To Be Announced...

Sorry for the delay. After the Easter holiday (daughter birthday) hoopla...I watched the Masters and did taxes. A roller-coaster of emotions...lemme tell you.

Anyway...short post today. I'm trying to conserve cyberspace and the carbon footprint that my internet usage has in light of all this global warming.

Those of you expecting former UofI coach C. Vivian Stringer to continue with her speech about "Reaching for Your Highest Potential" during the women's conference...don't. There are more important things for her to do instead of trying to inspire women to be better at all they can be...

Stringer cancels Iowa speech after Imus flap

Coralville, Ia. -- Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer has pulled out of a speaking engagement Friday in Coralville because of the controversy following radio host Don Imus's comments about her team.

Conference coordinators said they learned today that Stringer would not be able to participate in the conference because of the Imus flap.

Starting Monday, Imus will be suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers players "nappy-headed hos" a day after the team lost the national championship game to Tennessee on April 3.

Stringer and Rutgers players spoke out Tuesday about the "racist and sexist" remarks, which have caused many people to call for Imus's dismissal. Team members have said they will meet with Imus.

Too busy being offended by a radio host of minimum consequence on a minimum consequence network that doesn't even have an affiliate in Iowa.

Cancelled a speaking engagement for what? What could she possibly be doing instead? If Imus is suspended for 2-weeks, that gives her plenty of time to meet with him AFTER her inspiring speech, doesn't it?

Oh, waitaminnut...KMNS in Sioux City is listed as affiliate but I can't confirm that from their crappy website.

So, if you're still pining for something interesting...

Tickets Still Available For Carter Speech

Tickets are still available for former President Jimmy Carter’s speech at the University of Iowa April 18 in Carver Hawkeye Arena. Seating in the arena is near capacity, but some good seats are still avail-able for students, faculty, staff and the general public.

Carter’s speech, which will focus on his new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" and issues in the Middle East, is being presented by the UI Lecture Committee. Doors will open at 5 p.m., with the speech beginning at 7 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and may be obtained only from the University Box Office in the Iowa Memorial Union between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. seven days a week.

In an interview with Newsweek, Carter said he wants “to provoke discussion, which is very rarely heard in this country.”

At the same time, Carter thinks that he is being silenced by shadowy forces. He makes this bizarre claim: “My most troubling experience has been the rejection of my offers to speak, for free, about the book on university campuses with high Jewish enrollment.”

Does Carter keep track of which schools have lots of Jews? And who does he think is keeping him from speaking at them?

Typical for him lately. He blames the Jews for forcing those Hamas and Hezbollah folks to blow themselves up near crowds, too.

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