Children regularly gather in a small playroom furnished with puffy block-shaped pillows and chairs resembling red elephants and purple hippopotamuses.
If they can't find a chair to sit on, they lay on...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Gophers football team quietly showered, changed clothes and boarded the bus Saturday following its 30-27 loss to Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium.
Steve Kemph wasn't in a rush to...
Imagine battling the flu, nervousness and dehydration all while running a 5,000-meter race.
That's just what Gophers senior women's cross country runner Keri Zweig had to do during the Roy Griak Invitational...
Highly touted Gophers freshman women's tennis player Nora Souska won the B singles championship of the Notre Dame Invitational on Sunday, defeating Michigan's Brooke Hart 6-3, 6-2.
Souska, a native of...
Welcome to the 1996-97 academic year! This is my 27th fall quarter in the University of Minnesota community, and it is surely the most charged -- both with controversy and with the excitement of truly...
Members of the University community will travel this weekend to Washington, D.C., to march on the Capitol. They will be joined by several thousand protesters from around the country to show their support...
There are two things athletes can do with criticism.
They can take it hard, letting it break their confidence and destroy their game. Or they can take it in stride, as a challenge to do better.
The goalkeepers...
It didn't take long for Gophers punter Steve Kemph to figure out Minnesota is a bit different than his hometown in Chicago.
Kemph made his recruiting visit to the University last January. He remembers...
Editor's note: This is the conclusion of a four-part series on the University's commitents to outstate Minnesota.
They talk about the environment. They talk about the proper use of manure and how to...
Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, said the Board of Regents should leave the University's tenure code alone.
If reelected on Nov. 5, Kahn said she will make sure that University concerns in general,...