Archive for August, 2004

Campus Security

Monday, August 9th, 2004

Campus Security: North Carolina’s universities go to great lengths to protect students, but recent tragedies have caused colleges to re-think security issues. Should universities do background checks on all students? Just where is the line between creating a safe learning environment and infringing on personal freedoms? Rusty Jacobs hosts a discussion on campus security. Guests include: Sue Wasiolek, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Duke University; Terry Curran, Dean of Students at UNC Wilmington; Daniel Carter, Vice President of Security On Campus, Inc.; and Julie Hutchinson, rising senior at Duke.

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Kudzu

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

Host Melinda Penkava hosts a conversation on the origins, the eradication, and the celebration of kudzu, the rapidly growing weed that has captured the imagination of many people in the South. Guests include: David Orr, professor of entomology at NC State University; Doug Marlette, author of
the comic strip “Kudzu”; Jean Marie Luginbuhl, associate professor in crop science and animal science at NC State; and Edith and Henry Edwards, owners of Kudzu Cow Farm in Rutherfordton, NC. Listener Call In. (59:00)

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Favored By Fortune/Voices Of Civil Rights

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Favored By Fortune: Much of the history of North Carolina has been shaped by the state’s prominent families. One of those families has been the Hills of Durham. Guest host David Crabtree speaks with historian Howard E. Covington, Jr., about his new book, “Favored By Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham” (University of North Carolina Press/2004). We’ll also talk with curator Robert Anthony, Jr., about one legacy the Hill family left behind: the North Carolina Collection. (22:00)

Voices of Civil Rights: In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the AARP has kicked off a nationwide, year-long bus tour to collect thousands of first-hand accounts of the Civil Rights movement from ordinary people. The tour will trace the original 1961 Freedom Ride from Washington D.C. to Jackson, Mississippi. Guest host David Crabtree will speak with one of the writers on the bus as it stops in Raleigh on Thursday, as well as two North Carolinians who have shared their remembrances of the era: Rev. Titus Haynes and Almetta Revis. (28:00)

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Recruiting Teachers/John Dean

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

Recruiting Teachers: In the first of a series on back-to-school issues, host David Crabtree looks at teacher recruitment. North Carolina hires 10,000 new teachers every year, but education programs at state universities produce only 3,330 new teachers, and only half of those new teachers choose to stay and work in North Carolina. Guests include: Norman Shearin, superintendent of Vance County Schools; and Barrett Berry, executive director of the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality; Holly Harris, third-grade teacher at D.F. Walker Elementary School in Edenton, N.C. Listener Call-In. (37:00)

John Dean: Host David Crabtree talks with John Dean, former White House Council to President Nixon and a key figure in the Watergate scandal. Dean’s new book is “Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush” (Little, Brown and Company/2004). (17:00)

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Blue Moon Café

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

The Blue Moon Café isn’t a quaint bistro, but a collection of more than two-dozen contemporary Southern writers who have cooked up what the book’s editor, Sonny Brewer, calls “a by-god feast for your reading appetite.” Guest Host David Crabtree speaks with Sonny Brewer about “Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III” (McAdam/Cage 2004) and with Chapel Hill-based writer Daniel Wallace, whose short story “Good Neighbor” is included in the anthology. (32:00)

Pelican and Pelicant: We talk to North Carolina native Sarah Froeber, founder of the now-defunct Jelly Educational Theater for Children, about her book, “Pelican and Pelicant” (Toucan Press/2003). Sarah’s play, “Wheelchair Dancer,” will be performed in Athens this October, after the conclusion of the Paralympics. (17:30)

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