I don’t give a damn about Harvard or Yale. I care deeply about Buena Vista University. Leave the University of Iowa alone because that’s where the seeds for “Field of Dreams” were germinated. We should be more concerned with livestock disease research funding for Iowa State University than whether Ivy League presidents were too dull-witted to handle questions from congressional simpletons.
"We will take the banner of free speech and nail it to our masthead!"
--J.W. "Bill" Maucker, president, University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, 1968, on refusing to fire anti-Vietnam War English professor Edward Hoffmans, who was counseling male students on their options for avoiding the draft.
Yeah, we had subversive radicals at Iowa State like George Washington Carver (via Simpson College) and Henry Wallace (well, plenty thought he was so FDR dumped him for Truman). Then there was Nobel Prize winner and "Green Revolution" father Norman Borlaug of Cresco who went to school with those one-worlders at the University of Minnesota like Hubert Humphrey, who tried to brainwash kids teaching at Macalester College (just a Harmon Killebrew line drive from ever sprawling St. Thomas) before he got into politics..
I'm sure all those hippie clergy teachers I had at Waterloo Columbus High warped my mind before the radicals at UNI and Iowa State ever got their hands on me. Dang, they let us read Ralph Ellison and Babi Yar and stuff like that.
Mr. Cullen, we both live in Iowa, so I'll say - Art, it sounds Iowa nice. Your words bring hope for a regrowth of Iowa NIce. But I cannot find evidence that Iowa has ever been 'nicer' than anywhere else. In fact, Minnesota and Wisconsin claim that Iowa used their marketing slogan. Marketing slogans are "dime-a-dozen" won't even buy a cup of coffee. Art - I encourage you to hold the course - rough waters ahead - creating twenty years of fodder for your analysis.
"We will take the banner of free speech and nail it to our masthead!"
--J.W. "Bill" Maucker, president, University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, 1968, on refusing to fire anti-Vietnam War English professor Edward Hoffmans, who was counseling male students on their options for avoiding the draft.
Yeah, we had subversive radicals at Iowa State like George Washington Carver (via Simpson College) and Henry Wallace (well, plenty thought he was so FDR dumped him for Truman). Then there was Nobel Prize winner and "Green Revolution" father Norman Borlaug of Cresco who went to school with those one-worlders at the University of Minnesota like Hubert Humphrey, who tried to brainwash kids teaching at Macalester College (just a Harmon Killebrew line drive from ever sprawling St. Thomas) before he got into politics..
I'm sure all those hippie clergy teachers I had at Waterloo Columbus High warped my mind before the radicals at UNI and Iowa State ever got their hands on me. Dang, they let us read Ralph Ellison and Babi Yar and stuff like that.
Mr. Cullen, we both live in Iowa, so I'll say - Art, it sounds Iowa nice. Your words bring hope for a regrowth of Iowa NIce. But I cannot find evidence that Iowa has ever been 'nicer' than anywhere else. In fact, Minnesota and Wisconsin claim that Iowa used their marketing slogan. Marketing slogans are "dime-a-dozen" won't even buy a cup of coffee. Art - I encourage you to hold the course - rough waters ahead - creating twenty years of fodder for your analysis.
Good job on Stephanie Ruhl's show last night.....stocking cap hair and all. You represent Iowa so well!