Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Campus Racial Uproar, TV Roundup, The Pacific, Autism and Girls
Recent incidents at the University of Missouri and Yale are creating a heated debate about how racial sensitivity is being handled on college campuses. Then a roundup of the latest TV news. And, a look at the state of the great Pacific Ocean.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenThe president of the University of Missouri is stepping down after weeks of protests over his handling of racist incidents on campus. Meanwhile, a thousand miles away at Yale, racial tensions are boiling over on that campus, too. These incidents are creating a heated debate about how racial sensitivity is being handled on college campuses.
Then, Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live" and a roundup of the latest TV news.
And, we chat with Simon Winchester, the author of “Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers.”
And finally, why do so many girls with autism go undiagnosed?
