March 2, 2001

Minnesota's President Hits the Road (and the Sky) to Fight Governor's Budget Plan

By SARA HEBEL

Bundled in a maroon-and-gold University of Minnesota jacket and scarf, Mark Yudof crunches across the snow to board a nine-passenger turboprop plane.

The temperature hovers around zero here at Holman Field at dawn on this late February day, but Mr. Yudof, the university's president, is already warming to his mission: In the next 12 hours, he will touch down in three Minnesota towns to urge alumni, students, business executives, and residents to join his fight against a budget plan by

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