A.R. "Tony" Potami, whose name is almost synonymous with research administration, will leave the University on Aug. 15 to head the William C. Norris Institute. "It's an opportune time for me to try something...

As the 1996 general election inches closer, one focus of Minnesota elections is on cleaning up dirty campaign advertising. Increasingly negative campaigns have led to the Citizens Campaign Advertising...

Former Gophers golfer Tom Lehman was stuck in a four-way tie for 15th place going into Sunday's final round of the PGA Championships at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., and stayed there in the...

Since beginning his coaching career 20 years ago, Mike Hebert has become as identifiable with Big Ten volleyball as Superman is with Metropolis. Hebert, who was hired as the Gophers' head volleyball coach...

An anonymous group that claims to represent faculty members has circulated a document in recent weeks demanding drastic changes in the University's tenure policy. The group, which calls itself the Independent...

By our reckoning, no presidential candidate in recent history has had as much riding on his selection of a running mate. Republican stalwart Bob Dole -- dogged continually by concerns about his age (73)...

Bob Dole is peddling Reaganesque tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy as the solution to middle-class financial insecurity. Bill Clinton has pledged to sign a welfare-reform bill analysts...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Indiana University coach Bill Mallory could tell his prized defensive lineman, Bo Barzilauskas, no longer had his head or heart into football. "I had a feeling and I told him...

CLARKSON, Ky. (AP) -- A man who walked into a rural bank branch carrying a rifle and wearing a stocking over his head was shot to death Thursday by the bank's manager, who then went out and shot out the...

More than 50 people packed into U.S. District Judge David Doty's courtroom Thursday to hear closing remarks in a gender discrimination case filed against the University by two former professors. Doty's...