Archive for July, 2005

Legislative Update/Opinions/A Guy’s Tale

Friday, July 8th, 2005

Legislative Update: Host Frank Stasio speaks with Laura Leslie, North Carolina Public Radio — WUNC’s capitol reporter, about this week’s happenings in the North Carolina General Assembly. (12:00)

Opinions: An event like the bombings in London yesterday not only affects those at ground zero, but also those of us thousands of miles away. At the same time, local issues and news events don’t go away, like Hurricane Dennis sneaking its way through the gulf of Mexico and threatening the southeast. Host Frank Stasio gauges the thoughts and opinions of North Carolinians through the editorial page editors of some of the state’s newspapers. Guests include: Tim White of the Fayetteville Observer and Joy Franklin of the Asheville Citizen-Times. (20:00)

“A Guy’s Tale”: Host Frank Stasio talks to writer/actor Adam Bergeron and director Bryan Cohen about their new one-man play ” A Guy’s Tale.” The play is a series of monologues that explore one young man’s struggle to understand women. The show will be performed from July 8 to July 14 and July 18 to July 20 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (16:00)

Legislative Update
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A Guy's Tale

Terror In London

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

North Carolina’s Reaction: Host Frank Stasio speaks with Bill Boettcher, professor of political science at NC State University; and Doug Hoell, director of North Carolina’s Emergency Management division, about the preparations and reactions of authorities at home to the terrorist attacks in London. (8:00)

Further Reaction: Four bomb explosions rocked the financial center of London this morning. Frank Stasio hosts a conversation on the larger political, economic, and religious fallout following this latest attack. Guests include: Mike Munger, chair of the political science department at Duke University; Chris Gelpi, professor of political science at Duke; and Stanley Hauerwas, professor of theological studies at Duke Divinity School. (42:00)

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Perceptions of Weight

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Perceptions of Weight: Gaining weight can lead to all kinds of new behaviors–avoiding mirrors and cameras, fearing ice cream shops and dinner menus. Host Frank Stasio talks with guests about how we perceive ourselves when we’re overweight, and how we perceive obesity as a culture. Guests include: Wendy McClure, author of the memoir “I’m Not the New Me” (Riverhead Books/2005); Martin Binks, professor of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center; and Jean Renfro Anspaugh, author of “Fat Like Us” (Generation Books/2001). Listener Call-In. (59:00)

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School Discipline

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

School Discipline: Hundreds of thousands of students are suspended from North Carolina’s public schools each year. But do suspensions make the classroom safer and more effective? And what effect do suspensions have on those students being punished? Host Frank Stasio speaks with: Liz Chandler, reporter with teh Charlotte Observer; Sheria Reid, director of the Education and Law Project of the North Carolina Justice Center; Marvin Pittman, director of Middle School Education at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction; Mike Reider, executive director of Haven House in Raleigh. Listener Call-In. (59:00) (AG)

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State of Poetry

Monday, July 4th, 2005

The State of Poetry in North Carolina: On a show that first aired in observance of National Poetry Month, Host Frank Stasio speaks with Alan Shapiro, author of eight books of poetry (most recently, “Tantalus In Love,” Houghton Mifflin/2005) and two memoirs and a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Glenis Redmond, a performance poet from western North Carolina, and Carole Boston Weatherford, poet and children’s book author from High Point. We also check in with the Desert City Reading Series and the poetry program at the Greensboro Public Library. Listener Call-In. (SD) (59:00)

This show was originally broadcast on April 27, 2005.

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