On Friday, February 26 at 12:06 p.m., Noon Edition will sit down with area superintendents and discuss the impact of funding cuts and how schools plan to handle them.

Our panel of guests includes J.T. Coopman from Monroe County Community School Corporation, John Quick from Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation, and David Shaffer from Brown County School Corporation.

What are your thoughts on the topic? To submit your questions, call toll-free during the program at (812) 855-0811 or toll-free at (877) 285-9348.

You may also submit your questions anytime online or you may follow our updates on Twitter.

Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and Mary Catherine Carmichael are your hosts.

Listeners can tune in at 103.7 fm in Bloomington, 100.7 fm in Columbus, 106.1 fm in Kokomo, or 95.1 fm in Terre Haute. Listeners may also listen to the program online.

Can’t listen on Friday? Download a podcast or listen to archived programs online.

About Noon Edition:
Each week on Noon Edition, WFIU’s weekly public affairs call in program, Herald-Times editor Bob Zaltsberg and co-host Mary Catherine Carmichael survey diverse topics of local and regional interest, in a lively but civil conversation with scholars, government leaders, and listeners.

Production support for Noon Edition comes from Smithville Telephone, and from Mother Bear’s Pizza.

About WFIU:
WFIU is your local source for Classical Music, Jazz and News. WFIU is an NPR affiliate serving central and southern Indiana and is committed to quality broadcasting.

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WFIU News Director Stan Jastrzebski is traveling with Holocaust survivor Eva Kor to Poland to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (January 27, 2010).

Kor’s childhood experience as a prisoner of the camp led her to found and guide the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute.

In daily reports, Jastrzbeski will share his conversations with the students and teachers from Bloomington and Terre Haute who are making the trip and reporting on how the experience is shaping their understanding of history. The reports will air on WFIU the week of January 25th. Coverage can be found at wfiu.org/Poland/.

Additionally, throughout January WFIU is airing the second installment of Cultivating Afghanistan. This series features reports from author and journalist Douglas Wissing, who has been given extraordinary behind-the-scenes access as he covers the Indiana National Guard’s Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) pursuing their mission in Khost Province, one of the Afghan-Pakistani border region’s most dangerous hotspots.

The ADT’s men and women have used their varied civilian expertise—especially in agriculture—to win the trust of the Afghan rural population wavering between the influence of the Taliban and Kabul’s American-backed national government.

Reports air weekly on WFIU and can be heard online. Through the coverage of the Hoosier citizen-soldiers’ experiences, listeners gain unique insights into the U.S. counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, as well as an understanding of the challenges the soldiers and their families face.

About both projects, WFIU Station Manager Christina Kuzmych writes “These projects show how effectively public radio can tell the Hoosier story both locally and abroad.”

Both projects are funded through various grants.

Support for the Auschwitz project comes from the following Indiana University programs: the West European Studies Center, the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, the Germanic Studies Program, the Polish Studies Center, the Russian and East European Institute, Annette Alpert and Darrell Haile, and the Department of History.

Support for Cultivating Afghanistan comes from the Indiana University Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the Office of International Programs, and the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CELCAR)

About WFIU:
WFIU—Public Radio from Indiana University—is your local source for classical music, jazz and news. WFIU is an NPR affiliate serving central and southern Indiana and is committed to quality broadcasting without commercial interruption. WFIU is a member of Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS), a consortium of public radio and television stations dedicated to serving the citizens of Indiana.

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Our panel of guests includes Indiana University Law and Public and Environmental Affairs Professors Kenneth Richards and Robert Fischman as well as DePauw student Andrew Maddocks, who attended the talks.

Herald Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg and Mary Catherine Carmichael are your hosts.

Noon Edition airs on Friday, January 18 at 12:06 p.m. on WFIU HD1.

What are your thoughts on the topic? To submit your questions, call toll-free during the program at (812) 855-0811 or toll-free at (877) 285-9348.

You may also submit your questions anytime online at wfiu.org/noonedition/ or you may follow our updates on Twitter.

Listeners can tune in at 103.7 fm in Bloomington, 100.7 fm in Columbus, 106.1 fm in Kokomo, or 95.1 fm in Terre Haute. Listeners may also listen to the program at wfiu.org.

Can’t listen on Friday? Download a podcast or listen to archived programs online.

About Noon Edition:
Each week on Noon Edition, WFIU’s weekly public affairs call in program, Herald-Times editor Bob Zaltsberg and co-host Mary Catherine Carmichael survey diverse topics of local and regional interest, in a lively but civil conversation with scholars, government leaders, and listeners.

Production support for Noon Edition comes from Smithville Telephone, and from Mother Bear’s Pizza.

About WFIU:
WFIU is your local source for Classical Music, Jazz and News. WFIU is an NPR affiliate serving central and southern Indiana and is committed to quality broadcasting.

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As a member of the U.S. Senate for over 33 years, Lugar reflects on how the legislative body has changed. He discusses his thoughts on Obama’s newly awarded Nobel Peace Prize along with an in-depth discussion of nuclear weapons and their role in international diplomacy, including the current situations in North Korea and Iran and the U.S.’s plans to combat nuclear proliferation.

Lugar continues the conversation by tying together his earlier talking points as means to achieve security, both financially and militarily, for Indiana and the United States as a whole. Lugar pledges his support to bipartisanship, mentioning his close work with “very conspicuous Democratic figures” in an attempt to make America’s face to the rest of the world “as unanimous as possible.” The interview concludes with Senator Lugar’s view on healthcare reform, and how no matter what actions are taken, the rising cost of care is inevitable.

He spoke with Perry Metz, Radio and Television Services Executive Director. Audio of this interview will be available for streaming beginning on Monday, January 18th.

Dick Lugar is the U.S. Senate’s most senior Republican and longest serving U.S. Senator in Indiana history. He is the Republican leader of the Foreign Relations Committee and a member and former chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.

During his tenure as U.S. Senator, Lugar has promoted broader risk management options for farmers, research advancements, increased export opportunities and higher net farm income. He has initiated a biofuels research program to help decrease U.S. dependency on foreign oil, and led initiatives to streamline the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reform the food stamp program, and preserve the federal school lunch program.

About Profiles
Profiles is a weekly radio program featuring a new guest each week, ranging from painters to journalists, delving into the person behind the persona.

About WFIU
WFIU—Public Radio from Indiana University—broadcasts in Bloomington at 103.7 fm, with translators in Columbus at 100.7 fm, French Lick/West Baden at 101.7 fm, Greensburg at 98.9 fm, Kokomo at 106.1 fm, and Terre Haute at 95.1 fm. WFIU is an NPR member station offering local and national news as well as jazz and classical music.

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Now in its eleventh year, this popular public radio program offers a modern and sometimes raucous twist on the old-time radio quiz show, mining NPR news stories for quiz questions. Peter Sagal is the host, and NPR’s Carl Kasell is the show’s judge and scorekeeper.

Each week, Sagal quizzes the panelists and listeners to determine just how closely they paid attention to the week’s news. He serves up questions in all forms: lightning rounds, tape from NPR news shows, multiple choice, identify the “fake” story and fill-in-the-blank limericks. You can call 888-WAIT-WAIT for a chance to win the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by Carl Kasell for your home’s answering machine or voice mail.

A rotating trio of witty panelists includes humorist Roy Blount Jr., Boston Globe writer Charles Pierce, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, writer/performer Adam Felber, comedian Paula Poundstone, author P.J. O’Rourke, humorist/pundit Mo Rocca, advice columnist Amy Dickinson, comedian Paul Provenza, author Tom Bodett, and Houston Chronicle editor Kyrie O’Connor.

Some favorite Wait Wait games:

• “Listener Limerick Challenge” – Listeners try to fill in the last line of a news-based limerick.
• “Carl Kasell’s Countdown” – DJ Carl spins the hits in a game where listeners guess which story from the week is represented by a piece of music.
• “Bluff the Listener” – Callers listen to three unlikely news stories read by panelists and choose the true one.
• “Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank” – The final speed round where each panelist answers as many questions as possible in sixty seconds.
• “Not My Job” invites well-known local and national personalities to answer questions about topics outside their areas of expertise. Barack Obama was quizzed about superstitious baseball player Wade Boggs and won. Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer was quizzed about various professions and the insider tricks of their trade, and lost. Actor Tom Hanks answered three questions on some of “Hollywood’s biggest louts” and won.
• In the segment “Who’s Carl This Time?” Mr. Kasell recites quotes from the week’s newsmakers as contestants guess whom he is impersonating. “This is the only show where you’ll get to hear NPR’s most senior newscaster impersonate Britney Spears,” say the show’s producers.

Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! is recorded in front of a studio audience at Chase Auditorium in Chicago and other locations around the U.S.

Muslim Voices provides resources for individuals who wish to tackle the complexities of Islam and create an interfaith dialogue within their communities.

The Brass Crescent Awards were started in 2004 with the purpose of promoting the best writing of the Muslim web and exposing them to a greater number of readers. The category of best tweeter is new for 2009 and awards the organization who “is a ‘must-follow’ on twitter and who provides the best retweets, links, and witticism in 140 characters”

Muslim Voices Managing Editor Megan Meyer believes that the almost real-time dialogue that unfolds on Twitter is important in mediating public opinion.

“After the shootings at Fort Hood, many Muslim leaders immediately got online to express their grief for the victims’ families,” Meyer said. “I think that did a lot to prevent a huge anti-Islam backlash in the U.S. It could have been a diplomatic disaster.”

Hilary Kahn, Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Global Change which oversees the Voices and Visions project at Indiana University writes, “The Twitter and Facebook pages represent the fulfillment of many of the goals of the Voices and Visions Project, as they have become an active forum for a public conversation that spans world regions, cultures, and perspectives, and where all participants make a equally valid contribution.”

Exploring new ways to build community and encourage dialogue is an important part of the Muslim Voices project according to Online Director, Adam Schweigert.

“We want to take these discussions to where people are,” Schweigert said, “a lot of discussion happens on Facebook, Twitter and other places where people gather online. Both Muslims and non-Muslims alike can benefit from these conversations and I’m thrilled to have received this recognition for the work we’re doing.”

Additionally, Muslim Voices was ranked the fourth best twitter account for Muslims by elan Magazine: The Guide To Global Muslim Culture.

Muslim Voices has a recently relaunched website that features two audio podcasts, a video series (produced by WTIU-Public Television), blog, publications from Indiana University Press and curated news and information about all aspects of Islam.

Online users can also find Muslim Voices on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to audio and video podcasts in iTunes.

About Voices and Visions

Voices and Visions involves events, workshops, art exhibits, publications, videocasts, and two podcast series that promotes understanding and dialogue about Islam and Muslims in various World contexts.

Voices and Visions aims to increase intercultural understanding, inform and promote dialogue, replace misinformation, and promote accessible scholarship.

Voices and Visions is funded by the Social Science Research Council and is lead by the Study of Global Change at Indiana University. Other participating units include CIBER, African Studies Program, East Asian Studies, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Russian and Eastern European Institute, West European Studies, School of Journalism, Indiana University Press, Middle Eastern Islamic Studies Program, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington Area Arts Council, Bloomington Islamic Center, and Indiana Public Media (WFIU-Radio and WTIU-Television).

About Indiana Public Media

Indiana Public Media is a division of WFIU Public Radio (NPR) and WTIU Public Television (PBS), broadcasting from Indiana University, serving central and southern Indiana. Indiana Public Media productions include the Kinsey Confidential Sexual Health Podcast and Earth Eats—Real Food Green Living podcast in addition to A Moment of Science Video, Muslim Voices and Crash Course in Islam.

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In this interview Schiller discusses the transition she made from her first career as a simultaneous interpreter in Russia to a career in media. Schiller recalls enjoying her time at the New York Times, but when the opportunity came up at NPR and after realizing what an exciting time it was for public media, she decided she couldn’t pass up the opportunity; for Schiller, it was about being in the right place at the right time. She believes whole-heartedly that the role of NPR is “to make sure that we hold fast to quality journalism and quality storytelling in the midst of a revolution in the news media that’s underway today.”

Schiller expounds on how exciting it is to see NPR listeners connecting to NPR in a very personal way. She views it as NPR’s responsibility to support and provide resources to local public radio stations to promote a continued personal relationship between listeners and NPR programming. Schiller believes the strength of public radio is local stations, and so maintaining a good relationship with listeners and drawing a more diverse audience is key for future success and growth.

She spoke with Indiana University School of Journalism assistant professor Mike Conway. Audio of this interview will be available for streaming beginning on Monday, December 14th.

A media executive and journalist with more than 20 years experience in the industry, Vivian Schiller joined NPR as President and CEO on January 5, 2009. She comes to NPR from The New York Times Company where she served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of NYTimes.com.
During her tenure at The New York Times, she led the day-to-day operations of NYTimes.com, the largest newspaper website on the Internet, overseeing product, technology, marketing, classifieds, strategic planning, and business development.

Before joining NYTimes.com, Schiller spent four years as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications. Under her leadership, Discovery Times Channel tripled its distribution while achieving critical acclaim for its award winning journalistic programming.

Previously, Schiller served as Senior Vice President of CNN Productions, where she led CNN’s long-form programming efforts. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including two Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and five Emmys. Schiller began her career as a simultaneous Russian interpreter in the former Soviet Union, which led her to documentary production work for Turner Broadcasting.

About Profiles
Profiles is a weekly radio program featuring a new guest each week, ranging from painters to journalists, delving into the person behind the persona.

About WFIU
WFIU—Public Radio from Indiana University—broadcasts in Bloomington at 103.7 fm, with translators in Columbus at 100.7 fm, French Lick/West Baden at 101.7 fm, Greensburg at 98.9 fm, Kokomo at 106.1 fm, and Terre Haute at 95.1 fm. WFIU is an NPR member station offering local and national news as well as jazz and classical music.

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BLOOMINGTON, IN. – WFIU Public Radio finished a very successful annual membership campaign on Sunday, November 15th at 1 p.m. The on-air fundraiser generated over $350,000 from donors across southern and central Indiana. The money raised helps pay for programming costs at the station, with membership support being the station’s single largest source of income.

Strong journalism and cultural programming are secured for another year, and a new program — Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me — joins our schedule in January. 

But there’s more. While your donations were coming in, The Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County was adding 10 dollars to every pledge to be split between two agencies serving the needy — Amethyst and Monroe County United Ministries. 

We received 1,894 calls, which will generate $18,940! Thanks for making it possible for WFIU to serve you and the community. 


“We’re extremely grateful that our WFIU Radio listeners continue to place strong value on our service with their demonstration of outstanding financial support,” said Station Manager Christina Kuzmych. “Thanks to this record setting response, we hope to continue to reduce the hours of on-air fundraising, and bring our listeners more of their favorite public radio news and information programming.”

About WFIU
WFIU—Public Radio from Indiana University—broadcasts in Bloomington at 103.7 fm, with translators in Columbus at 100.7 fm, French Lick/West Baden at 101.7 fm, Greensburg at 98.9 fm, Kokomo at 106.1 fm, and Terre Haute at 95.1 fm. WFIU is an NPR member station offering local and national news as well as jazz and classical music.

Noon Edition airs on Friday, November 20th at 12:06 p.m. on WFIU HD1.

What are your thoughts on the topic? To submit your questions, call toll-free during the program at (812) 855-0811 or toll-free at (877) 285-9348.

You may also submit your questions anytime online at wfiu.org/noonedition/ or you may follow our updates on Twitter.

Listeners can tune in at 103.7 fm in Bloomington, 100.7 fm in Columbus, 106.1 fm in Kokomo, or 95.1 fm in Terre Haute. Listeners may also listen to the program at wfiu.org.

Can’t listen on Friday? Download a podcast or listen to archived programs online.

About Noon Edition:
Each week on Noon Edition, WFIU’s weekly public affairs call in program, Herald-Times editor Bob Zaltsberg and co-host Mary Catherine Carmichael survey diverse topics of local and regional interest, in a lively but civil conversation with scholars, government leaders, and listeners. Production support for Noon Edition comes from Closets Too!, Smithville Telephone, and from Mother Bear’s Pizza.

About WFIU:
WFIU is your local source for Classical Music, Jazz and News. WFIU is an NPR affiliate serving central and southern Indiana and is committed to quality broadcasting.

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In this interview Simic discusses his experiences fundraising at various institutions across the nation, including Berkeley and Yale, and how it was always his dream to come back to Indiana University. He reflects, “you have dreams and sometimes they don’t come true as you hope they do. This one came true.” It was the Hoosier way of life that pulled him back to IU, and in his eyes, it is the Hoosier way of life and loyalty to the university that is to credit for the enduring quality of the institution.

He spoke with Perry Metz, Radio and Television Services Executive Director. Audio of this interview will be available for streaming beginning on Monday, November 30th.

Curt Simic headed the Indiana University Foundation from 1988 to 2008. He is widely recognized as a national leader in fundraising for higher education, management of foundations, and foundation-institution relationships. As president of the IU Foundation, he was the chief development officer for Indiana University, responsible for oversight of all fundraising in a multi-campus development operation with centralized and decentralized functions, investment of the endowment, and development-related administrative services and infrastructure. The recipient of many awards and honors, Simic is a presenter and author on development topics and has been an advisor and consultant to many colleges, universities, and non-profit organizations.

About Profiles
Profiles is a weekly radio program featuring a new guest each week, ranging from painters to journalists, delving into the person behind the persona.

About WFIU
WFIU—Public Radio from Indiana University—broadcasts in Bloomington at 103.7 fm, with translators in Columbus at 100.7 fm, French Lick/West Baden at 101.7 fm, Greensburg at 98.9 fm, Kokomo at 106.1 fm, and Terre Haute at 95.1 fm. WFIU is an NPR member station offering local and national news as well as jazz and classical music.
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