Campus Camp Wellstone

For all aspiring politicians out there, or for those who just want to have their voices heard throughout their community, Campus Camp Wellstone is the training program to attend. Dedicated to the late senator Paul Wellstone, Campus Camp Wellstone is a nonpartisan, one and a half day training program that welcomes both veteran and green activist students alike. The heart of the program emphasizes campaign planning, coalition building, message development, triumphant recruiting and retaining and the skills of developing new leadership...

The Zone Program: You can help

With the help of Metropolitan State University students, staff and community volunteers, over 160 neighborhood students per week visit the Zone Homework Center at St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff Branch Library. Since opening in May 2004, the library has been providing neighborhood students with homework help, computer and Internet access, and office and art supplies...

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Also In This Issue:

• CSITS acquires new staff member
• TC3 upcoming events
• The experience of Nobles eXperiment interMedia Group
• Metropolitan State University announces new Textile Art exhibit
• St. Cloud twenty-somethings release bizarre sketch comedy show online
• Technology Bytes: Office 2007 and You

Federal funds approved for many college programs

Federal funds were approved for a veterans re-entry program, nursing education, renewable energy, engineering technology and child protection programs at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities will receive nearly $4 million in federal funds, including $1.1 million for veterans re-entry education, under an appropriations bill signed into law Wednesday by President Bush. The veterans re-entry project will provide specifically designed career and education services to military veterans, National Guard members and reservists, as well as enhancing veterans’ employment success upon returning to their communities...

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The message is clear: Find a better way to fund schools

The message to legislators at the State Capitol on Nov. 27 was clear: design a stable funding system for Minnesota schools. Representatives from schools and communities from across Minnesota told a large group of state senators and representatives that continued reliance on operating levies to fund school basics would not provide quality education for students. "This past November, 100 Minnesota school districts - one-third of the state’s total number - asked voters to provide more money for basic education programs," said Senator Ellen Anderson, DFL- St. Paul/Falcon Heights. "Minnesota is known for quality, innovative education programs. We can’t watch this crumble because of an antiquated funding system that doesn’t meet the needs of the 21st century..."

Forward Motion

"It’s an intensely personal experience," Eric tells me over breakfast at Dick’s a few weeks earlier. "Only one percent of the population has done it." He takes a slow sip of his Bloody Mary and bites the celery. "We’re an elite group," he says, smiling with green splinters in his teeth. "If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle." And that’s how I was enticed into jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, 10,000 feet up in the air, moving at 120 mph...

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