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...

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...

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...

Gophers edge Mississippito finish first in AP poll

by Nov. 30,
Published June 4, 1996

(AP) -- From effigy to ecstacy in one season -- that's the story of Coach Murray Warmath and his Minnesota Gophers, crowned as national college champions in the season's final Associated Press poll. A...

’99 percent chance’U males to be drafted

Published June 4, 1996

Editors Note: This is the first of a series of articles about the college man and the draft. "From The President of the United States to ... "Greetings: "You are hereby ordered for induction into the...

JFK killed; campus stunned

by Nov. 22,
Published June 4, 1996

President Kennedy is dead. A sniper with a high-powered rifle cut him down at 12:45 p.m. as the President rode in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. Mr. Kennedy fell face-downward on the back seat of...

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...

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,...