When Gophers football head coach Jim Wacker dismissed running back Rafael Cooper from the team last week, he threatened his team's chances for success next season. Cooper was set to take over for departed...

The Gophers baseball team wrapped up the 1996 nonconference season Thursday night at Siebert Field with a 15-4 win against St. Olaf. Both teams were held scoreless until the second inning when right fielder...

More than 125 University union workers, students, faculty and union representatives rallied Thursday in front of Coffman Memorial Union to protest the planned merger between Fairview Health System and...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- An NCAA enforcement official said Alabama, already on probation, could face additional penalties stemming from football players' tire purchases from a Crimson Tide fan. But David...

When Dinkytown business owners learned their neighborhood's main thoroughfares would be ripped up in a massive construction project, they worried about loss of customers in the area. But for most, the...

"Are you, ... are you talkin' to me," Elmo snarled back at the senator. It was election time again on campus, and the senator wanted the students to know he cared about their well-being. It was to be mostly...

University regents have a plan that would allow the University Theater Arts showboat program to resurface. At a Thursday meeting of the Board of Regents Facilities Committee, architect John Mecum of Miller-Dunwiddie...

Dana Peterson, a senior on the Gophers women's tennis team, learned Thursday that she qualified for the NCAA Singles Championship in Tallahassee, Fla. Peterson became the second Gophers player to ever...

This season the Minnesota men's golf team has matched up against Ohio State and Northwestern more than they'd care to admit. The Gophers will get friendly with those schools again today as the 1996 Big...

At their Thursday meeting, members of the regents' Audit Committee discussed disbanding two computerized financial management systems at the University. The first system, the Grants Application and Management...