Students, administrators and experts gathered Friday at the McNamara alumni center to discuss the AIDS epidemic and the future of battling the disease.

Conflicts with parents over dating relationships and major decisions might seem commonplace for sons and daughters of any race.

Many Jewish students will celebrate Passover at sundown tonight, even if their college lives alter their usual holiday traditions.

Mike May and Kevin Wendt began their student government relationship as enemies. Last spring May beat out Wendt for vice president of the Residence Hall Association.

The Minnesota Student Association Forum will vote tomorrow on a resolution to cap students' contributions to an on-campus stadium at $50 per semester.

Assimilating into U.S. culture and the effects of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on international students and foreign relations were topics of discussion Friday at the Pakistani Student Association Annual Dinner.

First-year computer science student Rob Ford is looking for a break-dance partner.

State and national politicians should not pursue a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, the Minneapolis City Council stated in a resolution passed Friday.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore who was missing for more than four days last week faked her abduction, police said Friday.

Breck High School hockey star Blake Wheeler verbally committed to play college hockey at Minnesota for the 2005-06 season.

Seimone Augustus and Tasha Butts were both hot going into Sunday's game. But Augustus cooled off and Butts and Tennessee found another way to survive.

Even in defeat, there was a silver lining to Minnesota's women's basketball team's Final Four appearance.

Even in defeat, there was a silver lining to Minnesota's women's basketball team's Final Four appearance.

Hundreds of Minnesota women's basketball fans walked from their hotels to the New Orleans Arena for a Gophers autograph session and public practice Saturday afternoon.

Minnesota women's basketball guard Shannon Bolden has been busy the last few weeks. Along with coming back to classes after spring break, playing in the NCAA Tournament and trying to lead a normal life, lately she's been in charge of trying to contain some of the best women's basketball players in the country.

Halfway through Minnesota gymnast Kim Womack's floor exercise routine, which kicked off the Gophers' first event at the NCAA North Central Regional Championships over the weekend, the team had reason to be optimistic.

Lindsay Whalen had the same look she has had all season as she reflected on Minnesota women's basketball team's 67-58 loss to Connecticut on Sunday night in New Orleans Arena.

Minnesota women's tennis player Nischela Reddy screamed in frustration Sunday afternoon at the Baseline Tennis Center as her backhand sailed well long of the baseline in her 6-3, 6-4 loss to Michigan's No. 72 Elizabeth Exon.

Minnesota's baseball team got the Big Ten season off to the wrong start with a 4-3, 12-inning loss Friday against Michigan and came up just short of rebounding to win the four-game series.

Minnesota's men's golf coach Brad James said last week that all the Gophers needed was a solid fifth score to jump from a middle-of-the-pack to a top-of-the-standings team.

Coach Pam Borton and her assistants will be rewarded for leading Minnesota's women's basketball team to the Final Four, Athletics Director Joel Maturi said.

Poor conditions made Minnesota's rowing team wait an extra day to compete in its first Big Ten dual against Iowa over the weekend. But the extra time did not slow down the Gophers on the water.

The crowd watching Minnesota's Final Four game at Williams Arena sat silent as the closing seconds ticked off the clock in the team's 67-58 loss to Connecticut on Sunday night.

The crowd watching Minnesota's Final Four game at Williams Arena sat silent as the closing seconds ticked off the clock in the team's 67-58 loss to Connecticut on Sunday night.

After opening Big Ten play going 3-1 on a four-game road swing, Minnesota's softball team exudes confidence.

Minnesota's football team saw its first live, game-like environment Saturday, and continued the learning experience for its potential quarterbacks.

Another game, another head-scratching, nail-biting finish for Tennessee's women's basketball team.

Minnesota's women's track and field season, at this point, is like a relay team in midrace.

To outsiders, animal rights advocates look to be a strange lot. We don't eat meat, avoid cosmetics tested on animals and boycott the Ringling Brothers Circus.

Thanks to columnist Jackie Hartwig for exposing some hard truths about our so called "democratic" government on April 1.

The bus strike has gone on almost a month with little progress and almost no negotiating.

The complicity of physicians in torture is not a new or isolated phenomenon.

Upon his narrow re-election last month, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian promised a renewed, aggressive campaign for independence from China.

All good, patriotic Americans have a duty to their country. On this much I can agree with the Bush administration.

I am writing in response to a letter to the editor concerning the U.S. response to the global HIV/AIDS crisis and my record on this topic.

The Stanley Cup playoffs begin Wednesday. If the sports world has any sense in its pretty little head, it would squarely focus on the start of these playoffs.