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In The Know: The Director’s Cut

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Welcome to In The Know: The Director’s Cut.
I’m KVRX News Director Vanessa Castaneda.
Today I’m sharing some of my favorite shows from the spring 2008 season with you.
In the Birthcontrol episode, Gulie Fager from U.T. Austin’s University Health Services was in the studio. Coming up: candid discussion about whether you can lose something inside the vagina, [...]

Institutionalized racism

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Earlier this evening, we discussed HB 588 a.k.a the Top Ten percent law and how it relates to racism on In The Know.
A Sugar Land teen who didn’t make the cut is suing U.T. Austin, because she says race and ethnicity shouldn’t be used to determine whether a student is admitted into the school.
Oddly enough, [...]

Tonight on In The Know: Top Ten Percent

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

This week we’re talking about the Top Ten Percent rule.
It’s a life saver for some and a stupid piece of legislation to others. We hear the same issue brought up every year. Should Texas get rid of this whole admissions process? And are Texas students taking advantage, and filling up the same public university.
It’s more [...]

Sexin’ up your ipod

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

As promised, here’s the second half of the In The Know which aired April 2, 2008.
We talked about birth control with University of Texas at Austin Health Education Coordinator Gulielma Leonard Fager, MPH.
Download it to your ipod or zune or whatev and listen to it.
We’ll keep you company while you cavort through the pollen showers [...]

 
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Birthcontrol: UT-Austin

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Who is responsible for birth control? The woman or the man?
In The Know reporter Abhinav Kumar pounded the pavement at UT Austin in search of perspective to provide you with websclusive content.

 
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Fishing

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Wednesday, on In The Know: We’re talking birth control. We heard about a 30-dollar paternity test and opinions started flying.
Who’s responsible for birth control? The guy or the girl?
What about specific methods like the ring? Does anyone really want something up their yaya for months?
We’ll also talk about _______________. This is where you come in.
Tell [...]

UT Students start tech company

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Tonight on In The Know:  A group of U-T students is getting together to start a technology company in 2 and a half days.
Founder of Venture Weekend, Alex Schliker, will join us to discuss why UT students want to deviate from the normal career path, and how Venture [...]

Video of the Radio Stars

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

This just in: 24 Seven cameras followed Vanessa Castaneda and Mireya Garcia into the dj booth during last night’s In The Know.
Woo! We were live on the radio and TV AT THE SAME TIME! The grapevine says this may be a weekly occurrence. RSS this blog for updates. We’ll post that [...]

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Tonight on In The Know:
What happened to the Rockstar?
 
We’ll talk about how pop charts and money became more important.  We’ll also talk about how Kurt Cobain, the anti rock star, became a pop culture phenomenon.  

The Business of Resource Accumulation

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Tonight on In The Know, we’re talking about social mobility with a focus on business growth.
What is social mobility?  For our show tonight, social mobility is defined as the ability to change social status in class.  Class status is directly related to the ability to accumulate resources, including money.  Some people accumulate money by [...]