February 3, 1998 - Geneva Smitherman of Michigan State University, John Rickford of Stanford, and Barbara Shin of the Minneapolis School system discuss the place of Ebonics in American education.
October 2, 1997 - The Timberwolves players are presenting a united front today, after the long-awaited announcement about Garnett's historic contract, but at least one onlooker says it has great potential to divide the ranks. Andrew Zimbalist is a professor of economics at Smith College. His latest book, "Sports, Jobs and Taxes" is due out next week. Zimbalist explains that, first, there are only twelve guys on a basketball team, compared to 25 for baseball and 45 for football, meaning you can spend more on each one. The second is an end-run around the salary cap called the Larry Bird exception.
September 30, 1997 - The small campus of Macalester College in St. Paul is reeling from an alleged racist incident and its aftermath. A couple of weekends ago, a black female student reported that someone wrote on her dorm room door's message board: "We hate you, we hate you. Hugs and kisses. The KKK." A nearby poster of Tiger Woods was similarly defaced. In response, there were dorm meetings, a letter to all students from the college president condemning the attack, and a convocation yesterday attended by 450 students. Roberto Ifell is special assistant for Diversity and Campus Community at Macalester.
September 30, 1997 - Student Aishah Jackson, external president of the Black Liberation Affairs Committee at Macalester College, comments on Macalester administration's reaction to racial incident on campus.
September 26, 1997 - Gay-themed movies and T-V shows generally address the most broad themes of gay life, like the difficulty of coming out. Edmund White's latest book, "The Farewell Symphony," digs deeper into the trials and tribulations faced by homosexuals in American society today. Yet, taking a mentor's advice, White keeps you at a little distance, letting you draw your own conclusions. "The Farewell Symphony" is an autobiographical novel about White's repressive Midwest childhood and his life as a usually struggling writer in New York and Europe, during which time he had sex with thousands of men. In the title, White may be saying farewell to Brice, his lover of five years, who died of AIDS in 1994. This was White's first reciprocated love affair and you'd think he'd be more prominent in the book, but Brice makes only cameo appearances in "The Farewell Symphony." We learn why he's mostly quiet about Brice when White is reunited with an old flame.
September 26, 1997 - Gay-themed movies and T-V shows generally address the most broad themes of gay life, like the difficulty of coming out. Edmund White's latest book, "The Farewell Symphony," digs deeper into the trials and tribulations faced by homosexuals in American society today. Yet, taking a mentor's advice, White keeps you at a little distance, letting you draw your own conclusions. "The Farewell Symphony" is an autobiographical novel about White's repressive Midwest childhood and his life as a usually struggling writer in New York and Europe ... during which time he had sex with thousands of men. In the title, White may be saying farewell to Brice, his lover of five years, who died of AIDS in 1994. This was White's first reciprocated love affair and you'd think he'd be more prominent in the book, but Brice makes only cameo appearances in "The Farewell Symphony." We learn why he's mostly quiet about Brice when White is reunited with an old flame.
September 23, 1997 - The Fargodome has been flooded with hundreds of complaints about ticket scalping for its October 25th Elton John concert. Several national companies apparently hired people to stand in line and buy tickets when they went on sale, and then sent the tickets out of state for resale. The 29-thousand tickets at the Fargodome sold out in 59-minues Saturday morning, and a private ticket broker in Connecticut is now offering thirty-dollar tickets for 129-dollars. The broker's phone answering system says a substantial "service charge" has been added to the original price. Parrell (LIKE "PERIL") Grossman is North Dakota's Director of Consumer Protection says it's a dis-service charge. Parrell Grossman is North Dakota's Director of Consumer P
September 22, 1997 - It's yellow, has a hole punched in the upper left hand corner, and has been in continuous publication for more than two-hundred years. It's the Old Farmer's Almanac. The hole was for the nail in the outhouse wall, and a brief unscientific office poll discovered that the modern inside bathroom might be a frequent resting place for the modern Almanac.
September 19, 1997 - Chris Davis doesn't think birds are people, exactly. But she thinks if you have probelm with your pet bird, it helps to think of them as people, very young people, toddlers to pre-schoolers, actually. They bite, they get moody, just like little kids, except they can fly and won't be costing you $100,000 for post-secondary education. Davis calls herself a parrot shrink, and she's coming to LaCrosse this weekend to help people with their birds' behavioral problems.
September 17, 1997 - Daniel Pinkwater has several fan clubs. Childless adults know him for his public radio commentaries. Parents know him as one of the nation's premiere kids' book writers. Kids know him becuase they eat up his books. But there's another audience, one Pinkwater is aiming at with a new compilation of his young adult novels: adults who read his young adult books when they were young adults but who still dip into them now and again. Pinkwater says he writes for the kid he was.