University Of Minnesota

After months of protest by faculty members, the University of Minnesota's governing board of regents has abandoned a plan to make it easier to dismiss tenured professors from most of its campuses, but it passed such a measure for the law school.The regents had sought the authority to dismiss professors whose programs were eliminated and to cut salaries for reasons other than financial emergency.Tenured professors now have lifetime employment unless a financial emergency is declared or in a case of individual misconduct.

Rookie wide receiver Ernie Wheelwright concluded his career at the University of Minnesota as the program's No. 3 receiver in all-time receptions (159) and yards (2,434). As talented as he is, Wheelwright says he wishes he could have one thing to enhance his skills. Q: If you could have one superhero power, what would it be and why? A: Lightning speed. I would love to just get there. I always feel like there's never enough time in the day, like the day is moving too fast. So if I was The Flash, I would just go and be out. Q: What would you use your superhero power for?

Most everybody says, `Yes, I'm in favor of diversity and I really like multiculturalism,' but if there's nothing to pull people together, they get kind of nervous."

Most everybody says, `Yes, I'm in favor of diversity and I really like multiculturalism,' but if there's nothing to pull people together, they get kind of nervous."

"They haven't told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either." Miguel Cabrera Marlins outfielder, rejecting the idea of veterans advising him to adjust his attitude "Have you seen him on his moped? I'm a lot more nervous about that." Glen Mason University of Minnesota coach, on using star running back Laurence Maroney on kickoff returns

Names in the newsRandy Landis was recently appointed mortgage loan officer of Severn Savings Bank FSB. He specializes in residential lending, particularly land acquisition, development and construction financing. Landis was formerly on the staff of Washington Savings Bank FSB, and completed his education at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Annapolis with his wife, Lois, and their three children. He is active in the Germantown Elementary School PTA.Pub Date: 12/22/96@

The University of Minnesota thinks integrity is more important than winning, when you are found out.Medicine's first wonder drug, aspirin, is a century old. Others are lucky to last 10 years.Gov. George W. Bush is the favorite of all Republicans so long as he keeps his mouth shut.After Havana, the O's might fit in a game in Beijing. Then maybe Washington.Pub Date: 3/15/99

Rookie wide receiver Ernie Wheelwright concluded his career at the University of Minnesota as the program's No. 3 receiver in all-time receptions (159) and yards (2,434). As talented as he is, Wheelwright says he wishes he could have one thing to enhance his skills. Q: If you could have one superhero power, what would it be and why? A: Lightning speed. I would love to just get there. I always feel like there's never enough time in the day, like the day is moving too fast. So if I was The Flash, I would just go and be out. Q: What would you use your superhero power for?

Services for Gosta "Gus" Westerberg, a retired industrial arts teacher at the McDonogh School, will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at Loring Byers funeral establishment, 8728 Liberty Road, Randallstown.Mr. Westerberg, who was 86 and lived on Old Court Road in the Randallstown area, died Tuesday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center of complications from a broken hip.He retired in 1972 after teaching in the Lower School at McDonogh for 29 years.Earlier, he taught in Baltimore County and Red Lion, Pa.A native of Karlshamn, Sweden, who was reared in St. Cloud, Minn.

Minnesota's public university system is exploring revisions to the faculty tenure code that would allow cuts for the first time in professors' salaries for reasons other than financial emergency and would allow the dismissal of professors if their programs were eliminated.Under the current code, tenured professors can be laid off only if a department or a college is closed.In response, some faculty members have begun a drive to organize a union that would represent the 3,000 or so professors at the university system's four campuses.

MINNEAPOLIS -- At a time when farmers nationally are planting more corn than they did a year ago to capitalize on the ethanol boom, not everyone will be rolling in cash after the harvest. "We're not planting more corn because corn is cool," said Ed Usset, an economist with the University of Minnesota Extension Service. "The economics are there. The ethanol craze is driving this." But farmers face higher fuel costs and higher feed costs for their livestock. Landowners have raised rents on farmland.

The holiday-bonus season is upon us, and admit it - you expect your boss to add a little something to your paycheck. And not just because you need extra funds for your holiday shopping list. It's about the almighty dollar. The dollar has a social value that goes well beyond what it can buy. It dictates our self-worth. It settles our legal grievances. It goes a long way toward alleviating friction at home and in the workplace. That's why it's not surprising that a recent study at the University of Minnesota concluded that merely showing money to people can change their behavior.

On the second floor of an anonymous building on a side street in St. Louis Park, Minn., a shamana is at work. As cars trundle by outside her office window, she sings and taps a plant rattle across her client's back as she calls for the Great Spirit to heal body, heart and mind. Connie Grauds, 59, a pharmacist who grew up in nearby Forest Lake, practices her ancient healing art with one foot in this world and the other in the realm of the unexplainable. She says she has become a conduit for the life force in nature.

A team of psychologists has discovered why money can't buy happiness. Pictures of dollar bills, fantasies of wealth and even wads of Monopoly money arouse feelings of self-sufficiency that result in selfish and often anti-social behavior, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Science. "The mere presence of money changes people," said Kathleen Vohs, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study. Money makes it possible for people to achieve their goals without having to ask friends or acquaintances for help.

Once asked for the key to success as a college basketball coach, John Wooden, the legendary former UCLA coach, reportedly replied with one word: recruiting. That certainly seems to be true for Brenda Frese, who, in her four years as the University of Maryland women's basketball coach, has relentlessly nabbed top recruits. The result has been a remarkable turnaround for UM's once-moribund women's program: three straight trips to the NCAA tournament, a No. 3 national ranking and, with a gutsy overtime victory over Utah (and the lingering effects of a team-wide scourge of stomach flu)

"They haven't told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either." Miguel Cabrera Marlins outfielder, rejecting the idea of veterans advising him to adjust his attitude "Have you seen him on his moped? I'm a lot more nervous about that." Glen Mason University of Minnesota coach, on using star running back Laurence Maroney on kickoff returns

A new book advising terminally ill people how to commitsuicide has surged to No. 1 in its first week in the hard-cover advice category on the New York Times best-seller list to be published on Aug. 18. The list was compiled last night.NB The book is "Final Exit" by Derek Humphry, who is executive director of the Hemlock Society, an organization in Eugene, Ore., that advises on how to commit suicide.The book, which is published by the society and distributed by Carol Publishing of Secaucus, N.J., outlines a variety of ways to commit suicide and provides specific instructions.

THERE is no dispute that America leads the world in biomedical research. As President Clinton tries to restructure an economy built on 19th- and 20th-century products to meet the demands of the next century, American pre-eminence in biomedicine holds out the best hope of serving as the engine capable of driving that economy.That is why every American ought be deeply concerned about the cancer that is quietly weakening the foundations of biomedical research -- conflict of interest. Recent events at the University of Minnesota's medical school illustrate just how serious the problem of conflict of interest has become and just how ineptly government, universities and legislators are dealing with it.On Feb. 18, University of Minnesota President Nils Hasslemo asked for and received the resignation of Dr. John Najarian as the chairman of the department of surgery.

Mike Ambrose, a computer systems analyst, often would spend 36 hours straight on weekends playing slot machines until his paycheck was gone. After blowing $15,000 to $20,000 a year on his habit for more than a decade, Ambrose, in desperation, volunteered as a patient in a clinical study to test a drug to control his gambling urge. The medication, naltrexone, originally devised to combat heroin addiction and alcoholism, changed his life. Within two weeks, the Fridley, Minn., man noticed a "tremendous difference -- suddenly, the urges stopped."

The University of Minnesota thinks integrity is more important than winning, when you are found out.Medicine's first wonder drug, aspirin, is a century old. Others are lucky to last 10 years.Gov. George W. Bush is the favorite of all Republicans so long as he keeps his mouth shut.After Havana, the O's might fit in a game in Beijing. Then maybe Washington.Pub Date: 3/15/99