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Archive for May 19th, 2008

Sixties Free Speech Movement and Michael Rossman.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 19, 2008

Michael Rossman, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, died May 12 at age 68 after a battle with Leukemia.
What strikes me, looking back, is that we were possessed. We were conduits; the spirits of Liberty and Democracy were manifest through us. No, I don’t mean [...]

Will the governor keep his word? Really. I’m serious.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 19, 2008

Governor Blagojevich at a Blackhawks game.
Will the governor keep his word?
Ken Swanson, president of the Illinois Education Association issued a warning today suggesting that he’d better.
Illinois’ largest education employees’ union today urged Governor Rod Blagojevich to make the final state aid payments to Illinois school districts, as scheduled, during the current fiscal year that ends [...]

One hundred years.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 19, 2008

LA Times.

UIC Professor John Hagedorn is an expert in the field of urban youth and gangs.
His web site is a gold mine of sober information and progressive analysis of gangs, particularly Chicago gang life.
But a Chicago Public School teacher who is interested in learning from Hagedorn, or having their students learn from his work and research [...]

Chicago art’s chief doesn’t believe in borders.

Posted by: preaprez on: May 19, 2008

Chicago Art Institute Director and President, James Cuno.
There was a big feature story about the head of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Sunday NY Times Arts section. James (you can call him “Jim”) Cuno has been at the AIC since he replaced James Wood in 2004.
The Times goes all gooey over Cuno, describing [...]


 

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