Tag Archives: town and gown

Interchange – Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we engage with a masterpiece…literally: scholar Steve Volan’s Master’s thesis, Gownsburg: The Campus as Municipal Phenomenon. Volan has also been a City Council member in Bloomington, Indiana since 2004. In Gownsburg, the politician and the geographer seek common ground in order to describe what the University …

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The Bicentennial Journal – Gladys DeVane Pt. 1

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:58 — 6.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s edition of The Bicentennial Journal, Gladys DeVane shares her experiences with racism as a person of color. As a Black woman, she was excluded from the private parties and social gatherings of coworkers. So, DeVane says the African-American community would hang out together to …

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