Catherine Conlan of MinnPost offers this piece exploring the downsizing of the Hibbing Community College theater program. The story is a fair analysis of the factors at play here. This is the winnowing of Minnesota culture, especially greater Minnesota culture, caused by the state budget situation.
I work at HCC (to repeat, my blog is unaffiliated) and, as such, I’ll just let outgoing director Mike Ricci’s statement from the story say what I’m thinking:
“It’s not always math and science that fills people’s souls.”
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