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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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...

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....

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...

Burnt-fly America

Published October 1, 1996

Life in an airplane. Monkeys. Five swarthy men approach a telephone booth. Elmo laughs. "Give me the purple pill,"one man says to another as his conscience fades and his mind blows softly in the ambient...

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...

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...

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...

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...

College pioneersfirst automated job line at the U

by Joe Carlson
Published October 1, 1996

In addition to their bank account balances and voice mail messages, some University students can now get information about jobs and internships over the telephone. Students and alumni from the College...

Discontent paves way for Reform Party

by Chris Vetter
Published October 1, 1996

The current Democrat-Republican system has been in place since the United States elected Abraham Lincoln as president. Both parties have kept growing larger and gaining more power. However, a growing...

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