Claremont McKenna College is the latest of numerous schools where students are protesting what they say is an unpleasant environment for non-whites; do polls hinder or help our understanding of politics? discussing the rising popularity of food delivery apps and the future of home cooking and a look at how Hollywood portrays journalists and the business of news.
Claremont McKenna students want more than dean’s resignation
Protests over the racial climates at American universities have come to Southern California.
Claremont McKenna College is the latest of numerous schools around the country where students are protesting what they say is an unpleasant environment for non-whites.
CMC's Dean of Students resigned yesterday following outrage over her response to a student who wrote about her unhappiness with the school. Lisette Espinosa wrote an op-ed describing how she didn't feel welcome on the CMC campus. Dean Mary Spellman emailed Espinosa saying she would work to serve those who "don't fit our CMC mold." Some students were offended by that term.
But criticism of CMC administration goes beyond this past week. Back in early April, a Google Doc of proposals was sent to President Hiram Chodosh. Around 30 students of color proposed a Diversity Chair, school funding for multicultural clubs, a resource center for students of color, and mandatory racial sensitivity training for professors.
They also wanted to see a required class in ethnic, racial, and sexuality theory. The 1,300 student school is 43-percent white, 12-percent Latino, 10-percent Asian American, 8-percent mixed race, and 4-percent black.
Guest:
Denys Reyes, a senior at the college who has been active in the recent protests
Election 2016: The polling industrial complex and its impact on U.S. politics
Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s piece in the magazine this week looks at the proliferation of political polls and how it obscures whether than increases our understanding of the current state of politics.
Larry is joined by seasoned pollster and University of Michigan professor Arthur Lupia to discuss the enterprise of polling.
Guest:
Arthur Lupia, author of the forthcoming book, “Uninformed: Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do About It” (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is a former director of the American National Election Studies, which are national surveys of voters in the US conducted by the University of Michigan before and after every presidential election since 1948
Grubhub, Door Dash, Josephine, and Sprig: The future of food delivery startups
Remember the days when you actually had to call a pizza joint or a Chinese place to order your food? So 2000, right?
Well, thanks to the Internet and a few hungry entrepreneurs, we can now get hot food delivered right to our door with just a few taps of a smartphone screen.
In most major cities, apps like Grubhub, Eat24, and Seamless let customers order from the full menus of a number of local restaurants and get a portion of the profits from orders made through the app.
Door Dash contracts drivers to pick up orders from restaurants and bring them to customers, which allows customers to even order from places like fast-food joints or chain restaurants that don’t offer delivery.
Looking to eat healthy, organic food? There’s an app for that, too. Services like Sprig and Munchery set a weekly menu of dishes that can be ordered for delivery and only feature organic ingredients. There’s even an service that lets you order a home-cooked meal from a chef in your neighborhood.
While it’s only available to Bay Area residents, Josephine screens and hires chefs who live in various neighborhoods and offer meals they made right in their kitchen. The catch is that the cooks only offer the meals at certain times of the day, and you have to go to the cook’s house to pick up your food.
Do you prefer to use food delivery apps to calling in your order? Is it the convenience factor or something else? What does the rising popularity of these apps mean for the future of home-cooking? Is there a cost to the convenience factor?
Guest:
Brian X. Chen, lead consumer technology writer for The New York Times
FilmWeek: 'The 33,' 'Love the Coopers,' 'By the Sea' and more
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major and Tim Cogshell review this weekend's new movie releases including "The 33," based on the true story of trapped Chilean miners, the Christmas comedy "Love the Coopers," Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in "By the Sea," and more. TGI-Filmweek!
Guests:
Tim Cogshell, Film Critic for KPCC and Alt-Film Guide; Tim tweets from
Wade Major, film critic for KPCC and host for IGN’s DigiGods.com
How movies such as 'Spotlight' and 'Nightcrawler' portray the news biz
The Oscar buzz is growing for "Spotlight" as it expands into more theaters this weekend.
Based on the true story of "The Boston Globe" investigating sexual abuse cover-ups by the Catholic Church, critics rank it as one of the best movies of all time about journalism.
AirTalk will look at how Hollywood portrays journalists and the business of news.
Which movies cut very close to the truth? Which characters are too heroic or too villainous?
Some notables to get you going: James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News" with Holly Hunter; "The Insider" about the "60 Minutes" expose of Big Tobacco; "Deadline - U.S.A." with Humphrey Bogart as a crusading editor.
Guests:
Tim Cogshell, film Critic for KPCC and Alt-Film Guide; Tim tweets from
Wade Major, film critic for KPCC and host for IGN’s DigiGods.com