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From Chicago Public Radio, Jody Becker reports on a budget-cutting proposal by Loyola University Chicago to eliminate the Classical Studies department and spread its faculty and courses across other departments. Some professors and students, however, argue that the move would be a departure from the strong classical traditions of Jesuit education.

In Louisiana, two men fought over a life jacket, one lost and drowned, the other survived and is now charged with murder. John Ydstie talks with Yale law Professor Kate Stith about the ethics, and history involved in this sort of trial.

John talks to Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the spate of bad tv shows featuring movie stars.

John talks about this week's meeting in Havana of the former adversaries of the the Bay of Pigs invasion.

PR's Steve Inskeep reports on the tenor of Senate campaign finance debate.

Texas Tech University has decided to hire the highly combustible former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight. Knight was fired by Indiana after a series of confrontations with players, officials and fans over the years. He also won three national championships at Indiana.

John talks to Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rappaport about the latest round of NCAA basketball playoffs.

NPR's John Burnett reports on a radio station in San Antonio that broadcasts the locale of Border Patrol agents to undocumented workers.

John talks with musician Ben Harper. Next week, Mr. Harper releases his fifth album. It's a two-CD set of concert recordings called Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals: Live From Mars (Virgin Records America).

Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports on a recent survey of teen gambling in Connecticut. The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling found that 87-percent of high school students had gambled at some point in their lives. The state-sponsored lottery was their favorite form of legalized gambling.

Lisa talks with New York Times food critic William Grimes. Grimes, who writes about tasting chicken and other foods for a living, was very surprised to find a living breathing, scratching, pecking chicken in his own Queens, New York, backyard.

Are we in a slowdown, or the beginning of a recession? The Economic Cycle Research Institute studies the stock market and other economic indicators, and NPR's Kathy Schalch has a report on what it thinks is coming.