Story archive for
Chris Julin
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| Date |
Title |
Description |
| 04/12/2001 |
Flying High In Duluth |
A dispute over artistic taste and terminology at the College of St Benedict in St. Joseph has students and administrators weighing the balance between religious values and free expression on a college campus. |
| 02/05/2001 |
Ready for Prime Time |
Some oldtimers doubted that girls hockey would succeed when the first girls high school teams took to the ice six years ago. Across Minnesota, thousands of girls traded in their figure skates for hockey skates. They went to hockey camps and goalie schools. This year, 120 Minnesota high schools have girls hockey teams. Today, two-thirds of the girls playing high school hockey in the entire country live in Minnesota. |
| 01/25/2001 |
Ventura Gets Heat from Higher Ed |
Gov. Jesse Ventura is traveling around the state, trying to sell Minnesotans on his proposed budget. Some of the loudest criticism of the budget plan is coming from university and college administrators who say the governor's proposal will make them lose good profressors, and raise tuition. Ventura made the first stop on his statewide budget tour at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. |
| 12/28/2000 |
Duluth Remembers Lynching |
For many years Duluth tried to forget the day it made national news in 1920, when a crowd of thousands hanged three black men from a downtown street light. A group of Duluth residents is now working to honor the victims with a monument, and a week of events on the anniversary of the lynching. |
| 12/19/2000 |
Rating the Professors |
Rejected by Minnesota law in an attempt to get student surveys of professors released to the public, students at the University of Minnesota-Duluth took matters into their own hands: they'll conduct their own surveys, and everybody gets a peek at the results. |
| 10/25/2000 |
The Knowledge Bowl |
If you can't name the two countries involved in The XYZ Affair, you might not be ready for Knowledge Bowl. Throughout the school year, hundreds of kids across Minnesota, and thousands more across the country, put their learning on the line at Knowledge Bowl meets. Kids from seventh grade to 12th grade compete, facing questions that range from history and geography to math and poetry. |
| 09/22/2000 |
Raptor Rapture Rules Hawk Ridge |
The summer tourist season is over, but thousands of visitors are streaming through Duluth. They won't stay in motels or spend any money, though, because they're birds. Each fall thousands of hawks and eagles pass through the Duluth sky on their way south. And the passing birds draw a good number of humans to a place called Hawk Ridge. |
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