Word: hennepin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level of liquor consumption often calls for some precautionary measures to remind revelers of the dangers of drunken driving. Two trailers from the Hennepin County Alcohol Safety Project offer breath tests to volunteers who want to know their intoxication levels. The police administer the program and drive the vans, but are good sports about leaving before the tailgaters drive off. Says Policeman Don Bowles, "If we stayed any longer, we'd have to arrest half the people here...
...Glasser is a pediatric specialist at Hennepin County General Hospital in Minneapolis. He composed this book, a kind of fictionalized nonfiction, out of events he has seen and others he has "heard of." Despite the author's evident concern for the unnecessary torture of children, in some ways this is a misleading effort. Glasser plays on the reader's response to suffering, as he did in 365 Days, his antiwar narrative about G.I.s mutilated in Viet...
...What are you doing for us?" the old man demanded of Bruce Bauer, director of community services for North Hennepin State Junior College in suburban Minneapolis. The answer was simple: nothing. Unlike most community colleges, however, North Hennepin decided to offer tuition-free courses specifically designed for the elderly, including, for a start, seminars on lip reading, physical fitness and organizing for "senior power." The response was spectacular. Expecting only 100, the college enrolled about 400-some on crutches, others in wheelchairs...
That was last year. By this summer, North Hennepin had some 800 older people (ages 55 to 81) enrolled in courses ranging from creative writing to gardening to astronomy. Moreover, the idea of academic programs for old people is spreading to other campuses -partly because of grants being offered by the Federal Older Americans Act. At Stanford, a professor has begun preliminary planning for an "emeritus university," and programs for old people are already under way at colleges in Milwaukee, Sacramento, Calif., and St. Petersburg...
...North Hennepin, where 80% of the "senior" students had never gone beyond the eighth grade, there is still a certain ambiguity about the purpose of education for the elderly. Some of the new applicants have asked for such prospective courses as "Sex over 65" and "The Psychology of Dying," but others prefer simpler offerings like "Film Time: the Oldies but Goodies." Explains Mrs. Harriet Heesen, who has taken creative writing and whose grandson is enrolled at the same college: "I'm just doing what I enjoy. If I learn along the way, fine, but I'm going...