Turkish Election, Slaves Who Saved Georgetown, Overeating

Turkish Election, North Korea, Brexit Guest: Quinn Mecham, Professor of Political Science, BYU A major election outcome in Turkey is Top of Mind today as we welcome regular contributor Quinn Mecham back into the studio. He’s a professor of political science here at BYU and joins us monthly with a look at three international events worth closer consideration. The Slaves Who Saved Georgetown University Guest: Judy Riffel, Lead Genealogist, Georgetown Memory Project One of the nation’s top universities owes its existence to the traumatic sale of 272 slaves – men, women and children – in 1838. At the time, the Jesuit priests who ran what would become Georgetown University were deeply in debt. Selling off all of their slaves raised the equivalent of $3.3 million today and saved the university.  But the debt Georgetown University owes to these 272 African American slaves had been largely forgotten until a few years ago when a campaign to recognize them was started by students, faculty and alumni.  In an effort to make amends, university officials recently decided to give preference to descendants of those slaves who apply to attend to Georgetown. On April 18, the university will hold a ceremony to memorialize the 272 slaves and rename a building in honor of Isaac Hawkins, the first slave listed on the sale documents. To learn more about the project click here. Men’s Marriage Views Guest: Nicholas H. Wolfinger, PhD, Professor of Family and Consumer Studies, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah Marriage has a bad rap in the minds of some young men. Researchers at the Institute for Family Studies cite one 29-year-old man who said he’d “much rather buy a condo by the beach in Florida, work 10–20 hours a week with plenty of time and money to relax and . . . hang out with friends than marry a 30-year-old woman and take care of her into old age by working 50 hours a week at a job I don’t like.”  Declining rates of marriage among US men in their 20s and 30s would suggest the old ball-and-chain notion o