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Micro-aggressions at The New School
After Dr. Derald Wing Sue, a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, spoke at The New School on microaggressions in academia, three students shared their experiences with them. Reported, Produced, & Mixed by Andrew Orellana
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Nail Culture
I'm Kennedy Whitaker and I'm a fan of getting my nails done. Long, short, fat you name it I'm there, make me look pretty. This project highlights a few moments in today's media that have been showing off nail art and I get to introduce you, listeners, to my nail spot in Harlem. Let's get it going!
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Preserving & Pickling: The Lower East Side
Pickles and cultural preservation happenings on the Lower East Side. Reported, Produced, & Mixed by Adina Karp
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Impeachment as a Constitutional Provision
This podcast discusses impeachment as an element in the constitution and current public opinion on impeachment. It features interviews with Lisa Huestis and Tony Peer. Produced By Isabelle Rosa
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Lighting The Lamp
USA women's hockey is both an overlooked and underfunded sport, yet despite it's lack of recognition from the public, it has continued to be one of the most successful teams and consistent powerhouses in international tournaments. I spoke with several women's hockey players about their experience...
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Overlooked and Under Documented: Examining Diversity Initiatives Within Obituaries and Archives
Diversity in representation after death can be found in both obituaries and archives, but it's not something that happens overnight, and it is not something that happens on it’s own. If death as an act is the only thing that transcends all else, then studying its representation in our society and...
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The Single Narrative
Growing up immersed in both Latin American and American culture, one thing remained the same: the over the top portrayal of Latina women. Not limited to Latinas, American media has created stereotypes of Latinos that places us into one single narrative. (Melanie Valdez)
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Death, Physics, & MJ
A meeting with a physic causes an unexpected recollection of the past with a young woman in her early 20s. Produced By Kris Keene
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Street Harassment in NYC
Street Harassment in NYC by WNSR contributors
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Almost Lost Abroad
Traveling around Europe with your two best friends can be fun, if you know what you're doing. This is a story about the time I almost got lost in Italy four times.
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Female Voices in Film
A young woman attempting to find her place and voice in the film industry.
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Overlooked & Under Documented
Examining diversity initiatives within archives and obituaries.
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The Good Friday Pilgrimage: Episode 1
57 Years after the Good Friday Experiment gave 20 christian college students the mystical experience of their lives, one professor decides to pay homage to the site, as a place of sacred and religious significance. Special thanks to Christopher "Doc" Kelley Additional audio provided by: MAPS…
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Drag Culture: Navigating Into the Mainstream
In recent years, drag culture has become widely recognized in the mainstream culture, being featured everywhere from television to makeup ad campaigns. The evolution of this wide appeal is explored as a once queer subculture emerges into more publicized conversations.
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On Nostalgia and Social Media
An investigation into people's relationship with nostalgia and how it has come to be affected by social media. I originally began with the idea that that I wanted to talk about nostalgia and the way we make memories. I sat down with some of my high school friends, as well as my mom and sister....
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Remembering Col. Paul Swanson
My Uncle Paul was an extraordinary man. Only met him twice, but through the stories at his funeral from family members I developed a connection with a man who lead an amazing life.
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Warren’s Rallying Cry
Reporting from Elizabeth Warren’s rally in Washington Square Park Produced by Adina Karp, Jay Tobin, Layla Lari, & Omer Soylemez
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Sound Scape Ep. 4 | The Centennial (21st Century)
NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below: - Music: (1) Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg St. Denis (2008), (2) Robert Glasper - So Beautiful (2015) - All ambient noise recorded by me, or found at freesound.org. - The New School 2019 Commencement Ceremony Speech...
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Sound Scape Ep. 3 | Parson's Merges with The New School (50's/60's)
NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below: - Music: (1) Introduction music from the WMAF broadcast of the first American Race Crisis Lecture Series at The New School (1964), (2) Miles Davis Quintet - It Never Entered My Mind (1954), (3) Outro music from...
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Sound Scape Ep. 2 | The University in Exile (40's/50's)
NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below: - Music: (1) Found in the 1939 New York World’s Fair Newsreel, (2) Aaron Copland- Appalachian Spring (1944). 1939 New York World’s Fair “World of Tomorrow” Newsreel clip. - Almost all ambient street noise found…
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Sound Scape Ep. 1 | The Opening of The New School (20's/30's)
NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below: - Music: (1) The Original Memphis Five - Fireworks (1929), (2) Jim Europe’s 369th Infantry “Hellfighters” Band - Memphis Blues (1919), (3) Louis Armstrong - Chimes Blues (1923). - Almost all ambient street noise...
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A Provocative Legacy: Erwin Piscator and the Dramatic Workshop
Faculty members Zishan Ugurlu and Ulrich Lehmann are celebrating the school’s theatrical past through the work of the émigré director and producer Erwin Piscator. Piscator worked with Bertholdt Brecht, and founded The Dramatic Workshop at the school in 1940.As part of the Centennial celebration,...
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Sound Scape Sample by Aja Simpson
What you’re about to hear is a sound story. A montage of sounds and voices, archival and recreated, that would have been heard, read or experienced at The New School during an important decade for its growth and development. You may hear the streets of Lower Manhattan, the construction of new...
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Welcome To The Party - Refugee Scholars Project
Marissa Vassari, of the Rockefeller Foundation Archive Center & the Refugee Scholars Project, tells us about the organization's Centennial program---a modern-day take on a challenge faced by our school during WW2: the trolley problem of refugee asylum. Music: The Flashbulb - Travelogue
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Welcome To The Party - Women's Legacy At New School
Learn about the critical paths paved by women at The New School during October's Centennial Festival.
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Welcome To The Party - Urban Systems Lab
Timon McPhearson, Director of New School's Urban Systems Lab, clues us in on what to expect from the USL during October's Centennial festival. Music: The Flashbulb - In The Grass
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The Bodega
Producer Ian Farmer hangs out at his neighborhood bodega, where a colorful crowd breakfasts every morning.
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The New School Centennial: 400 Years of Inequality
Among the events being presented at The Festival of New are under the heading 400 Years of Inequality, and seek to link recognition of the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved African-Americans in Jamestown in 1619 with the New School's celebration of its social justice mission. One of the...
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Women Unite in New York City
WNSR reporter Julia Purcell covered the March 8 rally in Washington Square Park, and found that many different groups had empowerment in common.
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