Reading No Textbooks Sparks Global Consequences
Richard Rawls of Fresno Pacific University critiques students who ignore textbooks in a college feature. He argues disengagement harms peers, future careers, and society, noting eight implications from devaluing reading, while urging responsibility among students and faculty amid Women’s History Month.
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Princeton Theological Seminary
Emory University
Germany
Korea
Ghana
Richard Rawls
Hiebert Library
Fresno Pacific University
Four Women Honored For Civil Rights And Activism
The piece highlights Matilda Joslyn Gage Minnijean Brown Lupe Anguiano and Barbara Irvine as among 14 honorees recognizing generations of women who shaped history through intelligence courage and perseverance Gage advocated equality and abolition Brown helped integrate Little Rock Central High Anguiano protected the environment and aided the poor Irvine championed preservation of women history sites plus a Cinco de Mayo festival reminder with booth pickups.
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
Minnijean Brown
Central High School
Shafter High School
Brown
Little Rock
Arkansas National Guard
Little Rock Central High
Lupe Anguiano
Mother Earth
Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters
United States
Anguiano
United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
Delano
Calif
Barbara Irvine
Alice Paul Centennial Foundation Inc
Alice Paul Institute
New Jersey
Irvine
Apple Market
Floyd’s
Shafter Bakery
To the Editor Memory of My Parents in Shafter Press
A reader writes about how weekly yard sale listings in the Shafter Press connected them to their late mother and father. The note expresses nostalgia for the newspaper and the routine of counting yard sales each week.
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Shafter Press
Reed Print Inc
California Newspaper Publishers Association
East Lerdo Highway
Shafter
California
Reed Print, Inc
Aldrin Ct
Bakersfield
Congress
P.O. Box
Linkage Drives California Reform Ballot Talk
A plan to move California's presidential primary to Feb 5 invites term limits changes and redistricting reform. Gov Schwarzenegger backs letting voters decide term extension, districting oversight, and a fundraising ban during budget talks, with mixed implications for lawmakers and parties.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
California
Sacramento
Assembly
State Senate
Fabian Nunez
East Los Angeles
Don Perata
Oakland
Nunez
Perata
Nancy Pelosi
Pete Wilson
Schwarzenegger
Elias
Burzynski
Thelias
Aol
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