Hello People of Earth! This in my first entry in the KRUU-FM blog so congratulations to me! This is a quick update on the topics we've talked about in our Show, MUM in the Air- Sundays from 2-4pm.

• Students Participated in a 24-hour film competition entitled "Insomnia Film Festival" You can watch their 3-minute movie "Spread the Love" and other student entries here
• MUM yogic-flying grading policy, what is it?
• Public Meditation Project- A student project that call for people to publicly display their peace
• The new student newspaper is launched

We are students at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) and we talk about issues affecting our university and the students. Our show is very spontaneous and we love to ask our listeners questions and have them call with the answers.

Come and listen every sunday from 2-4pm at 100.1 fm or at kruufm.com. We always have lots of fun!

Love and light,

-Alex  read more »

8am

Hannah Riley Bowles is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and on the staff of the Center for Public Leadership. She is engaged in research on negotiation and leadership. She is interested in how people negotiate for resources and opportunities to advance into leadership positions and when gender differences tend to arise in negotiation expectations and performance. She teaches and has conducted case research on leadership in crisis and complex multi-party conflict. Earlier in her career, she was a research associate at Harvard Business School, Strategic Environmental Associates, and Conflict Management Group.

She was a technical advisor to the Minister of Natural Resources, Energy & Mines of Costa Rica and served in 1995 on the Costa Rican delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations. She was fellow at the Argentinean National Institute of Public Administration, the West German Parliament, and Oxford University's Forestry Institute. Bowles is the faculty director of Women & Power, the Kennedy School's executive program for women leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors. She won the Kennedy School's 2003 Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has a DBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Kennedy School, and an AB from Smith College.

8:30am

John R. Whitaker is the Iowa State Representative from the 90th District and is an assistant majority leader. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2003.

Whitaker currently serves on several committees in the Iowa House - the Administration and Rules committee; the Natural Resources committee; the Public Safety committee; the Transportation committee; and the Agriculture committee, where he is vice chair. His political experience includes serving as Assistant Majority Leader of the Iowa House and serving as Van Buren City Supervisor.

Whitaker was re-elected in 2006 with 7,827 votes, running unopposed.  read more »

This Week on Get To Know Your Neighbor, host Ken Malloy interviews KRUU's own Dennis James [Gravel Road Radio: Tuesdays 2pm-5pm] and Lauryn Shapter [Crooker Sisters' Radio Hour: Thursdays 10am-noon]--a.k.a. Truckstop Souvenir.

Three people sharing two microphones, certainly didn't hold back this pair of Fairfield's newer residents and neighbors (10 months).

Dennis and Lauryn are what I call "authentic". They say what they mean and talk from their heart. Embodying a true pioneer spirit, hear about their decision to emigrate from Seattle to our "FAIR" town.

Today, a special encore rebroadcast on a controversial community issue.

[For the record, Cargill's national media director declined an invitation to be interviewed.]

In February, Erika Richards invited three guests to discuss the issue of CAFOs, or contained animal feeding operations, and their impact on both the environment and economy locally and statewide.

Guests included:

- Ron Sieren, a local small hog farmer and outside salesman for Reiff Grain and Feed;

- Jim Flinspach, a grain farmer and president of the Jefferson County Farm Bureau; and

- Jim Rubis, President of Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, an organization founded to run interference on the proliferation of large corporate hog operations in the county and state.

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Adriane Daller, in town from across the Pond for three performances this weekend at Cafe Paradiso, will be interviewed on "Around Town" this Wednesday at 8:30 am. She will be joined by her accompanist, Doug Daller, aka Dad.

My co-host, Teri Font, and I will provide the probing questions.  And if we're lucky, Adriane will show off her pipes.

This week's show, broadcast Tuesday March 13 from 1-2pm Central Standard Time and rebroadcast Thursday March 15 from 8-9am Central Standard Time, will feature:

1:OO – 1:30pm – Ellen Chenoweth.

Ms. Chenoweth is one of Hollywood’s top casting directors. Ellen was raised in the Midwest & South, attended college in Virginia. She moved to NYC where she started working in theatre. After a short period of time, Ellen landed a job at the Actors Studio where Lee Strasberg was the artistic director. Under the tutelage of  Mr. Strasberg, Ellen became skilled as a casting director and started spending time in Los Angeles.  read more »