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1995-6 Season
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| Date | Person | Topic |
| Sept. 14 | John Parascandola Historian: Public Health Service |
significant and interesting events in the history of the PHS |
| Sept. 21 | Mark Bekoff biologist: University of Colorado |
animal intelligence and animal emotion |
| Sept. 28 | Lisa Lysett Director, Erwin Mental Health Center Board Moderator CHIPS |
domestic violence |
| Oct. 5 | Alan Kraut Historian, American University |
his book, Silent Travelers [Best Book on Immigration in 1995] |
| Oct. 12 | Tom Beauchamp Senior Research Associate Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Georgetown) |
physician assisted suicide |
| Oct. 19 | Bruce Shine Kingsport attorney, specializing in labor law |
employee ownership of business |
| Oct. 26 | Abe Verghese Physician and author |
My Own Country AIDS in the Tri-Cities |
| Nov. 2 | W. Winkler (Director, WETS) Carrington Ewell (Dir., Wm. King Arts Center) |
federal support of public radio and the arts |
| Nov. 9 | Henry Antkiewicz Historian & Director International Studies Program, ETSU |
Haunted Land, book about Eastern Europe after the fall of communism |
| Nov 15 | Michael Blankenship Chair, Criminal Justice, ETSU |
death penalty |
| Nov. 23 | Rheta Grimsley Johnson editor, Atlanta Constitution |
The South: Race, Religion, and Politics |
| Nov. 30 | Roy Nicks President, ETSU |
citizenship and education |
| Dec. 7 | Weixing Chen Political Science, ETSU |
Birth Control and Abortion in China |
| Dec. 14 | Larry Curtis Chair, Environmental Health, ETSU |
persistent pollutants |
| Dec. 21 | John Stone Human, Development, & Learning, ETSU |
grade inflation and quality education |
| Dec. 28 | Andy Battista Political Science. ETSU |
federal budget deficits the balanced budget amendment |
| Jan 4 | David Wise widely recognized authority on espionage |
Nightmover book about spy Aldrich Ames |
| Jan 11 | Wayne Speer Director, Office for Students with Disabilities ETSU |
Americans with Disabilities |
| Jan. 18 | Sharyn McCrumb Appalachian Writer |
her best seller, She Walks These Hills the nature of fiction |
| Jan. 25 | Randall Dale Adams wrongly convicted of murder |
Life on Death Row |
| Feb. 1 | John Egerton Tennessee author |
Speak Now Against the Day early years of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Feb. 8 | Don Marquis Philosophy, University of Kansas |
Why Abortion is Immoral |
| Feb. 15 | Barbara Katz Rothman Sociology, City University of New York |
Why Abortion is not Immoral |
| Feb. 22 | Michael Levin Philosophy, CUNY |
Why Homosexuality is Abnormal |
| Feb. 29 | Burton Leiser Philosophy, Pace University |
Why Homosexuality Is not Immoral |
| March 7 | Don Johnson / Bert Bach Dean, Arts and Sciences / VPAA |
The Value of General Education |
| March 14 | John Seigenthaler Dir. Freedom Forum 1st Amendment Center Vanderbilt University |
First Amendment |
| March 21 | David Crocker School of Public Affairs, U. of Maryland |
World Hunger and Development |
| March 28 | Michael Woodruff Associate VP for Research, ETSU |
Private Science of Louis Pasteur 100th ann. Pasteur's death |
| April 4 | Robert Wetzel Pres., Emmanuel School of Religion |
In Support of the Anti-Evolution Bill |
| April 11 | Hedy Weinberg Executive Director, ACLU of Tennessee |
In Opposition to the Anti-Evolution Bill |
| April 18 | Duane Gish Director, Institute of Creation Research |
Why Creationism is True |
| April 25 | Niall Shanks Philosophy, ETSU |
Why Evolution is True |
| May 2 | George Poole Math, ETSU |
A Christian's Perspective on Humanism |
| May 9 | Steven Fesmire Philosophy, ETSU |
Why I Am a Secular Humanist |
| May 16 | Stephen Fritz History, ETSU |
Frontsoldaten, his book on German soldiers in WWII |
| May 23 | Tony Cavender Sociology, ETSU |
folk medicine |
| May 30 | Colin Baxter History, ETSU |
his historigraphical bibliography, The War in North Africa |
| Date | Person | Topic |
| Sept 5 | Dan Stein President, FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) |
Why We Should Severely Limit Immigration |
| Sept 12 | Alan Kraut History, American University |
A Historian's Perspective on Immigration |
| Sept 19 | Ken Oster, Spanish Teacher Dobyns-Bennett High School |
Bi-lingual education |
| Sept 26 | Barbara Bowman President, Erickson Institute |
The Importance of Cultural Diversity |
| Oct 3 | Lenahan O'Connell, Political Science University of Tennessee |
Why Race is a Problem |
| Oct 10 | David Upton, Minister Inner City Church, Knoxville (church destroyed by arson) |
Race and Religion |
| Oct 17 | Charles Mills Philosophy, U. of Illinois, Chicago |
The Continuing Importance of Race |
| Oct 24 | T. Alexander Smith, Political Science University of Tennessee |
Against Affirmative Action |
| Oct 31 | Walter Feinberg Education, University of Chicago |
In Support of Affirmative Action |
| Nov. 7 | Frank Wu Law, Howard University |
Neither Black nor White: Asian Americans and Race Relations |
| Nov 14 | John Hendrickson Staff Attorney Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Sexual Harrassment |
| Nov 21 | Judith Kegan Gardiner English, University of Illinois, Chicago |
Feminist View of Masculinity |
| Nov 28 | Peggy Cantrell Graduate Dean, ETSU |
Changing Expectations of Women in Two Job Families |
| Dec 5 | Ken Mijeski Political Science, ETSU |
The Mexican Shock, by Jorge Castenada |
| Dec 12 | Jean and Ed Stead Management, ETSU |
Business and the Environment |
| Dec 19 | David Marx Psychology, ETSU |
the legal status of psychology & psychiatry |
| Dec 26 | Jim and Hilde Nelson Medical Ethics, UT Knoxville |
their book, The Patient in the Family |
| Jan 5 | Peter Watson attorney for parents of school children killed in Dunblane (Scotland) |
gun control |
| Jan 12 | Daphne Hampson Divinity, U. of St. Andrews (UK) |
Why Christianity is Incompatible with Human Equality |
| Jan 19 | John Haldane Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews (UK) |
Why I Am a Theist |
| Jan 26 | Matthew Kieran Center for Business & Professional Ethics, U. Leeds |
Impartiality and News |
| Feb 2 | Bryan Appleyard columnist, Times & Independent (UK) |
Sex and Violence |
| Feb. 9 | Gordon Graham, Regius Professor, U. of Aberdeen (UK) |
Sex & Violence |
| Feb. 16 | David Archard Moral Philosophy, U. St. Andrews (UK) |
Privacy and the media |
| Feb. 23 | Stephen Whittle Director, Broadcasting Standards Council (UK) |
regulating the media |
| Mar 2 | Martin Bell BBC War Correspondent covering the war in Bosnia |
the proper role of the journalist |
| Mar 9 | Paul Watson co-founder of Greenpeace; Captain "The Sea Shepherd" |
Policing the Oceans |
| Mar 16 | Dougie McLean Scottish folk singer |
why the land is important to who we are |
| Mar 23 | Richard Wilkinson epidemiologist, U. of Sussex (UK) |
health costs of inequality his book, Unhealthy Societies |
| Mar 29 | Will Hutton editor, The Observer (UK) |
controlling capitalism |
| Apr 6 | Neil MacCormick Regius Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh |
In Support of Scottish Nationalism |
| Apr 13 | Andrew Brennan Philosophy, U. of Western Australia |
deep ecology |
| Apr 20 | Maureen Cooper Chemist, University of Stirling (UK) |
women in science |
| April 27 | William Newton-Smith Balliol College, Oxford University |
Higher Education in the Soviet Union |
| May 4 | Richard Dawkins Charles Simonyi Professor for the Pubic Understanding of Science, Oxford |
the public's (mis-)understanding of evolution |
| May 11 | Matt Ridley Science Writer |
Origins of Virtue |
| May 18 | Thomas Walker Dir. Latin American Studies, Ohio. GUEST HOST: Ken Mijeski |
Revolution in Central American |
| Date | Name | Topic |
| Aug 31 | Michael Hopkinson History, University of Stirling |
Understanding the History of Northern Ireland |
| Sept 7 | Joe Hendron former Member of Parliament, Belfast |
the political dimensions of the conflict in Northern Ireland |
| Sept 14 | Anne Lennon religiously mixed couple in Belfast |
the personal costs of the conflict |
| Sept 21 | Alan Bairner Politics, University of Belfast |
Sport in Northern Ireland: Trying to Heal the Divisions |
| Sept 28 | Paul Arthur Politicsl, University of Belfast |
the demise of the peace process |
| Oct 5 | Mari Fitzduff Director, Community Relations Council, Belfast |
working to heal the wounds |
| Oct. 12 | Hugh LaFollette | annual fund raiser |
| Oct. 19 | Michael Walzer Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton |
Politics and Dirty Hands |
| Oct 26 | Sissela Bok Population Studies & Development Harvard |
Honesty in Public Life |
| Nov. 2 | David Archard Philosophy, University of St. Andrews |
Private Lives / Public Officials |
| Nov. 9 | Tom Myerchin National Director of Training, IRS |
For whom does the bureaucrat work? |
| Nov 16 | Bob Patton State Representative |
Whom Does the Legislator Represent? |
| Nov 23 | Frank Wu Law, Howard University |
Campaign Finance Reform |
| Nov. 30 | Peter Lynch Politics, University of Stirling |
The Political & Economic Impact of the European Union |
| Dec. 7 | Stephen Ingle Politics, University of Stirling |
Parliamentary Government |
| Dec. 14 | Arend Lijphart Political Science, U. California, San Diego |
Two forms of democracy |
| Dec. 21 | Douglas Amy Political Science, Mt. Holyoke |
Proportional representation |
| Dec 28 | Andrew Battista Political Science, ETSU |
The Role of Labor in American Politics |
| Jan 4 | John Shelton Reed Sociology, UNC |
The South |
| Jan 11 | Gustavo Perez Firmat Romance Languages, Duke University |
Biculturalism: The Cuban-American Experience |
| Jan 18 | David Popenoe Sociology, Rutgers |
The Importance of Fathers |
| Jan 25 | Joel Anderson Philosophy, Washington University |
Understanding the role of fathers |
| Feb 1 | James Rachels Philosophy, U. Alabama at Birmingham |
Punishment and Desert |
| Feb 8 | Jeffrie Murphy Law, Arizona State University |
Repentance and Punishment |
| Feb 15 | Michael Blankenship Crimial Justice, ETSU |
Why We Should Abandon Retribution |
| Feb 22 | John Wright Criminal Justice, ETSU |
early prevention |
| Mar 1 | Jim Bowman Defense Attorney, Johnson City |
Plea Bargaining |
| Mar 8 | Lynn Pasquerella Philosophy, University of Rhode Island |
Making Hard Time Even Harder |
| Mar 15 | Howard Carleton Warden, Northeast Correction Institution |
Problems of Incarceration |
| Mar 22 | Bob Henshw Chief Probation Officer |
Life after prison |
| Mar 29 | Robert Audi Philosophy, University of Nebraska |
For the Separation of Church & State |
| Apr 5 | William Jenkins 1st District Congressman |
Freedom within a Democracy |
| Apr 12 | John Hardwig Philosophy, ETSU |
The Duty to Die |
| Apr 19 | Nat Hentoff syndicated columnist |
The Duty to Die |
| Apr 26 | John Arthur Director of Pre-Law, SUNY Binghamton |
Hate Speech |
| May 3 | Felton Best Afro-American Studies Central Connecticut State College |
The Role of the Black Church |
| May 10 | Elwood Watson History, ETSU |
Contemporary Black Conservatism |
| Date Aired | Person | Topic |
| Sept 6 | Bob Chase President, National Education Association |
Public Education and the New Unionism |
| Sept 13 | Jeanne Allen President, Center for Education Reform |
Education Reform |
| Sept 20 | Gerald Bracey Author: Setting the Record Straight |
Misconceptions about Public Education |
| Sept 27 | Nina Shokraii Analyst, Heritage Foundation |
Why We Need Vouchers: Giving Parents Choice |
| Oct 4 | Adele Robinson lobbyist, National Education Association |
How Vouchers Undermine Public Education |
| Oct 11 | David Imig CEO, American Association Of Colleges for Teacher Education |
The need for teacher education |
| Oct 18 | John Goodlad President, Institute for Educational Inquiry |
Reforming teacher education |
| Oct 25 | Dorothy Rich Director, Home and School Institute |
Cooperation between parents & schools |
| Nov 1 | James McIntyre American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |
Corporal Punishment in the Schools |
| Nov 8 | Barry Lynn Executive Director Americans United for Separation of Church & State |
What Role, if any, should religion play in the public schools |
| Nov 15 | Randy Tate, Executive Director, Christian Coalition |
What Role, if any, should religion play in the public schools |
| Nov 22 | Michael Pritchard Dir. Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University |
Moral Education |
| Nov 29 | Shirley Strum Kinney Pres. SUNY, Stony Brook / Chair Boyer Commission |
Educating Undergraduates in Research Universities |
| Dec 6 | Jean Bethke Elshtain Chairwoman, Institute for American Values Professor Divinity, University of Chicago |
The Role of the University in Civic Education |
| Date | Name | Topic |
| Dec 13 | Albert Pierce Department of Military Strategy National Defense University |
Just War Theory |
| Dec 20 | Chuck Fager author, editor, and activist |
Why Pacifism is Reasonable |
| Dec 27 | Nancy Sherman Distinguished Professor of Ethics Naval Academy |
The Virtues of the Warrior |
| Jan 3 | David Andre Decorated Vietnam Vet Former chair, Military Strategy National War College |
Nature and Conduct of War |
| Jan 10 | Stephen Schwartz guest scholar Brookings Institution |
Costs of Nuclear Weapons |
| Jan 17 |
Barry Smith Research Scientist National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, SUNY, Buffalo |
War and Territoriality |
| Jan 24 | Richard Haass Director, Foreign Policy Studies Brookings Institution |
Non-conventional Uses of a Conventional Military |
| Jan 31 | William Hawk Academic Dean Eastern Mennonite College |
Images of the Enemy in War |
| Feb 7 | John Paul Lederach Director Center for Conflict Transformation Eastern Mennonite College |
Non-violent Alternatives to War |
| Date | Guest | Topic |
| Feb 14 | Keith Green Philosophy, ETSU |
Understanding Religious Texts |
| Feb 21 | Michael Lerner editor, Tikkun |
Judaism |
| Feb 28 | Jamal Elias Religious Studies, Amherst College |
Islam |
| Mar 7 | Gail Stenstad Philosophy, ETSU |
Buddhism |
| Mar 14 | Jeffrey Gold ETSU |
Mysticism |
| Mar 21 | James Randi Magician and critic of pseudoscience |
Atheism |
| Mar 28 | Walter Bruggemann Columbia Theological Seminary |
Prophecy |
| April 4 | James Crocker Speech, University of Cincinnati |
Spiritual Communication |
| April 11 | Phillip Quinn Philosophy, University of Notre Dame |
God is the author of morality |
| April 18 | John Arthur Director, Philosophy, Politics & Law Binghamton University |
God is not necessary for morality |
| April 25 | Randy Tate Executive Director, Christian Coalition |
The Coalition's view of the Political Order |
| May 2 | Carter Heyward Professor of Theology Episcopal Divinity School |
Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right |
| May 9 | Steve Wiser New Meadow Run Burderhof Community |
Radical Discipleship |
| May 16 | Dale Martin Professor of Religion, Duke |
Gays/Lesbians and the Bible |
| May 23 |
Michael
E. Nielsen Georgia Southern University |
Psychology of Religion |
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