Aggie Almanac; The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (Promo) : Secret Game: Capoiera and Upping the Goal
Description:
Unrelated content from 0:29:05 to end of file. Aggie Almanac is a weekly show that focuses on New Mexico State University (NMSU). In this episode, Capoeira, an art form that combines dance, music and martial arts and is steeped in a heavily guarded tradition that is 500 years old, is performed at NMSU. The history of Capoeira is discussed as a form of resistance for enslaved Africans in Brazil. The second part of the show focuses on donations and fundraising at NMSU. Rebecca Dukes, NMSU Vice President of University Advancement, joins host Hillary Floren to discuss the NMSU foundation. Dukes talks about the 2005 fundraising campaign. The Aggie of the week is Arley Torres who is from Palomas, Mexico and is working with Chemical Engineering students to find a cost affective way to reduce arsenic and fluoride in drinking water. From 29:05 - 34:11 a promo and segment of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is shown. The promo highlights the Roberts Hearings with analysis, Katrina's Health Hazards, and Relocation Challenge. NewsHour is directed by Steve Howard and produced by WETA-TV, Washington, DC. A local show that features accomplishments of faculty, staff, students, and alumni at New Mexico State University. This show is largely 10-15-minute field segments (mini-docs) and has excellent features from across southern New Mexico in which NMSU played a role. Highly visual, educational, historic, scientific, political, economic, entertaining, informative.
