{"id":155230,"date":"2020-09-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155230"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:00:00","slug":"podcasts-on-umw-activism-spell-good-trouble-for-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/09\/09\/podcasts-on-umw-activism-spell-good-trouble-for-students-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts on UMW Activism Spell \u2018Good Trouble\u2019 for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As part of this year\u2019s Common Experience, first-year students are listening to \u201cGood Trouble: UMW,\u201d an 18-episode podcast that chronicles the long history of student activism at Mary Washington. Logo by Peter Morelewicz at Print Jazz.<\/p><\/div>\n

Eliza Vegas marched in her first protest this summer for Black Lives Matter. The University of Mary Washington is inspiring her to do more.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn overwhelming sense of home and community brought me here,\u201d said Vegas, a Mary Washington first-year student who learned of the University\u2019s long history of student activism when she listened to a new podcast on the topic. \u201cNow I have a deeper appreciation for my new school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2015, incoming students have read and discussed written works with the UMW community as part of the Common Experience<\/a>. This year, instead of a book, they\u2019re exploring four timely and topical podcasts about COVID-19 and civil rights, connecting events of the past to the present. They\u2019re also listening to\u00a0\u201cGood Trouble: UMW,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a new podcast named for the late Congressman John Lewis\u2019 lifelong philosophy, which he shared in his 2011\u00a0Commencement address<\/a> at Mary Washington.<\/p>\n

The 18-episode podcast series chronicles Mary Washington student activism throughout the decades, relating back to Lewis\u2019 directive to get in \u201cgood trouble, necessary trouble.\u201d Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eliza Vegas marched in her first protest this summer for Black Lives Matter. The University of Mary Washington is inspiring her to do more. \u201cAn overwhelming sense of home and community brought me here,\u201d said Vegas, a Mary Washington first-year student who learned of the University\u2019s long history of student activism when she listened to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":155231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[9236,25174,2051,17488,25175],"class_list":{"0":"post-155230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-awynn","9":"tag-common-experience","10":"tag-craffert","11":"tag-first-year-experience","12":"tag-good-trouble-umw-podcast","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}