In this week’s episode, Ken White interviews Darden’s Director of Student Affairs, Marsh Pattie about the characteristics of a new generation of students: the millennials.

On the November 30 edition of WINA’s Best Seat in the House, Jed and Joey talk about the announcement that U.Va has decided not to pick up the rolling 5th year option on Al Groh’s contract and how that impacts Groh’s stature and job security.

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“There cannot be the rule of law if there is no freedom of the press,” says Lucie Morillon, who works for the group Reporters Without Borders. She recently spoke with Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss what the organization does.

“Reporters Without Borders is an international press freedom organization, and our mandate is to protect journalists, to get journalists out of jail, to bring to justice people responsible for the murder of journalists,” says Morillon. Journalists who publish stories on corruption are particular targets.

North Korea, Eritrea, and Turkmenistan have the worst records on press freedom, according to Morillan, but the United States ranks 53rd out of 168 countries in terms of press freedom. As one example, she points to the imprisonment of freelance journalist Josh Wolf in California for refusing to reveal the name of a source.

Mark Drumbl is the director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University, and a guest on the November 28th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. He and Coy Barefoot discuss the many trials Saddam Hussein will need to go through before actually being put to death, as well as how his trial has not helped the country unify. “The trial just isn’t that important for a lot of Iraqis and it certainly isn’t succeeding in curbing sectarian violence.” But Drumbl says that doesn’t mean Saddam Hussein should not continue to be prosecuted.

How might climate change affect the way in which roads are designed? Dr. Michael Meyer, director of the Georgia Transportation Institute, delivers a Distinguished Lecture hosted by the U.Va Center for Transportation Studies.