March 16, 1984 - William Walsh, doctor and creator of Project HOPE, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Walsh’s address was on the topic of his service on the Kissinger Commission panel. Following speech, Walsh answered audience questions. President Reagan appointed twelve people to serve on a bipartisan commission to advise him on this country's Central America policy. The commission was chaired by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, so the panel soon became known as the Kissinger Commission on Central America. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
March 24, 1984 - On this Weekend program, Kathleen Morris, Scott County attorney, discusses the laws governing sexual abuse of children. Morris has prosecuted several widely publicized sexual abuse cases. Morris also answers listener questions.
April 28, 1984 - On this Weekend program, Jocelyn Tilsen, director of Twin Cities Parents Anonymous chapter, and two parents active in group, talk about help and support available to abusive parents. Tilsen also answers listener questions.
May 1, 1984 - Part one of a three-part Human Rights Series. Program features recorded testimony from the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals. Richard Oakes, Hamline University Law School founder, narrates the program.
May 8, 1984 - Part two of a three-part Human Rights Series. Program features discussion with Walter Anastas, law professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul and born in the Ukraine; Barbara Frye, vice president of the Minnesota Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights and has spent time in Chile; and Jerry Ingber, an immigration lawyer familiar with political asylum issues.
May 15, 1984 - Part three of a three-part Human Rights Series The impact that non-governmental organizations can have on human rights abuses are discussed by David Weissbrodt, past General Counsel of Amnesty International and current law professor at the U of M; Hennepin County Judge Roberta Levy; and Sam Heins, president of the Minnesota Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights.
June 12, 1984 - Adolescent girls rap about the future at Spring Hill Conference Center, in Wayzata. Joan Lipsitz, Director of the Center for Early Adolescence at the University of North Carolina, lead panel discussion.
July 23, 1984 - Dr. Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, speaking at 6th annual Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial lecture, held at St. Cloud State University. Boyer’s address was titled, “The Future of Education in America." He lays out what he sees as five key qualities for school renewal.
July 25, 1984 - PLEASE NOTE - The broadcast contains explicit language and graphic descriptions. Fred de Sam Lazaro, WSCD-Duluth reporter, presents a documentary investigating child abuse in northeastern Minnesota. The first widely publicized case of incest or child sexual abuse was the Cermak family - grandparents, uncles, aunts and parents, who were convicted about a year ago of repeated sexual abuse of children from their infancy through adolescence. Since the Cermaks, numerous other cases have been uncovered, and the prosecutor of the Cermak case, Kathleen Morris, says the problem is far more prevalent than most of us would like to believe.
August 4, 1984 - On this Weekend program, Joseph Rossillon, president of the Freshwater Foundation, talks about acid rain, ground water contamination and the adequacy of water supplies. Rossillon also answers listener questions.