September 2015

Originally broadcast 09/28/2015
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Allyson Walter of the Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau provides a preview of the bustling month of October in central Iowa.

Then, host Greta Anderson takes us inside the Darul Arqum Islamic Center for the celebration of Eid al Adha, Islam's second most-important holiday. Finally, we welcome back Onalie Ariyabandhu, who received her bachelors degree from I.S.U. in Spring of 2014 and returned to her country of Sri Lanka, where she became a Social Change Entrepreneur for the UN Population Fund, with her project "100 Voices", a social media-based campaign to change attitudes toward gender violence in her country. She speaks tonight (09/28/2015) at 8:00 PM in the Sun Room of Memorial Union.

Originally broadcast 09/23/2015
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Peregrine falcons are hawk-like raptors, or birds of prey, that eat other birds. Historically they nested in the alcoves and ledges of 300 foot lime stone cliffs of NE Iowa. Peregrine falcons were lost as a nesting species during the biocide era of the 1950s and 1960s. DDT was the problem, and when it was banned in 1973, work began to return falcons. During the 1980s and 1990s, concerted and synchronous efforts to release young peregrines in cities and wilds were embraced. Falconers Lowell Washburn, Dave Kester and Dr. Pat Redig discuss their efforts to return these birds to the Mississippi Flyway.

Originally broadcast 09/18/2015
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On today's show we had Merry Rankin back to focus on sustainability. She brought Shelene Codner who works the Iowa DNR for the Iowa Waste Exchange. that helps to reduce and reuse waste. We then talked to John Pleasants, the Cantor for the Ames Jewish Congregation, about the Jewish High Holiday. Finally, we wrap up Eric McCabe, a Zen Buddhist Priest in Ames. He talks about Zen Buddhist spiritual practices.

Originally broadcast 09/14/2015
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Our special guest co-host is Emma Wilson, Nevada girl and student of Middle East politics and broadcast journalism. She brings us Esam Boraey, an Egyptian human rights advocate, now an exile living in Des Moines, who was in the middle of the Tahrir Square in 2011, where the demand to the Mubarek regime was three words: "Freedom, Justice and Dignity". He shares the horror of seeing friends killed and blood on the street, and shock from the U.S. non-response. We also hear from two members of the local Egyptian community, ISU PhD candidate Noor Abdelsamad and professor Ayman Fayed, about life in Ames after growing up in Cairo. Then, host Greta Anderson shares footage from outside Saturday's GOP tent at the tailgater preceding the Cyclone-Hawkeye game, where candidates were scheduled to appear, and where an ad hoc student group "Students against Bigotry" carried a banner in protest of the hate speech of one of those candidates. We talk with the group's leader, Maria Alci'var, about the goals of the protest, the solidarity in numbers and some of the harassment her group faced from haters. Also: a fond look back at this weekend's Maximum Ames Music Festival, with a poem from Saturday's reading by Brett Brinkmeyer.