Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The classroom in fall 2020 looked very different than it did when WGS.160/STS.021 (Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power) ran for the first time in 2019. Zoom and virtual breakout rooms had replaced circles of chairs, but the shifts made the class no less immersive and urgent for its students.
In fact, the pandemic context made the core questions of this new survey class all the more vivid: What roles have U.S. scientists and technologists played as activists in crucial social issues and movements following WWII? What are their motivations, responsibilities, and strategies for organizing? What is their impact?
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Late in Sunday s game at Epping Stadium, play had to be stopped for several minutes as the referee, City captain Emma Checker and Victory skipper Angela Beard attempted to calm the crowd down.
It took the gloss off City s thrilling 3-2 win, which was a remarkable turnaround from their 6-0 loss to the same team a week earlier.
City coach Rado Vidosic condemned the behaviour as not acceptable and lauded the referee s swift action. Come here, support your team, that s brilliant . but to throw things at a goalkeeper, a female goalkeeper - and she s a Matilda - I don t think that s the right way of dealing with the situation, he said.
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Al Milgrom was the kind of guy who always seemed young, even when he wasn t. At age 96, he came out as the oldest emerging documentary filmmaker with the premiere of Singin in the Grain, his portrait of a multigenerational Minnesota polka band.
But he s better known for fostering the Twin Cities film scene.
Milgrom founded what is now the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, taught cinema at the University of Minnesota and launched the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Along the way, he built an audience for foreign and indie films while bringing such famed directors as Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard and Milos Forman to town.