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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

U considers graduation guarantee

by Brian Bakst
Published July 15, 1996

A select number of incoming University students may be guaranteed graduation in four years under a new program starting this fall. Administrators unveiled the program to the Board of Regents on Friday...

U’s concerns carry into new fiscal year

by Brian Bakst
Published July 15, 1996

There was no champagne or party favors, and the Board of Regents didn't have to wait until midnight for their new year to begin. The regent meetings last week marked the beginning of the University's...

Officials want funding increase

by Brian Bakst
Published July 15, 1996

University officials plan to ask the Legislature to pay half of the University's operating costs under a proposal presented to the Board of Regents on Friday. Although the 1998-99 biennial budget request...

Carlson comes calling

by Brian Bakst
Published July 12, 1996

Gov. Arne Carlson's insistence Wednesday that officials reimburse Dr. John Najarian for legal fees and reinstate the surgeon as a tenured professor was the latest in a string of demands the governor has...

Charges dismissed against Buggs’ alleged helper

by Kamariea Forcier
Published July 12, 1996

As a man charged with murdering a University student sat in jail on $1 million bail, charges were dismissed Thursday against another man accused of helping him after the murder. Reginald G. Hammond, 25,...

Presidential candidate seeks Reform Party endorsement

Published July 12, 1996

Presidential candidate Richard Lamm, above, addressed Reform Party supporters Thursday at the Bloomington Radisson. Both Lamm and his major opponent, Ross Perot, are seeking endorsement from the party....

Laylin, Skarda reunite on the rink

by Ryan Schuster
Published July 12, 1996

A loud clang reverberated throughout the St. Paul Civic Center on April 1, 1989, as then-Gophers junior defensemen Randy Skarda's shot deflected off the Harvard goal post, missing the net by only inches. The...

Regents discuss flier miles

Published July 12, 1996

The Board of Regents Financial Operations Committee decided unanimously Thursday to send a letter to all University departments reminding them to turn over frequent flier miles to a central University...

Professor treated fairly in inquiry, judge rules

by Kamariea Forcier
Published July 12, 1996

A federal judge dismissed a two-year-old lawsuit Tuesday brought against the University by psychiatry professor James A. Halikas. Halikas alleged the University violated his 14th Amendment right to due...

New AIDS drugs no panacea for epidemic

Published July 12, 1996

Excitement surrounding an innovative AIDS treatment is raising hopes that researchers are close to discovering a cure for the killer virus. A potent combination of drugs that work together to diminish...

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