Signal WSIU Public Radio
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Vol. 10, No. 10 •Oc tober 2014
This Month on
Morning Conversation
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Tune in at 8:30am & 5:30pm on Tuesdays & other weekdays, as scheduled. Questions or comments? Contact host Jennifer Fuller at jennifer.fuller@ wsiu.org or call (618) 453-6101. Check out our web page at www.wsiu.org/programs/morningconversation to listen to past broadcasts.
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Members of the Carbondale Interfaith Council will preview upcoming events promoting unity among faith communities.
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Science Cafe – Morris Library’s Jennifer Horton will feature her presentation on 3D Printing and Scanning.
American Red Cross Blood Drive will SIU Carbondale Chancellor preview the annual SIU Homecoming Blood Paul Sarvela Drive, set for October 8. Breast Cancer Awareness Representatives from the American Cancer Society will highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Jennifer Fuller. Photo: Monica Tichenor.
MLK Celebration - Volunteers will preview the Annual Martin Luther King Celebration and awards ceremony.
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SIU President Randy Dunn
SIRIS vinyl sale THANK YOU to everyone who made the 7th Annual Classic Vinyl and Media Sale a great success! The Southern Illinois Radio Information Service (SIRIS) held its annual fundraiser at the University Mall in Carbondale. We raised nearly $6,000! That’s a lot of donated albums and VHS tapes! We raised a little more than $900 from the sale of turntables, stereo components, VCRs, and DVD players, and sold more than 3,000 albums, 800 CDs, 300 VHS tapes, and 100 DVDs. WSIU and SIRIS especially want to thank our community partners the University Mall, SIU Credit Union, Wright Do It Center in Murphysboro, and Du Quoin Public Library. All proceeds support SIRIS, our reading service for local individuals with vision impairments. The service is provided free of charge to anyone who is blind or otherwise has difficulty seeing or reading. SIRIS provides coverage within a 45-mile radius of Carbondale and within a 20-mile radius of Mt. Vernon. For more information or to request service call (618) 453-2808 or learn more on our web site www.wsiu.org/southern-illinois-radioinformation-service.
Fall is a time of change… we see a change in seasons, a change in time, and beginning on November 17 a change in the format of Morning Edition and All Things Considered! Did you know that every public radio program has a clock? Broadcast clocks are set templates that stations like WSIU use to track the timing of a show’s stories and interviews, newscasts, and funding credits each day. Beginning in November, NPR is making some changes to its newsmagazine clocks, in partnership with member stations across the country. This will help align programs with the way people listen to radio today, and provide stations with more flexibility to include the local content that’s important to their audiences. The revised clocks are designed to better meet today’s listeners’ needs and habits. They continue to provide a framework for a compelling mix of local, national and international news. The new clocks tailor the experience of Morning Edition and All Things Considered to listeners’ morning and afternoon routines and provide options for a variety of story lengths and approaches so the shows retain a mix of in-depth quality journalism, analysis, joy, and surprise.
What does this change mean to you, our listeners? It means you will still
hear our local and national stories, plus local weather and the Marketplace Morning Report, but the timing of all of the segments will be a little different. For example, during Morning Edition you will hear local news at 4-minutes past the hour, a local weather update around 20-past, and an in-depth newscast or feature segment at about 45-minutes past the hour, which will also be the new time for Morning Conversation during the 8-o’clock hour. So stay tuned and join us for a fresh look at Morning Edition and All Things Considered on WSIU Radio beginning on November 17!
Rhythm in Bloom Turns 5!
5th Anniversary Special | Sunday, October 12, 8pm Congratulations to SIU Radio-TV-Digital Media Professor John Hochheimer (shown at left, photo by Kaitlyn Conrad), host of WSIU Radio’s Sunday night jazz program, Rhythm in Bloom – now celebrating 5 years on the air! In honor of this milestone achievement, Hochheimer will host a special edition of the weekly jazz series on October 12. “The first tune I ever played on the program was ‘West End Blues’ by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, which was recorded in the mid-1920s,” says Hochheimer. “The clarion call of his horn announces that something good is about to come. It’s been the lead-off tune for each anniversary program, and it will be so again for the 5th anniversary. The rest of the program will focus on some of my favorite players and tunes, along with (fan requests from) over the years.”
Though Hochheimer has spent most of his professional life as a college professor, he has worked in many aspects of radio since he was a teenager, including as a disc jockey in major markets, and has rubbed elbows with famous musicians like B.B. King, whom Hochheimer knew for 20 years, as well as Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Elton John, and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead. “I spent five hours in on again/off again conversation with David Bowie on my radio show,” says Hochheimer. “His career was in a tailspin, and he was returning to England to rethink his career. But, he did have a vision of turning bland concerts into full 3-D performances with costumes, lights, smoke, acrobats. He set the tone for the concert extravaganzas of today.” Hochheimer was influenced by many people in his early radio career, in particular by Augie Blume, who was the national promotion director for RCA Records when Hochheimer, then a 19-year-old DJ in Boston, first met him. Their friendship spanned 40 years and when Blume passed away in 2009, he left his large jazz record collection to Hochheimer, who decided to honor his friend by including Blume’s name in the title of his radio program.
Rhythm in Bloom paints a musical landscape that is quite different from what most listeners hear on the radio, says Hochheimer. “The program is unique in its focus on how different musical genres compare and contrast with each other,” he says. “I consciously juxtapose tunes so that there is some connection between the two in terms of key, rhythm, chord progression, beat, and lyrics, and I want the listener to hear (that) juxtaposition.”
“(Augie) taught me to respect my listeners, leading them from what they listened to and liked toward fresh sounds, fresh ideas,” says Hochheimer. “This helped form the foundation of my teaching practice, which I have been working on for more than 35 years now. He also taught me how to hear underlying connections between differing pieces and genres of music, and to lead my listeners in this continuing discovery.”
Listeners have responded well to Rhythm in Bloom over the past five years, sending Hochheimer numerous emails and letters in support of the program. “One letter in particular came from the from the father of a young girl near Mt. Vernon,” says Hochheimer. “(He) wrote that the music had inspired his daughter to keep playing and practicing her saxophone.”
Blume’s influence extends to Hochheimer’s goals for Rhythm in Bloom and the impact he hopes it has on listeners. “I hope to inspire a love of music and the enjoyment to be derived from relaxed listening,” he says. “I hope to share what I have learned about the music and the socio-cultural moment within which it emerged, so that people can feel more connected with the music and the people who made it.”
Election 2014 Specials WSIU InFocus: 115th House District
all Election 2014 Specials on WSIU-TV sponsored by
Bill Kilquist (D-Carbondale), Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro) THU, OCT 9, 9pm (repeat from 9/25) - On WSIU-TV Visit wsiunews.org to hear a 115th House District debate recorded 9/28 at the Carbondale Civic Center, which includes a statement from Gary Shepherd (G-Carbondale).
12th Congressional District Debate, Marion
William Enyart (D-Belleville), Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro), Paula Bradshaw (G-Carbondale) WED, OCT 8, 7pm - LIVE on WSIU Radio THU, OCT 9, 9:30pm - On WSIU-TV (taped; repeats 10/12, 3:30pm)
Illinois Gubernatorial Debate, WTVP Peoria
Pat Quinn (D-Chicago), Bruce Rauner (R-Winnetka) THU, OCT 9, 8pm - LIVE on WSIU-TV & WSIU Radio (repeats on WSIU-TV 10/12, 2pm)
Chicago Tonight: U.S. Senate Candidates, WTTW
Richard Durbin (D-Springfield), Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove) WED, OCT 29, 7pm - LIVE on WSIU-TV & WSIU Radio
12th Congressional District Debate, Belleville
William Enyart (D-Belleville), Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro), Paula Bradshaw (G-Carbondale) THU, OCT 30, 7pm - On WSIU-TV (recorded 10/29) MON, NOV 3, 8pm - On WSIU Radio (tentative)
Gubernatorial debate sponsors WSIU, WTVP, WILL / Illinois Public Media, WUIS, League of Women Voters of Illinois
congressional debate sponsors WSIU, Southern Illinoisan, Belleville News-Democrat, League of Women Voters of Jackson County, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU
SIRIS Volunteer
Jessica Hall SIRIS reader Jessica Hall started volunteering at the Southern Illinois Radio information Service (SIRIS) after hearing about SIRIS on Carbondale’s local community radio station, WDBX. She has been volunteering for almost a full year and loves it because it’s a fun and easy way to help out. When asked about her favorite part of volunteering for SIRIS she said, “The only time I read the newspaper is when I’m here, so it’s kind of nice that once a week, I learn all of this local news.” Hall goes above and beyond her weekly commitment and helps in other ways when needed, like at the SIRIS Classic Vinyl and Media Sale in September. She said she could not imagine a community without services like SIRIS, explaining “That’s one of the things that I like about Carbondale. That’s what makes a community a community.” Though Hall was born in West Virginia, she grew up in nearby Oraville and attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. “I’ve lived here for most of ever,” she said. Hall is a working artist and graduated from SIU in 2006 with a BFA in drawing. After getting married, she moved to California with the hopes of working in the gaming industry. Both her and her husband were successful as game testers for a number of different Japanese companies, but concluded that the competitive nature of the gaming industry was not what they were looking in a career. So, they returned to Carbondale. Hall really enjoys watching Downton Abbey and Masterpiece Theater, and loves listening to WSIU and WDBX, as well. “I just really like that there are so many different kinds of music,” she said. “I can turn on my radio and its opera one day, and then the next day it’s all jazz, and then someone’s telling me the news.” While she is hoping to get more involved in other volunteer opportunities in Carbondale, Jessica currently has other hobbies. She likes to relax by playing video games or caring for her plants, and is heavily in involved in community theater, appearing in local productions of Charlie Brown, Oklahoma, Little Red Riding Hood, and Lil’ Abner, to name a few. She currently has a role as one of the members of the chorus for a production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Marion, which will take place October 30-31 t at the Marion Cultural and Civic Center.
The New Boom: NPR’s Millennials Series
On Morning Edition & All Things Considered | October 6-31 By 2030, Millennials – people between the ages of 18 and 33 – will outnumber Baby Boomers. NPR examines the Millennial influence in this series directed by the youngest people on NPR’s staff. Topics include education, jobs and work, family, buying habits, racial and cultural identity, food, communication, political activism, and sexual and gender values.
Environmentalism Is Out? Weekend Edition | October 11
What’s A Millennial? Morning Edition | October 6
NPR’s Elise Hu reports on the spending habits of Millennials and how they are changing charity as we know it.
What are the cultural and social links that bind this generation together? Social scientists define what NPR means when they say “Millennial.”
Defining A Generation All Things Considered | October 6
An interview with author Paul Taylor and Millennials, previewing the series and its findings.
Undereducated, Unemployed All Things Considered | October 7
The Millennial narrative often centers around the over-educated and underemployed. This story comes out of hyper-educated Boston, where the contrast is stark.
American Identity Morning Edition | October 8
Fewer than a third of Millennials believe the U.S. is the greatest country in the world. NPR looks at how this view may affect America’s role in the world as Millennials gains greater influence.
Millennials and Politics All Things Considered | October 9
Projections that Millennials are once and forever enthusiastic Democrats will be put to the test of the next few cycles.
Still Rocking The Vote Morning Edition | October 10
Fewer than one in four voters aged 18-29 say they will definitely be voting in November -- the lowest level of interest seen in many years among that age group.
Millennial Consumers All Things Considered | October 24
While 44% of the Silent Generation and 42% of Boomers call themselves “environmentalists”, only 32% feel this way. Why has the label of “environmentalist” become so toxic?
Millennials have a lot of buying power, but they aren’t putting it towards cars or homes the way previous generations did at their age. NPR’s Sonari Glinton follows the dollars.
Platforms For Giving All Things Considered | October 13
Depression Weekend Edition | October 26
Millennials and Marriage Morning Edition | October 15
The college-educated Millennial generation is waiting longer than ever to marry and have kids and an increasing number of them may never tie the knot at all. Researchers say all this is leading to even greater inequality.
Millennials In Hollywood All Things Considered | October 17
NPR’s Bilal Qureshi explores what today’s dystopian movies about young adults say about the aspirations and struggles of Millennials and about Hollywood.
Cohabitation All Things Considered | October 18/TBD
Millennials are more likely to co-habitate than marry, but how do you break up when you can’t break your lease?
Marketing Morning Edition | October 20
Are Millennials really more depressed than other generations? The rates of major depressive disorder and suicides among this group have stayed stable for 15 years. Is it just that the way we talk about mental illness that’s changed?
Future Doctors Morning Edition | October 27
Millennials are the next generation of doctors, and they’re not afraid to say “chillax” in a consultation or check the Twittersphere to find the most up-to-date medical research. They argue that their information will be more accurate if they go to their phones or computers to check.
Managing Millennials All Things Considered | October 28
Craig Malloy’s computer hardware company is competing for labor against start-up cloud companies offering better salaries and perks. He’s also had to manage friction between Millennials and their Baby Boomer associates, whose priorities are different and contributions unique.
Millennials In Trades Morning Edition | October 31
Self-deprecation, or no marketing at all – that’s how you win the hearts of Millennials.
Are Millennials pursuing high-paying jobs in plumbing, construction, and electrical work more than Gen Xers? NPR’s Chris Arnold reports.
Stuck In McAllen, Texas All Things Considered | October 22
Drop-Outs Debt All Things Considered | October 31
McAllen, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley has the highest unemployment among Millennials in the country. Yet the mostly first or second generation Mexican-American students wouldn’t consider moving away from family for work.
40% of Millennials with some college, but no 4-year degree, have student loan debt. They are often low-income or the first in their family to attempt college, and racking up debt for 1-2 years can be enough to push them out.
october 4 & 5 New Releases
Our monthly roundup of new and recent releases from both sides of the Atlantic.
october 11 & 12 Good Friends, Good Music
Taking our title from a 1977 album by Boys of the Lough, we explore music by and about friends.
october 18 & 19 The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling
THANK YOU!
Please join us in thanking the underwriters who recently began, renewed, or expanded their partnership to make public radio possible:
Carbondale Tourism Carbondale
Hedman Vineyards & Peach Barn Café Alto Pass
Can you handle an all-piping show? This week we explore the great variety of bagpipes in Celtic music, from the Great Highland Pipes of Scotland to the Uilleann Pipes of Ireland to the pipes of Northumbria and Galicia.
october 25 & 26 The Celtic Cruise
Join us this week for a cruise along the shores of the Celtic lands, from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to the Isle of Man, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia, and across the pond to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Marion Subaru Marion
Rend Lake Area Tourism Council Benton
Southern Illinois Irish Festival Carbondale
Saturday 7pm & Sunday 6pm
For a complete list of WSIU sponsors and information about sponsoring WSIU’s programs and services, visit us online at wsiu.org or call (618) 453-4344.
Changing Lives
of Women Series October 18 Makers: Women in Comedy 2:30pm @ the Carbondale Public Library [405 W. Main St.]
Makers is a six-part PBS series profiling the impact women have had over the past 50 years in six industries — comedy, Hollywood, space, war, business, and politics. Join us for our first Community Cinema film and discussion featuring the episode 1 of MAKERS! Makers: Women in Comedy celebrates women who have reshaped American culture and gives the opportunity to honor local women who have made extraordinary contributions. Contemporary comics, including Joan Rivers, Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett, Kathy Griffin, Mo’Nique, Chelsea Handler, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sarah Silverman, talk about where women started in this competitive, male-dominated profession and where they are determined to go.
Morning Edition & All Things Considered September 29 - November 3 Changing Lives of Women returns to take a look at how the image of women has changed as they’ve gained financial and political autonomy.
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