Last Friday night, a crowd of more than 60,000 men descended on the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The vast majority of them were middle class, clean-cut and casually dressed. It was obvious from their...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., is asking Republicans to stop running a television ad that invokes his name while attacking Sen. Paul Wellstone, a fellow Minnesota Democrat. The ad, which...

Several people were surprised to find tickets on their cars last week after parking in an area behind a campus building that was not marked as a no-parking zone. College of Liberal Arts senior Shawn Eliason...

Doctors performed a bowel transplant at the University on Sunday for the first time in nearly 30 years. Rainer Gruessner, who performed the nine-hour surgery, said the patient was listed in critical but...

The Gophers softball team was still flying high Monday from its NCAA regional bid, and its players sounded supremely confident of their chances in Lafayette, La., this weekend. "Now that we have a chance...

In a letter to Board of Regents Chairman Tom Reagan, Gov. Arne Carlson chastised the University because he said it will run up a $300 million debt by the year 2000. But Carlson has those numbers wrong,...

On April 22, the Daily published Galen Johnson's opinion piece on why same-sex marriages should be allowed ("Same-sex marriages should be made legal"). We wish to make what may be termed a "Christian response." In...

Although this year's Senate race won't be decided for another six months, Republican Party leaders are already anxious and on the attack. Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Chris Georgacas recently charged...

Despite the efforts of a few regents, student tuition will bear a 7.5 percent revenue increase next year. The Board of Regents voted Friday to approve the University's 1996-97 budget. Included in the...

The virus that causes AIDS does not pose an epidemic threat to the United States' heterosexual population, a University of Chicago researcher told a group of University of Minnesota students and faculty...