The Chronicle: Say Something
By Say Something
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Podcast Description
The Chronicle of Higher Education collects stories from college students about what they’re up to and why. Check for new episodes every three weeks.
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Coming Out as Undocumented, and Gay | In this episode, we hear from Jonathan Perez, a student at East Los Angeles College who came to the United States at age 3 and now employs civil disobedience and other forms of activism to try to empower fellow undocumented immigrants. | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 33: A Student ?Poster Child? | -- | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Not Only Did I Skate This Nice Program, but I Wrote the Song' | Timothy Dolensky expresses himself creatively through figure skating and composing music, two passions he combined in a recent performance. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'It's a Good, Overwhelming Feeling to Be There for Somebody' | Beth Ann Grouell, a single mother and a devoted funeral-services student at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, explains why she's always wanted to be a funeral director, and why her five-hour daily commute is worth it. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Here We Were, Being Thrown Directly Into an Emergency SItuation' | Emily Heeren, a junior at Gettysburg College, tells us how she helped rescue a young woman who fell 80 feet off a cliff while hiking at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Wasn't Meant to Be Even Here on This Earth' | Solina Wilhelm, a student at Honolulu Community College, tells us how she has used art to ameliorate the pain of being born as a product of rape. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Realized That a Muslim Family Is Just Like My Family' | Cary Dabney, a junior at Youngstown State University who leads its Interfaith Youth Core, tells us about the life-changing experience that piqued his interest in working with people of other religions. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'You Collect Crazy Incidents That You Never Expected to Happen' | Alexa Jensen, a senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, tells us what it?s like to drive a bus on campus and beyond. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'What We Do Is Targeted Toward Making People Smile' | In this episode, we hear from Alex Wilson, a senior at Northwestern University, who tells us why he co-founded the Happiness Club?and just what the club does. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'i Really Hadn't Given a Bike a Thought For a Long Time Until I Got To College.' | In this episode, we hear from Ashton Cortright, a student at Baldwin-Wallace College, who after losing her front teeth in a bike accident overcame her fear and started a bike co-op on campus. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Never Thought I Would Actually End Up Going to College' | Stephanie Moreno, a student at the University of North Texas, tells us how the campus's Mariachi Aguilas helped her become a first-generation college student. | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Would Tell Them: 'If This Hurts, Don't Scream.'" | Albert Padilla, a senior at Temple University, tells us about his summer internship with the Minnesota Vikings. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Wanted to Throw Myself at That Cause' | David Sall, a student at Oberlin College and Conservatory, co-founded the Music Access Project of Portland in his Oregon hometown. He tells us about the need for music education in the public schools. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'If We're Going Code Three, We're Only a Couple of Minutes Away.' | Natasha Skrzypek, a recent graduate of Saint Michael's College, in Vermont, describes how she juggled her studies with volunteering on the college's rescue squad. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'She Really Lives Here. And She Feels Like She Goes Here.' | Allie Barnard, a single mother, graduated this spring from Endicott College with her three-year-old daughter, Avarie, by her side. She tells us how she juggled parenthood and scholarship. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'No One Can Do for Us What We Can Do for Each Other' | Daniel Stuart Wilson describes his transition from eight years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard to campus life at the University of California at Santa Cruz. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'This Is What I'm Back Here For. I Can Feel It.' | Burlyce Logan, 73, enrolled with the first group of black students at the U. of North Texas in 1956, left because of harassment, recently returned, and will graduate this month. She tells us how she knew it was time to come back. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'There's Still This Freak Show, Running-Away-With-the-Circus Image' | Jacki Ward, a recent graduate of the University of Puget Sound, won a Watson Fellowship to travel the world and study the circus art of contortion. She tells us where she's headed and what she hopes to learn. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Boy, You Really Are All-American' | Ari Shroyer, a sophomore who is student-body president of Roosevelt University, tells us what it's like to be a gay, conservative, biracial college student. | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Eating Disorders Have Very Little to Do With Food' | Galia Slayen, a sophomore at Hamilton College, organized a weeklong event to raise awareness about eating disorders and body-image issues. She explains how she drew motivation from her own struggle with an eating disorder. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'You Could Have a Beer in Your Hand and I Wouldn't Know' | In this episode, we hear from Matt Simpson, a junior at Washington and Lee University, whose visual impairment hasn't stopped him from working as an RA. | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I've Been Living at a Halfway House' | In this episode, we hear from Kyle McCollom, a senior at Vanderbilt University who started a social enterprise, Triple Thread Apparel, which employs ex-convicts to screen print T-shirts for the campus. He talks about sharing a house with those employees. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Had to Finish the Contest With a Broken Toe' | In this episode, we hear from Kathryn Clark, a sophomore at Arizona Western College, about her role as Miss Yuma County 2011. | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'These Are People That I Probably Would Have Never Met' | In this episode, we hear from Jonathan Curtiss, a sophomore at Boise State University, about leaving Los Angeles to go to college in a part of the country that is mostly white and rural. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'College Wasn't Even a Part of My Vocabulary' | Teng Yang, a senior at Brown University, about his journey from a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, to the United States (with 20 brothers and sisters), to college. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Wanted to Show Future Students What Could Be Made' | In this episode, we hear from Shawn Hagen about the aluminum guitars he built at South Central College, where he earned his associates degree, and how they tie in with his management major at Minnesota State University Moorhead. | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Try Not to Wear My Suit Into Class' | In this episode, we hear from Romaine Quinn, 20, a second-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Barron County, about going between campus and City Hall, where he serves as mayor. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'It's Always Most Rewarding When You Have Everyone's Full Attention' | In this episode, we hear from Allegra De Vita, a senior at Sacred Heart University, about using her talents as an opera singer to entertain guests at a big university fund-raising dinner. | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'The Design I Chose to Go With Is the Pop-and-Beer-Can Collector." | In this episode, we hear from Andy Richardson, a student at Century College in Minnesota, who built a solar air furnace that he will use to heat his garage. | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'My Main Fear Is About What Four Years Away From Harlem Will Mean' | In this episode, we talk to Zora Howard, an incoming freshman at Yale University, about performing spoken word as New York City?s inaugural youth poet laureate and pondering her decision to leave Harlem for college. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I've Gotten to Know John Carroll Way Better Than I'd Ever Hoped' | In this episode, we talk to Julia Shindel, a student at Georgetown University, about chaining herself to a statue to a protest the lack of access to birth control on the Catholic institution's campus. | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 32 Episodes |
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