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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Administrators postpone biweekly pay conversion

by Brian Bakst
Published July 31, 1996

University administrators will postpone their plans to convert all employees to a biweekly pay system, University President Nils Hasselmo said Tuesday. "We are going to go ahead with the conversion,"...

Seven-month search for CLA dean ends with regents’ OK

by Brian Bakst
Published July 31, 1996

The seven-month search for a College of Liberal Arts dean officially ended Monday when the Board of Regents approved the appointment of University of Michigan professor Steven Rosenstone. Rosenstone will...

Student finds spirituality in paganism

by Joshua Zuckerman
Published July 29, 1996

Lu Vail, now a senior honors student in family social science, remembers, as a young girl, mysterious jars filled with "barky and pickled stuff" sitting on top of a shelf in her grandmother's pantry. Vail's...

Writer says bowl alliance is start, but not the answer

by Richard Rosenblatt
Published July 29, 1996

(AP) -- It's Saturday, Nov. 28, 1998. Three teams -- let's say Nebraska, Penn State and Tennessee -- are undefeated and ranked 1-2-3. The Cornhuskers are playing in the Big 12 title game, the Volunteers...

U’s payroll conversion not the root of evil

by By Ramona
Published July 29, 1996

This is an institution of higher learning? Even now, in my 22nd year at the University, it never ceases to amaze me how many ignorant people are employed here. The latest discourse on the changeover from...

Haskins, family brave bombing

by Matthew Cross
Published July 29, 1996

Gophers basketball coach Clem Haskins was in earshot of the pipe bomb explosion in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. Haskins, who is an assistant coach and chief administrator of the U.S. men's basketball...

Camp arouses girls’ interest in sciences

by Jennifer Franklin
Published July 29, 1996

Many studies done on girls just entering puberty find that girls' participation in science courses drops off severely as they enter their teens. Susan Marino, head of the Program for Women in the Institute...

U student hopes to win seat in Minnesota House

by Chris Vetter
Published July 29, 1996

Austin, Minn., is a large union town, with a big Hormel plant and a powerful Hormel union. The town has consistently voted for Democrats for years, but is completely surrounded by Republican districts...

Final mergervote on table

by Joel Sawyer
Published July 29, 1996

A resolution that would give University administrators the power to finalize the proposed merger between University Hospital and Fairview Health System will be presented today for Board of Regents approval. If...

Misunderstanding poverty in the U.S.

Published July 29, 1996

The debate about cuts to welfare programs at all levels of government has thus far focused on the minor technical differences separating Republican and Democratic proposals. Zero critical attention has...

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