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June 25, 1995 Programs

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1100 - 1159

Affirmative Action

1200 - 1259

Land Conservation

1300 - 1359

Working (first broadcast 11/6/94)

PROGRAM RUNDOWN

Affirmative Action

SEGMENT 1:

African American economist Glenn Loury shares his reservations regarding affirmative action with Steve Paulson and discusses the recent Supreme Court decision involving set-asides for minority-run businesses. Glenn Loury teaches at Boston University and is the author of "One by One from the Inside Out."

SEGMENT 2:

University of California sociologist Troy Duster thinks affirmative action programs have become scapegoats for many other social problems - for example, some 9,000 applicants with 4.0 averages compete for 3,500 spaces in the UC Berkeley freshman class. Those who are turned away inevitably blame their exclusion on affirmative action. Also, TV talk show host Armstrong Williams tells Margaret Anreasen what's wrong with affirmative action. Williams' show "The Right Side" airs on National Empowerment Television. His book is called "Beyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier."

SEGMENT 3:

Richard Delgado teaches at the University of Colorado Law School and is the author of "The Rodrigo Chronicles," a book that explores our assumptions about affirmative action, legal theory and Western culture. Rodrigo is an intelligent African American, raised and educated in Italy. He returns to the United States and meets with an old professor who's written about race relations. Their conversations comprise "The Rodrigo Chronicles." Also, Lawrence Graham is a successful corporate lawyer and the author of several collections of essays about being black. He tells Judith Strasser his views on affirmative action and making it as an African American in mainstream business. Graham's latest book is "Member of the Club."

6-25-A

PROGRAM RUNDOWN

Land Conservation

SEGMENT 1:

This hour, it's the rights of property owners vs. the Endangered Species Act in America's new land wars. University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein tells Steve Paulson how the fury of landowners is prompting congressional action. And, Ted Steinberg, author of "Slide Mountain: Or the Folly of Owning Nature," tells Judith Strasser why he rejects cost- benefit analyses of environmental issues. Steinberg teaches history at Rutgers.

SEGMENT 2:

Frank and Deborah Popper have a vision for the Great Plains: give them back to the buffalo. They tell Jim Fleming about their idea for a "buffalo commons" and explain why bison ranching makes good economic sense for cattle ranchers and is better for the land. Frank Popper teaches urban studies at Rutgers; Deborah is a geographer at the College of Staten Island in New York.

SEGMENT 3:

Theodore Roszak directs the Ecopsychology Institute at California State University and is co-editor (with Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner) of "Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind." He tells Steve Paulson why he is critical of the mainstream environmental movement -- it ignores basic psychological insights.

6-25-B

PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3:

Working (first broadcast 11/6/94)

SEGMENT 1

Business consultant Bill Bridges tells Steve Paulson that the job as a secure long-term situation with health benefits and paid vacations has already begun to disappear. Bridges' new book is "Job Shift: How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs." Also, sociologist Stanley Aronowitz tells Judith Strasser that new technologies are going to put most of us out of work in the next 15 years. Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio have co-authored "The Jobless Future."

SEGMENT 2:

Matthew Fox is a renegade priest and self-styled "creation spiritualist." Having been "fired" by the Vatican, Fox is now interested in developing a spirituality of work. He talks with Steve Paulson about his book "The Re-invention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time." Also, what really keeps the office running? Coffee! Irene Fizer of New York's School for Social Research provides a history of coffee in the American workplace.

SEGMENT 3:

Kathe Kolbe believes "talent" is just another word for "intinct." She tells Margaret Andreasen that there are four basic striving instincts that determine our behavior in the workplace and that business must learn to recognize and reward people appropriately. Kolbe is the author of "Pure Instinct: Business' Untapped Resource."

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