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If you plan to buy a Minnesota Vikings ticket from the St. Thomas Box Office, hope for a little luck. Due to high interest, tickets will be sold through a lottery system.

“The system is designed to eliminate students waiting in line, missing class, and allow every undergraduate student a fair opportunity to purchase tickets regardless of class schedule,” said Colleen Stephens, manager of Box Office and Expeditions.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday the recession is “very likely over at this point,” but it won’t be sufficient to prevent the unemployment rate from rising. Currently at a 26-year high of 9.7 percent, unemployment is expected to hit 10 percent by the end of this year and keep rising to around …

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Two Macalester students were assaulted by a group of five men 15-20 years old on bicycles Friday night along Snelling Avenue near the campus.

As H1N1 cases rise in Minnesota, Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, expects a surge in cases in the next six to eight weeks.

With that, he fears that there will not be enough of the vaccine in time for Minnesotans.

“I’m afraid too little vaccine is going to get here before the peak hits,” Osterholm told about 600 people at a flu summit organized by the Minnesota Department of health.

Twenty-one of the cases were self-reported on the university’s pandemic-planning website, while the other five were seen at the health service clinic.

The stage was set and the Target Center was filling up. As 1 p.m. inched closer, audience members were loud and excited.