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Interviews with news makers and discussion of topics important to Southwest Michigan. Subscribe to the podcast through Apple itunes and Google. Segments of interview are heard in WestSouthwest Brief during Morning Edition and All Things Considered

WestSouthwest: July 28, 2014

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On this edition of WestSouthwest, Western Michigan President John Dunn speaks with WMUK's Andy Robins and Yvonne Zipp of the Kalamazoo Gazette about the national focus on campus sexual assaults as well as the crackdown on for-profit college and future plans for property in downtown Kalamazoo owned by WMU.

And, WMUK's EArlene McMichael speaks with Dr. Sampson Davis, one of the "Three Doctors," a team of New York Times bestselling authors. They're coming to speak in Kalamazoo at 7 p.m., July 30, in Chenery Auditorium. The event is organiZed by Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation and its student group Jeter's leaders in cooperation with PNC Bank and the Kalamazoo Community Foundation. Davis talks about growing up African-American in a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, and making a pact with his two friends that all three would stay in school and become successful doctors.

Andy Robins has been WMUK's News Director since 1998 and a broadcast journalist for over 24 years. He joined WMUK's staff in 1985. Under his direction, WMUK has received numerous awards for news reporting.
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