The Minnesota Daily

Summer classes with lowenrollment will be axed

by Laurie Kemp
Published May 10, 1996

For the past 20 years, the University has guaranteed that classes listed in the summer session course directory will be offered. But a new policy effective this summer will subject classes with low enrollment...

Teachers sue university over free speech on campus

Published May 10, 1996

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four English teachers filed a $10 million lawsuit against Gallaudet University on Thursday, claiming they lost their jobs because they criticized teaching methods at the nation's best-known...

Provost Allen defends plan to merge two of U’s colleges

by Jessica Burke
Published May 10, 1996

Board of Regents committee members focused on proposed structural changes to Professional Studies, even though they won't vote on the issue until July. Gene Allen, provost for professional studies, made...

Hiring raises issue of athletic achievement vs. experience

by Scott Bradley
Published May 10, 1996

When the University named Steve Plasencia as its head cross country coach two weeks ago, the hiring seemed to represent a recent trend in the Big Ten. Unlike in revenue sports throughout the conference,...

Minnesota fish threatened by foreign invader

by Valerie Schlegel
Published May 10, 1996

With the opening of fishing season upon us, the dreaded round goby may be invading Minnesota lakes. But the University-funded Minnesota Sea Grant is prepared, with a program to help rid area lakes of...

Levine extends football career with Minnesota Fighting Pike

by Todd Zolecki
Published May 10, 1996

Nothing was sweeter for Tony Levine than his first touchdown catch as a Minnesota Fighting Pike, the new arena football team. After five years with the Gophers he finally did something he had wanted to...

Brothers reunite on college football team

Published May 10, 1996

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- After years of separation, Steven Kelley and Joe Jackson ended up at the same college, on the same football team, in the same backfield. Though they played against each other in...

U’s journalism schoolregains accreditation

Published May 10, 1996

The University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication returned to full accreditation status Saturday. The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication recommended the accreditation...

Smith puts football behind, becomes baseball leader

by Matthew Cross
Published May 10, 1996

The Gophers baseball team had just won its third of four games at Northwestern, and after shaking hands with the Wildcats the team gathered in a huddle around senior third baseman Rob Smith. The Menomonie,...

NCAA

Published May 10, 1996

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) -- The NCAA has certified 19 football bowl games, including the first one to be played on foreign soil. The third-place finisher in the Pac-10 will play an at-large team in Auckland,...