April 27, 1988 - As part of a Mainstreet Radio series on rural education, John Biewen reports on Norman County West, a school created out of the combination of Halsted and Hendrum-Perley schools.
April 29, 1988 - A special Mainstreet Radio call-in program from KSJR, in central Minnesota. Program highlights the concern over problems of rural school districts. Rachel Reabe interviews Irvin Bjerga of Motley, Minnesota; Kathy Berger of Mountain Iron-Buhl School District; and Congressman Glen Anderson of Bellingham, Minnesota.
August 13, 1988 - Arthur Harkins answers listener questions about the future of higher education.
September 13, 1988 - Richard Sauer answers listener questions about recent developments at the University of Minnesota.
September 20, 1988 - MPR’s Chris Tetlin reports on Minnesota’s desegregation law and school districts' efforts and to comply. Some citizens are looking beyond the school buildings, to the actual classes.
September 28, 1988 - MPR’s Dan Olson reports on Delta Lambda Phi, the first fraternity for gay, bisexual, and progressive men at the University of Minnesota. Olson interviews numerous students and officials about the creation of organization on campus.
September 30, 1988 - Richard Hutton, creator and executive editor of numerous science documentaries, and George Page, director of science and natural history for WNET programming and documentary narrator, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Hutton and Page present and discuss the PBS program "The Mind: What It Means to Be Human." They also answer questions from audience. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
October 17, 1988 - Midday presents a special Mainstreet Radio documentary, entitled “Migrant Farm Workers.” The documentary profiles migrant farm workers in St. James who came to Minnesota, and wound up staying here. Following the documentary, Jose Trejo, executive director of the Spanish Speaking Affairs Council, answers listener questions about issues facing Hispanics in Minnesota.
November 1, 1988 - Donald Woods, a journalist who was forced to flee South Africa for being critical of the government and apartheid, spoke recently at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He is now the director of the Lincoln Trust, a foundation which supplies information about apartheid to media organizations worldwide. He is also the author of three books, one of which "Biko", is a biography of Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, and Woods' friend. Another cause for Woods' exile was that he tried to expose the true cause of Biko's death after Biko was beaten by police.His talk at UMD was entitled "Apartheid and the Tragedy of South Africa".
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