July 1, 1973 - Part nine of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “Just One Studded Tire” and looks at the problems of people living on state borders. What do the boundaries prevent them from doing?
August 6, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman reports on steel drum concert of pop music as part of a summer enrichment program. It allows junior high students to play the drum without much music training; they play on parts of the drum marked by numbers.
September 2, 1973 - Gretchen Kreuter, president of Women Historians of the Midwest, and others discuss the organization’s support in women who teach history and want to advance status of women in history professions and also expand public perception of women's role in history.
October 15, 1973 - Connie Goldman report of a day-long seminar on the elimination of sex bias in education.
October 18, 1973 - Both teacher unions, the MEA and MFT, are holding conventions. Speaker Richard Foster at the MEA asked whether accountability will create change or not. At the MFT meeting Senate Majority Leader Nick Coleman said a recent error discovered in state birth projections means some 300,000 fewer students will be in elementary and secondary schools in the 1980's and 1990's. He remarked the teacher/pupil ratio would have to be cut to just over eleven to one to employ the current number of teachers, and that won?t happen. In ten years we won?t need the state college system as it presently exists as there won?t be that many students. Plans should be made now to deal with that reality.
December 10, 1973 - Senator Jerome Hughes advocates year-round school for Minnesota and is sponsoring a bill to that effect. Mora schools currently operate on this schedule.
January 19, 1974 - Dick Gregory, author and human rights activist, talks in Fargo-Moorhead on the Concordia campus.
February 22, 1974 - The MEA supports a bill in the legislature that would allow districts to cooperate and share resources. MEA Executive Secretary A.L. “Bud” Gallop said excess districts are still a problem, and the number of districts can be reduced to save administrative costs. He also remarked that the MEA is against the school voucher bill, which is worse than the tax credit bill the union is fighting in court.
February 28, 1974 - Education bills. Rep. Mike Sieben: "Students need input into education, into primary governing board of the institution, the university. Students have meaningful things to say about education, students need a voice indeterminng what education should be." Willard Munger energy bill would allow energy commisioner to set out guidelines for effciency in energy consumption. Appliance energy labelling defeated. Bill to ban obscene porno movies in drive-in theaters died in committe because no time left to discuss it. Pastor Willy Watts, Pine River,: in rural MN children too young to be admitted see movies from the side of the highways. "Not fair to our society to take warped ideas of sex and present it in the open for everyone to see. Every freedom has a responsiblity, and you as legislators are going to acceept the responsibility of the freedom of youth and do something about movies we can watch on outdoor screen." Rep. Glen Sherwood will bring bill back next year.
March 7, 1974 - MPR’s Dan Olson reports on rally sponsored by the Coalition for Child Care, held to call attention to need for childcare for students and university workers.