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2000 Audio On-Demand & Program Descriptions
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March 2000

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March 31, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Films of Jim Jarmusch
Jonathan Miller – film contributor for Eight Forty-Eight and teaches film at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
John Petrakis – freelance film critic for the Chicago Tribune. He also teaches screenwriting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
March 30, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich

Religion
Karen Armstrong, author of The Battle for God.

March 29, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Student Activism
Mark Pollock – associate professor of Communication and Chair of the Academic Counsel of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University - Chicago
Bill Ayers – co-director of the Small Schools Workshop, distinguished professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois - Chicago
March 28, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich

Year Round Schooling
Barney Berlin – associate professor of Education at Loyola University - Chicago
Molly Carroll – field representative for the Chicago Teachers Union and the immediate past president of the Illinois Association for Year Round Education. She also sits on the board for the National Association for Year Round Schooling.
Sandy Trabeck – principal of Chavez Public School, a year round K-9 school.
Susan Levine – professor in psychology at the University of Chicago.

March 27, 2000
hosted by David Schaper

Sports and Entertainment
Ron Rapoport – columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributor to NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday
Lester Munson – associate editor at Sports Illustrated
Paul Friedman – WBEZ's sports contributor

March 24, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Supreme Court Update
Tom Merrill – professor at Northwestern University's School of Law.
Walter Kendall – professor at the John Marshall Law School.
March 23, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich

Medical Updates
Dr Quentin Young – medical contributor for Odyssey.
Janet Williams, deputy executive director at the American Lung Association
Pat Quinn – former Illinois State treasurer.
Bob Burgher – executive director of the Illinois Association of HMO's

March 22, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Primary Election Wrap-up
David Schaper – WBEZ political reporter
John Frendreiss – associate vice president of Planning and Analysis and a professor in the Political Science department at Loyola University - Chicago
Alicia Tate – reporter for the Chicago Reporter
March 21, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
The Beautiful Universe
Doug Duncan – associate professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and the education coordinator at the American Astronomical Society
Mario Livio – heads the science program at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the author of, The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, The Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
March 20, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Winifred Gallager, author of Working on God.
March 17, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Women In The Directors Chair Festival
Michelle Citron – professor in the department of Radio Television, and Film at Northwestern University and the author of, Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions.
Deborah Stratman – independent filmmaker as well as teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Barbara De Genevie – artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sabrina Craig – program director for Women in the Directors Chair
March 16, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Neurologist Mark Hauser, author of Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think.
March 15, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Gale Christiansen, author of Greenhouse: 200 Years of Global Warming
March 14, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
The Rebirth of Downtown
Greg Hinz – associate editor at Crain's Chicago Business
Wim Wiewel – dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and interim dean of the Sollege of Business Administration at the University of Illinois-Chicago
Alicia Mazer – deputy commissioner for the central district at the Chicago Department of Planning and Development
March 13, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Death Penalty Reevaluated
Steve Mills – reporter for the Chicago Tribune
Larry Marshall – professor at the Northwestern University School of Law
Ed McManus – chair of the committee on the death penalty for the Chicago Council of Lawyers
March 10, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Illinois State Supreme Court Elections
Kerry Peck – president of the Chicago Bar Association.
Steve Lubet – director of the program on Advocacy and
Professionalism and professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law
March 9, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Pediatric Psychiatry
Quentin Young – Odyssey's medical contributor
Alan Ravitz – associate professor in Clinical Psychiatry and
director of Child Inpatient Services at the University of Chicago
March 8, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich

Super Tuesday Results
Michael Mezey – dean of the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor in the Political Science department at DePaul University
Greg Hinz – associate editor at Crain's Chicago Business
John Frendreiss – associate vice president of Planning and Analysis and a professor in the Political Science department at Loyola University-Chicago

March 7, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Life Stages
Bill Pinsof – professor in the school of Education and Social Policy and president of the Family Institute at Northwestern University.
Linda Waite – professor in Sociology and director of the center on aging at the University of Chicago.
March 6, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Fighting Corporate Tax Shelters
Austan Goolsbee – associate professor of Economics in the graduate school of Business at the University of Chicago
Charlotte Crane – professor in the school of Law at Northwestern University
March 3, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Political Films
Jonathan Miller – film contributor for Eight Forty-Eight and teaches film at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Ron Falzone – professor of film at Columbia College
March 2, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich

Terry Nichols Clark, professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and a co-editor and contributor to, The New Political Culture.

March 1, 2000
hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
Genetically Modified Organisms
Jim Ritter – science writer for the Chicago Sun-Times
Jim Slamma – president of sustain and the publisher of Conscious Choice
Gary Goldberg – chief executive officer of the American Corn Growers Association
Dennis Avery – director of the center for global food issues at the Hudson Institute


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