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Major Conference on International Issues Scheduled this Week at USF St. Pete; Hosted by Former US Ambassador
03/27/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Doug McElhaney, diplomacy, St. Petersburg and the World, USF St. Petersburg, WMNF, Rob Lorei
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei.
Tomorrow and Friday on the USF campus in St. Petersburg Diplomats, military leaders, academic experts, journalists and members of the public will gather at USF St. Petersburg for the first World Conference on International Affairs. Among the topics on the agenda---Cuba, Venezueala, the Middle East, energy policy and how to slow the spread of nuclear weapons.
The organizer of the conference is Doug McElhaney- a retired diplomat wi...
Be the first to commentUSF students protest budget cuts on both sides of the Bay listen
03/01/12 Janelle Irwin & Samuel JohnsonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, USF St. Petersburg, education, education funding, education cuts, activism, protests, JD Alexander, Occupy Movement, Occupy Tampa, SDS
Occupy Education, an off-shoot of the Occupy Movement, called for a national day of action today demanding legislation that would increase educational spending instead of cutting budgets. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, student protesters shut down most of the campus. Students at USF campuses in Tampa and St. Pete held events today in solidarity with that effort. Students at both campu...
Be the first to commentHead of USF St. Pete says they are suffering from budget cuts too listen
02/23/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Margaret Sullivan, USF St. Petersburg, Rick Scott, budget cuts, education cuts, education, education funding, USF, JD Alexander
USF St. Petersburg faces a two to three million dollar budget cut under Florida Senator JD Alexander’s budget plan. It pales in comparison to the deep cuts proposed for its parent university in Tampa. But, at a Suncoast Tiger Bay luncheon Thursday afternoon, the Chancellor of USF St. Pete, Margaret Sullivan, said the drop in funding still hurts.
USF St. Pete’s proposed funding...
Be the first to commentRain doesn't deter USF St. Pete students from rallying against tuition hikes listen
11/28/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF St. Petersburg, education cuts, Occupy St. Pete, occupy uc davis
Public college students across the state are experiencing sharp increases in tuition costs. An organization called Fight Back Florida is organizing protests at seven different universities this week. Today, students at University of South Florida St. Petersburg rallied to end tuition hikes.
Despite the rainy weather, organizers came out to make sure students knew about the 15 percent boost to the...
Be the first to commentGulf Oil Spill Community Forum Discusses Long-Term Impacts listen
06/16/10 Allie WilkinsonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, community, tourism, economic impact, Gulf of Mexico, USF St. Petersburg, ecology, Chemical oil dispersants, Media
More than 900 people crowded into the Palladium Theater last night to hear scientists, politicians, media experts and industry leaders discuss America’s largest, ongoing environmental disaster. WMNF’s Allie Wilkinson reports from St. Petersburg.
Nearly two months to the day since oil started seeping into the Gulf of Mexico the Tampa Bay community came together to discuss the long term implications and solutions relating to the spill. Chuanmin Hu, an Associate Professor at the College of ...
2 commentsSen Bill Nelson visits oil spill incident command post in St Pete listen
05/07/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bill Nelson, Gulf Oil Spill, BP oil spill, BP, USF St. Petersburg, NOAA
In order to respond to effects on the West Coast of Florida from the BP oil blowout, federal, state and local agencies have established an incident command post in St. Petersburg. Representatives from BP, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and the U.S. Coast Guard, are among the groups stationed at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute on the campu...
Be the first to commentUSF St. Pete, Dali Museum Celebrate Earth Day listen
04/21/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF St. Petersburg, Earth Day, sistainability, environment, Dali Museum, Downtown St. Pete
Have you ever seen a teal bee? Their brilliant metallic bodies look like something out of a storybook. There were several on USF’s St. Pete campus today, thanks to Sarasota County agriculture expert Robert Kluson. He was on campus for a weeklong Earth Day Celebration, and said there was another place you can find the unusual-looking insects.
Kluson was one of several demonstrators set up on the freshly-minted greenspace at the heart of the campus. Briton Cleveland, president of the school’...
Be the first to commentWhat Kind Of Person Tortures Another Human Being?
02/04/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: torture, John Conroy, USF St. Petersburg
Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. In a moment we’ll hear from an author who is an expert on torture.
Through his reporting and writing, author John Conroy examines how ordinary people put into extraordinary circumstances can become torturers or silent witnesses to torture. He has explored the topic in two books and numerous articles. His latest work, a two-act play based on the Chicago police torture scandal he uncovered, was recently written about in the New York T...
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