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Raging Anteater Radio deals with the theme of struggle this week. In this week's first interview Isaac Artenstein is interviewed about his 1988 film Break of Dawn, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The motion picture's protagonist Pedro J. Gonzalez struggled through being persecuted as a Mexican American leader during the 1930s. The film will be presented along with a followup question and answer session with Artenstein this Thursday at UC Irvine by the UCI Film and Video Center. This week's second interview is with Christopher Nowinski, the President of the Sports Legacy Institute, the author of Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis and a former World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler. Nowinski discusses the struggle of raising awareness about concussions in contact sports. Also featured this week is a news flash about the Zionist Organization of America recently filing a complaint against the Muslim Student Union.
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Raging Anteater Radio features two interviews this week covering a local event and an academic issue, respectively. The first interview is rescheduled from last week and is with Michael Rodriguez, the Vice Chair of Research and an Associate Professor of UCLA's Department of Family Medicine, who is an expert in examining cases of domestic abuse.He will be discussing the first homicide to take place at UC Irvine in which Brian Hughes Benedict allegedly murdered his wife Rebecca Edwina Clarke.The second interview is with Walter Scacchi, who is co-leading the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds at UCI. Scacchi discusses exactly what work is being done at the center and also how the center brings faculty and students together.
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Raging Anteater Radio continues its coverage of the first homicide in UC Irvine history in which Brian Hughes Benedict allegedly murdered his wife Rebecca Edwina Clarke. This week's coverage features an interview with Michael Rodriguez, the Vice Chair of Research and an Associate Professor of UCLA's Department of Family Medicine, who is an expert in examining cases of domestic abuse. The show continues with a second interview once again discussing a reoccurring topic on the show, UC budget cuts. In this interview, Professor Emerita Judy Rosener of the Paul Merage School of Business gives insight into the history of how students came to pay tuition into the UC System.
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Raging Anteater Radio has a double dose of interviews this week. First, student life is explored by addressing violence on campus through the case of Brian Hughes Benedict, who allegedly murdered his ex-wife Rebecca Edwina Clarke on the UC Irvine campus. Associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, Jodi Quas analyzes the issue through sharing her expertise in studying conflicts surrounding custody battles. The second half of the show centers on an interview with Antonio Thomas, formerly of the World Wresting Entertainment tag team, the Heart Throbs. In this interview Thomas discusses his recent decision to donate his brain to the Sports Legacy Institute to be studied for the purpose of better understanding the consequences of concussions.
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Raging Anteater discusses two big issues that recently hit Irvine before delving into local and national topics. Opening the show is information concerning the first fatal shooting to happen on the UC Irvine Campus. Up next is an update (or lack thereof) on the identified burned body found in an Irvine parking lot on September 5, which has largely disappeared from news headlines since one last Orange County Register update on September 10. Lots of other topics are addressed on this week's show including local hunger, food trays and tattoos.
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This week Raging Anteater Radio discusses how to get access to public records and exactly what is available for public viewing in an interview with Corinna Zarek, the Freedom of Information Director for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a non-profit organization based out of Arlington, Virginia that seeks to promote and protect the First Amendment right of journalists in the United States. Zarek also holds the position of adjunct professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism and American University's School of Communication.
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Raging Anteater Radio addresses a variety of issues this week some of them relevant to student life and some just for fun. Issues brought up on this week's show range from an academic concern to giving the finger to health care to the parent company of the Orange County Register seeking bankruptcy protection and much more.
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Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:34 AM
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Raging Anteater Radio hits the holiday movie season four months early with a box office prediction game. Other topics discussed include toddlers on train tracks, tweeting into Irvine, a study important for fat and demented people and Wikipedia's new editing policy. There are also updates to the stories from last week involving President Mark Yudof and a car fire as well as the last auto plant in California.
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Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:05 AM
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Raging Anteater Radio dives into some straight news stories this week by analyzing subjects straight off the presses. Topics discussed include the recent green blaze in southern California, Nazi art in California, a consumer problem involving chicken, the plight of a Japanese American newspaper, dates during Ramadan, the last auto plant in California, recent statewide standardized testing, California leading in layoffs and plenty more.
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Raging Anteater Radio tackles two issues important to student life in separate interviews. First Sameer Ahmad, a member of the National Litigation Project at Yale Law school discusses the importance of protecting the human rights and civil liberties of people detained under federal government policies following 9/11. The interview covers in detail "Operation Frontline," a government program started in 2004, which disproportionately targeted people of east Asian descent. Next, the show turns its attention toward academic quality by interviewing Vicky Phillips, the Chief Online Education Analyst of GetEducated.com. This interview goes over the problem of diploma mills and how the Internet is being used by unaccredited institutions.
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Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:19 AM
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