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4×400 men’s relay team qualifies for NCAA meet

Published February 16, 2004

The Minnesota 4x400-meter relay team of Mikael Jakobsson, Adam Steele, Robb Merritt and Mitch Potter automatically qualified for the NCAA championships and placed second in the Iowa State Classic in Ames,...

Lawmakers back stronger same-sex marriage ban

Published November 21, 2003

The proposal would write the current prohibition into the state constitution.

SARS concerns trigger U-issued Hong Kong, China travel warning

by Geoffrey Ziezulewicz
Published April 9, 2003

In response to U.S. State Department and World Health Organization advisories, the University provost's office sent an e-mail to its directors, department heads and deans Monday recommending that no one...

Borton one of 25 named as candidate for Naismith

Published February 27, 2003

Minnesota women's basketball coach Pam Borton is one of 25 finalists for the Naismith coach of the year award. Borton joins two other Big Ten coaches in Penn State's Rene Portland and Purdue's Kristy Curry. Borton...

Men’s tennis goes to No. 10 nationally

Published February 14, 2003

With six straight victories against ranked opponents, Minnesota's men's tennis team moved up one spot to No. 10 in the latest ITA national rankings. It is the highest ranking for the Gophers since the...

Depth chart concerns push U linebackers

Published August 26, 2002

A funny thing happened to Minnesota football's linebacker coach Greg Hudson during the Gophers' spring camp. Rather than being dazzled by the three returning starters, it was three different faces on the...

Coleman and the BWCA

Published August 26, 2002

David Anderson ("Coleman correction," Aug. 12) is misinformed about Norm Coleman's position on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Coleman wants to open the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness for commercial...

A secret history: The fiction of Bruno Schulz

Published August 26, 2002

runo Schulz was a contemporary of Franz Kafka (he authored a translation of The Trial) and was likewise from Poland, and his slight literary output - confined to two collections of short stories and a...

Insta-tainment: the decline of modern cinema

Published August 26, 2002

By Roxanne Sadovsky The other day, some friends and I rented the 1973 classic "American Graffiti." As I recall, this film was a favorite among youth who pondered various existential crises upon crossing...

Environmentalists need to be wary of Coleman

Published August 26, 2002

By Michael A. Casper If we have learned anything from the multitude of investigations, revelations, and pontifications following the collapse on Enron, it is this: The interests of the energy industry...