From Across the Yard: April 19, 2009

If you missed the season finale of From Across the Yard, you can listen to it in its entirety here: FATY 4.19.09.

Thanks to our host, Colleen Carlston!

This week:

• Silverglate - Jon Staff interviewed this outsider candidate for Harvard’s Board of Overseers.
• Kuumba - Gabby Bryant speaks with her fellow singer about what Kuumba, a non-exclusive group for black spiritual music, has meant to them at Harvard.
• Relay for Life - Eric Romo attended this all-night event beginning on April 10^th in support of cancer research and awareness.
• Angles in America - Lois Beckett explores how Harvard college students dealt with portraying characters afflicted with AIDS.
• Goodbye - Alyce de Carteret bids farewell as she steps down from her position as news director at WHRB.

NOTE: Due to some filing errors, not all of the stories will be immediately available for individual download. We hope to get these up as soon as we can!

Thanks for tuning in this year! We hope you'll join us when we return this coming September for more From Across the Yard.

From Across the Yard: Happy St. Patrick's Day!

If you missed the March 22^nd, 2009 episode of From Across the Yard, our biweekly newsmagazine, you can check out the entire episode here: FATY 3.22.09.

Thank you to our host Natalie Panno!

This week we had a wide variety of different stories ranging from the scientific, to the political, to the seasonal.

Tune in:

National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference – Colleen Carlston attends and records this segment with Christine Mitchell, the Director of the Office of Ethics at the Children's Hospital of Boston and the Director of Clinical Ethics for the Harvard teaching hospitals.

Interview with Jim Ramstad – Jon Staff talks with former U.S. Congressman Jim Ramstad of Minnesota, a moderate Republican who was in Congress from 1990 until 2009, to talk about his term in office.

Leprechauns – Alyce de Carteret speaks with Professor Kate Chadbourne, who teaches Irish language and literature, to investigate the history of the Leprechaun in time for St. Patrick’s Day. You can listen to the interview with Kate Chadbourne in its entirety here: Kate Chadbourne Interview. Also check out her flute performance in our studio: Kate Chadbourne Performance.

The School Bus Driver – The fourth in a series of pieces by students at the Community Charter School of Cambridge. This week, a piece by Nephtalie Bernard. If you liked this story, check out Bernard's other piece: Writing.

Thanks for listening to the latest From Across the Yard! We’ll be back on April 5^th, 2009 with more news and stories you won’t hear anywhere else.