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Kaye Kaminishi is the last surviving member of the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball club. The team was disbanded 75 years ago today, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. After the attacks, the Canadian government responded by interning 21,000 Japanese Canadians. including every member of the Asahi. A Proud Benchwarmer is Kaye’s story. A Proud Benchwarmer was produced by Sam Fenn, Gordon Katic, Alexander Kim, and Eli Yarhi for The Canadian Encyclopedia, a division of Historica Canada. Fact checking by Lawrence Pinsky. Special thanks to Jari Osborne for putting us in touch with Kaye Kaminishi. You can read more about Kaye Kaminishi and the Vancouver Asahi on Historica’s website. In the second half of the show, Gordon talks to Geoffrey White, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i, about the politics of memory at Pearl Harbor. His ethnography of the site tells the story of how different stories compete for space in the public remembrance of the Second World War.

Across Canada, Mennonite-volunteers are helping high-risk sex-offenders reintegrate after they're released from prison. Sam Fenn goes to Regina to meet a sex offender and the group of untrained volunteers who spend their free time with him.

Across Canada, Mennonite-volunteers are helping high-risk sex-offenders reintegrate after they’re released from prison. Sam Fenn goes to Regina to meet a sex offender and the group of untrained volunteers who spend their free time with him.

Sex offenders are the most reviled and abused criminals in prison. But eventually, most of them will get out. So, what happens next? This is part one of a two-part documentary series we produced in partnership with the CBC Doc Project and the University of Washington Center For Human Rights. On this episode, you’ll hear the story of Chris Dum, a doctoral student who rented a room in the The Boardwalk — upstate New York’s infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel.’ A quick note, Chris’ university ethics board made him change all the names in this research project, because the work is with a very vulnerable population. He used fake names for the motel, the people in the motel, and the city. We agreed to maintain this anonymity in order to tell this story. Plus, the back half of this episode includes an interview with the University of Washington’s Katherine Beckett. We discuss how criminal justice policy and research has changed since the 1980s, and what a Trump presidency will mean for reform efforts.

Sex offenders are the most reviled and abused criminals in prison. But eventually, most of them will get out. So, what happens next? This is part one of a two-part documentary series we produced in partnership with the CBC Doc Project and the University of Washington Center For Human Rights. On this episode, you'll hear the story of Chris Dum, a doctoral student who rented a room in the The Boardwalk -- upstate New York's infamous 'Sex Offender Motel.' A quick note, Chris' university ethics board made him change all the names in this research project, because the work is with a very vulnerable population. He used fake names for the motel, the people in the motel, and the city. We agreed to maintain this anonymity in order to tell this story. Plus, the back half of this episode includes an interview with the University of Washington's Katherine Beckett. We discuss how criminal justice policy and research has changed since the 1980s, and what a Trump presidency will mean for reform efforts.

This week, Cited teamed up with the CBC to bring you the story of the worst motel in upstate New York and the sociologist who decided to live there to study America's most hated criminals.

We got it wrong. Trump won. We talk to Penn State professor Michael Bérubé about how this happened. Then we talk to higher ed policy wonk Alexander Holt about what happens next.

Sam talks to SFU geographer Paul Kingsbury his project studying the paranormal community. Plus, transphobic U of T Prof is under fire. German psychologists are mad at Dutch Data Nerds. Philosophers are receiving mysterious packages of shit. And we remember Tom Hayden.

The people clamour for more talk on university applications; virtual counselling is probably better than nothing; and Donald Trump had a good idea? Plus, Natasha Warikoo on meritocracy, diversity, and college applications.

An interview about the worst debate ever. It's probably time to take Clinton's higher ed plan a bit more serious. And Colin Kaepernick is still making some white people mad.

Jeff Coats was 14 years old when he kidnapped David Grenier. 20 years later, Jeff and David reflect on the crime and how it transformed their lives.

We celebrate the release of Homa Hoodfar with an episode about academic freedom around the world. Plus, Sam talks to a South African #FeesMustFall protester who says students at his school are being ignored because they are black and poor.

Sam Fenn talks to anthropologist Christopher Knight about the disconnect between Noam Chomsky's politics and his science. Plus, a biologist honours President Obama by naming a parasite after him. And Alex brings us a story about Harvard's secret gay court.

Producer Alex Kim talks to Professor David Price about how anthropologists have helped the CIA--from the Cold War to the Iraq War. Plus, how Big Sugar bought off some Harvard scientists. And Sam and Gordon debate what to do about really smart kids.

Even better than we were the last time: Cited is back! Sam talks to sociologist Amy Binder about how life is for conservative students on liberal campuses. Economist Russ Roberts shows us how to fake being well read. Stella and Jack Suberman reminisce on the GI Bill and how it changed American higher learning.