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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Football fans tour scenic California

Published June 4, 1996

Minneapolis was cold when 500 students and chaperones boarded the Golden Gopher Special for California, fame and fun. It was cool on the train returning to cooler Minnesota. Students rode the sit-up coaches...

Faculty relieved, say Nixon resignation wise

by Aug. 10,
Published June 4, 1996

Following Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the Presidency, the reaction among University faculty was one of "relief." Without exception, faculty contacted welcomed Nixon's exit from office. University...

A look at current collegiate slang

by May 25,
Published June 4, 1996

If students are quick and alert in a mental way their slang is accordingly characterized and some of their daring metaphors are sometimes so good that the slang finds its way into common use in the outside...

1980’s miracle makers come home

by Lisa Harris
Published June 4, 1996

Editor's note: The Team USA hockey squad that beat Russia and Finland to win the 1980 Olympic hockey gold medal included former Gophers coach Herb Brooks and former players: Les Auge, Bill Baker, Neal...

University doctor gives LSD to mental patient in experiment

by Harry Engel
Published June 4, 1996

William, a patient in the psychiatric ward of University Hospital, participated in a project Friday morning using LSD. William is one of many patients who have voluntarily taken part in an experiment...

Students who enli…

by April 6,
Published June 4, 1996

Students who enlist now for any division of active military service will be given their credits and any seniors will be granted their degrees just as if they had remained throughout the semester: according...

Secrecy veils U laboratories engaged in defense research

by Bill Caldwell
Published June 4, 1996

Minnesota has become one of America's great national defense research centers, but only confidential reports closely guarded in administration files can tell how great. The air of secrecy lingers over...

U wins third hockey crown

by Cindy Dickison
Published June 4, 1996

DETROIT -- "Well," said a Minnesota hockey player Sunday morning. "I guess we got Herbie off the hook." That understatement was made in a satisfied, but considerably calmer, tone than the one of utter...

Gopher men fall short of Final Four

by Daniel Kelly
Published June 4, 1996

NEW ORLEANS -- It took a Gopher basketball team 93 years to reach the fourth round of the NCAA tournament. Ninety-three seasons to get farther than all but four of the nation's 293 Division I basketball...

Dave Winfield reflects on fame, race

by Marshall Fine
Published June 4, 1996

Most athletes who reach the limelight realize they are idols and heroes to millions of sports fans, a good number of them children. As a standout pitcher for the Gophers baseball team and then as a forward...

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