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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Rural service tradition at risk

by Alan Bjerga
Published October 1, 1996

Editor's note: Although the bulk of the University's Twin Cities campus resources are devoted to Twin Cities student and community needs, one of the University's responsibilities as a land-grant institution...

The Italian-Ame…

by Nancy Ngo
Published October 1, 1996

The Italian-American mayor of New York City was introduced to a conference on immigration by Swedish-born University President Nils Hasselmo at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute on Monday. "We are a nation...

Women’s golfers top field at Lady Badger Invite

by Tim Klobuchar
Published October 1, 1996

Tradition held at the Lady Badger Invitational golf tournament this weekend, as the Gophers won the event for the seventh time in the 15-year history of the event. Minnesota finished ahead of six Big...

Alumni association’swait for a home ends

by Bei Hu
Published October 1, 1996

After 30 years of waiting for a new home, officials from the University Alumni Association are finally making their wish come true. The officials from the association and two fund-raising organizations...

Board of Regents not the enemy of tenure

Published October 1, 1996

Few issues have been so frightfully misunderstood as the effort by the Board of Regents to stimulate modernization of the University tenure code. At the board's urging, the University administration and...

Resolution centergets an advocate

Published October 1, 1996

The Student Dispute Resolution Center officially takes on a new role today -- student advocacy. Before this year the center handled only the informal stages of grievance procedures, but with additional...

State finance commissioner to move on

by Kelly Wittman
Published October 1, 1996

The state official who threatened to withhold $6.6 million in state funding from the University this summer will leave her position in mid-October. State Finance Commissioner Laura King is leaving her...

Magazine hosts campus event at Coffman Union

by Lynne Kozarek
Published October 1, 1996

Many students walking by Coffman Memorial Union Monday were drawn to bright tents pumping out loud music as part of the Glamour 4.0 College Tour. The fashion magazine and 22 of its advertisers visited...

Boy chosen to receive diabetes drug in trial

Published October 1, 1996

Daniel Mikos, a 13-year-old boy from Roscoe, Ill., will be the first person to receive oral insulin at the University as part of the nationwide Diabetes Prevention Trial. The trial tests individuals for...

Coach in a cart leads U runners

by Ryan Schuster
Published October 1, 1996

A group of Gophers cross country runners appear out of nowhere as they ascend to the peak of a hill. Right along side them is a man in a golf cart shouting encouragement to the athletes as he keeps pace....

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