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Here are the highlights of today’s University of Minnesota grad-student unionization forum as I tweeted them. It’s the fourth time grad students are trying to organize, the last time being in 2005. But it’s the first time they’ve ran a campaign into a second year, Aldarondo said, as well as the first to be affiliated…
Putting lipstick on a parent
Principal Wollersheim issued an apology this week for organizing a prank at a school pep rally, but in an editorial the local paper said the apology wasn't called for.
I'm at the UMN grad-student forum on unionization
I’ll be tweeting the town hall meeting here at the University of Minnesota. You can follow my tweets at @mprafriedrich.
“That would be money wasted.” — Associate professor Jim Bonilla of Hamline University to the Pioneer Press on the consequence of Hamline hiring Tom Emmer — who’s vocally opposed to same-sex marriage — while maintaining a staff training program on creating safe spaces for gay and lesbian students. Bonilla also recalled to the paper the…
Katehi confronted by pepper-spray victim at Capitol After nearly four hours of a staid legislative hearing over recent confrontations between campus police and university students, UC-Davis Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi today found herself face to face with a 24-year-old victim of last month’s pepper spray incident who demanded to know why Katehi had been ducking her requests…
Proposed Anoka-Hennepin policy draws fire
The Anoka-Hennepin school district may revise a policy that prevents teachers and staff from discussing issues of sexual orientation and other "controversial" topics. Julie Blaha, president of the Anoka-Hennepin Teacher's Union, joins us to discuss the proposed change.
Brooklyn Center OKs levy after eight previous rejections
Brooklyn Center voters approved a property tax levy on Tuesday, after voting down previous levy proposals eight times in row, as this graphic illustrates. Click on the image to enlarge.
An e-mail that Hamline may have sent regarding Tom Emmer
Craig: I am the new Department Chair under which Business law falls. For the spring we are offering a session during the day and Tom Emmer is going to teach it. This is Tom’s first time teaching the course. I have given him a copy of your syllabus but am hoping you would be able…
We’ve been having a hard time getting Hamline University folks to answer our calls or make any further statements on the dispute between Tom Emmer and Hamline over whether the university reneged on an agreement to hire him an an “executive-in-residence” and adjunct professor because of faculty unrest. So far the main points of information…