Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
December 17, 1974 - Karen Klein, professor at Brandeis University, delivers luncheon address on the feminism and the family in literature at a meeting of the Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter of the Brandeis Women. MPR’s Connie Goldman attended the event and recorded Dr. Klein's discussion.
January 7, 1975 - As part of a daylong conference sponsored by the University of Minnesota entitled, "China and the World Community", various panelists discuss China's role in the world from her own perspective as well as how other nations view China. Michel Oksenberg, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, gave a speech titled "China and the Model for Developing Nations."
January 7, 1975 - As part of a daylong conference sponsored by the University of Minnesota entitled, "China and the World Community", various panelists discuss China's role in the world from her own perspective as well as how other nations view China. Stanley Karnow, an associate editor of The New Republic magazine, gave a speech titled " China and the International Organizations."
January 24, 1975 - Interview with Kevin McKiernan on tape recorded at the Alexian Novitiate on January 22, 1975. McKiernan details what transpired in creating recording of interview and getting tape out of Gresham.
January 29, 1975 - Charles P. Reinert, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry/Physics at Southwest Minnesota State College in Marshall, discusses agriculture and energy. Dr. Reinert was a member of the Governor's Energy Policy Task Force for the State of Minnesota.
February 24, 1975 - A survey of the activities in and around the Alexian Brothers Monastery in Gresham, Wisconsin during the takeover by members of the Menominee Warrior Society. Includes comments by members of the Warrior Society, Ada Deer, Dennis Banks, National Guard commander Colonel Hugh Simonson, and others.
February 25, 1975 - Report on impact and implications of the termination of Mischa Penn's teaching career at the University of Minnesota. Last May, the Minnesota Daily newspaper printed an editorial that made reference to the dangers of a creeping grey mediocrity in academia. The issue that prompted this critique was the Mischa Penn affair, as well as the impact and implications of the termination of Mr. Penn's teaching career at the University. The discussion of the non-reappointment of Mischa Penn, assistant professor of Humanities at the University of Minnesota was moderated by Connie Goldman. Participants included Kenneth Keller, Professor of Chemical Engineering and acting Dean of the Graduate School; Anna Stanley, Graduate Teaching Associate in Afro-American Studies and a masters candidate in the American Studies Program; Anna Stanley, Graduate Teaching Associate in Afro-American Studies and a masters candidate in the American Studies Program; David R. Brown, Endocrinologist, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical Schools; and Martin Dworkin, Professor of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School.
March 11, 1975 - The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce sponsored the 29th annual Farm Forum, bringing together about 2000 Upper Midwest farmers and representatives of agribusiness to participate in panel discussions and hear from a variety of experts on national and international agricultural issues. One of the major addresses heard at that forum was by Dr. James D. McQuigg, an authority on world weather patterns and Director of the University of Missouri's Center for Climate and Environmental Assessment.
March 11, 1975 - The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce sponsored the 29th annual Farm Forum, bringing together about 2000 Upper Midwest farmers and representatives of agribusiness to participate in panel discussions and hear from a variety of experts on national and international agricultural issues. One of the major addresses heard at that forum was Assistant US Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter. Secretary Yeutter oversees the Department of Agriculture's International Affairs and Commodity Programs.
March 31, 1975 - Dr. Estelle Ramey, a professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University Medical School, speaking on the superiority of women. Dr. Ramey, who opened the Area Spring Women's Conference at Saint Cloud State College's Atwood Ballroom in Saint Cloud, told a large audience that women are intellectually equal to men and physically superior in some ways. Ramey has a Doctorate in Endocrinology and has spent several years researching the relationship between glands and the nervous system and stress responses.