Word: kwanzaa
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...registries, giving student discounts, even accosting kids on campus with flyers and freebies--all in an effort to win dorm dollars. The National Retail Federation, a trade group, says back to college--distinct from K12-oriented back to school--is the second biggest shopping season, behind the Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa holiday triple play. And while Mom and Dad pony up plenty of cash, students are, on average, spending more than $600 of their money on the latest and greatest must-haves, with the average freshman shelling out $1,200 on items ranging from linens to laptops...
...kids too. WTIP in Grand Marais, Minn., offers Ragamuffin Radio, which was created and is produced by teens. The half-hour show, which airs every Monday, includes music as varied as jazz and folk, stories and reported features on topics such as starting a new school year or celebrating Kwanzaa. "Because WTIP is a community station and kids are part of the community, we wanted a program that represented that," says Mary Igoe, the program director. Her daughter Ada, 17, has worked on the show for three years. "Sometimes I don't feel like doing it," Ada admits...
...would have loved to do something different here, maybe write a Kwanzaa sports column. But the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa, which include “unity,” “cooperative economics,” “collective work and responsibility” and “purpose,” sound like a list of things that the ongoing negotiations between Major League Baseball and its players sorely lack. And who wants to write anything that depressing...
Christmas is just part of the pantheon, one divinity among an Olympian host of holidays that includes Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice--and this December, for the first time in thirteen years, the Muslim month of Ramadan...
...insult to injury, this year's winter break is badly placed. Vacation lasts from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1. Jewish students will get home in time for Hanukkah, which is a good thing. Students who celebrate Kwanzaa, however, will have to leave home on the last day of the holiday. (Okay, so few people actually celebrate all seven days, but still.) The real problem with the current vacation dates are that they make travel back to school on New Year's Day. Do you know what this means? Incredibly painful hangovers and a day of travel fraught with errors. Here...