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Biography Dr. Beth Weatherby became the 22nd chancellor of the University of Montana Western on January 15, 2015. She and her husband, Steve Kramer, moved to Dillon from Marshall, Minnesota, where they were both faculty members at Southwest Minnesota State University. After ten years as the director of SMSU’s Creative Writing Program, Dr. Weatherby served there as Dean of Arts, Letters & Sciences for five years and then as Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs for eight y...

5:59 Join us as we travel Back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as Author Andrea Ross continues our conversation about her new book "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" from SIU Press. Plus, listen to the latest podcast episode of " A Knight of Another Sort: Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger" from Blanket Fort Radio Theater. This week on Inside The Blanket Fort, author Andrea Ross continues the conversation on her new book "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" from SIU Press. Blank...

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English 105/i Teaching Fellows English 105/i Teaching Fellows Teaching in the UNC Writing Program As a teaching fellow in the Writing Program, you will primarily teach English 105, a required first-year writing course that introduces students to academic writing across the disciplines. New teaching fellows prepare to teach this course by taking English 706, a graduate practicum in rhetoric and composition that focuses on developing effective pedagogical strategies for English 105, while also ...

And american cemetery contains the grave of 9400 americans. praise for heroism, he thinks of them. >> people speak of heroes but he rose are here. those are the heroes. >> reporter: he served 37 months in the military, the bronze star medal, donald trump and others honor him and all who fought in the epic d-day battle. >> through heroes, thank you. for days after the operation on the beach 75 years ago americans back home waited for word of what had happened until world war ii correspondent erni...

Got to be this goes for centrist liberals, too. the story has to be that there is obviously racial differences and ethnic differences and gender differences and all of that some of that manifests itself in terms of prejudice, but the fundamental issue is that we have always regarded the individual as the measure in the west. and thats the best idea the world has ever had and if we lose that, then its getting to be catastrophic. so, everyone should be pushing against that whether they are on the ...

It got me in here. but now i learned my lesson. i aint touching it no more. i want my life back together. >> i felt that i was going to commit crime until the day i died. i hate the government, society, america, slavery, whatever -- all the excuses you could think of, until i started to just take accountability for my own actions and responsibility for what i had done to my life. >> scott randolph was another rikers inmate anticipating his release. when we met him, he was serving a year for pett...

Of the jails writing program and had hopes of becoming a journalist. >> we publish the "rikers review," a magazine created by inmates for inmates. its extremely helpful. gave me computer skills, marketable skills. im looking forward to trying to utilize that when i get out. >> the prison journal randolph showed us included one of his poems. >> can you read a little bit of your poem? >> all right. this ones called "hold this." grip these words as if your embrace alone will help me save my life, s...

Street, i started smoking that stuff. and it didnt help me. it didnt get me anywhere. get me into trouble. it got me in here. but now i learned my lesson. i aint touching it no more. i want my life back together. >> i felt that i was going to commit crime until the day i died. i hate the government, society, america, slavery, whatever -- all the excuses you could think of, until i started to just take accountability for my own actions and responsibility for what i had done to my life. >> scott r...

Because when i was on the street, i started smoking that stuff. and it didnt help me. it didnt get me anywhere. get me into trouble. it got me in here. but now i learned my lesson. i aint touching it no more. i want my life back together. >> i felt that i was going to commit crime until the day i died. i hate the government, society, america, slavery, whatever -- all the excuses you could think of, until i started to just take accountability for my own actions and responsibility for what i had d...