A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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May 17, 1976 - Calvin Fremling, Winona State University biologist, discusses river management of Minnesota's section of the Mississippi with reporter Neal St. Anthony at River Conference. Dr. Fremling has spent most of his professional career studying man's effects on the Mississippi River.
May 17, 1976 - New York Times political columnist and supreme court specialist Anthony Lewis speaking at Hamline University. Topic was “A Constitutional Faith."
May 20, 1976 - Criticism of the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU). Includes Terrence Aronson, staff attorney for the Urban Coalition.
May 22, 1976 - Dr. Russell Barta, social sciences professor at Mundelin College, gave a speech titled “The Effect of Industrialization and Economics on the American Value System." Followed with response by Sister Ann Kessler, Yankton, social sciences professor at Mount Marty College. This program is part of Civil Religion series designed to explore the issues that rise out of America's religious mythology that has affected the values of Americans. Presentations were held at the Dakota State College, in Madison, South Dakota. Co-sponsors of the series were the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities, the United Ministries in Higher Education, and the Newman and Lutheran Centers at Dakota State College, Madison.
May 29, 1976 - Program topic is "American Indian, American Black, American Woman: Wreckages of the American Dream.”
June 2, 1976 - Two poems read by David R. Solheim, North Dakota's Poet in the Schools.
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June 3, 1976 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston reports on formation of group called Friends of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Hampston interviews two members of group on it’s purpose in preserving the wilderness designation of BWCA.
June 7, 1976 - Discussion on problems encountered by the shortages of fossil fuel. Experts and humanists gathered for Food and Fuel Institute sessions at Fergus Fall, Detroit Lakes and Moorhead over a two-month period. Includes excerpts of speeches, including 7th District Congressman Bob Bergland.
June 8, 1976 - "Rural life versus city living" is the major topic touched upon in this montage of music and conversation with two New York City police officers who were laid off in recent economy measures and who now work in rural Lakefield, Minnesota.