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The Minnesota Daily

Push for union spans campuses

by Jim Martyka
Published October 10, 1996

The faculty at the University's Crookston and Morris campuses have now joined the effort to stop the Board of Regents' tenure proposal. More than half the faculty members on both campuses signed enough...

Suspects in rapes, robbery are arrested in Wisconsin

by Jessica Steeno
Published October 10, 1996

Two St. Paul men suspected of raping two University students Tuesday were arrested early Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase on Interstate 94 near Eau Claire, Wis. The men were driving a car belonging...

New buses are great, but we won’t admit it

Published October 9, 1996

When the wrecking ball brought down the old iron bridges in Dinkytown last year, the demolition was met by a collective sigh. Sure, the bridges were rickety, maybe even dangerous and certainly inefficient,...

Gov. peeks at U’s budget

by Kelly Wittman
Published October 9, 1996

For the first time, Gov. Arne Carlson's staff has seen the University's budget request before it has even been approved by the Board of Regents. A nine-member team made up of the governor's staff members,...

Binge-drinking campuses targeted

Published October 9, 1996

CHICAGO (Reuters) --Universities known as binge schools have agreed to join the American Medical Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in a precedent-setting multimillion-dollar effort to...

IRA claims responsibility for bombing

Published October 9, 1996

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility Tuesday for the double car-bomb attack on the British army's headquarters here, which wounded 31 and brought Northern...

Coaches expect No. 2 to win big

by Todd Zolecki
Published October 9, 1996

College football fans were shocked a few weeks ago when Arizona State upset two-time defending national champion Nebraska. It seems fans have watched the Cornhuskers dominate for so long that they forgot...

Finnish academic does Elvis Latin-style

Published October 9, 1996

HELSINKI, Finland -- He is an unlikely rocker. And the dapper, graying Finnish academic ensconced in a downtown recording studio is making an unusual record. Its title: "Rocking in Latin." Jukka Ammondt,...

U, ‘Cats face same old biz

by Jeff Sherry
Published October 9, 1996

A lot has changed since the last time Northwestern and Minnesota faced each other on the football field. The most notable difference, of course, is that the Wildcats are now the defending Big Ten champions. But...

Hiring of women’s hockey coach pending

Published October 9, 1996

The naming of Minnesota's first women's hockey coach will likely come at the end of October or early November, said Donna Olson, the chairwoman of the committee assigned to seek out candidates for the...

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