Ames Children's Choir, Sawyer Speaks

Originally broadcast 04/12/2017
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Leanne Harter, Story County Outreach and Special Projects Manager announced spring events from Story County before we launched into a preview of the 14th Midwest Children's Choir Festival to be held at CY Stephens Auditorium April 21, 2017. Shon Stephenson, Executive Director of Ames Children's Choirs, and Dr. Christina Svec, Director and Conductor of Concert Choir of Ames Children's Choirs, discussed the special qualities of children's voices, as well as the Midwestern Regional Culture of choral singing.

Shifting from singing to poetry, KHOI showcased some of its many programs featuring poetry including a recording of Sawyer Speaks Spoken Word Poetry Program coordinated by Sawyer Staff members Riley Drake, Nicole Coronado, and Natalie Stowe whose mission is "to support and empower students on their journey to finding their voice as community based activists and accomplices in active solidarity with one another."

Design for Social Change, Airport Fly-in, Community Radio

Originally broadcast 04/10/2017
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This show, the first Local Talk program of KHOI's historic 2017 Spring Fund Drive, features segments of a long interview with station manager Ursula Ruedenberg on the history, purpose, and philosophy of community radio in this country and nationwide.

Also featured: an interview with two members of ISU's Flying Cyclones about the Fly-in Breakfast held last Saturday at the Ames Municipal Airport. Small aircraft from around the state and the country flew in to celebrate the opening of a new airport hangar and new terminal.

Steve Kohtz, a graduate student in ISU's College of Design, talks about the project of a new graduate class called Design for Social Change. Log on to the project's special website to learn how you too can help build community by focusing on nicknames--your own and other people's.

Regular monthly guest Keith Morgan chats with the show's hosts about their own approaches to communication technology for local disasters, and brings us up-to-date on this important aspect of disaster preparedness.

Immigrant Rights, Video Games and Sexism

Originally broadcast 04/07/2017
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Jarrett Wendt, the Pastoral Associate at St. Cecilia Catholic Church, described the immigrant rights dinner and workshop held last weekend and Rick Exner of AMOS, elaborates on resources available to immigrants in danger of being picked up and deported by ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Rick Exner can be called for help, if you or someone you know is in need of assistance, at (515) 231-5581. He described efforts to establish sanctuaries, such as the Iowa Sanctuary Movement and the distinctions to be made between Federal Officials, who are not police, and local law enforcement, who, do not act against immigrants on behalf of the federal government in Ames, .

ISU Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile recently published a new study on how video games increase sexist stereotypes of women. Gentile explains the study and its potential impact and how video games influence violent behavior, in general, in a new international study he is working on.

Two new KHOI DJs introduce their show, launched Thursday April 6: Rebel Music Radio. They streamed the show on Facebook to more than 900 listeners!

Susan Gwiasda and Eric Cowles give Ames City and road construction updates.

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