RACISM
FOR THE LOVE OF HOCKEY "Not in the right sport"
I know a lot of hockey players and fans make fun of basketball, but as someone who grew up playing and watching a ton of basketball, I still love everything about March Madness. The first four days o...
Posted on 3/27/13 at 12:10 AM
Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.
By Jacques Billeaud and Walter Berry , May 24, 2013
Interracial couples face internal, external relationship challenges
Not long ago, Twila Singh and her husband, Jagnoor, walked into a local restaurant holding hands and everyone stopped and turned around in their seats to look at them, they said.
By Tracy Frank , May 14, 2013
Prep-coaches reflect on meeting Jackie Robinson 
The 8x10 picture sits in a prominent spot, on a shelf in the den of Rodd Olson’s Crookston home. On the left on the black-and-white framed picture is Olson in his Concordia College baseball uniform. On the far right is teammate Jim Howson. In between are several other Cobbers players, with coach Sonny Gulsvig in the foreground shaking hands with Jackie Robinson.
By Greg DeVillers , April 27, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Political correctness permeates American education
The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R’s — formerly reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism.
By George Will , April 04, 2013
Jackie Stebbins Bismark, N.D. letters: GOP lawmakers act with intolerance
Jackie Stebbins of Bismarck writes in about intolerance.
By Jackie Stebbins , March 16, 2013
Edward Halas, Grand Forks, letter: Klan-garb incident can be used to teach all
There is a simple solution to the disciplining the three Red River students who wore KKK hoods to a recent hockey game.
By Edward Halas , March 09, 2013
Years after his death, family discovers ‘Uncle Rudy’ had been in the KKK
Neila Mae Johnson knew the amiable family friend as “Uncle Rudy.”
Rudolph Bener was an immigrant from Croatia and spoke with a thick Slavic accent. After he died, in 1964, it fell to the Johnson family to clean out his house on Lake Melissa near Detroit Lakes, Minn. What they found shocked them: Uncle Rudy had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
By Patrick Springer , March 03, 2013
KKK once active in North Dakota, with Grand Forks as its hotbed
Three mischievous fans of the Roughriders’ hockey team flouted a taboo when they recently wore hooded Ku Klux Klan robes to taunt the opposing squad.
But the Red River High School hockey spectators might not have known just how prevalent the Ku Klux Klan once was in the Red River Valley.
By Patrick Springer , March 03, 2013
DEBORAH TODHUNTER: Remember this about students: They’re students
In my opinion — and perhaps the opinion of others in Grand Forks — what those three immature, unthinking and impulsive students did was not a result of a problem at Red River or this community. It could have been because they are immature and acted in a self-centered manner, perhaps to get attention. Fourteen-year-olds do that.
By Deborah Todhunter , March 02, 2013
KAREN YOUNG TRENNE: Grand Forks responded decisively, appropriately
The students surrounding the three who wore KKK hoods at the Red River hockey game took immediate action to stop the offense. The school administration took immediate action to thoroughly investigate the incident and discipline the three students.
By Karen Young Trenne , February 28, 2013
Paul Cline, Grand Forks, letter: Clearly, students knew what they were doing
While at first I was willing to give the students the benefit of the doubt, the more I think about it, the more I am convinced the double entendre was deliberate.
By Paul Cline , February 27, 2013
John Osborne, Grand Forks, letter: Red River students should apologize publicly
Instead of “rewarding” these students with suspension, school officials should see this incident as a chance to create a learning opportunity.
By John Osborne , February 27, 2013
Lowell Thompson, Grand Forks, letter: Credit students for demanding hoods’ removal
The action of the Red River High School students that resulted in the almost immediate removal of the KKK-type hoods that had been put on by three underclassmen should be commended and more prominently recognized by the media.
By Lowell Thompson , February 27, 2013
JACK RUSSELL WEINSTEIN: Why we’re so angry at the KKK-clad students
But this wasn’t a simple mistake or prank, and it was more than an unseen tripwire.
By Jack Russell Weinstein , February 27, 2013
Deb Snustad, Grand Forks, letter: Condemnations of all students are uncalled for
I am in total agreement that the three students who chose to put on KKK-like garments at the high school hockey game the previous evening were totally inappropriate. What frustrates me are the comments that are being made by many people in reference to the entire student section and to student population of Red River High School as a whole.
By Deb Snustad , February 27, 2013
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