August 12, 1975 - The Fond du Lac Band of Minnesota Chippewa are bringing formal discrimination charges against the state Human Rights Commissioner, (first name unknown) Wilson. The Band's claim states that the Commissioner has not only discriminated against hiring Native American's, but has also neglected to offer services for these populations.
August 20, 1975 - MPR’s Martin Bunzel interviews sex-positive feminist Margo St. James, who discusses the decriminalization of prostitution.
August 25, 1975 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews columnist and author Jim Klobuchar, who discusses diversity, immigration, and racism in Minnesota.
August 26, 1975 - Columnist and author Jim Klobuchar comments on Hubert Humphrey's "bleeding heart politics" and how it affected the national picture of American politics.
September 22, 1975 - Over the years, Minneapolis Star columnist Jim Klobuchar has written about virtually every aspect of life in Minnesota. MPR's Gary Eichten asks Klobuchar about some of his impressions of life in the state.
September 30, 1975 - Watergate Judge John Sirica speaking at Concordia College, Moorhead. His topic was on strong and active citizenry in the United States.
October 3, 1975 - Lawmakers heard from many camps--students, teachers and parents--about changing the Minnesota drinking age back to 21. DFLer Ray Faricy proposes school education to combat drinking problems and also raising the age to 19 rather than 18.
October 9, 1975 - Ulrich Scott wants all MN Democrats to come to together to discuss issues. He says his experience as college administrator and fundraiser at St. Mary?s qualifies him to manage the party?s finances, now $50,000 in debt partly due to 1974 election landslide victories for Democrats. He thinks the state party should play a larger role in local and regional races, reducing financial burdens for those candidates.
October 10, 1975 - Journalist David Halberstam speaks at a World Press Forum at Macalester College. He talks about the electronic media explosion and communication revolution as being comparable to the printing press and moveable type. He describes the increasing power of network television news over the past fifteen years, and the way this has strengthened the presidency and weakened Congress. He says the power of TV network news was first felt with the Vietnam War, when the press became an anti-state against the power of the presidency. He warned of an overly-powerful executive branch.
October 10, 1975 - Dr. Christian Barnard, famous heart transplant surgeon, talks briefly about his novel whose protagonist is a heart surgeon. He says one point of the book was to bring out racial discrimination and segregation in medicine, petty-apartheid (petit-apartheid?), in South Africa. He talks about having received threats due to his challenging the white ideology in South Africa, where the white minority fears they?ll lose everything they?ve built there without the apartheid government structure. They?ve seen what has happened in other African countries. South Africa represents western civilization in Africa, and competition is based on your ability to compete in that environment, where it?s natural the white man would do better.