Sat, 31 January 2009
When we settle in with our fried snacks and beer to watch the BIGGEST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE YEAR tomorrow, what will we really be looking at? We speak with Fordham anthropologist Hugo Benavides about why we love football so much, and what that says about the way we think about race, manhood and war. |
Sat, 24 January 2009
We hear a lot about the stress that kids are under today--too many
activities, too much pressure to get into college, but what kind of
stress does it cause if you're a kid who's abused, or who's a witness
to violence, or whose parents are heavy drug users? We speak with
Fordham social work professor Tina Maschi about teenagers in the
justice system, what they've been through, and what we can do to better
deal with the situation.
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Thu, 22 January 2009
Does what's going on with the economy, the bailout and Bernard Madoff
make you so mad you just want to scream and throw things? Well, in
1999, that's how tens of thousands of people felt about the World Trade
Organization, and their protests of its Seattle conference--and the
extraordinary police response--became known as the Battle of Seattle. A
look at those protests and what they mean to us today, with Fordham
sociologist Heather Gautney.
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Sat, 10 January 2009
Is that a glass ceiling above my head, or am I just seeing things? We
speak with Fordham management professor Roslyn Chernesky about women in
management today, and why she says we haven't made as much progress as
expected.
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Sat, 3 January 2009
There doesn't seem to be too much hassle every year with the
birth of the New Year (except for the hangover)...but Fordham sociologist
Jeanne Flavin says that birth is one of increasingly few that's allowed
to go unmolested by the criminal justice system. In her new book, "Our
Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in
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