Regardless of whether University administrators ignored claims of harassment in the past, if it happens in the future, victims can sue the University. On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...

A report published Sunday by the Chronicle of Higher Education pegged the University as having the nation's second-highest number of alcohol-related arrests. Trailing only Michigan State University, liquor-law...

The masked man who admitted to groping more than 40 women around the University area will serve about three years in jail for his crimes. But the pain suffered by his victims will go on forever, said one...

The state Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the University on Tuesday in what is thought to be the first depression-related discrimination case in Minnesota. A three-judge panel denied the appeal made...

Members of emergency departments throughout the city won't get much of a break when the holiday season rolls around. To be prepared for the hype surrounding the impending millennium, police and fire departments...

University President Mark Yudof announced on Thursday the appointment of a task force to create a University policy regarding athletic booster clubs. The task force comes on the heels of last week's published...

As investigators probe allegations of academic fraud within the Gopher men's basketball program, attorney Jim Lord has started to question who will foot the bill for incidental costs incurred as part of...

A former University staff member who alleges she was discriminated against for her illnesses, filed a lawsuit against Fairview Hospital in federal court. According to the complaint filed Wednesday, Jodi...

Problems in the University's Department of Men's Intercollegiate Athletics reported in 1987 were still occurring in 1997, according to audit reports produced by the University Department of Audits. The...

University staff member Ashley Wilkes will not have to turn his hard drive over to investigators in a case pitting Amway against Procter & Gamble, U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Boylan announced...

The attorneys hired to investigate allegations of academic fraud in the men's basketball program met with a third former academic counselor Tuesday. Michael Glazier, head attorney for the investigation,...

The state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the University is not liable for the rape of a female student who was attacked while on a Global Campus study abroad program during winter quarter 1997. The...

The masked man who groped a woman in Van Cleve Park last December has pleaded guilty to four more counts and confessed to at least 40 other incidents of sexual assault. In a hearing held Tuesday morning...

A University nursing student accused of assaulting his girlfriend was acquitted in Hennepin County District Court. William Scott Harvey, 27, was arrested Nov. 1 for fifth-degree domestic assault. His former...

A Hamline University law professor said Tuesday the University does have the authority to question witnesses under oath in the men's basketball scandal investigation. Attorney Jim Lord, who represents...

The University signed contracts over the weekend with two legal firms to investigate allegations of academic misconduct within the Gopher men's basketball program. The investigations began March 22. Tonya...

The NAACP and several parents of Minneapolis schoolchildren enlisted two University staff members in their fight against what they perceive as educational inadequacy in Minneapolis public schools. In a...

A man charged with groping a woman at Van Cleve Park pleaded guilty Friday to criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree. Police arrested Dennis Tellander, 54, of Roseville on Dec. 22 after a woman identified...

Attorneys on both sides of what is believed to be Minnesota's first depression-related discrimination case brought forth arguments in the Minnesota State Court of Appeals Wednesday. In 1995, former University...

A University staff member temporarily delayed handing over information regarding his Web site to a federal court, a site that the Amway Corp. has found offensive. Ashley Wilkes, who works as a lab technician...

Dr. Ray Greek set out to prove Thursday night that animal rights activism and the advancement of science can coexist. Speaking to a group of more than 100 people in the Coffman Union theater, the former...

When the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies asked Mark Soderstrom to present his speech on eugenics at Coffman Union, he laughed at the irony. That's because Lotus D. Coffman, namesake of the University's...

The sun isn't even up when University College junior Joel Meyer sets out to start his 6 a.m. disc jockey shift at Radio K. But at least he gets paid to wake up early -- for now. Meyer is one of three paid...

When Kim Manske was an undergraduate at the University, she paid for her tuition out-of-pocket, and with student loans and grants. Now that she works full-time at the Community-University Health Care Center,...

In a case that could set a precedent for international Internet law, British physicist Laurence Godfrey and the University settled their libel case in an English court. As part of the Jan. 15 settlement,...

Life is a whirlwind when you're the Queen of Snows. Such is the case for Martha Hill, a University student crowned Friday as Queen Aurora of the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival. The 22-year-old nursing...

The audience would have been well-served to hear bell hooks' advice -- to wake up earlier -- before attending her reading at the Macalester Plymouth Church in St. Paul. Hundreds of people fought for space...

Instead of facing execution by a firing squad during the Holocaust, poet Steven Klepetar's great-uncle, a Hungarian Jew, flung himself into the Danube River and escaped. It's images like that which inspire...

Two renowned journalists faced the "civilian" side of journalism when they fielded questions regarding international issues Monday night at the University Club in St. Paul. About 75 people gathered to...

Explorations in color is the theme for the Goldstein Museum's newest exhibition, "Color Ways," which opened with a reception Sunday on the St. Paul campus. The gallery is host to work by one retired and...

Dr. Neal Gault Jr. followed in the footsteps of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale when he was presented with the second annual Japan America Society of Minnesota's Mondale Award. The event, which...

Members of the University's first student-run radio station, WMMR, used to hand out Lucky Strike cigarettes at events to entice students to attend. Times have changed in the 50 years of college radio...