2004 FORUM SHOWS

Friday December 31, 2004 2004 in Review, A panel of area journalists joins Darrel to discuss the most significant and important stories of the past year.

Friday December 24, 2004 No show this week, tune in for special holiday programming, The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper: Holiday Special 2004

Friday December 17, 2004 Volunteerism Today Guests: Melissa Parsons Healy, Assistant Director for the Office of Service-Learning and Civic Leadership at Miami University; Derric M. Watson Director of Service Learning at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana; Mike Ball, a retired medical technologist, who has been an active volunteer since 1995.

Friday December 10, 2004 NPRs Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, heard every Friday afternoon from 2:00 til 4:00 on WMUB

Friday December 3, 2004 Violence in Sports Guest: Professor Lynn Jamieson, chair of the Indiana University, Department of Recreation and Park Administration in Bloomington, Indiana

Friday November 26, 2004 College Students & Binge Drinking (an encore presentation from September 10, 2004) Guests: Karen Murray, Miami University Health Education; Chris and Torin Volkmann, authors of Our Drink: Detoxing the Perfect Family

Friday November 19, 2004 Holiday Shopping and It's Significance to the Overall Economy.

Friday November 12, 2004 This Year's Florida Hurricanes Guests: Mickey Johnson, Managing Editor of the Pensacola News Journal; Charlene Meyer, resident of Pensacola Beach.

Friday November 5, 2004 Post-Election Review Guests: Dr. Pat Haney, Professor and Assistant Chair for the Department of Political Science -- Miami University; Dr. Bob Adams, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Education Program - Wright State University

Friday October 29, 2004 The Interrelationship Between the U.S. Election and World Events Guests: Jeffrey Kimball, PhD, professor of History at Miami University; Loren Jenkins, Senior Foreign Editor with National Public Radio; and Professor Stuart Loory, Phd, from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Friday October 22, 2004 Election Special: Presidential Politics, Guests: Matt Nolan, 4th year student and former President of College Republicans at Miami University and Dan Gattermeyer, Chair of the Butler County Democratic Party

Friday October 15, 2004 High School Athletics, Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and A Dream; Dr. Bob Weinberg, professor and former Chair of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Sports Studies at Miami University; Duane Warns, Assistant Commissioner for the Ohio High School Athletic Association

Friday October 8, 2004 Sculpture & Public Art, Guest, Bob Wicks, Ph.D., Director of Miami University Art Museum; Ann Taulbee, Director of the Hiestand Galleries at Miami University; and Harry T. Wilks, creator and benefactor of the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, Ohio.

Friday October 1, 2004 Ask the General Manager Guest: WMUB General Manager Cleve Callison

Friday September 24, 2004 How Statistics Can Confuse Public Issues Guest: Professor Joel Best, author and Sociology Professor at the University of Delaware

Friday September 17, 2004 The Fall TV Season Guest: Rick Bird, Radio/TV writer with The Cincinnati Post

Friday September 10, 2004 College Students & Binge Drinking Guests: Karen Murray, Miami University Health Education; Chris and Torin Volkmann, authors of Our Drink: Detoxing the Perfect Family

Friday September 3, 2004 The Economics of Oil

Friday August 27, 2004 The Labeling of America Guest: Paul Ryder, Organizing Director, Ohio Citizen Action

Friday August 20, 2004 The Allure of the Olympics, Guest: Ray Marcano, deputy managing editor, Dayton Daily News

Friday August 13, 2004 The Fine Art of Small Talk, Guest: Author Debra Fine

Friday August 6, 2004 An Inside Look at Television News Guests: Miami University Mass Communication Professor Dr. Howard Kleiman; Dr. Michael Dimock, Pew Center for People and the Press; and John Lomax, news anchor at WMKRC-TV, Cincinnati

Friday July 30, 2004 (guest host John Hingsbergen) The 9/11 Commission Guests: Laura Neack, Ph.D. Paul Rejai Professor of Political Science, Miami University; and Tom Regan, writer and Associate ditor, the Christian Science Monitor

Friday July 23, 2004 Presidential Politics Guest: Douglas Schoen, political consultant and editor of the book On the Campaign Trail: The Long Road of Presidential Politics

Friday July 16, 2004 The Lying Epidemic, Guest: Jeffrey McDonald, correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor

Friday July 9, 2004 Italian-American Relations

Friday July 2, 2004 Freedom Summer (with guest host Cleve Callison) Guests: Dr. Rick Momeyer, Philosophy Professor at Miami University, Mr. Art Miller, former President of the Oxford NAACP and Dr. Ted Ownby, professor of history at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.

Friday June 25, 2004 Reality TV Guests: Rick Bird, film critic of the Cincinnati Post; Dr. Steven Reiss, Director of the Nisonger Center for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities at Ohio State University

Friday June 18, 2004 The Antioch Writers' Workshop. (Guest host: Cleve Callison) Guests: Sharon Short, author of the Josie Toadfern mystery series and other novels. She also writes a weekly humor column, Sanity Check, for the Dayton Daily News; Judy DaPolito, former director of the writer’s workshop. She writes fiction and children’s stories; and Laura Carlson 2004 Director of the Anticoch Writers’ Workshop

Friday June 11, 2004 The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan

Friday June 4, 2004 (an encore show from March 5, 2004) Mercy Corps: Making Life Better in a Troubled World Guests: Dr. Landrum Bolling ­ President Emeritus of Earlham College and currently Director at Large of Mercy Corps; Su’Ad Jarwabi ­ 2003 Graduate of Earlham College and the recipient of the first Landrum Bolling Fellowship in International Service; and Susan Romanski ­ Emergency Operations Officer Global Emergency Team

Friday May 14, 2004 The Eleventh Commandment (with guest host John Hingsbergen) Guests: The Rev. Sam Stover, pastor of Forest Chapel United Methodist Church, Forest Park, Ohio; and The Rev. Jonathan Kerry, Coordinating Secretary for Worship and Learning at the Methodist Church, from London England.

Friday May 7, 2004 Brown vs. the Board of Education: The End of "Separate But Equal." Guests: Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton, Class of 1966 Little Rock HS; Professor Phyllis Boanes, Director of the Earlham College Interdisciplinary African and African-American Studies Program; and Jessie Gooding, former President of the Dayton NAACP

Friday April 30, 2004 What are Health Savings Accounts and How Do They Work?

Friday April 23, 2004 Violence in Our Schools

Friday April 16, 2004 Remembering D-day, 60 Years Later Guests: Jim Roberts, WWII Veterans Committee; Dr. Michael Carafiello, Professor of History Miami University, Hamilton Campus; and Celia Sandys, grandaughter of Winston Churchill

Friday April 9, 2004 Midwestern English: What's In & What's Out? Guest: Professor Gwen Etter-Lewis, linguist from the Miami University English Department

Friday April 2, 2004 (with guest host John Hingsbergen) Censorship and Free Speech on the Air Guest: David Miller, Vice -President of of Citizens for Community Values; and Gary Daniels, Litigation Coordinator for the Ohio ACLU.

Friday March 26, 2004 Family Rituals

Friday March 19, 2004 Neal Conan The host of Talk of the Nation talks with Darrel Gray about his career at NPR, his capture by Iraqis in the 1991 Gulf War, what it's like to do baseball play-by-play, and more.

Friday March 12, 2004 The Economics of Sports
Guest: Larry Hadley, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Dayton, Ohio

Friday March 5, 2004 Mercy Corps: Making Life Better in a Troubled World
Guests: Dr. Landrum Bolling ­ President Emeritus of Earlham College and currently Director at Large of Mercy Corps; Su’Ad Jarwabi ­ 2003 Graduate of Earlham College and the recipient of the first Landrum Bolling Fellowship in International Service; and Susan Romanski ­ Emergency Operations Officer Global Emergency Team Mercy Corps.

Address:
Mercy Corps
3015 SW First Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97201
Portland office: 503.796.6800
DC Office: 202.463.7383
Website: www.mercycorps.org


Friday February 27, 2004 Don Leshner and all that jazz. Don (Miami '50) recently retired from WMUB after a varied career that included working in media in several markets, including WLW during the heyday of Rod Serling and Earl Hamner, among others.

Friday February 20, 2004 Holocaust Museum
Dr. Racelle Weiman, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education - Hebrew Union College

Friday February 13, 2004 Superstitions, Luck and Folklore

Friday February 6, 2004 German-American Relations Today Guest: Richard Schade, Honorary Consul of Germany and professor at the University of Cincinnati

Friday January 30, 2004 The Evolving National Guard Guests: Tom Regan, Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor; James Sims, Ohio National Guard Adjutant General’s Office; and Sergeant First Class Jim Robbins, Ohio National Guard

Special "live" 7:00 PM broadcast. An open discussion with NPR President Kevin Klose in a special location broadcast from the Marcum Conference Center on the Miami University campus in Oxford.

Friday January 23, 2004 Are You Still Afraid of Terrorists? An updated look at Homeland Security. Guest: Kenneth L. Morckel, Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety

Friday January 16, 2004 Assessing Presidential Politics Guest: Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of Reason Magazine

Friday January 9, 2004 Keeping New Year's Resolutions Guest: Dr. Pauline Wallin, clinical psychologist and author.

Friday January 2, 2004 Exploring Weight Loss in America Guest: Lisa Swanson, Dietician at McCUllough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, Oxford

PROGRAM TOPIC ARCHIVES:

2003 PROGRAMS

July - December 2002
January - June 2002