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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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...

Students want new auditorium

by October 13,
Published June 4, 1996

President Lotus D. Coffman, who is chairman ex-officio of all Auditorium Stadium campaign activities, and Governor J. A. Preus, chief executive of the state of Minnesota came out last night with strong,...

Senate proposes bill to weed out Communists at University

by March 30,
Published June 4, 1996

A bill that would require all employees of the University to sign a loyalty oath was introduced Friday in the Minnesota Senate. Sen. A.O. Sundet (Faribault), the bill's author, specifies in the bill that...

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...

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...

University assists WWII efforts

by Bill Caldwell
Published June 4, 1996

Outwardly the campus is the same as it was before September 1, 1939 when Nazi legions invaded Poland. True, a few more olive drab or navy blue uniforms are visible. But student life is still as unregimented...

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...

Students test underwear styles

Published June 4, 1996

Underwear-clad University students -- six of them -- are shivering for science and national defense. They are subjects in experiments conducted by Dr. Allen Hemingway, assistant professor of physiological...

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...

Prof’s work central to atomic bomb’s creation

by Aug. 8,
Published June 4, 1996

"We must remember that Japan can end the atomic bombing in a moment by surrender; the destruction caused by such bombing is not wanton," said George P. Conger, professor and chairman of the philosophy...

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