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...centuries go, this has been one of the most amazing: inspiring, at times horrifying, always fascinating. Sure, the 15th was pretty wild, with the Renaissance and Spanish Inquisition in full flower, Gutenberg building his printing press, Copernicus beginning to contemplate the solar system and Columbus spreading the culture of Europe to the Americas. And of course there was the 1st century, which if only for the life and death of Jesus may have had the most impact of any. Socrates and Plato made the 5th century B.C. also rather remarkable. But we who live in the 20th can probably...
Kicking off the 1998 Native American Film Festival, 40 students and community members gathered yesterday at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) to watch the documentary Surviving Columbus and to engage in a dialogue on the current status of Native Americans...
Surviving Columbus was produced to commemorate the quincentennial of European presence in America, and traces the often-tumultuous history of the Pueblo Indians in the southwestern United States...
...administration officials expect the students to sit around like good little children, speaking only when spoken to, asking polite questions? I'm happy those who attended the meeting in Columbus showed that students won't sit by quietly when given the opportunity to voice opinions. Government officials wanted an open forum. They got it. LORI ELLMANN, student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee...
Taking turns vacuuming their cars, the men give directions to the Harriet Tubman House, on Columbus Street, and also recommend a stop at a local watering hole--a jazz bar called Wally's Bar. The firemen apologize for being so boring, and the large door closes, sealing them back inside their noisy station...