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Campus
and Community 06-12-05
This
week, we have part two of a conversation with one of America's
foremost poets Philip Levine. Mr.
Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928. After studies
at Wayne State University, and graduate studies in the Writers
Workshop at the University of Iowa, he eventually settled in
Fresno, pursuing a teaching career at Fresno State spanning
four decades. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry,
most recently Breath (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). His other
poetry collections include The Mercy (1999); The
Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; What
Work Is (1991), which won the National Book Award; New
Selected Poems (1991); Ashes: Poems New and Old
(1979), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award
and the first American Book Award for Poetry. For two years he
served as chair of the Literature Panel of the National
Endowment for the Arts, and he was elected a Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets in 2000. Philip Levine lives in New
York City and Fresno, California, and teaches at New York
University.
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Campus
and Community 06-05-05
This
week, we have part one of a conversation with one of America's
foremost poets Philip Levine. Mr.
Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928. After studies
at Wayne State University, and graduate studies in the Writers
Workshop at the University of Iowa, he eventually settled in
Fresno, pursuing a teaching career at Fresno State spanning
four decades. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry,
most recently Breath (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). His other
poetry collections include The Mercy (1999); The
Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; What
Work Is (1991), which won the National Book Award; New
Selected Poems (1991); Ashes: Poems New and Old
(1979), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award
and the first American Book Award for Poetry. For two years he
served as chair of the Literature Panel of the National
Endowment for the Arts, and he was elected a Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets in 2000. Philip Levine lives in New
York City and Fresno, California, and teaches at New York
University.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 05-29-05
Jesse
Morrow Mountain, also known as Wahallich, to the traditional
Choinumni people of eastern Fresno County, sits in a near
pristine setting along Highway 180, near the entrance to
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks. The RMC Pacific
division of Cemex Corporation recently bought the mountain,
and has proposed to build a hard rock aggregate mining operation
on the mountain. This "strip mine" would drastically
alter the landscape of the region, and poses a number of
potential environmental problems, from air and water quality,
native plants and wildlife, and the destruction of sacred
burial and worship sites of the traditional Choinumni people.
In this program we talk with Audrey Osborne, a tribal leader,
to learn more about the cultural significance of Wahallich,
and to Jim Van Haun, of the group Friends of Jesse Morrow
Mountain, who tells us about the project, and what local
residents are doing to voice their opposition to the project.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 05-22-05
Our
guest this week on Campus and Community is Chi Tschang,
principal of the KIPP Academy in Fresno. This new charter
elementary school in inner city Fresno seeks to take
innovative teaching methods to the classroom, and give local
students a rigorous education, preparing them for excellence
in high school and college.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 05-15-05
This
week Campus and Community features an interview with local
poet, novelist and painter Dixie Salazar, who will be reading
at the San Joaquin River Parkway's River Center, as part of
the Respite By the River series, Thursday night May 19th at
7:00pm. We'll talk about her career and hear some of her
poems. We'll also talk later in the program with Candice
Pendegrass of the Fresno Metropolitan Musuem, and learn more
about an upcoming "sound" event featuring artist
Steve Roden.
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in Sunday 05/15/05 at 11:30am for Campus and Community...
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Campus
and Community 05/08/05
Join
us for Campus and Community this week as we talk with Tim
Stearns of the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
at Fresno State, about a new study from the center and
Creative Fresno about the qualities young professionals look
for when they decide where to live, and how Fresno ranks in
those areas. We'll also talk with Ruth Saludes and and Matthew
Schwartz of Fulton Plaza Thursdays, a new weekly street party
event starting May 12th, with food booths, bands, and a
farmer's market, on the Fulton Mall.
Tune
in Sunday 05/08/05 at 11:30am for Campus and Community...
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Campus
and Community 05/01/05
This
week, Campus and Community features an interview with MindHub founder Suzanne
Bertz-Rosa. MindHub is a free email listserv connecting
creative professionals in Fresno. We'll talk about how MindHub started, where it is today, and what the future holds, not only for the 'Hub, but also for growing creative movement in Fresno. The program also features a segment with local poet and educator Connie Hales about the upcoming "Branching Out" poetry program, which will present acclaimed Irish poet Eaven Boland, at Fresno State May 17th, reading and discussing the works of
W.B. Yates. Fresno is one of just five cities nationwide selected by the Poets House and National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in this program.
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Campus
and Community 04-24-05
This
week we speak with Diana Hernandez, Program Manager of Arte
Americas, Fresno's Latino cultural arts organization and
center. We'll learn more about their plans for the 2005
edition of "Nights in the Plaza" a 6 month long
series of concerts held every Friday night from May through
October at Arte Americas in Downtown Fresno. This year, the
program features everyone from local bands, to internationally
renowned artists like Eddie Palmieri and Lila Downs. Listen
to this program online...
Campus
and Community 04-24-05
This
week we speak with Diana Hernandez, Program Manager of Arte
Americas, Fresno's Latino cultural arts organization and
center. We'll learn more about their plans for the 2005
edition of "Nights in the Plaza" a 6 month long
series of concerts held every Friday night from May through
October at Arte Americas in Downtown Fresno. This year, the
program features everyone from local bands, to internationally
renowned artists like Eddie Palmieri and Lila Downs. Listen
to this program online...
Campus
and Community 04-03-05
Our
guests this week on Campus and Community are Karen Bosch Cobb,
Interim Librarian of Fresno County, and Stephen T.
Barile of the Fresno Poetry Center. They will tell us more about
Fresno's participation in the "Branching Out" program,
which is a national program presenting "Poetry for the 21st
Century" in several cities nationwide. We'll learn about an
upcoming event Monday April 4th, and also about plans for a new
central branch library for Fresno County. Listen
to this program online...
Campus
and Community 03-27-05
This
week we talk with Dorothy Renzi, of the Fresno Musical Club, which
is celebrating its centennial this year with a series of events and
performances. We'll learn more about the storied history of this
longtime Fresno group, and what the next century has in store.
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Campus
and Community 03-20-05
This
week on Campus and Community we take a look into the future
with an interview with Richard Cummings, Director of Research & Communications
for the Great Valley Center. Richard worked to develop the
Valley Futures Project, a visioning project that presents
various scenarios for life in the Valley in 2025. The project
brings these scenarios to life through audio and film
dramatizations, one of which we'll hear. The scenarios are
designed to provoke discussion and debate about the future of
our region. We'll also talk about another Valley issue Doug is
working on with the Great Valley Center, the issue of
improving Highway 99, Central California's major
transportation artery.
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Campus
and Community 03-13-05
Our
guest this week on Campus and Community is Chi Tschang,
principal of the KIPP Academy in Fresno. This new charter
elementary school in inner city Fresno seeks to take
innovative teaching methods to the classroom, and give local
students a rigorous education, preparing them for excellence
in high school and college.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 03-06-05
This week, we
look at the issue of land use in the Valley, with an interview
with Dr. Michael Tietz, a senior fellow with the Public Policy
Institute of California. He is the co-author of a new study
that seeks to predict possible scenarios of urban development
for the new 40 years in the San Joaquin Valley. The study
suggests that without proper planning, more and more prime
farmland will be lost to urbanization as the Valley continues
to grow. Later in the program Jim Spaulding of CSU Summer Arts
will stop by to tell us about opportunities for students to
study the arts this summer at Fresno State, and a special
course held in Brisbane Australia.
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Campus
and Community 02-26-05
Join
us this week on Campus and Community as we profile the 4th
annual Rogue Festival, taking place this month in the Tower
District. John Jordan will tell us about the origins of the
festival, which features theatre, dance, music, film,
performance art and more. And we'll also talk with guests from
the Fresno State New Music Ensemble who will be performing at
the festival.
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Campus
and Community 02-20-05
This week we
feature an interview with Neil Gibson and Henry Delcore,
organizers of the Veritas Forum, exploring issues of faith,
truth and knowledge this coming week at Fresno State. We'll
talk about how the idea to bring the Veritas Forum to Fresno
State came about, and learn more about the topics being
debated.
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Campus
and Community 02-06-05
Join us this
week for a talk with Armen Nalbandian, the musical
director/resident artist at the Fresno Art Museum. Armen is a
jazz pianist and composer, and runs the 'Rhythms of Art"
monthly concert series at the museum. In this interview, we'll
find out why the Fresno Art Museum has a musical component,
why the music is jazz, and learn about some upcoming events.
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Campus
and Community 01-30-05
Local
developer, artist and civic leader Reza Assemi joins us this
week as our guest on Campus and Community. Reza is building
one of first new housing developments in Downtown Fresno in
years, the 38 unit Vagabond Loft complex, slated to be
completed in summer 2005. Reza is also a talented artist, and
one of the leaders of a new non-profit group called Creative
Fresno. In the interview we'll learn more about that group,
his work as an artist, and his vision for a thriving
downtown.
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Campus and
Community 01-23-05
This
week, our program looks at the internationally renowned Fresno
poetry scene, with an interview with Stephen T. Barile, of a
brand new local non-profit organization, The Fresno Poetry
Center. We'll talk about the mission of this new organization,
and why Fresno has produced or been home to so many acclaimed
poets.
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Read
Steven T. Barile's article about Fresno Poets...
Campus and
Community 01-16-05
Our
guest this week on Campus and Community is local educator and
author Ia Xiong, who will be speaking at Fresno State Friday
January 21st as part of the Friends of the Madden Library
program. Ia, a graduate of Fresno State and Fresno Pacific,
was the first Hmong-American teacher in the Clovis Unified
School District and is now Vice Principal at Centennial
Elementary in the Fresno Unified School District. In the
interview, we not only discuss her children's book "The
Gift: The Hmong New Year" but we also talk about her
experiences as in immigrant and as an educator.
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Campus and
Community 01-09-05
This
week, KFSR celebrates the new year with an interview with
Charlie Vang, CEO/Executive Director of the Hmong
International New Year event, held every year in Fresno. This
annual event attracts Hmong-Americans from throughout the
country to celebrate the new year, promote cultural unity, and
provide educational, economic and civic information, as well
as entertainment and much more.
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Campus and
Community 12-19-04
Join
KFSR for a special holiday edition of Campus and Community as
we take a look behind the scenes at one of the nation's
longest running Christmas traditions, Fresno's two mile long
Christmas Tree Lane. We'll talk we the volunteer coordinator
of lane, Dean Alexander, and learn more about what goes into
this festive December event. We'll also talk to James Collier
of the Community Food Bank in Fresno, and find out what Valley
residents can do to help those in need this holiday season.
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Campus and
Community 12-12-04
Tune
in to Campus and Community this week for an inside update on
the new $120 million expansion of Saint Agnes Medical Center,
as we talk with Dr. Mike Baldwin, Vice President of Clinical
Services with the hospital. We'll also talk to Dr. George
DeGraffenreid of Fresno State, who has organized a project to
send 20,000 pounds of books to a fellow university in the
impoverished former Soviet Republic of Moldova.
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Campus and
Community 12-05-04
This
week, KFSR’s weekly radio magazine program Campus
and Community looks at the historical legacy of Alexander
the Great, with an interview with Dr. Honora Champan,
professor of Classics from the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literature at
Fresno
State
. Oliver Stone’s recent epic film Alexander
has helped to bring the exploits of the famed ancient
leader back into the public arena, and not without some
controversy. In the interview, hosted by KFSR’s Joe Moore,
Dr. Champan discusses the historical Alexander, his impact on
both the ancient and modern world, and why he remains both a
revered and controversial figure to this day. In another
segment of the program, KFSR's will talk with Jill Beuttner, a
Fresno State student and member of the Fresno Ballet, which
will be presenting The Nutcracker, on December 11th and 12th
at the Saroyan Theatre.
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Campus and
Community 11-28-04
This
Campus and Community talks with Jefferson Beavers and Bruce
Kinkaid, leaders of a new group called the San Joaquin
Literary Association. This group of Fresno State MFA and
creative writing students is dedicated to bringing world class
authors and poets to the Valley for readings and lectures.
We'll learn more about their first event, coming up on
December 3rd, with National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen.
Later in the program, we'll also talk to Amy Lukianov of
Jumpstart Fresno, another campus group dedicated to training
college students to work with preschool children from low
income backgrounds.
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Campus
and Community 10-31-04 This
week Campus and Community is joined by Susanneh Bieber,
Curator of Art for the Fresno Metropolitan Museum, and Candice
Pendgrass, Manager of Marketing and Communications for the
museum. We'll talk about the exciting new exhibit
"Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime" and
"Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmartre," both now
on display at the Museum. The Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit
features some of her most famous works, and it makes its only
west cost stop in Fresno. Among our items of discussion will
be the importance of bringing world class art to the Valley.
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Campus
and Community 10-24-04 This
week Campus and Community looks at the choral music scene in
Fresno with our guest Dr. Anna Hamre, director of choral
activities at Fresno State. We'll discuss four upcoming events
in the next few weeks that show off the diversity and
excellence of choral performers in Fresno. We'll talk in depth
about an upcoming performance of Mozart's unfinished Mass in C
minor, which has recently been reconstructed by British
composer and musicologist Philip Wilby. The Fresno performance
this November will mark the US debut of this
piece!
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Campus
and Community 10-17-04 This
week we focus on one of the most pressing concerns facing
Central California, the lack of high paying jobs, and chronic
double digit unemployment. Our guest, Ashley Swearengin, is
the chief operating officer of the Fresno Area Regional Jobs Initiative,
a collaborative effort between Fresno State, local government
and other , 5-year plan to create 25,000–30,000 jobs with an
average salary of nearly $30,000. We'll learn more about this
exciting development, and learn what it means for the future
of this region. In our second segment, we'll speak with Dr.
Gary P. Gilroy of the Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band, and
learn about their upcoming charity golf tournament, taking
place in Madera on October 24th.
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Campus
and Community 10-10-04 This
week our guest is noted Valley author and farmer David Mas
Masumoto. His new book, Letters from the Valley: A Harvest
of Memories is a collection of essays capturing the life
and spirit of a farming valley, her people and places, written
from the point of view of a native son and a father. We'll
talk about his career as both a writer and a farmer, and his
upcoming appearance at the San Joaquin River Parkway's Respite
by the River event. Listen to this
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Campus
and Community 10-03-04 - rebroadcast
Our
guest this week on Campus and Community is Arthur Dyson, an
internationally renowned architect who lives and works in
Fresno. We'll talk about his career, his memories of working
with Frank Lloyd Wright, and find out his thoughts on
buildings here in Fresno.
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to a special extended version of this program online...
Campus
and Community 09-26-04 Campus
and Community profiles two upcoming Fresno cultural festivals,
the Tamejavi Festival, taking place October 1-3rd, a cross
cultural celebration of cultures, held in the Tower District
and surrounding locations. We'll also look at Lunafest,
an evening of student films by, for and about women, taking
place at California State University, Fresno State on October
29th, with proceeds to benefit The Breast Cancer Fund and the
Fresno State Women’s Resource Center. Listen to this
program online...
Campus
and Community 09-19-04 This
week our guest is Dr. Walt Buster, interim superindentent of
the Fresno Unified School District. We'll talk about the
future of one of California's largest school districts, about
test scores, budgets, school music programs, and more. We'll
also talk about Dr. Buster's role as director of the Central
Valley Educational Leadership Institute at Fresno State. Listen to this
program online...
Campus
and Community 09-12-04 This
week, Campus and Community invites Dr. Michael Gorman, Dean of
Library Services at Fresno State's Henry Madden Library to our
studios to talk about the upcoming $90+ million dollar
renovation and expansion of the library. We'll also talk about
the important educational role the Madden Library plays for
the general population of the Valley.
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Campus
and Community 09-05-04
Acclaimed
author and poet Gary Soto joins us for this week's edition of
Campus and Community. A graduate of Fresno State, Gary is an
internationally renowned author and Fresno native, and many of
his poems, short stories, novels taken place in the
Valley. We'll talk about his early years in the Valley, and
his time at Fresno State, his body of work, and much
more. Listen to this
program online...
Campus
and Community 08-29-04
KFSR honors the 40th
anniversary of Fresno's Fulton Mall this week with a
conversation with retired city and regional planner, and
former Fresno State professor Hal Tokmakian. This urban,
pedestrian mall was conceived in the 1960's as the centerpiece
to downtown revitalization, and though it has gone through its
ups and downs ever since, it now stands as an internationally
recognized example of modern landscape architecture. Designed
by renowned landscape architect Garrett Ekbo, it was one of
the first projects of its kind in the world, and is unique
today in its artistic significance.
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Campus
and Community 08-22-04
Our
program this week looks at the history and future of Eaton
Plaza, a one square block area in downtown Fresno that has
been slated to become the home of a major public park since
the 1940's. Veteran city planner and former Fresno State
professor Hal Tokmakian will guide us through the history of
Eaton Plaza, and tell us about the exciting developments that
may in fact make Eaton Plaza a reality in the near future,
some fifty years after it was first conceived.
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program online...
Campus
and Community 08-15-04
Fresno State Classics professor Dr. Honora Chapman will be featured on this week's edition of KFSR's radio magazine program "Campus and Community." In the interview, which is available now online via Real Audio, Dr. Chapman discusses the evolution of the games from the first Olympiad in 776 B.C. to the modern games of today. She also talks about how many of the issues facing the modern games, such as cheating scandals, the influence of
sponsorship money, and political conflicts were present in the ancient Greek games as well.
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Campus
and Community 08-08-04
This
week our guest on Campus and Community is Jean Janzen, an
acclaimed San Joaquin Valley poet, Fresno State grad, and a
recently retired professor from Fresno Pacific University. Her
works include the newly published collection of poems, Piano
in the Vineyard and Tasting the Dust, both of which
reflect on California landscapes. We'll find out more about
Jean's life and her work in our interview, as well as hear a
few selections from her poetry collecitons.
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Campus
and Community 08-01-04
Join
us this week on Campus and Community for an interview with
Nancy Marquez from Arte Americas, and Alan Kunze from the
Fresno Folklore Society. We'll find out more about some
upcoming events taking place this August produced by both of
these important Valley non profit arts organizations.
Campus
and Community 07-25-04
Our
guest this week on Campus and Community is Arthur Dyson, an
internationally renowned architect who lives and works in
Fresno. We'll talk about his career, his memories of working
with Frank Lloyd Wright, and find out his thoughts on
buildings here in Fresno.
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to a special extended version of this program online...
Campus
and Community 07-18-04
This
week we listen to a reading by Valley author Gerald Halsam,
recorded at the San Joaquin River Parkway's Respite by the
River series earlier this month. We'll also feature an
interview with Lucy Merritt, Gallery Director of Arts Visalia,
a non-profit arts center.
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Campus
and Community 07-11-04
This
week we are joined by Juan Felipe Herrera, a nationally recognized author who is the chair of the Chicano Latino Studies Department at Fresno
State. Mr. Herrera has just released a new Spanish-bilingual children’s book,
titled “Coralito’s Bay”. The book tells the story of a
young boy and his undersea adventures in the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary. We'll talk about Mr. Herrera's career as a poet and
author, and about the emerging field of bilingual children's
literature.
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Campus
and Community 07-04-04
This
week our guest on Campus and Community is Gerald Haslam, a
renowned author and Valley native, who will be speaking at the
Respite By the River at the San Joaquin River Parkway River
Center on Thursday July 8th at 7:00pm. Gerald's works range
from fiction to short stories, biography to history, and his
works often draw upon the influence on the Great Central
Valley. We'll find out about Gerald's life, as well as his
views about the place that we call home.
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Campus
and Community 06-27-04
This
week, Campus and Community features an interview with Mark
Keppler of the Director
of the Kenneth L. Maddy Institute of Public Policy at Fresno
State. We'll find out about what's in store for this Valley
think tank. We'll also learn about a new exhibit at Fresno's
Metropolitan Museum titled "Variations on A Theme"
which features works by some of the most important American
artists of the 60's and 70's.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 06-20-04
Our
guest this week is Gerald Neufeld, Executive Director of The
Discover Center, a local museum of science and natural
history, and a Fresno institution for nearly 50 years. We'll
talk to Gerald and Education Director Roni Weil about the
organization's future after a fire several years ago, and
about their current programs, including their summer camps for
kids.
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Campus
and Community 06-13-04
This
week our guest is local historian and author Cathy Rehart,
author of the Valley's Legends and Legacies. We'll talk about
Cathy's research, about the importance of study the history of
the Valley, and what it can tell us about the city and county
we live in today. We'll also hear an except from one of
Cathy's books from a reading recorded at the Coke Hallowell
Center for River Studies as part of the San Joaquin River
Parkway and Conservation Trust's new monthly "Respite By
the River" series. The series continues this month with a
reading by Mark Arax on Thursday night June 17th at the River
Center. KFSR is a proud media sponsor of the "Respite By
the River" series.
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Campus
and Community 05-30-04
This
week, Campus and Community goes on location to visit the major
$6 million renovation of Fresno's historic, 105 year old Santa
Fe Railroad Depot. Our guest will be Rob Wood of the City of
Fresno's Public Works Department. The city is restoring this
historic structure to serve as Fresno's new Amtrak
depot.
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in Sunday morning May 30th at 11:30am...
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Campus
and Community 05-23-04
This
week our guest is Wendy Costa, public relations director for
the CSU Summer Arts Program, which makes its home at Fresno
State every summer, this year taking place from June 27th thru
July 23rd. We'll talk about the program itself, how students
can enroll, upcoming public performances, and the courses and
guest artists themselves.
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Campus
and Community 05-16-04
This
week our guest is Barney Barnd, one of the organizers of the
annual Greater Valley Concours d'Elegance, a prestigious
vintage and classic automobile show that is held each year at
Fresno State, taking place this Sunday May 16th from 9am till
4pm at Shaw and Maple Avenues. The event has raised over
$700,000 for local charities over the years and continues to
be a favorite of Valley automobile enthusiasts young and old.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 05-09-04
This
week, Halfrid Nelson of the Children's Services Network of
Central California tells Campus and Community about the
important work that this local non-profit organization does in
helping find quality child care for area families. We'll also
be joined by Leslie Batty and Laura Goldstone, two Fresno
State students whose works will be featured in an upcoming
exhibit titled "Resurgence" at the Fresno
Metropolitan Museum.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 05-02-04
Joining us this
week on Campus and Community is Joyce Aiken, a member of the
board of the Fresno Arts Council, the group that sponsors
ArtHop the first Thursday of every month. We'll find out more
about this popular local event that showcases the local arts
scene, and much more.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 04-25-04
The
Executive Director of the Downtown Association of Fresno joins
us this week to discuss the recent projects (and some future
ones) that are helping to literally change the skyline of
Fresno. We'll talk about what this infusion of over $1 billion
in new construction means to the heart of our city. We'll also
hear about some upcoming events in Downtown, including Cinco
de Mayo, Sudz in the City and the Father's Day run.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 04-18-04
This
week we are joined by Jeremy Hofer, one of the organizers of
the Fresno Earth Day celebration, taking place in Roeding Park
on Sunday April 25th. We'll talk about the educational and
entertainment events taking place at this year's 4th annual
celebration. We'll also be joined by Jill Beutener and Sean
Tommerlin of the Fresno Ballet, performing Stravinsky's Firebird
on Sunday afternoon at the Memorial Auditorium in Downtown
Fresno.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 04-11-04
This
week our guests include Candice Pendegrass of the Fresno
Metropolitan Museum, to talk about some exciting upcoming
events and exhibits. We'll also be joined by Don Ramirez,
organizer of the Autism Awareness Expo taking place in
Woodward Park.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 04-04-04
Award
winning author and endowed professor of English at Fresno
State, Steve Yarbrough, joins us on Campus and
Community to talk about his new book, Prisoners of War, released
in January by Alfred Knopf, and already receiving critical
acclaim nationwide. The book is set in a World War II era
Mississippi town that was home to a POW camp for captured Nazi
soldiers, and tells the story of the people on the home front,
exploring
questions of morality, social equality, war and society. In
the interview we'll learn more about the book, Steve's career,
and we'll also hear an excerpt from Prisoners of War.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 03-28-04
Carlos
Martinez, the new executive director of the Fresno Art Museum,
joins us this week for Campus and Community. We'll talk about
the future of the museum, its current strengths and weakness
and Mr. Martinez's vision for this vital Fresno
institution.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 03-21-04
Mike
Dana, director of the jazz studies program at Fresno City
College joins us this week on Campus and Community to discuss
City Jazz 2004, a festival taking place Thursday and Friday
March 25th and 26th. We'll talk about the 14 year long history
of City Jazz, this year's guest artists Mike Maineri and
Madeline Eastman, as well as the Fresno jazz scene in
general.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 03-14-04
Join
us this week for a look at one of Fresno's biggest seasonal
tourist draws - the Blossom Trail. We'll be joined by Linda
Terry, the Chair of the Blossom Trail Committee. This informal
60 mile long trail winds through the orchards of Eastern
Fresno County, and focuses on the colorful blossoms found on
thousands of almond, peach and apricot trees along the
roadways. We'll talk about the history of the trail, the
impact it has on the Valley, and future plans to make the
trail a year round attraction, focusing on the summer harvest
of fresh fruit, and the colorful autumn leaves of fall.
Campus
and Community 03-07-04
This
week, Campus and Community features an interview with Lisa
Repasky, from the Rogue Festival, an annual two week long
celebration of the arts in the Valley that is currently
underway. The festival features everything from Shakespeare to
rock bands, performance art to improv comedy, and is a major
showcase for local talent. We'll learn about the history of
the Rouge Festival (now in its third season) and find out
about some of the groups performing.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 02-29-04
This
week our guest on Campus and Community is Michelle Jurkovich,
Vice President of Finance for Associated Students, the student
government organization for Fresno State. We'll learn about
the impact of the current state budget crisis on students, and
also find out about other funding issues related to the AS
budget process, including the controversy surrounding
continued funding for Fresno State's student newspaper, The
Collegian.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 02-22-04
Award
winning author and endowed professor of English at Fresno
State, Steve Yarbrough, joins us on Campus and
Community to talk about his new book, Prisoners of War, released
in January by Alfred Knopf, and already receiving critical
acclaim nationwide. The book is set in a World War II era
Mississippi town that was home to a POW camp for captured Nazi
soldiers, and tells the story of the people on the home front,
exploring
questions of morality, social equality, war and society. In
the interview we'll learn more about the book, Steve's career,
and we'll also hear an excerpt from Prisoners of War.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 02-15-04
Recently,
space exploration has been a regular feature in the news. In
order to learn more about these issues, and to learn what
scientists in the Valley are doing, we'll be joined by Dr.
Fredrick Ringwald of Fresno State, who has done work recently
with the Hubble Space Telescope. We'll learn more about the
Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the President's newly
announced manned space exploration plan, the forthcoming end
of the Hubble Space Telescope, the X-prize, and the future of
the space shuttle program.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 02-08-04
This
week, KFSR features an interview with Professor Thomas Whit
Ellis, President of the board of directors for the African
American Historical and Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin
Valley. The museum has been in the news recently, due to some
serious financial problems. We'll get an update on the
financial situation of the museum, and learn about what the
future holds for this vital Valley institution.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 02/01/04
This
week KFSR features an exclusive interview with Fresno
State President Dr. John Welty. We will talk about the ongoing
impact that the state budget crisis on the CSU
system and specifically Fresno State. We'll also learn about
the University's bold new academic fund raising campaign, the
impact of upcoming ballot measures on Fresno State and the CSU, and
Dr. Welty's bold vision for Fresno State's future.
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to this program online...
Campus and
Community 01/25/04
Join
us for a special edition of Campus and Community, with the
second half of a two part interview with Mexican-American
singer/songwriter/composer/educator and Fresno resident
Carmencristina Moreno. In September 2003, she was awarded by
the National Endowment for the Arts with the prestigious Bess
Lomax Hawes Award for her lifelong contribution to Mexican
American musical heritage through songwriting, performing, and
teaching. This week we'll learn about Carmencristina's
involvement with the United Farmworkers Union, what brought
her back to the Valley, and about her current musical
projects.
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to this edition of Campus and Community online...
Campus and
Community 01/18/04
This week, Join
us for a special edition of Campus and Community, with the
first half of a two part interview with Mexican-American
singer, songwriter, educator and Fresno resident
Carmencristina Moreno. In September 2003, she was awarded by
the National Endowment for the Arts with the prestigious Bess
Lomax Hawes Award for her lifelong contribution to Mexican
American musical heritage through songwriting, performing, and
teaching. In this week's portion of the interview, we'll talk
about Carmencristina's famed musical parents El Dueto de
Los Moreno, her early life in the San Joaquin Valley, and her early career in music and film.
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to this edition of Campus and Community online...
Campus and
Community 01/11/04
This week,
Campus and Community invites Shelley Morrison, Zoo
Administrator of Fresno's Chaffee Zoo, to our studios. Topics
of discussion will include the zoo's current financial crisis,
a new consultant's report that has been commissioned by the
city to help determine the future for the zoo, and a recent
fund raising drive started by a 9 year old child's letter to
the Fresno Bee, that has thus far raised over
$85,000.
Campus and
Community 01/04/04 rebroadcast
Joining us this
week on Campus and Community is Cindy Suryan, from Community
Hospitals of Central California. We'll get an update on the
progress of construction to the new additions to the Community
Medical Center Downtown Campus, and learn about other exciting
developments in health care in the Valley.
Campus and
Community 12/28/03 rebroadcast
Join us Sunday
at 11:30am as we talk with Angelica Carpenter, the curator of
the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature
at Fresno State. We'll discuss the center's newly released
annual list of the Top 10 New and Top 10 Classic Children's
Books, just in time for holiday gift giving.
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the list of the Top 10 Children's Books...
Campus and
Community 12/21/03
This week,
Campus and Community features an interview with Captain
Richard Larson, coordinator of the Fresno County Salvation
Army. We'll find out more about the Salvation Army's venerable
holiday kettle program, as well as about a recent even which
gave food and toys to over 900 low income families and their
children, just in time from Christmas.
Campus and
Community 12/14/03
Join us Sunday
at 11:30am as we talk with Angelica Carpenter, the curator of
the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature
at Fresno State. We'll discuss the center's newly released
annual list of the Top 10 New and Top 10 Classic Children's
Books, just in time for holiday gift giving.
View
the list of the Top 10 Children's Books...
Campus and
Community 12/07/03
Joining us this
week is Cindy Suryan, from Community Hospitals of Central
California. We'll get an update on the progress of
construction to the new additions to the Community Medical
Center Downtown Campus, and learn about other exciting
developments in health care in the Valley.
Campus
and Community 11/30/03
This week, we
feature an encore presentation of our interview with Mike
McGarvin, founder of Fresno's Poverello House, a private, nonprofit,
nondenominational organization that has been serving Fresno's
homeless and hungry since 1973.
Campus
and Community 11/23/03
This week's
program features an interview with Maybelle Selland, the
founder of Heritage Fresno, a new local non-profit
organization dedicated to the cause of historic preservation.
Less than a year old, Heritage Fresno was recently in the news
after their fight to save the old Armenian Evangelic Church
from the wrecking ball in downtown Fresno. Although the fight
to save that historic building was lost, and only the facade
will be preserved, we'll look to the future of historic
preservation in Fresno. We'll talk about continued activities
to save historic structures in the Old Armenian neighborhood,
talk about some success stories, such as the Old
Administration Building at Fresno City College, as well as
profile some of Fresno's most endangered historic
structures.
Campus
and Community 11/16/03
This
week, our guest is Adrian Rodriguez, the News Editor of Fresno
State's student run newspaper, The Collegian. Recently
the paper has itself been in the local news headlines, as the
Associated Students organization has planned to eliminate all
funding for the paper within eight years. We'll talk about the
funding and management of The Collegian, as well as
what the future might hold for the decades old paper.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 11/09/03
In
honor of Veterans Day, this week's edition of Campus and
Community features interviews with two local World War II
veterans who are actively involved in sharing their
experiences with younger generations. First, we'll talk with
Arthur J. Hill, director of the Legion of Valor Museum in
Fresno, a local center dedicated to honoring the lives of
veterans. We'll also talk to Bill McCloud, a veteran of the
Mighty 8th Air Force, and a World War II B-17 pilot. Bill is
one of the organizers of this year's Fresno Veterans Day
Parade, at which the remaining members of the Mighty 8th Air
Force will be honored as grand marshals. The annual Fresno
Veterans Day Parade is one of the oldest and largest in the
nation.
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to this program online...
Campus
and Community 11/02/03
Join
us for an interview with Donna Burson, of the Fresno-Madera
Red Cross. We'll talk about the response to the tragic
wildfires in Southern California, and what Valley residents
can do to help the victims. We'll also talk about other Red
Cross activities, and how you can help those in need. Later in
the program, we'll talk with Pat Wolk, President of the Fresno
Folklore Society, to find out more information about their
organization, and some upcoming folk music concerts in the
Fresno area.
Campus
and Community 10-26-03 Join
us this week on Campus and Community for an in depth interview
with Steve Tadlock, the General Manager of the soon to open
Save Mart Center arena at Fresno State. We'll get a behind the
scenes audio tour of the facility, and find out about what is
in store for this multi million dollar sports and
entertainment showpiece. Listen
to this program online...
Campus
and Community 10-19-03
This
week Campus and Community features an interview with Dr. Bruce
Thornton, who has written a new book about the legendary 19th
century California bandito Joaquin Murieta, titled
"Searching for Joaquin: Myth, Murieta and History in
California." We'll talk about what is actually known
about Murieta, and how his legend has grown over the past
century and a half. Later in the program, we will be joined by
two guests from the Womens' Resource Center at Fresno State,
to tell us about Lunafest 2003, an upcoming film festival,
taking place at Fresno State October 28th.
Campus
and Community 10-12-03 (a rebroadcast of an earlier
program)
This
week on Campus and Community, we feature two guests. First
we'll talk with Ron Eichman, the General Director of the
Fresno Grand Opera, which will present world renowned tenor
Andrea Bocelli to open the 2003-2004 season at the Save Mart
Center this November, in the first concert to be held in the
new on campus arena. We'll also talk with Kathleen Cagle of
the local chapter of the Safe Kids organization, a group
dedicated to preventing unintentional injuries to children.
Campus
and Community 10-05-03
This
week Campus and Community features an interview with Dr. David
Provost, professor of Political Science at California State
University, Fresno, talking about the California gubernatorial
recall election, taking place on Tuesday October 7th. We'll
analyze the steps and missteps of each major candidate, the
history of the recall and the ballot initiative in California,
and look to future as well, in the always fascinating world of
California politics.
Campus
and Community 9-28-03
Our
guests on this week's program include Jon Carroll, Associate
Director of
the Fresno Metropolitan Museum, who will tell us about a new
exhibit titled "Becoming A Nation: Americana From the
Diplomatic Reception Rooms, US Department of State." | 
