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Bring It On! – December 19, 2022: S.W.A.G.G.E.R (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) Awards – Part II

This is a continuation from last week’s program. The hosts of today’s edition of Bring It On! are Liz Mitchell and Clarence Boone. Earlier this fall the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Children and Youth (CSCY) sought nominations for the 2022 SWAGGER (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) Awards. The successful nominee shall have taken …

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School and Suicide: Joan Hawkins

Her grown-up passions would become horror and goth films, as well as taste politics and the global rebellions of 1968, but as a young person Joan Hawkins loved creative writing. She got away from it as she advanced in the academic world. Now she’s come back to it with the publication of her new book, School and Suicide. The book …

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LWV-BMC Civic Conversations Podcast Presents the 26th Amendment

This month on Civic Conversations, we are joined by Kate Cruikshank, Political Papers Specialist for the University Archives at the Herman B. Wells Library. Kate joined us to talk about the 26th Amendment. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 for all elections, state and federal. Kate shared that the amendment was created after a long debate …

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Bring It On! – December 12, 2022: S.W.A.G.G.E.R (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) Awards – Part I

The hosts of today’s edition of Bring It On! are Liz Mitchell and Clarence Boone. Earlier this fall the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Children and Youth (CSCY) sought nominations for the 2022 SWAGGER (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) Awards. The successful nominee shall have taken action that enhances the lives around them through …

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Trashion Refashion: Nicki Stewart Ingersoll

She thought it might be fun but terribly scary to model in the 2017 Trashion ReFashion Rundway Show. She did it anyway and had the time of her life. Now, Nicki Stewart Ingersoll is a key member of the group of volunteers who put on the annual show featuring fashion designs made of recycled and retrieved materials or clothing that …

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Bring It On! – December 5, 2022: Trump & Current U.S. Democracy

This is a rebroadcast from October 3, 2022: Today’s host of Bring It On!, William Hosea speaks with IU Law School Constitutional Professor Joseph Hoffman about the state of U.S. democracy after the Trump presidency. In summary, today’s show is about a number of legal topics and issues related to former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Several of these …

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Prescription for Healthcare – Tracey Hutchings-Goetz and Hoosier Action, December 2022

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we interview Tracey Hutchings-Goetz, Communications Director for Hoosier Action, the grassroots activist organization. Hoosier Action is working to draw attention to the risk for …

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Hola Bloomington- December 2, 2022

Josefa Madrigal entrevista a interprete y espcialista de registro de Bloomnigton Health, Marcela Sepúlveda, y a la trabajadora social, Lisa Robinson. Ellas mencionan el proceso del enrolamiento para obtener seguro medico. Nos dicen de la imiportancia de obtener un medico de cabezera. Marcela y Lisa nos dicen todos los servicios que se ofrece en la clinica HelathNet.   Josefa Madrigal …

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Author, Art Historian, Entrepreneur: Michelle Facos

She expected to stay in Paris for a short time, enjoying the sights, the culture, the arts. Then the world changed. It was March, 2020 and Michelle Facos found herself unable to leave the city of lights. The COVID-19 pandemic may have shut the world down but Facos, an art history professor at Indiana University, opened her eyes and ears …

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Hearabouts: Stories from Studying in Asia

Welcome to the 69th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. This episode is produced by Ming Wang and Melanie Castillo-Cullather. In this special episode we interview Matt Walsh, a current senior at the Kelley School …

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