For more than a decade, Alaskans put marijuana legislation to a citizen vote. The year 2000 is no exception. But this year, it appears as though voters rejected the legislation put before them that would...

The University Board of Regents will face fresh input from four new students in the year ahead after the student representatives to the board changed hands. Each year new representatives are selected to...

"You throw like a girl." This used to be an insult. But the University is trying to change that with a women's sports video and curriculum mailed out to every Minnesota secondary school. If it is any measure...

Clerical staff demands for better pay dominated Friday's Board of Regents' open forum on the University's budget and drowned out the few concerns raised about tuition, transportation, technology and faculty...

Girls got to cut school Thursday to watch University women and men do their jobs. The University held its eighth annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day, opening its doors in an effort to embolden girls...

Former University treasurer Georgina Stephens wants her job back. And on Thursday, facing the judges of one of the state's highest courts, her attorney tried to make that happen. Karl Oliver argued before...

Skyrocketing gas prices left students and legislators scrambling for solutions during the past several months. But not the University. Despite struggling with technology, libraries, construction, health...

A federal grand jury is probably the most forceful evidence-gathering power in America, and last week the University got a dose of this strength as it was asked to turn over all evidence gathered from...

University attorneys sent a letter to former men's basketball coach Clem Haskins through his lawyer Wednesday that could lead to a University lawsuit against him. General Counsel Mark Rotenberg said the...

University President Mark Yudof told students they needed to share the burden of rising University costs, including their professors' pay. As expected, Yudof went before the Board of Regents with his plan...

A possible tuition increase received a mixed reaction from students who met with University President Mark Yudof earlier this week. Yudof proposed the 5.5 percent tuition increase, an amount well above...

More and more students are going to feel a push to stop dillydallying with their studies and graduate in four years or less. It is a move University administrators say is better for the students and better...

Growing up with parents who didn't speak English, Piyali Nath Dalal has learned the numerous doors literacy can open for a person. The most recent door opened two weeks ago when Dalal received the $30,000...

Editor's note: The University faces a multimillion-dollar budget gap between the cost to run the University and incoming revenues. This is the third part of a three-part series that addresses the following...

After the federal government granted the University land under the Morrill Act in 1862, the University was obligated to open its doors to those seeking an education. In addition to this federal aid, the...

Editor's note: The University faces a multimillion-dollar budget gap between the cost to run the University and incoming revenues. This is the second part in a three-part series that addresses three questions:...

One reason the University is struggling with a $23 million budget gap is because it gave a big chunk of its money away. The money didn't go far. It can be found in the individual colleges at the University...

Editor's note: The University faces a multimillion-dollar budget gap between the cost to run the University and incoming revenues. This is the first of a three-part series that addresses why the University's...

Serving at the right hand of University President Mark Yudof has offered Tonya Moten Brown an eyeful. In addition to managing the everyday conflicts normally addressed by a university's president, Brown...

Local politics won the battle against national campaigns in Wednesday's election for campus Republican officers. As the two candidates for the chairman position of the University's campus Republicans debated...

Editor's note: This is the third in a 10-part series of stories highlighting each decade of the 20th century and how The Minnesota Daily covered them. The series will appear on Wednesdays leading up to...

Texas Gov. George W. Bush's statewide landslide victory in Tuesday's Republican caucuses was no surprise to many political pundits. However, campus-area precincts failed to give Bush as great a nod. By...

Tonight, Minnesotans will gather in schools and churches to participate in the state's Republican precinct caucuses. For Minnesota Republicans, this is the first chance to weigh in politically on the presidential...

U.S. Department of Defense officials have taken interest in two University research projects, funding state-of-the-art equipment to help them along. The department awards, announced earlier this month,...

After leading the University through the problems and trials of the Enterprise Project -- the University's complete overhaul of its technological infrastructure -- Steve Cawley has signed up for another...

Georgina Stephens, the University's former treasurer, still hopes to get her old job back. The same day the Board of Regents formally ousted her from her treasurer position, Stephens said she filed a 49-page...

Two years ago, the University knew its computer systems wouldn't make it past January 2000 and needed an overhaul to manage the growing University's administrative needs. The solution came with a $42.3...

A cooperative research park in Sweden, which combines the best resources from city, county, university and private businesses, has caught the attention of Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton -- as well...

If the Board of Regents votes to amend its bylaws today, the path will be paved for the board to officially remove its current treasurer. Once the bylaws are changed, the 12-member board is expected to...

As the New Hampshire primary results flashed on the television screen Tuesday night, Republican presidential hopeful Gary Bauer fought with write-in candidates for last place. Now, three days later, the...

After experiencing three episodes of stomach-intestinal cramping during the past 12 months, University President Mark Yudof will have surgery on Feb. 8 to remove a partial small-bowel obstruction causing...

After fighting for wilderness, the homeless, consumers and other citizen issues in Congress, Rep. Bruce F. Vento, DFL-St. Paul, has begun a much different battle -- cancer. Vento, a 24-year veteran of...

When the University sliced up its construction and renovation projects for the next two years, it did so after months of deliberation, consultation and debate. So when Gov. Jesse Ventura's budget allocated...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- After mustering only 1 percent of the Republican vote in Monday's Iowa caucuses, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, bowed out of the White House race. After announcing his decision Wednesday,...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Despite his last-place standing in the polls, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, continued a slow and methodical fight for the GOP nomination for presidential candidate. During talk shows, phone...

A day after the University's treasurer petitioned the Minnesota Court of Appeals to get her job duties back, she closed the door on handling the matter internally, according to Mark Rotenberg, the University's...

Alcohol will not be sold at Northrop Auditorium on New Year's Eve even if the University's liquor license is approved by then. Although the New Year's Eve comedy event is the kind University officials...

Although she has kept her title, University treasurer Georgina Stephens wants her responsibilities back. So Stephens, who is also the associate vice president of treasury operations, filed a lawsuit Monday...

PeopleSoft, the new software program used for University registration, human resources, financial aid and other student services, has earned a new name from those who use it every day. PeopleHard. When...

Future game locations for Duluth men's hockey games continue to be bantered about, this time in the form of letters between the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center and the University of Minnesota-Duluth's...

Following a six-week review, the University reassigned the fiscal responsibilities of its treasurer, who is also the associate vice president of treasury operations, and will not renew her contract. Effective...

For 20 hours last week, University President Mark Yudof wrapped himself in the 2,500-page investigative report and determined the University's fate in what he called a "colossal" academic scandal. In the...

and Megan Boldt Betrayal. Over and over, the word permeated nearly every speech and written statement issued Friday by officials embroiled in one of the most embarrassing and costly University athletics...

Dreams of becoming a college president might be dashed for McKinley Boston after Friday's report determined academic misconduct occurred on his watch. Even though Boston, vice president of student development...

Alcohol sales at Northrop Auditorium stirred up rare disagreement at Friday's Board of Regents meeting. Though the one-year trial to sell beer and wine during entertainment events at the East Bank concert...

Another witness came forward late last week in the men's basketball academic fraud investigation, University President Mark Yudof said Friday. Yudof would not disclose the identity of the witness but said...

Board of Regents Audit Committee members were briefed Thursday about a National Institutes of Health fact-finding visit. Christine Maziar, vice president of research and Graduate School dean, and Frank...

Duluth women's and men's hockey will have a home for the next five years after regents approved a lease Thursday. After tabling the issue in mid-October, the Board of Regents approved the measure Thursday...

In a closed-door meeting at Morrill Hall, the Board of Regents listened Thursday to a review of the University's external academic-misconduct investigation. For most, if not all of the regents, it was...

With University President Mark Yudof spending up to 10 percent of his time on the men's basketball scandal, his schedule this year has been demanding. But as the University begins its $1.3 billion capital...

Never in Northrop Memorial Auditorium's 80-year history has a patron been able to purchase even a sip of alcohol at an entertainment event. But that could change Friday if the Board of Regents approves...

Photographs of football players inducted Saturday into the University's hall of fame will settle into new, spiffed-up surroundings this winter. After a seven-month delay -- resulting from a new gender-equity...

The Gophers men's basketball team will be banned from postseason play and placed on probation, University President Mark Yudof announced Tuesday, calling the sanctions a "middle-range" move. The penalties...

Ð The Minnesota Daily The University's treasurer was placed on administrative leave Wednesday after officials learned of her involvement in several personal-bankruptcy cases. Georgina Yvonne Stephens,...

Amid maroon and gold streamers and fireworks set off from the top of Coffman Union, University President Mark Yudof announced an unprecedented $1.3 billion, seven-year fund-raising campaign. "This is the...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- When Michelle Stahlman moved this spring from Pennsylvania to Rochester, Minn., for her spouse's job at Mayo Clinic, she thought her graduate studies would have to wait. Ninety minutes...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- After the abrupt departure of the regents' corporate secretary one month ago, the Board of Regents filled the vacancy Friday during their monthly meeting in Rochester, Minn. The board...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- If University President Mark Yudof gets his way, the state and the University would invest $15 million to $20 million in literacy for children before they even reach college. Yudof...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Although University of Minnesota-Duluth hockey players will play their first games at the downtown Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center in mid-October, they will do so without...

Rochester, Minn. -- Regents approved Thursday a $540,000 state-of-the-art Hall of Fame designed for the men's football program with a promise of an equitable investment for women's athletics by February. University...

Rochester, Minn. -- Regents approved an intellectual property policy Thursday that defines profits and ownership of University inventions, theories or course materials, protecting both the University and...

When the Board of Regents debates spending millions of dollars on a new building or evaluates the University's Y2K preparedness, students are represented. Headed by their chairwoman, Heidi Frederickson,...

Vice President McKinley Boston defended hiring Anthony Adams, a former University of Wisconsin NCAA compliance director who resigned after breaking the rules he was hired to enforce, in response to a Friday...

After five months as executive director and corporate secretary of the Board of Regents, Andrea Turner resigned last Friday "to pursue other professional opportunities," according to a University statement. Regents...

What appeared to be a minor house-cleaning move by the Board of Regents has knocked students out of a place of prominence in monthly regent meetings. Starting with the Sept. 10 regents meeting, the students'...

A new provost will head the University of Minnesota Rochester Center as of Monday. In this position, Mary Heltsley, University associate vice president of outreach, will take the helm of the University...

Amid rumors that other schools are trying to recruit University President Mark Yudof, the Board of Regents voted unanimously to put him among the highest-paid presidents in the Big Ten. The board voted...

Despite low student-athlete graduation rates, McKinley Boston is optimistic that the rates will rise as recent improvements in the athletics program take effect. Boston, the vice president of student development...

An intellectual property policy that would significantly update a 1986 University policy got a positive review Thursday from regents serving on the Educational Planning and Policy Committee. The entire...

Although 87 percent of Minnesota's population growth is expected to occur in the Twin Cities area, the metro area does not have a state university to service less-prepared students, according to information...

University regents, state legislators, facilities management staff members and others donned hard hats and plastic glasses Wednesday afternoon as they toured nine campus construction projects. The tour...

When University President Mark Yudof met with Gov. Jesse Ventura last week to discuss the $134.3 million the University hopes to win from the Legislature next session, talk drifted toward the University's...

University faculty are taking a look, from their own perspectives, at allegations of academic fraud in the men's basketball program. The faculty's senate, known as the Faculty Consultative Committee, appointed...

Shortly after Coffman Union celebrates its 60th anniversary this fall, its doors will close for 18 months for a $55.8 million renovation. As students return to campus in September, all of the food, recreation,...

The laws that created the University's Board of Regents may be as old as Minnesota's territorial Legislature, but now regents meet monthly to steer the school through decisions inconceivable to that early...

After 34 years of handling the comings and goings of University personnel, Roger Forrester is taking his own leave. After starting as a human resources personnel representative in 1965, Forrester worked...

LITTLE FALLS -- Some of the University's most powerful people joked about being characters in a mystery novel brought together in an historic house in the middle of the country. And then the lights went...

When the temperature inside the University's non-air-conditioned Coffman Union rises above 90 degrees, students at the Minnesota Student Association "clear out," said Matt Clark, vice president of the...

Regents approved a new $10 million above-ground parking ramp Monday that will serve the Gateway center and surrounding recreation facilities. The University Avenue ramp, scheduled for completion in October...

Eric Atkins remembers his first impression of Gov. Jesse Ventura. During last year's homecoming parade, Atkins and eight other Navy ROTC students marched in the midst of heckles and taunts from Atkins'...

A flood of 7,000 middle-school science students began their hands-on rainforest education this week at the Bell Museum of Natural History. During the next two weeks, an estimated 1,000 University students,...

The Middle East peace process is flawed because it leaves the core issue -- the displacement and dispossession of an entire Palestinian people in 1948 -- unaddressed, Edward Said told his audience Monday. The...

Lee Mun Wah, filmmaker, community therapist and educator, persuaded an audience of about 120 to sit down to talk about racism at the Coffman Union theater. He asked his audience at Thursday's event, "Breaking...

In front of a crowded Fireplace Lounge in Coffman Union, Garrison Keillor spoke Tuesday to a quiet and attentive audience, their silence broken only by bursts of laughter. The renowned entertainer and...

John "Jack" Allison, professor emeritus and director of the University's physical therapy program from 1978 to 1993, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 68. Allison received his bachelor's and master's...

Two University students were arrested and charged Friday with vandalizing six automobiles near Washington Avenue and Harvard Street during afternoon rush hour. Ima Walker and Stephen Lightfoot, both second-year...

On the third floor corner of the St. Paul Gym, two International Karate League instructors trade off demonstrating and directing each stance: block, strike and kick. Their calm and quiet voices count off...