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SUNDAY COLLEGE PROGRAM Mid-Plains Community College will offer five classes this fall as part of its Sunday College program. The classes are: College Algebra, Intro to Professional Education, English Composition I, English Composition II and Intro to Theater. All begin Aug. 20. Sunday College gives students an opportunity to fulfill general education requirements in just eight weeks and obtain an associate degree within 24 months. Classes meet Sunday afternoons and evenings. The rest of the coursework is done online – making the option a convenient one for students who work or are other-wise occupied during the day. The on-campus component is offered through classrooms in McCook and North Platte and via distance learning at MPCC campuses in Broken Bow, Imperial, Ogallala and Valentine. All Sunday College classes are designated as “academic transfer,” which means they should be accepted for academic credit at any regional col-lege or university. More information about the Sunday College program can be found on the college’s website at http://www.mpcc.edu/sunday-college.
NCTA NATIONALLY RATED
Our two-year technical agriculture college at Curtis garnered special attention last month with a national ranking for technical education. The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, which is part of the University of Nebraska system, was listed by Forbes business magazine among 2017 Top 30 Two-Year Trade Schools. NCTA made the listing in the magazine’s first-time analysis and rating of two-year colleges or trade schools in the United States. Forbes used federal government data to do an analysis of two-year trade schools across the United States to com-pare how well they performed based on graduate earnings, college affordability and academic quality. The colleges that made their list of ’the best in the US’ were primarily nursing colleges and engineering tech-nology colleges. Only one agriculture college made this list – the Ne-braska College of Technical Agriculture. This assessment is the latest in a series of many documenting that NCTA provides access to outstanding academic programs in a cost-effective manner. I appreciate the creativ-ity and hard work from the college’s faculty and staff that results in this type of student success.
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Supporters and critics have sounded off at a Nebraska Board of Educa-tion meeting on a proposal to include the teaching of climate change in Nebraska public school science classes. Nearly 70 people crowded Fri-day into a meeting room and overflow room in Lincoln as the board dis-cussed plans to adopt new science standards, the Omaha World-Herald reported. For the first time, the standards would specifically include the teaching of climate change. However, the wording of the latest draft calls on students to "evaluate the reliability and validity" of climate mod-els before making a projection of future climate trends. That's a change from an earlier draft in May that treated climate change as settled sci-ence. But some people argue the new language isn't strong enough. Doug Kagan, representing Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom, said there is a "furious ongoing debate within the scientific community about the actual role that humans play in global warming." David Harwood, a geology professor with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, countered: "Climate change is happening," he said. "It is caused by human activity." Harwood is member of the standards writing team and urged the board to retain climate change, along with evolution, in the draft standards.
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1947 - The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a
six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean,
crashed into a reef in a Poly-nesian archipelago.
SPORTS Rookie right-hander Jake Junis was excellent in a spot start and Melky Cabrera
drove in four runs as the Royals rolled to a 9-1 win over the Mariners in Game 2
to split Sunday's doubleheader at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals pulled a half-
game ahead of the Rays and 1 1/2 games in front of the Mariners for the second
American League Wild Card spot. Kansas City also sits 2 1/2 games behind the
first-place Indians in the AL Central. Junis, the 26th man for the twin bill, went
eight innings with a career-high seven strikeouts, retiring the last 19 batters he
faced. Junis, who made his first Major League start since June 29, gave up one
run on four hits to pick up his fourth win of the season. "I definitely felt like I hit
a stride around the fifth inning," Junis said. "I was getting some quick outs and
some quick innings, and a lot of momentum. It just carried." "His curveball and
slider were his 'A' curveball and slider," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "It was a
big boost for us." After Danny Espinosa's RBI double opened the scoring in the
second inning, Mariners starter Erasmo Ramirez was tagged for five runs on eight
hits over his five frames in the loss. The Mariners settled for a split of the four-
game series after winning the opener of their first doubleheader since 2014. The
Royals kick off a two-game home series with St. Louis tonight. Pregame coverage
on The Big Talker 1300 KBRL-AM starts at 6:30 p.m.
The Nebraska football team completed its first week of fall camp on Saturday by
working out for just over two overs in full pads and helmets. The Huskers
planned to practice for the first time this fall in Memorial Stadium but due to
lightning, they moved practice inside the Hawks Championship Center. Head
Coach Mike Riley met with the media following practice and commented on the
practice and the conclusion of the Huskers' first week of fall camp. “We just had a
week of practices, we finished with about an 86-play scrimmage,” Riley said.
“The players that play within that first unit, it’s not just 11 guys, they probably
got 25 [plays]. Which that is what our goal was. The next group got a little bit
more than that. Everyone else got about that which is about 30 [plays].” Riley
mentioned his thoughts on the new preseason practice rules, which eliminated
two-a-day practices and pushed the start of fall camp earlier than before.
“There’s going to be a lot of talk,” Riley said. “There will probably be another
rule change or two. You don’t want to push this thing too far back into July. The
kids are around here anyway if you take the right time off and do it right, I think
stretching camp a couple of more days, maybe two or three more, is really not
bad physically.”
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