Amanda Shie, rising senior and former Student Government Senator at Purdue University, sits down with Campus Vote Project Student Advisory Board Chair Benjamin Nixon to have a chat about Purdue University. Among other topics, they discuss challenges facing Purdue University's student government, mental health crises and the way in which they are handled by Purdue, former Governor of Indiana and Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, and Indiana's uniquely detrimental contributions to the voter identification politics of contemporary America. 

Content warning: discussions about student suicide and self-harm

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Produced and edited by Benjamin Nixon.