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...That event really wiped us out, in terms of being beyond the capacity of our staff,” says Cambridge Forum director Pat Suhrcke. “It took a lot of planning, and there are only two half time staff members.” Despite the strain on the program, however, the massive turnout for the Franken seminar may be an indication of newfound political interest among the Cambridge community...
...Forum complements this increasing consciousness by booking expert guests from all disciplines and backgrounds. Upcoming speakers, for example, include Iraq expert Toby Dodge and Catherine Orenstein, a journalist and cultural critic who has written a book about the evolution of ethics and gender in fairy tales...
...Lots of our guests are academics—scholars who would usually speak to classrooms,” says Suhrcke. “But here they’re in a public forum, talking to members of the general public, trying to share the insights that their training and their expertise give them...
...Forum has paid special attention to colleges ever since its beginning in 1967, Suhrcke says, when the Unitarian Universalist’s Association decided to launch a response to the teach-ins that many universities were conducting at the time...
...Forum remained a Cambridge phenomenon for its first three seasons, inviting little-known expert guests to small, off-air discussion groups to increase awareness on a local level. In 1970, Bob Ferrante, currently the executive producer of NPR’s Morning Edition in Boston, discovered the sessions and asked to record them for radio. Most recently, the show has expanded onto the internet, offering many of its past shows in streaming RealAudio format for download...