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USF ponders the politics of the Armenian Genocide listen
11/07/11 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: genocide, Armenian Genocide, Taner Akcam, Turkey, Clark University, Ottoman Empire, transitional justice, reparations, War, University of South Florida, USF Library, USF
When a country deals with a dark chapter in its past, like genocide, there are questions about reparations for people directly and indirectly affected. At the USF Library, Taner Akcam gave the keynote speech in a symposium hosted by USF libraries Holocaust and Genocide center on the denial of the Armenian Genocide and the Turkish national security policy of Turkey.
Akcam is a professor of Armenian g...
Be the first to commentUSF forms its own Occupy group. Its focus? Tuition listen
11/03/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Tampa, Occupy USF, USF, Judy Genshaft, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, tuition increase, tuition hike
Occupy Tampa now has an ally at the area’s largest university. Occupy USF, which is partnering with the school’s newly-formed chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
Dozens of USF students used the human microphone during a teach-in promoting the nascent Occupy USF movement. Dani Leppo, an SDS organizer, said there are a lot of parallels between college students and the general public as the job market remains stagnant.
She said a key driver for the movement is the 15 percent tuit...
Be the first to commentAwake the State starts a one-year goal of awaking voters listen
11/02/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy Tampa, Occupy Wall Street, Awake the State, USF, SDS, Alex Sink
The 2012 elections are only twelve months away and a progressive-leaning group is beginning the process of getting voters informed and to the polls. About 100 advocates rallied last night in Tampa in one of 15 Awake the State demonstrations across Florida.
Fewer than 70,000 votes could have changed the course of last year's race for Florida governor. Supporters of Awake the State are hoping to avoid any more near misses by driving voter turnout. Vera Chapman v...
Be the first to commentWater managers: shortages need to be addressed, and can be listen
11/01/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: water, Water conservation, water shortage, sustainability, USF, Patel Center for Global Solutions
Florida may not be facing an immediate water crisis, but ongoing water restrictions and ever-receding water levels in lakes and rivers shows there is still cause for concern. Today at USF’s Patel School of Global Sustainability, water management professionals brainstormed how to make consumption more efficient. Addressing the problem might wreak a little havoc at first but the school’s director, Dr. Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, said without the initial burden, changes won...
Be the first to commentExtremism in the Civil Rights Era listen
10/28/11 Atecia RobinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: civil rights, civil rights movement, Tampa Bay History Center, Barack Obama, Clive Webb, books, author interview, University of Sussex, Rabble Rousers, USF, John Kasper
The civil rights era was at its peak from 1955 to 1968 and during this time many events occurred that continue to affect citizens world wide. WMNF’s Atecia Robinson reports from the Tampa Bay History Center, where Clive Webb presented his ideas on this era through his book Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era.
In a ...
Be the first to commentScientists and journalists discuss collaboration listen
10/28/11 Jean Henry TelcyWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Media, science, public health, USF
About 80 people listened to leaders in journalism and science discuss the relationship between media and the scientific establishment in this event co-hosted by the University of South Florida. One of the organizers was Mary Woolley, President and CEO of Research!America, an alliance aimed at “making research to improve health a higher national priority.”
According to Claudia Dreifus, interviewer for the science section of the New York Times, the ro...
Be the first to commentGreenland melting could accelerate sea-level rise listen
10/17/11 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: sea level rise, climate change, USF
The world's second largest ice sheet is melting. A USF geologist says because of what's happening in Greenland, there are global implications for sea-level rise.
Greenland’s ice sheet covers 80 percent of the island country’s surface and contains roughly eight percent of Earth’s fresh water. And according to University of South Florida geologist Timothy Dixon, recent melting of the ice sheet is beginning to add to global sea-level rise.
Be the first to comment“Sea level rise, it is going up about 2 millime...
At USF Norman Finkelstein offers solution to Israel-Palestine conflict listen
10/13/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Israel, Palestine, Palestinian Territories, Norman Finkelstein, USF
The United Nations Security Council has yet to vote on Palestine’s bid for statehood. Political scientist Norman Finkelstein spoke to students at the University of South Florida in Tampa last night, and said supporting a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict shouldn’t be controversial.
A self-described atheist, Finkelstein told a crowd of about 50 at the Marshall Center that “God helps peopl...
Be the first to commentIn talk with USF students, Tampa Mayor Buckhorn at loss for his opinion on DREAM Act listen
10/11/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bob Buckhorn, high speed rail, DREAM Act, USF, Tuition fee increases, education, students, immigration
In an attempt to raise political interest among college-aged voters, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn answered questions from students at USF Tampa last night. He said young adults should get more involved in politics, but fumbled over one of their questions about the DREAM Act.
As the Mayor of a city with a major university – one whose economic contribution is substantial – you would think Buckhorn would make sure he’s up on ...
Be the first to commentStudents protest higher tuition at USF
10/10/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: SDS, USF, Dustin Ponder, Melissa Marquez
Coming up next we'll talk with several members of the newly formed local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. The group is working toward establishing a student referendum on tuition increases at the University of South Florida. Our guests are: Carl Uhl and Marisol Marquez.
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