenure changes specific to the Law School at the board's...

Deformed frogs popping up all over state

Published October 10, 1996

HENDERSON, Minn. (AP) -- Bruce Nelson was catching frogs for catfish bait last year when he realized something was horribly wrong: Some of the frogs had stumps for legs, and others had as many as four...

Man’s body found in backyard

Published October 10, 1996

Police investigated an apparent suicide Wednesday afternoon in a backyard at 923 22nd Ave. S.E., near Manning's Bar on Como Avenue. Officer Timothy Devick of the Minneapolis Police Department said a resident...

Students want U to cast a wide net in president search

by Tracy Ellingson
Published October 10, 1996

During the search for a new University leader, students have found a recurring theme among the school's former presidents -- each has been white and male. A group of seven University students gathered...

U hockey might be lost in Woods

by Michael Rand
Published October 10, 1996

Thirty minutes after leading his players through an afternoon practice, Gophers hockey coach Doug Woog traded in his skates for cross-trainers and headed for the Mariucci Arena exercise room located far...

Rookie linebacker gets tough for U

by Todd Zolecki
Published October 10, 1996

Luke Braaten is the kind of football player who looks forward to the moment when he hits an opponent so hard he feels it for a week. He never quits and is always running at full speed. The Gophers redshirt...

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