Evan Robins(Trent Arthur)

Music: knotthatgood-“Extreme Devotion” We both love Mark Fisher( https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3051-they-can-be-different-in-the-future-too-mark-fisher-interviewed). On a personal level, we discuss Evan’s Cultural Studies program, how The Arthur works and what role a journalist should play(put narration in an “accessible form”). The issues we discuss are: the student housing crisis, food insecurtiy, the situation with Trent’s Durham campus, the university’s revenue dependence on international students(this is Nick Taylor’s excellent work on the topic: https://www.trentarthur.ca/news/the-internationalization-industry-at-trent-university), the degrading of Trent’s graduate studies through internationalization, what exactly is going on at the Board of Governors meetings(no public transcripts among other things), the overall divorce that has happened between Peterborough and Trent and the mess created by the lack of transit. Of course, we discuss the non-Starbucks options at Trent. From the theoretical to the pragmatic. Thank you Evan.

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