A pair of wildfires threatens an Arizona observatory partially owned by the University. The blaze is approaching the Large Binocular Telescope, a $110 million facility situated on Mount Graham in Safford,...

In the wake of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's recent proposal to reintroduce the death penalty, several University student groups will hold the second annual death penalty awareness week. Starting today, speakers...

On a quiet Tuesday night at Stub and Herb's, a handful of people huddled around the bar in relative silence. Below them, 50 University students jostled and shouted for elbow room in the basement, eager...

Where is the fair reporting?" one reader asked in response to two Associated Press articles about Palestinian issues printed in Tuesday's Daily. A page four story chronicled the Internet use of Palestinians...

Construction workers at Coffman Union broke a natural gas line Wednesday, prompting the evacuation of several nearby buildings. Fearing air contamination, the Minneapolis Fire Department moved people out...

Seven University students were charged with felonies and two with misdemeanors last week for damaging Dinkytown property after the Gophers' April national hockey championship win. The Minneapolis city...

Minneapolis police officers are urging Marcy-Holmes residents to increase their home security measures following a string of burglaries in that neighborhood. At least 16 homes and apartments near University...

Seven University students were charged with felonies Wednesday morning for damaging Dinkytown property after the Gophers' April national hockey championship win. Charges of gross misdemeanors or misdemeanors...

A Hennepin County grand jury cleared six Minneapolis police officers last week of wrongdoing in the March shooting of a Somali man. Abu Kassim Jeilani, 28, was shot by the officers 12 times after police...

An unknown suspect or suspects stole more than $6,000 in computer equipment from Middlebrook Hall last month, University police said. Several computer towers and monitors, as well as a Zip drive, were...

Investigators pursuing leads in the double homicide of a University student and an alumnus are no longer considering the involvement of another University student. A search warrant filed in Hennepin County...

Three years ago, University police Officer Dave St. Cyr saw a healthy-looking student parking a car with a handicap parking permit. Doubting the student's permit was legal, St. Cyr tracked down the original...

Trish Valusek will add a new title to her name Friday afternoon. At her graduation ceremony, the University Medical School student will be called "doctor" for the first time. The ceremony marks the end...

When University senior Kim Lindeen graduates this semester, she'll move on to become an adolescent counselor at the Bar None Residential Treatment Center. She gives partial credit for receiving the position...

Cassie Bunker started losing her hearing when she was 34. As her problem worsened, Bunker compensated for her increasing deafness by writing notes, talking on speakerphones and asking people to repeat...

Thursday evening, senior Mary Fingerholz will write a message of growth on a ribbon attached to a maypole in a St. Paul Park. She will weave her ribbon and those of other University Pagan Society members...

It's 4:20 p.m. on April 20, and it's Reya Sunshine Jes' 24th birthday. The cultural significance of her birth date does not escape Jes. She is familiar with marijuana - from age 13 on, she smoked it every...

Several months ago, University archivist Penny Krosch opened a box of correspondence from the 1960s. Inside, she found a letter from Jack Kevorkian asking a prominent University surgeon for his opinion...

The search for a new University Medical School dean is winding to a close as the final candidate for the position visited the University on Monday. Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, chairman of the internal medicine...

Although hesitant to wield a hammer, University President Mark Yudof was quick to praise University students during his Monday visit to the construction site of the University Habitat for Humanity Campus...

Mike Dubovich wasn't in Dinkytown during the riots Sunday morning after the NCAA hockey championship game. But he watched the mayhem on the television news, where he saw his store, Just All Wireless, in...

Dr. Deborah Powell said she recognizes medical students experience an information overload during their first years at school. "Faculty members have always understood that they are not teaching students...

As chairman of the surgery department at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Thomas Krummel recognizes the promising future of using virtual technology to prepare students for surgeries. Krummel,...

SHADE knows condoms. The University sexual health program holds entire workshops centered on the sexual protection device. It distributes more than 100,000 free condoms per year. Even its mascot is a nonchalant,...

Dr. Sharon Murphy, a dean candidate for the University Medical School, met with University officials, faculty and students during the first day of her visit to the University campus Tuesday. More than...

Planned Parenthood of Minnesota/South Dakota wants to educate college students about emergency contraceptives with a campaign that will hit the University and 16 other state campuses April 1. Education...

Four years after retiring, Peter Sammond wonders when he ever had time to work. The 69-year-old paints watercolors, gardens, attends weekly discussion groups and takes classes at the University's ElderLearning...

University Medical School dean candidate Dr. Eli Adashi met with school officials, faculty, students and citizens Monday on the first day of a two-day campus visit. In an hour-long lecture delivered to...

Talking with freshman Adam Fogolin, you wouldn't know he has ambylopia, or lazy eye. "Most people don't recognize it unless they talk to me face to face," he said. But when Fogolin speaks with someone...

Several community and activist groups expressed outrage Monday after Minneapolis police officers shot dead a 28-year-old Somali man Sunday. Abu Kassim Jeilani was wielding a machete and a crowbar at the...

When critics attempt to describe his two novels, David Treuer often cringes. Both featuring American Indian families, Treuer said, the books are sometimes seen as ethnographies of American Indian life,...

Everyone was a critic Monday afternoon as approximately 200 people rallied their causes outside the Minneapolis Hilton while President George W. Bush delivered a speech at a dinner for Republican gubernatorial...

Forty days, 960 hours or 57,600 minutes. A long time to go without cigarettes during lunch break, chocolate for dessert or sex. Yet some University students are sacrificing their favorite vices to acknowledge...

More University students are trading their job applications for graduate school applications as the effects of the flagging economy hit the marketplace. Applications to many University professional schools,...

University sophomore Michelle Neal never gets to dress up. She can't even remember the last time she painted her nails. "It's been two years, at least," she said. But Saturday night, in a strobe-lit Gateway...

Lester Block has a message for the Christian public: "Give up latke for Lent." During his speech debating the merits of the Jewish pancake and its cookie counterpart, the hamentash, Block accused the latke...

If you go to Chuck Terhark's Dinkytown apartment, ask to see his snake Gollum. It's white with pale spots, about a foot long and has lived in Terhark's freezer for more than a year. Being dead, Gollum...

Thirty-eight years ago, in smoky coffee shops and at sit-ins and student rallies, a weathered jangle proclaimed, "The times, they are a-changin'." Now, researchers at the University of California at Los...

James Westin spent more than 500 hours building a three-story ice castle in his backyard. But it took only one day for Mother Nature to undo all of it. One day after the University sophomore - with help...

It's 1950, and Donald "Bill" McMoore is sitting at home. Again. As a black student on the University's boxing team, McMoore is often left behind when the team attends segregated matches in the South. During...

Special Agent Dan Miller said he hates sitting behind a desk. The 1972 University graduate has escaped the confines of cubicles while working for the FBI. In 23 years at the bureau, Miller has worked to...

University freshmen Cassie Soukup and Eren Roubal want to jumpstart their careers in theater. University transfer student Tanya Callias wants to get out of Minnesota for the first time in her life. And...

Abortion opponents assembled for a candlelight vigil on Northrop Mall on Tuesday night to remember the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. "In apathy, you're as guilty as the murderers themselves,"...

On Sept. 12 University professor Michael Dennis Browne wrote a letter to his older sister Angela. Angela, who died less than a year before the terrorist attacks, remained Browne's inspiration and compelled...

Mary Hayden, research director at the University's Center on Community Living, has heard the stories of developmentally disabled people living near the World Trade Towers during the Sept. 11 attacks. When...

The Society of American Law Teachers - an organization headed by University law professor Carol Chomsky - has been criticized for protesting military recruitment of law students on college campuses. An...

As a University student, David Miller loved and hated chemistry. His love of the study motivated him to major in chemistry, but his hatred of the sterility and loneliness of lab work convinced him not...

The house at 2311 Portland Ave. is run down. Once a four-bedroom home, an owner converted it to a duplex before it fell into disrepair. Fake brick siding peels off the house, the glass in the windowpanes...

University law professor john powell said he doesn't trust the government. He also said trust isn't necessary. "I don't think our role as the fourth branch of the government-being the public-is to trust...

Many Americans might equate Kenneth Starr with a presidential sex scandal and investigations into illicit real estate transactions. Starr served as a special prosecutor in the Whitewater investigation...

The University Office of Student Finance replaced paperwork and line waiting with the click of a mouse this fall when the office moved its financial aid process to the Web. Students who receive financial...

Shallow Hal Directed by Bobby & Peter Farrelly (Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli) PG13 Shallow Hal is the greatest service to overweight people this year. Or perhaps, it's...

The Minnesota Daily sent a reporter to participate in stress relief meditation.This is a first-person account. When I received an invitation to attend a Sept. 11 stress relief meditation last Saturday,...

Sumbal Mahmud was sitting in a University Law School lounge when she heard about the Sept. 11 attacks. As a Muslim, she feared she would be ostracized because of her beliefs. "There was so much uncertainty,"...

Before going to concerts, Andy likes to do his homework on the opening bands that will be playing. Using his ethernet connection at Pioneer Hall, Andy - who wanted only his first name to be used to avoid...

Next fall, University students who worry during the semester about their grade point averages won't have to wait until finals to know their course grades. The University might implement a midterm evaluation...

Elianne Farhat went to First Avenue Tuesday night to hear the hip-hop group Eyedea & Abilities. But by the end of the night, the 17-year-old walked away with a new appreciation for voting. The band,...

Driving from his St. Louis Park home to classes at the University every day last year, Charlie Gerszewski watched the photographs depicting life on Lake Street that he saw lining area storefronts. "I think...

Ken Wiwa Jr. sometimes feels like he and his deceased father are melded into one person. "There are no points between where you end and your parents begin," Wiwa said. "My father lives in me." As the son...

  Jason Sprenger said he is proud to be in the University marching band and wants other people to know it. ?We want people to see the enthusiasm we have for what we do,? said Sprenger, a rank lieutenant...

Michelle Gross became an activist because her legs were cold. As a child growing up on the eastern coast of Florida, Gross' school dress code forced her to wear skirts. "I lived by the beach, and every...

The Anti-War Committee moved a few tables, desks and a refrigerator into its new office space in El Milagro Lutheran Church on Sept. 10. But three days after the East Coast attacks, officials from the...

The bombing of Afghanistan will not directly affect security measures at the University or at local stadiums and airports, officials said Sunday. Many organizations said they increased security after the...

Armed and robed in camouflage fatigues, National Guard members will patrol the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport starting Friday morning. Metropolitan Airports Commission and National Guard officials...

Immigration lawyer Laura Danielson's clients have been living in fear the past two weeks after witnessing discrimination and hearing tales of foreigners being beaten and murdered. "I have a lot of clients...

To combat Arab-American discrimination around campus, the University Film Society will show a film celebrating the relationships of Islamic, Christian and Jewish families. A Summer in la Goulette, a 1996...

Spartacus and Mariah Carey replaced angry reptiles and exploding planes this week as the film industry adjusted its content for appropriateness following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. From Har Mar to...

Minnesotans soon can establish college savings accounts for their family members without paying taxes on them. The new state plan will allow these accounts to build tax-free, starting January 2002. "The...

University Medical School Dean Alfred Michael announced Thursday he will step down from his position in June 2002. A national search to refill the position began immediately. Michael said he thinks the...

Voters in Minneapolis and St. Paul showed up at the polls for primary elections in greater numbers than in previous years, despite serious concerns that Tuesday's terrorist attacks would keep turnouts...