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CAMPUS TALK on KUCI 88.9 FM

What: Campus Talk
Who: Doug Hill, Mark Hardt (alternating hosts), guests, and callers.
When: Tuesdays, 9-10 AM, Pacific Time.
Where: Broadcast in Orange County on KUCI 88.9 FM and on the internet at kuci.org.

Campus Talk UCI is a call-in talk show on issues of interest to the UC Irvine Community. We talk with interesting people who are doing interesting things at the University of California, Irvine.

This schedule is subject to change. 2000: Fall | 2001: Winter Spring Summer Fall | 2002: Winter Spring Summer Fall | 2003: Summer | 2004: Summer Fall | 2005: Winter | Contact | Links


Winter 2005

Mark Hardt joined the show in Winter, 2005.

2005-January-11: Peter Phillips of Project Censored, hosted by Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.

2005-January-18: Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, hosted by Doug. To listen click here or here.

2005-February-8: 9am: Dr. Eugenie Scott, author of Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction and the executive director of the National Center for Science Education. 9:30am: Philosopher Jason Ford. Hosted by Doug. To listen click here or here.

2005-February-15: Christine Oh of LiNK (Liberation in North Korea), hosted by Doug. To listen live click here or here.

2005-March-22: Dr. John Lewis, speaking Wednesday for the Ayn Rand Institute, hosted by Doug. To listen click here or here.


Fall 2004

2004-September-28: Aaron Thompson and Lilan Bowden of CalPIRG UCI and the UCI Voter Project. To listen click here or here and advance the realplayer one hour.

2004-October-5: Candidates for the 70th Assembly district of California: Libertarian Mark Baldwin, Republican Chuck DeVore, and Democrat Carl Mariz. To listen click here or here.

2004-October-12: Candidates for Irvine School Board including Barbara Quinlan, Sue Kuwabara, Carolyn McInerney, John Burger, Mike Parham, and Kathleen Rodarte. To listen click here or here.

2004-October-19: Candidates for Mayor of Irvine: Beth Krom, Earle Zucht, Ron Allen, and Mike Ward. To listen click here or here.

2004-October-26: 9 am: Proposition 66 debate: Judge Jim Gray (for) vs. Brian Gurwitz (against). To listen click here or here.
9:30 am: Candidates for the 48th Congressional district of California: Republican Christopher Cox, Libertarian Bruce Cohen, and Democrat John Graham.
To listen click here or here.

2004-November-2: Zeus Quijan and Hanna Na of the Zot Film Club. To listen click here or here.

2004-November-9: Rohit Gupta and Atul Kakkar of the Indian Sub-Continental Club. To listen click here or here.

2004-November-16: Roxanna Salim of Jumpstart. To listen click here or here.

2004-November-23: Patrick Ballecer, Joon Park, Jon Betonio, and Eric Yu of Circle K Service Club at UCI. To listen click here or here.

2004-November-30: Edric Nacpil of the Philosophy Club at UCI.

2004-December-7: Matt Davis of the UCI Role Playing Game club. To listen click here or here.

2004-December-14: Encore broadcast of our interviews with Astronomers Tammy Smecker-Hane Ph.D., Director of the UCI Observatory, and Tammy Bosler. To listen click here or here.

2004-December-21: Edward O. Wilson on The Future of Evolutionary Biology, recorded at the Systematics and the Origin of Species conference. To listen click here or here.

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2004-December-28: Paul Krassner, hosted by Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan.

2005-January-4: Encore broadcast of our interview with UCI Associate Professor of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies, immigration scholar Louis DeSipio. To listen click here.


Summer 2004

Campus Talk UCI resumed on KUCI in Summer 2004 on Tuesdays 9-10 am.

2004-June-29: Irvine Progressive outgoing Editor-in-Chief Alexander Phillips, incoming Editor-in-Chief Chelsea Thompson, and Layout Editor David Pham. Click here to listen.

2004-July-6: Encore broadcast of our interview with Irvine Review editor Nathan Masters and writers Ryan Mykita and Patrick Coleman. To listen click here or here.

2004-July-13: New University writers Shawn Augsburger, Merav Ceren, Stephen A. Nuņo, Ben Ritter, and Allan Taing discuss the incident in which the Society of Arab Students' cardboard wall was burned. To listen click here or here.

2004-July-20: Judge Jim Gray, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate. To listen click here or here.

2004-July-27: Ian Nieves of Students for Science and Skepticism and Vaughn Rees of the Center for Inquiry-West. To listen click here or here.

2004-August-3: Pablo Serrano on his trip to Cuba. Hosted by Cuca Esteves.

2004-August-10: Astronomers Tammy Smecker-Hane Ph.D., Director of the UCI Observatory, and Tammy Bosler. To listen click here or here.

2004-August-17: New University writer Shawn Augsburger.

2004-August-24: Bruce Cohen, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Congress. To listen click here or here.

2004-August-31: Eugene Robinson, author of Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution. To listen click here or here.

2004-September-7: James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal to discuss his book Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House . To listen click here.

2004-September-14: UCI Associate Professor of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies and immigration scholar Louis DeSipio. To listen click here.

2004-September-21: Iranian writer Siamac Sotudeh to discuss his book Why are the Dead Walking: Islamic Movement, Motives and Perspectives. To listen click here or here.


Summer 2003

Campus Talk UCI resumed on KUCI on Fridays, 4-5 pm, following the 2003 mid-summer Topics finale.

2003-August-29: California Gubernatorial Candidates Iris Adam, Heather Peters and Paul Vann. To listen click here or here.

2003-September 5: More California Gubernatorial Candidates Reva Renee Renz, and Jim Vandeventer, Jr. To listen click here or here.

2003-September 12: G. Edward Griffin on abolishing the Federal Reserve. Hosted by Mark Hardt and Dr. Donald Travis.

2003-September 19: More California Gubernatorial Candidates Michael Jackson, Bill Vaughn, and Chuck Walker. To listen click here or here.


Fall 2002

In the Fall of 2002, Campus Talk UCI went to one hour on Mondays, 4-5 pm.

2002-October-7: 4 pm: UCI Alumnus Yang Hu, Ph.D.
4:30 pm: Iris Adam,
Natural Law candidate for Governor of California. Click here to listen.

2002-October-14: Irvine city candidates, Mike House, candidate for mayor, and Chuck DeVore and Christina Shea, candidates for city council. Click here to listen.

2002-October-21: UCI Campus Political Clubs, including the Young Republicans and the Student Organization for Alternative Parties.

2002-October-28: 4 pm: Mitch Goldstone, candidate for Irvine city council. Click here to listen.
4:30 pm: Candidate debate for U.S. Representative District 48 of California, including Democrat John Graham and Libertarian Joe Cobb. Hosted by Evan Simon.

2002-November-4: Alternative party Gubernatorial candidates debate, including Gary Copeland, Libertarian candidate; Iris Adam, Natural Law candidate; and Reinhold Gulke, American Independent Party candidate. Click here to listen .

2002-November-11: 4 pm: Pilipino Pre-Health Undergraduate Student Organization at UCI. 4:30 pm: Skeptic Robert Sheaffer, author of UFO Sightings. Click here to listen .

2002-November-18: Irvine Review editor Nathan Masters and writers Ryan Mykita and Patrick Coleman. Click here to listen.

2002-December-2: Ian Nieves, President of Students for Science and Skepticism, and Doug (who also is VP of S4S&S) discuss current events.

2002-December-9: 4 pm: MEChA critic Hal Netkin. 4:30 pm: Mr. Netkin and MEChA representative discuss allegations that MEChA is separatist, secessionist, or racist. Click here to hear the second half of the show.

2002-December-16: UCI history professor Dr. Mark Levine, and Mark Gery of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center discuss whether the U.S. should go to war with Iraq, and the effects of UN Sanctions there.

2002-December-23: Encore broadcast of our January discussion on skepticism and Students for Science and Skepticism with Stacy Davies on The Life Long Journey. Click here to listen.


Summer 2002

Summer of 2002 was the last quarter for which Campus Talk UCI was only a half-hour (Mondays 4:30-5 pm).

2002-June-17: New University writer Jorge A. Peña, Jr.

2002-July-1: Lance H. Jencks of www.pledgeproject.com on the Ninth Circuit decision on the Pledge of Allegiance. Click here to listen.

2002-July-15: Former MEChA president Armando Cervantes and MEChA critic Hal Netkin discuss allegations that MEChA is separatist, secessionist, or racist. Click here to listen.

2002-July-29: Princeton philosophy graduate student and KUCI alumnus Barry Lam. Anteaters for Israel will be rescheduled.

2002-August-5: The proposed Orange County Centerline light rail, with Darrell Clarke of OCTA, John Kleinpeter of www.NoCenterLine.com, Roy Shahbazian of bettercommute.org, and Jack Mallinckrodt of urbantransport.org. Click here to listen (but be forwarned that technical difficulties degraded the sound quality of this recording.).

2002-August-12: Joe Cobb, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Representative District 48 of California. Click here to listen.

2002-August-19: Doug Scribner, At-Large Member, Libertarian Party of California and Bruce Mirken of the Marijuana Policy Project. Click here to listen.

2002-August-26: John Graham, Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative District 48 of California. Click here to listen.

2002-September-16: Margaret Downey of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia regarding the FSGP’s effort to remove the 10 Commandments plaque from the Chester County, PA Courthouse facade. Click here to listen.


Spring 2002

Doug Hill returned to the show in Spring of 2002, and will host most of the shows then. Doug's guests include:

2002-April-8: ASUCI AAVP Candidates Ben Foster & Johanna Galarte, SSVP Candidate Leslie Banayad, and at-large representative candidate Ada Cheng.

2002-April-16: ASUCI Presidental Candidates Armando Cervantes & Jeff Minhas, and at-large representative candidate Jamison Power.

2002-April-22: Physicist and Philosopher Victor Stenger.

2002-April-29: Jamison Power, Terence Trung, and Chelsea Thompson of the Young Democrats of UCI. Click here to listen.

2002-May-6: Vietnamese Student Association at UCI with Thomas Nguyen and Lisa Nguyen. Click here to listen.

2002-May-13: New University writer Edgar Sarmiento joined us during the KUCI Fund Drive. Click here to listen.

2002-May-20: Civil rights lawyer Eddie Tabash on decriminalizing prostitution. S4S&S members Ted Huntington and Ian Nieves also participated in this discussion. Click here to listen.

2002-May-27: Zot Film Club with Craig and Alexis. Click here to listen.

2002-June-3: Mike Latner, AGS VP of External Affairs regarding UCI's Proposed Priority-Housing Plan. Click here to listen.

2002-June-10: Gary Copeland, Libertarian candidate for Governor of California. Click here to listen.


Winter 2002

2002-January-4: Doug Hill and Ian Nieves discussed skepticism and Students for Science and Skepticism with Stacy Davies on The Life Long Journey. Click here to listen.

Kevin Stockdale took over the show in Winter of 2002, and co-host Hen Nguyen left the show. Kevin's guests included:

2002-January-7: UCI Sportscaster Mark Roberts

2002-February-11: Darwin Day: Ian Nieves and Jason Ford of Students for Science and Skepticism.


Fall 2001 guests include:

2001-September-24: Ghaith Aljazzar, President, and Sondos Kholoki of the Muslim Student Union of U.C. Irvine. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-October-1: Edgar Dormitorio, UCI Volunteer Center. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-October-15: Ann Cavanaugh, CALPIRG Campus Organizer. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-October-22: Joe Nickell of CSICOP, author of Real-Life X-Files : Investigating the Paranormal. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-October-29: Fatma Saleh, author of A New Perspective: Women in Islam. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-November-5: Eduardo Buenviaje and Chris Jung of the Engineering Student Council of U.C. Irvine. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-November-19: ASUCI President Steve Platt. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-November-26: Vietnamese Student Association at UCI. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-December-3: Jen Boyle of Act for Global Justice and Michael Shindler of Academia and Action. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-December-10: Dr. Valerie Vinar. (Hosted by David Roel.)


Summer 2001 guests include:

2001-June-18: Debbie Davis, President of the Associated Graduate Students of U.C. Irvine. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-June-25: Pablo Serrano and Alex Cortez, hosts of Chicano Talk on KUCI, along with Rosie Garcia. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-July-16: Nathan C. Masters, DEPTH author, and Thomas Bushnell. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-July-30: Pat L. Walsh, Director, UCI Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-August-6: Sandra E. Lamb, author of How to Write It : A Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-August-13: Marguerite L. Gunn, Chair of the Invest-In-Yourself Financial Strategies Conference for Women Committee and member of the Women Investing in Security and Education board. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-August-20: Diane Anderson, CSUF Philosophy Alumni club. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-August-27: Martin C. Young, Philosopher, www.madwizard.com and Socrates Cafe host. (Hosted by Doug.)

2001-September-3: U See Eyes, the UC Irvine Pre-Optometry Club. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-September-10: El Toro Local Redevelopment Authority's Yorba Linda Community Open House, of 2001-August-30, to discuss the proposed El Toro Airport. Due to time contraints, we can only broadcast the first half-hour of this meeting. But the remainder can be heard here via realaudio. Click here to hear the entire meeting.

  1. Click here to hear part 1 (18 min.).
  2. Click here to hear part 2 (30 min.).
  3. Click here to hear part 3 (1:12).
  4. Click here to hear part 4 (20 min.).

2001-September-17: UCI Professor Kristen Renwick Monroe, author of: The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity. (Hosted by Hen.)




Spring 2001 Campus Talk UCI Guests included:

ASUCI President Koko Panossian was interviewed on UCI on Monday, May 7 from 4:30-5 p.m. on KUCI 88.9 fm and www.kuci.org. Mr. Panossian discussed his experience as ASUCI President and the ongoing attempt to impeach him with host Doug Hill.

On the following Monday, May 14 from 4:30-5 p.m. on KUCI 88.9 fm, host Doug Hill interviewed Vaughn Rees of the Center for Inquiry-West (www.cfiwestCampus Talk.org) about skepticism and secular humanism. This show took place during the KUCI pledge drive, May 4-14, for which the CFI-West generously donated a number of premiums. Click here to listen.

On Monday May 21, from 4:30-5 p.m. on KUCI 88.9 fm, guests Crystal Gonzalez and Johanna Galarte discussed SP-1, SP-2, and proposition 209 with host Doug Hill. Ms. Gonzales and Ms. Galarte are involved with MEChA and the coalition that sponsored the Diversity Now! Rally on Ring Road on Wednesday, May 2. Ms. Gonzalez also had a letter in the New University on April 30 (p. 19) that responded to a letter from Mr. Hill published there on April 2 (p. 17). Click here to listen.

On Monday June 4, from 4:30-5 p.m. on KUCI 88.9 fm and kuci.org, host Doug Hill interviewed UCI Truman Scholar Leah Donahue.

On Monday June 11, 4:30-5 p.m. on KUCI 88.9 fm, host Hen Nguyen's guest was New University News Editor Melinda Sheckells.

This schedule is subject to change.


Winter 2001

Co-host Hen Nguyen joined the show in Winter of 2001. Guests included:

2001-February-12: Orange County Centerline with Bill Hodge of the Orange County Transportation Authority, Martin Schlageter of the Sierra Club, Bill Mavity of the Woodbridge Village Association, and engineer Jack Mallinckrodt. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-February-26: Dean Tong, of the abuse-excuse.com and Ken Pangborn of the a-team.org. (Hosted by Doug.) Click here to listen.

2001-March-5: Adam Door, consultant, www.emergencybirthcontrol.org. (Hosted by Hen.)

2001-March-26: Chuck Hammond, Green Party (Hosted by Doug).


Fall 2000

Doug Hill began this show in the fall of 2000. His guests included:

2000-September-25: Jessica Nusbaum, CALPIRG Campus Organizer.

2000-October-2: JAMES RANDI of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Click here to listen.

2000-October-9: UCI Political clubs with Ellie Mizani of the Young Democrats and Ian McGrew of the Young Republicans.

2000-October-16: Doug Hill joined Rain Morgan on her show, Ask Mother Earth, to interview John Hagelin, 2000 Presidential Candidate of the Natural Law Party. Click here to listen.

2000-October-16: Alternative Political Parties, including the Green , Libertarian, and Reform Parties.

2000-October-23: Center for Women and Gender Education.

2000-October-30: PAUL KURTZ: Philosopher, Skeptic, and Secular Humanist. Click here to listen.

2000-November-6: Proposition S and Proposition T of Newport Beach.

2000-November-13: What is Philosophy? with Ian Duckles and Jason Ford.


Contact Information

E-Mail:
Doug:doug@kuci.org
Hen: romakuci@yahoo.com
Kevin: kevin@kuci.org

If you would like to talk on the radio with Doug about your work at UCI (of general interest) or the activities of your campus organization, contact Doug at: doug@kuci.org.


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