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Friday, April 01, 2005

11 years ago PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning) started the Principal For A Day program creating a partnership between the business community and public schools. The program pairs the specific resources of business leaders with specific needs of public schools. Today how a nonprofit and a businessman have affected Truman High School in the Bronx.

Columbia Becoming

Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University,
- on the Ad Hoc Grievance Committee's report on charges of anti-Semitism and student intimidation in the Middle East Studies Department at Columbia
» Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report

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My Academic Freedom, Your Academic Freedom

Ariel Beery, Columbia Student and founder of Columbians for Academic Freedom,
- on his claims of intimidation by the Middle East Studies Department at Columbia
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Nader Uthman, A Columbia Graduate Student in MEALAC and in Comparative Literature & Society who worked as Teaching Assistant to Prof. ...

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High Principals

Sana Nasser Principal of Truman High School in The Bronx
- on her school and the involvement of PENCIL and the Principals For A Day program in Truman High School.
and
Charles Bendit Principal of Taconic Investment Partners LLC
- has been a participant ...

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Budgeting Time

Liz Krueger New York State Senator, 26th District Part of New York County (D)
- discusses the New York State Budget
» State Senator Kruger
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John J. Flanagan New York State Senator, (R-2nd District: represents Kings Park, Fort Salonga, San ...

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Striking out

Open Phones listeners discuss the MLB new two strikes rule and open steroid use to level the playing field.

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New York 51: District 9

Bill Perkins, New York City Councilman (D-9th District-Central Harlem, parts of Morningside Heights, Upper West Side, East Harlem ),
- on life and politics on the Upper West Side and East Harlem
» District 9
» Gotham Gazette

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Spring Training

Here are snippets from our listeners on the "Two Strikes Rule in Baseball:"

I propose a league of steroid users where all players are juiced. That’s really what we want to see. C.V.

In addition to reducing the number of strikes each base coach should have a modified taser to ...

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