I'm kind of into the good news thing lately. I think it might be because I'm about to become a government flak.
At any rate, I got all inspired watching a rerun on 60 Minutes tonight about a liberal arts degree program at a maximum security prison. It's offered by Bard, a high-dollar East Coast school.
I see things like this and I think solutions are so simple. Seems to me we've got everything we need in this country to do what's right. Maybe the reason we don't do it very often is so it'll be news when we do.
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
. . .
Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
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That's how I felt when I read this:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/04/11/school.gift.ap/index.html
I wish everyone in a position of power thought this way.
The link didn't work. Can you repost?
NEW YORK (AP) -- Billionaire media entrepreneur John Werner Kluge is giving $400 million to Columbia University for financial aid -- one of the largest gifts ever to an American university.
The New York Times reported that the university is to announce the gift from Kluge, 92, a Columbia alumnus, on Wednesday.
"Obviously, this is an extraordinary gift by any standard," said Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger. "It's huge in its consequences and effects on the university."
The gift from Kluge is the largest in the school's history and will come from his estate when he dies. The money is intended for financial aid to students, officials said.
Kluge, who attended Columbia on scholarship, credits the opportunity with helping him become a successful broadcast entrepreneur. Typically, large donations are made toward the construction of a new building or to endow a professorship.
"I'd rather by far invest in people than buildings," Kluge said in 2004. "If I can infuse a mind to improve itself, that'll pass on to their children, and to their children's children."
for rest of story:
www.cnn.com/2007/Education/04/11/school.gift.ap/index.html
aw hell. i don't know why the whole url doesn't come out. sorry about that. just look up "columbia university" on cnn.com, and you can find the rest of the story.
The degree program at Bard is indeed a good program. If you are interested, check out the website for the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project: www.auburn.edu/cah/apaep
Thanks.
Kyes
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