A recent controversy in the academic community has confirmed that fashionable political sentiments wrapped in trendy jargon sometimes speak louder than reason.
The controversy erupted in the pages of the...
University senior Randy Stillinger began the adventure of a lifetime Monday, one that will take him across 22 states on a bicycle.
Stillinger and more than 50 members of Pi Alpha Phi fraternity from across...
University students served as delegates and volunteers at the DFL and Republican state conventions that voted on candidate endorsements for the U.S. Senate seat up for election this November.
Democrats...
Bittersweet celebration replaced sadness for the family of slain University student Kami Talley at the College of Liberal Arts graduation ceremony Sunday.
CLA Interim Dean Robert Holt gave Talley's diploma...
A new Universitywide, post-tenure peer review system could result in faculty pay reductions or termination under an amendment passed Thursday by the University Faculty Senate.
Despite the amendment's...
After 10 years as J Robinson's head assistant coach on the Gophers wrestling team, the time has come for Dave Grant to move on.
Last week Grant accepted a head coaching job at Northern Illinois, which...
For the most part, the debate concerning tenure and the implementation of Responsibility Center Management has been framed as a debate between administrators and faculty members. However, because the...
Supporters and opponents of University Hospital's proposed merger with Fairview Health System aired their views at the Academic Health Center-Fairview Public Forum on June 3, just weeks before the fate...
One of two Gophers football players charged with credit card fraud was released from the Ramsey County jail Monday afternoon after turning himself in earlier that day.
Billy Dee Cockerham, a redshirt...
(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Following an apparently flawless launch, a catastrophic explosion blew apart the space shuttle Challenger 74 seconds after lift-off Tuesday.
The explosion occurred about the...