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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...

U panel discusses Internet censorship

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published October 1, 1996

University students can surf the Internet at will, and this freedom should not change very much in the future. "The policy is at the more extreme end of permissiveness as it relates to free speech," said...

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...

Peru considers pardons for hundreds who claim innocence

Published October 1, 1996

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peru's mysterious, hooded anti-terrorism judges have put thousands of people behind bars, not all of them guilty. Finally, after years of complaints, the government is taking an interest...

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...

Tenure debate createslose-lose situation

Published October 1, 1996

In the regents' proposed changes to the Faculty Tenure Code and the faculty's subsequent move toward unionization, the University faces a no-win situation. Both the Board of Regents' proposal and the possibility...

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...

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...

Not-so ‘pretty land’ braces for welfare cut

Published September 30, 1996

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (AP) -- Amid a skyline of barren hills and grain silos, alongside a littered rail yard roamed by mangy dogs, live the residents of Tierra Linda, Spanish for pretty land. But this...

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