As the top administrator of a large university, priorities are important for Dr. Andrew Sorensen. In the week on “Sport in America,” The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell discusses how, as president of the University of South Carolina, he put those priorities into practice regarding the potentially competing interests of sports and academics. Sorensen discusses the trajectory that brought him to the position of university president, his views on the necessity of leadership, and the close relationship he built with the student body at USC – a place where students wore t-shirts with his picture and the saying “Andy is my homeboy.”


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Dr. Donna Lopiano is the immediate past CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation. Through her life, she has been a championship athlete, coach, athletics director, and is now regarded as one of the foremost experts on gender equality in sports. With The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Lopiano discusses the importance of sports for the young and old alike, her experiences as an athlete and trailblazing women’s athletics director, and discusses the similarities between organized sports and religion.


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A renowned sports journalist who has been with Sports Illustrated since the 1960’s, Frank Deford sits down with The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell to discuss much more than sports. Deford provides insight into the craft of writing, the loss of a young child, and why he thinks soccer is not as popular in the United States (and why that’s okay).


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The excitement of the 2008 season is clearly evident in this discussionof season events by Chautauqua President Thomas Becker and Director ofthe Department of Religion, Joan Brown Campbell.


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With the 2008 schedule nearly complete, host Mike Sullivan interviews Chautauqua President Tom Becker and Director of the Department of Religion Rev. Joan Brown Campbell. Becker and Campbell discuss the lecture program for the opening two weeks of the season and provide a brief rundown of the remaining seven weeks. Weeks Three through Nine will be discussed in more detail during a future podcast.


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