The Purple Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Washington University Political Review
The Purple Podcast is a production of The Washington University Political Review, Wash U's premiere undergraduate bi-partisan political magazine.
Note: This episode was recording over the summer of 2022. There have been some developments in Greek Life policy on campus since then, which will be discussed in an upcoming and very cool episode of the Purple Podcast.
In this episode, Erin Ritter explores the recent history of Greek life at WashU, as well as the origins of fraternity life in the US.
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Join Jaden (Editor-in-chief), Harry (Programming Director), Erin, and Lawrence (Podcast Editors) on a riveting discussion of the 2022 midterm election results.
This episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 9th. Since then, the Democrats have kept the senate and the Republicans have taken the house.
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Erin, Alexis, and Lawrence discuss the floods of summer 2022 that hit St. Louis and other areas of the country.
Contact editor@wupr.org for general inquiries and e.h.ritter@wustl.edu to get involved with the podcast.
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/29/kentucky-stlouis-flood-climate-explainer/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/us/st-louis-flash-flooding.html
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/music/ten-disturbingly-racist-things-about-st-louis-2658865
https://www.flourishstlouis.org/what-we-are-doing/transportation/
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2022-08-15/for-st-louis-area-flooding-solutions-could-come-in-a-variety-of-ways
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2022-07-26/all-time-record-breaking-rainfall-brings-flash-flood-warnings-to-st-louis
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/co-worker-says-man-who-died-in-st-louis-flooding-on-tuesday-was-a-great/article_d42390e9-ac2f-5c3d-b284-c66cb36897a9.html
The Purple Podcast is a production of The Washington University Political Review, Wash U's premier undergraduate, bipartisan news magazine. In our second episode we interview writers for our Refresh issue published May 2nd, 2021. Read it online here: https://www.wupr.org/portfolio/refresh/.
Read more about the Reform St. Louis Coalition mentioned in Emily's interview here.
Questions, comments, or interested in joining our podcast team? Email abaumohl@wustl.edu.
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Credits: Hosting and editing by Alaina Baumohl and Leah Witheiler. Interviewees are Jaden Lanza, Emily Woodruff, and Aidan Smyth. Podcast cover art is by Leslie Liu and episode art is by Eric Kim.
The Purple Podcast is a production of The Washington University Political Review, Wash U's premier undergraduate, bipartisan news magazine. In our first episode ever, hosts Leah and Alaina introduce themselves, and we discuss free speech, cancel culture, and The Danforth Dispatch at Wash U.
Questions, comments, or interested in joining our podcast team? Email abaumohl@wustl.edu.
Check out the WUPR Homepage: http://www.wupr.org/
Credits: Hosting by Alaina Baumohl and Leah Witheiler, editing by Camden Dyer, interviewees are Matias Mayesh and Molly McNamara, and cover art is by Leslie Liu.