Defining Safe

CASSIDY JACKSON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Cassidy Jackson. Thanks for tuning in, and welcome to the sixth episode of “Defining Safe.” In honor of October being LGBT History Month, I talked to the Rainbow Alliance external president about Rainbow Week, which the organization hosted last week, and a pronoun button making event on International...

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CASSIDY JACKSON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Cassidy Jackson. Thanks for tuning in, and welcome to the fifth episode of “Defining Safe.” In honor of May being Mental Health Month, I asked a student about her mental health journey and where she feels safe on campus. ZHANG: Mental health is something that I grew up...

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ANDREA MICHELSON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Andrea Michelson. Thanks for tuning in. You’re listening to the fifth episode of Defining Safe. May is Mental Health Month, so I decided to ask students who have struggled with mental health about where they feel safe on campus. CONNOR PERA: I feel like the people that I’ve...

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CAMERON COOK: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Cameron Cook. Thanks for tuning in. You’re listening to the fourth episode of “Defining Safe.” In this episode, I talked to queer students about what safety means to them. SAYEED SANCHEZ: So when I think of safe, I think of being able to let my guard down. I...

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(Editor’s note: Adrian Wan, who is featured in this podcast, is a Daily staffer) CASSIDY JACKSON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Cassidy Jackson. Thanks for tuning in. According to Northwestern’s Global website, 5,500 international graduate and undergraduate students attended Northwestern in 2017. In this installment of “Defining Safe,” I sat down with a few international...

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What does “safe” mean for marginalized students on campus? Audio editor Cassidy Jackson is investigating just that in new series “Defining Safe.” For episode two, Jackson sat down with students to discuss what it means to be low-income on Northwestern’s campus.

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What does “safe” mean for black students at Northwestern? In this multi-part series, Audio editor Cassidy Jackson asks students how they define the word “safe” and if they feel at ease on campus. In our first segment of this series, Jackson sat down with a few black students to see what safety means to them.

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