Thursday, August 16, 2007

Today’s Response
Middle Tennessee State University

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” the culmination of the hippie counterculture, which will be celebrated with a free concert in San Francisco this Sunday. Dr. Paul Fischer, recording industry, was only 10 at the time, but his parents made the trek to San Francisco along with thousands of others. “In short, California’s newly psychedelic subculture was forced into the mainstream by the media that summer,” Fischer says. “October saw a solemn procession into Golden Gate Park proclaiming ‘The Death of Hippie,’ lamenting the commodification and commercialization of the Free Love ethos. 1967’s ‘Summer of Love’ is when America became aware of the rising youth culture of the Baby Boomers and succeeded in blunting its impact with overattention.”

Contact Fischer at 615-898-5470.
pfischer@mtsu.edu

Happy birthday, India!

India is embarking on her 61st year of independence from British rule. Dr. Anantha Babbili, dean of the College of Mass Communication, says his native country has managed to thrive as a democracy, despite numerous ups and downs. “Turbulent years of finding its identity as a modern nation have [thrust] India to its rightful seat at the table of world's powerful countries,” Babbili says. “India is now a rising economic power positioned to be a major player in high-tech innovations, low-cost medicines and best of health care. Managing a growing population, that shot past 1.2 billion, will remain her top priority. But, politically she remains stable and continues to address the challenges of poverty and disparities between the rich and the poor.”

Contact Babbili at 615-898-5872.
ababbili@mtsu.edu

Pound for pound

By the year 2015, 75 percent of U.S. adults will be overweight and 41 percent will be obese if they continue gaining weight at the current rate, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Lisa Sheehan-Smith, human sciences, says program initiatives to reverse this trend should be family- and community-based. “One particular program that is a collaborative effort among several area community agencies (including MTSU faculty) and sponsored by the Discovery Center is ‘Discovering Healthy Families.’ It is an education program designed for families to teach the entire family how to live a healthier life. We emphasize becoming more physically active and preparing tasty, nutritious meals as a family. The pilot program indicated promising initial results.”

Contact Sheehan-Smith at 615-898-2090.
lsheehan@mtsu.edu

TR EXTRA

AUDIO AUGMENTATION--Give your kids a wholesome, fun extracurricular activity this school year. Enroll your child in the Youth Culture and Arts Center’s (YCAC) next recording workshop at MTSU. The current enrollment period is in effect through Sept. 7 for the upcoming Sept. 13-Oct. 12 workshop in MTSU’s John Bragg Mass Communication Building. The workshop is for youngsters ages 12-17, and the fee is $125 per student. Classes are taught by Ryan York, a 21-year-old MTSU student and teacher of guitar, bass, and drums lessons at Chambers Guitars and Musical Instruments in Murfreesboro. Ryan will provide instruction in cassette four-track instruction, digital eight-track, computer recording and electronic music. All proceeds will benefit YCAC, a program of Youth Empowerment Through Arts and Humanities (YEAH), a nonprofit organization. Call 615-631-9479 or contact York at bororecording@gmail.com.