‘Interviews’ Archives
RadioIP: Beth Yeager and Educational Achievement
Intents & Purposes Radio with Levi and Tim, Tuesday, March 30, 2010: Public education in the U.S. is going through a crisis: Here in California the controversial High School Exit exam has been accused of disadvantaging females and minorities. Dr. Beth Yeager, director of the Center for Literacy & Inquiry in Networking Communities at UC Santa [...]
Interview: Jim Ellinger on Haiti Community Radio
Ellinger just returned from Haiti where he was part of an AMARC team that rebuilt a rural Haitian radio station, Radyo Zetwal Peyizan, in Fondwa. In conversation with Elizabeth Robinson on KCSB's "No Alibis", he describes current conditions in Port au Prince as well as in the countryside. For more info, go to AMARC.org.
Intents & Purposes Radio
RadioIP with Levi and Tim, March 23, 2010: For centuries religion and science have sat at opposite ends of the academic table. UC Santa Barbara Professor and the president of the American Academy of Religion Dr. Ann Taves aims to bring the two fields a little closer. She was in studio to discuss her new book Religious Experience Reconsidered: A [...]
Intents & Purposes Radio, March 16, 2010
RadioIP with Levi and Tim: Zombie computers are lurking in the dark corners of the Internet form a matrix of data-snatching machines. These botnets are constantly trolling for banks account numbers, passwords and personal data. Dr. Giovanni Vigna, one of the UC Santa Barbara researchers who recently took down one of the largest of these online [...]
Intents & Purposes Radio
RadioIP with Levi and Tim, Tuesday, March 9, 2010: Online social media has brought the digitization of our lives to new heights in just a few short years with the explosion of tools like Facebook and the adoption of Internet-ready smart-phones. But all of this information sharing comes at a price: privacy. UC Santa Barbara Computer Science [...]
No Alibis with Rebecca N. Hill on “Men, Mobs, and Law”
Following the news, Elizabeth Robinson and Jordan Camp speak with Professor Rebecca N. Hill about her book Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History (Duke University Press, 2009). She is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New [...]
No Alibis with Sara Kaplan and Daniel Widener, Racism and Campus Climate at UCSD
Jordan Camp and Elizabeth Robinson speak with UC San Diego Professors Sara Kaplan and Daniel Widener about the recent racist events at UCSD. We explore how the events expose the hostile climate for students of color on UC campuses as well as for people of color throughout California. We also discuss the role of African American studies and [...]
KCSB Community News for Tuesday March 2, 2010
*Global headlines Harry Lawton *Changing bull terrier perceptions Robyn Pennington * Rhythmic Uprising Conchita Pang *Reform to GATE program in Santa Barbara schools Holly Hyde * UC Student Lobby and UC Hate Crimes Daniel Alvarenga *Interview with activist Janelle Mungo on March 4th Day of Action Geoffrey Ticker *March 4th Day of Action [...]
Intents & Purposes Radio, March 2, 2010
RadioIP with Levi and Tim: Worldwide, 12 million people suffer from autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease or ADPKD. In the U.S. the number is larger than those affected by Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia combined. UC Santa Barbara’s Dr. Thomas Weimbs, associate professor and director of the [...]
Intents & Purposes Radio, Feb 16, 2010
Feb 16, 2010 Show: The January 12th earthquake in Haiti devastated 3 million people on the small island-nation. Santa Barbara-based Direct Relief International has helped bring tens of millions of dollars in medical aid to Haiti. The organization is one of the most efficient charities providing relief in the area. Jim Prosser, the media relations [...]
