The Minnesota Daily

Last November, the …

Published May 28, 1996

Last November, the Gophers soccer team started an upward swing in the University women's athletics department by winning the Big Ten title. The department raised more eyebrows in December when it swooped...

Winfield named to all-time College World Series team

Published May 28, 1996

Dave Winfield, who led the Gophers baseball team to third place at the 1973 NCAA championships, was named to the All-Time College World Series team by the Omaha (Neb.) World Herald. Winfield played pitcher...

Professor wants to humanize schools, society

by Jacquelyn Olson
Published May 28, 1996

Flute music fills a room lit only by natural light, and the cleansing ceremony begins as students breathe deeply the smoke from the burning sage blown toward them with a feather. The music stops. Every...

USC freshman wins NCAA title

Published May 28, 1996

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Winning the NCAA singles title was something Southern California's Cecil Mamiit never even thought about. Still, he became the first freshman to win it since Stanford's John McEnroe...

Israeli parliament member dies

Published May 28, 1996

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Haike Grossman, a leader of the Jewish resistance against the Nazis in occupied Poland who became an Israeli parliament member, died Sunday after being in a coma for three years. She...

Doubting value of faculty scholarship absurd

by By Peter
Published May 28, 1996

Jim Gardner's opinions piece about how University professors -- specifically those in the College of Liberal Arts and more narrowly those in the Department of English -- are "not pulling their weight"...

Gophers will send three to NCAAs

by Scott Bradley
Published May 28, 1996

The Gophers' Jason Schlueter, Paul Michalek and Vesa Rantanen learned this weekend that they qualified for the NCAA men's track and field outdoor championships. The NCAA notified the qualifying athletes...

Football team co-captainarrested on assault charge

by Jim Martyka
Published May 28, 1996

University Police are investigating the involvement of a Gophers' football team captain in an assault Thursday at Sanford Hall. According to a University Police report, officers responded to a call that...

Police suspect work of arsonist

Published May 28, 1996

Minneapolis Fire Department investigators think arson was the cause of a fire Friday near the University's Mineral Resources Research Center. Members of the fire department's station 19 responded to a...

Tribulations

Published May 28, 1996

And the LORD said unto Satan, whence comest thou? Then Satan said, From roaming the earth and patrolling it. And the LORD said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Elmo? that there is none like...