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EXCO Offers Free/Open Classes to Change The World

By David Boehnke , Free Speech Zone

The Experimental College of the Twin Cities or EXCO is holding its fourth session of free and open classes beginning this February 2008. Started by Macalester students in Fall 2006 in response to the inequities of higher education, EXCO “strives to offer Twin Cities’ communities an opportunity to teach or learn in an inclusive space open to all types of skills and knowledge, including and beyond academic knowledge” (from www.EXCOtc.org). MORE »

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Drinking Mississippi mud

By Mark Twain

“The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water – what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up – and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be. MORE »