Saturday is Valley Voices day on the Opinion pages, a day reserved for commentaries by local writers. This week, we've got three very diverse pieces. Tara M. Powers, a grad student at Fresno State, challenges the stereotype of college girls gone wild on spring break. They're more likely to be volunteering, working or catching up on homework than drinking and dancing topless on tables in Cancun. Jo Ellen Priest Misakian of Fresno Pacific University challenges us all to invest in our school libraries. They are shameful when compared with others in the nation. Jim Tucker has a written a charming piece on how Americans love to use baseball cliches. Jim is the host of one of my favorite shows, "Valley Press" on Channel 18. We watched a rerun last night of Jim interviewing Mas Masumoto, who writes in The Bee's Sunday Vision sections every month. It was a compelling show and a masterful interview by Jim. One of Mas' comments really hit home. He said it's very important that families have a writer to pass on the stories from generation to generation. If someone doesn't do that, the family lessons just die out.. I'm feeling a little guilty here, so maybe I'd better get busy on my family history.
Mas' next piece appears April 30. It's a tender story about his illiterate grandmother, who nevertheless kept a special drawer containing a bundle of letters she could not read. The illustrator is the amazing Doug Hansen, a former Bee graphic artist who now teaches several classes of fortunate students at Fresno State.
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