The Daily Northwestern Podcasts

How has the rise in reports of anti-Asian racism impacted the Northwestern community? Northwestern students share their experiences with and comment on the rise of anti-Asian racism in the time of COVID-19. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/22/multimedia/defining-safe-the-spread-of-coronavirus-and-anti-asian-racism/ Resources for Asian American students: NAKASEC Community Resources for COVID-1...

This isn’t the first time the world has survived a pandemic, and it is possible history will repeat itself. What can the 1918 influenza and HIV tell us about what lies ahead? Listen as Jacob Fulton and Neya Thanikachalam break down the social and historical context of the novel coronavirus. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/17/top-stories/brainstorm-what-past-pandemics-can-teach-us/

As a stay-at-home order has been issued in the state of Illinois, booksellers have had to find ways to adapt to help promote social distancing. Independent bookstore Bookends & Beginnings started a GoFundMe campaign after the stay-at-home order was issued. Evanston Public Library has transitioned their programming to be all digital during the pandemic. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/17/mult...

Meet Quadio. It’s Spotify, SoundCloud and LinkedIn all in one, and it’s for college students. We talk to the platform’s co-founder, Joe Welch, and two Northwestern students who are Quadio campus reps. One of them is an artist, the other’s a manager. Both have met collaborators through the app. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/15/multimedia/sound-source-meet-people-and-make-music-all-online/

How do the languages you speak change the way you think? The answer’s surprisingly complicated. Read the full article here: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/12/multimedia/audio/brainstorm-multilingualism-and-the-mind/

Freshmen Christine Potermin and Andrea Hancock have found ways to cope with stress and anxiety during the coronavirus outbreak. In addition to Zoom and FaceTime, students are getting creative and using platforms like Minecraft to stay calm, connected and occupied. Read the full article here: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/04/12/multimedia/audio/speak-your-mind-stay-home-stay-calm/

As COVID-19 shakes our world, small businesses still find ways to continue on with closed storefronts. Local governments are doing what they can to help, but many businesses are looking to the federal level for aid. Meanwhile, Evanston businesses take creative approaches to help each other through this pandemic.

When Northwestern offered little guidance for the path ahead, student groups like Tufaan Entertainment were left to decide whether to cancel their events or risk everyone’s health in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois. NU Declassified takes an inside look at what this decision process looked like for the co-directors of Tufaan Entertainment. Read The Daily Northwestern article her...

After traveling home, international students faced different quarantine experiences depending on their home country’s policies. Hear the perspectives of French student Lucia Rossignol and Chinese student Banksy Yin in this latest episode of NU Declassified.

“If I got stuck in China, I can’t do anything.” Amid closing borders and limited flights, Northwestern international students make the hard decision of whether to stay here or go home. “Read the full article here: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/03/26/multimedia/nu-declassified-to-stay-or-not-to-stay/

Last week, CAPS sponsored events and speakers for Body Acceptance Week. Hosted by the College Feminists, we spoke with registered dietician Megan Campbell who came to talk about the relationship between food and body positivity. College Feminists Publicity Chair sophomore Sheridan Bernard told us about why they wanted Campbell to come speak and freshman Annika Hiredesai talked about her relationsh...

“I'm happy with the way we do Undergraduate Admissions. By any measure over my 11 years, the diversity of the undergraduate student body is skyrocketing.” On the latest episode of NU Declassified, hear President Morton Schapiro on legacy admissions (1:00), divestment (6:34), and plans to bring back the skating rink (5:29). https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/03/06/multimedia/president-morton-schapi...

Fifty teams pitched Northwestern improvement projects, three emerged with grants. This week, NU Declassified takes you on a tour of ImproveNU 2020.

In the 1980s, four Evanston teens got together to make a punk band. Now, their story is a musical. Get to know the original members of Verböten on the latest episode of Everything Evanston. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/03/06/multimedia/audio/everything-evanston-1980s-evanston-band-inspires-musical/

First-year Ray Tsao produces a variety of music. Since coming to Northwestern, he has continued with his passion despite limitations. Listen to how he has adjusted from making music in his own private studio to his “little box” of a dorm room on the latest episode of Sound Source.

Welcome to part two of the Seen Not Heard series. If you have not listened to the first part of our series, you might want to go back and get filled in. When we left off, summer 2019 was coming to an end and questions remained. At the Cru Leadership Summit that summer, Cru director Kim Johnson announced that Northwestern’s Cru and Impact chapters were splitting up. Reactions from black students in...

With Northwestern students dealing with end-of-quarter stress and the search for summer internships in high swing, many students are balancing packed schedules. But for some, there is another stressor on top of all the work: mental blocks. Speak Your Mind sat down with School of Communication sophomore Ally Hill and Weinberg freshman Aarthi Kottapalli to understand how students work around these b...

Evanston recently became the first city in the Midwest to support the national denuclearization initiative, Back from the Brink. Tune into this week’s episode of The Ripple to hear from some of those who helped make it happen. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/03/05/multimedia/the-ripple-evanston-first-city-in-midwest-to-support-denuclearization-efforts/

Welcome to part one of the Seen Not Heard series. For the past three years, Impact had been a subsidiary of Cru at Northwestern. But on a national level, the two groups work in partnership with one another. Unlike Impact, whose members are black, Cru’s members are mostly white. After growing tensions, those ties ended in summer 2019 when the two chapters parted ways on Northwestern’s campus. In th...

Northwestern students recall what about their childhood makes them nostalgic, pondering the power that nostalgia has in their daily lives. Read full article here: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/03/01/multimedia/audio/podculture-students-and-faculty-reflect-on-nostalgic-films-scores-and-books/#photo

For the third year, students with entrepreneurial aspirations are preparing to compete for over $10,000 prize money at ImproveNU. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/02/28/uncategorized/nu-declassified-from-game-plan-to-grant-student-entrepreneurs-hope-to-win-improvenu/

April 1 is Census Day, but many people don’t know what that means for them or why the census is important. Census workers, city officials and organizations work to spread information and get a complete census count. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/02/26/multimedia/the-ripple-challenges-and-importance-of-the-2020-census/

“In the initial boot camp, you're not allowed to talk to your friends or family unless you get first place at a push-up contest or something, then then they'll give you like a three-minute phone call. That three minutes gives you so much relief and it's like hope.” International students from countries with mandatory military service may have to enlist during or before their time at Northwestern.

Local coffee shops distinguish themselves in the caffeine scene on this episode of Everything Evanston.

Freshman Fifteen, Purple Haze, and Brown Sugar. Some a cappella groups on campus compete, some don’t, and some make studio albums. This episode of Podculture looks at the a capella community on campus, and why some groups choose to take part in competitions, while others prefer to just chill and make music together. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/02/20/multimedia/podculture-for-some-campus-a-c...