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Speaker 1 00:00:17 Live from w N U R news. I'm Katherine ODA. You're listening to the six o'clock news on w N U R 89.3, FM HG one Evanson It's Monday, April 25th, 2022 tonight on w N R news, reflecting on spring quarter mass guidance at Northwestern, keeping up with the new Hulu TV show, the Kardashians and a Condra with a McCormick senior about competing in the jeopardy national college champ. Those stories coming up tonight and on w Nur news at six. Thanks for tuning in Northwestern has lifted most masking requirements for spring quarter reporter Shaylin spoke with students about their opinion on the change
Speaker 3 00:01:15 Between the crowd noise and the hum of the backstage. It might be a little difficult to make out, but that was chance the rapper performing at Northwestern's very own di day in 2014 in front of a packed crowd of Northwestern students, alumni, and the general public that roar people armed arm swaying to the music. And generally large crowds have been sorely missed over the last two years of the COVID 19 pandemic. And as we get closer to dilo day 2022, the first time the performance will be held since 2019 Northwest center is starting to loosen their COVID policies to adapt both to national and local changes. But is it the right decision? Well, there are varying opinions from many different sources. My name is sh Flinner and less explore COVID on campus and what people are thinking it has now been over two years since COVID 19 was first declared a worldwide pandemic.
Speaker 3 00:02:07 As we look more towards the future, that moment where the children were sent home and the United States asked for a quarantine period, seems more and more like a fixed point, a lens through which to look at life before or after COVID. In that time, the world has had to adapt and evolve severely going from quarantining to zoom meetings to in per masking indoors to now as of last week going mask list, the Supreme court recently blocked an attempt of president Joe Biden's administration to implement a nationwide mask mandate, which prompted airlines to lift similar measures and all around the country. Businesses, schools, libraries in many industries are starting to lift those same protocols. Still questions have arisen over whether it might be too early for such pullbacks, especially as schools across the country. See an uptick in cases, although the days of 20% positivity rates from December, January, and February, 2022 seem to be in the rear view mirror, some worry that we might be moving too quickly away from masking policies with numbers, still relatively prevalent. It is a nuanced issue and Northwestern students reflect that in their opinion
Speaker 4 00:03:15 Too. Um, I think it's tricky because obvious at some point like we will unask I guess we could have. Um, but like at some point we would anyway, um,
Speaker 3 00:03:26 This is sophomore transfer, Amelia. Monin expressing an idea that many students here feel to sum it up. It's complicated.
Speaker 4 00:03:35 It did feel a little premature for me, at least like in the classroom, because if we're not testing, um, it just feels like there's no way to know. And for the people who might have underlying conditions or might have family who they like go to visit, or, I mean, there's a number of factors, but for people like that, um, like classes are the one place you have to go. And so I think it's a little bit tricky to, um, have that be a place where you don't have to wear masks. I think it makes sense, like other places like the library and social situations, um, more because like people are gonna unmask and socialize anyway, obviously. Um, but like those are places that you choose to go to, um, and they don't necessarily have to do with academic.
Speaker 3 00:04:19 And the idea of choice in non-academic areas is a popular one that was reflected by Northwestern, closer to the end of winter quarter, where they moved mask list in non-academic settings themselves. However, as recently as that was, there have been many new developments, prompting schools further on the east coast, notably Georgetown university, the university of Pennsylvania and John Hopkins city to temporarily reinstate mandates when spikes due to the BA two variant continue. But most Northwestern students are finding it hard to believe that masking right now will lead to anything but extending the pandemic, Jene Wilson, a current senior living in an off-campus house with several other students believes that it might be time to move away for masking.
Speaker 5 00:05:04 It's never gonna be like a good enough time, honestly. Um, cuz like I feel like code is gonna be around for a bit,
Speaker 3 00:05:11 But while it is true that masking at Northwestern must end at some point, the idea proposed is not to replace it with nothing.
Speaker 5 00:05:19 Yeah. So last year we had you tested like every week. Um, and I would, I feel like if the school doesn't want math, then we should just have like a testing requirement every week. Like it's not like that much work, honestly, but I feel like that would probably be the best plan of action for the school right now, especially cuz I feel like so many people have COVID or have been getting COVID lately, um, like way more than in the fall.
Speaker 3 00:05:44 And while the idea of a testing requirement may seem like an immense process to implement. There is already precedent within the student body already because of the MAs policy, many clubs from theater to journalism to dance groups have implemented weekly or biweekly tests this quarter because of that lack of mask mandates, regardless, let's keep crossing our fingers that the spike is temporary and we can finally experience the dilo day and amazing end of the spring quarter that Northwestern always brings. And while testing to many students may seem like an annoyance to help keep Northwestern mask list, but COVID free. It might be the only option we have from Evanston, Illinois. This is sh Fluer w N U R news,
Speaker 1 00:06:30 Moving on to arts and entertainment. Remember when the Kardashians weren't on television, that was a terrible time. Recently the thing is back with their new reality TV show, the Kardashians w N U R News's Nick's song took an introspective look into the show.
Speaker 6 00:06:48 What did the letters K U w T K mean to you? If you thought it was a radio station call sign or perhaps a Kazakh government agency, you'd be me the meaning of that Aron him. I learned only this weekend stands for a narrative which transcends Western culture within this narrative. There exists as sort of every man, not as a character within the story itself, but existing on the periphery reacting to said story. Many of you listening already know the meaning I'm talking of course, about keeping up with the card Kardashians.
Speaker 7 00:07:24 Welcome to my family, Kim right here, I'm Kim Kardashian. The princess is in the building. I'm Chloe
Speaker 6 00:07:32 Keeping up with the Kardashians debuted on entertainment television in 2007, the formula was simple. Each episode showed the inner lives of the privileged Ashi and Jenn are family members. There'd be some drama. Usually between Kim, Chloe or another one of the sisters about something that was small enough to be resolved in an hour. There was widespread condemnation, critics and consumers alike made fun of the show, the family members themselves, and more importantly, the shallow Hollywood lifestyle, the Kardashians represented. This is all to say that people watched the hell out of it. Keeping up with the Kardashians became the reality TV show and reshaped a genre. The show went on for 20 seasons. That's 14 years keeping up started while Bush was in power and ended year into the Biden presidency. That's longer than most two Puntas should also be mentioned that the reason the show ended is because the Kardashians wanted it to end, but barely a year after canceling KU w T K the Kardashians into deal to reboot the show, Hulu agreed to pay them nine figures for exclusive airing rights.
Speaker 6 00:08:42 The title for the new show, trimmed, all the fat leaving just the Kardashians. Talk to someone on the street and chances are, they're gonna have an opinion on the Kardashians. They'll probably talk about how they represent the culture of celebrity worship that they're famous for being famous, all those different talking points. I had read reviews online, criticizing the new Hulu show for not taking enough risks and relying on the same formula as keeping up. I of course had never seen keeping up. So I really didn't mind it. And having watched the first episode, that's really what I think of the show as a whole. I don't mind it this past Friday night, I turned on the first episode of the Kardashians, despite not having billions of dollars in the bodacious body of Kim K. I found myself enjoying the show. Part of it is that I'm from Los Angeles and there's a certain novelty in senior hometown in the eyes of a tourist.
Speaker 6 00:09:38 Watching the show also took me back to when I was a kid. In the first episode, the family hosts a quote unquote normal backyard, barbecue and eats catered chicken nuggets and Mac and cheese from stainless steel serving bowls. Occasionally I went on elementary school, play dates at a certain friend's home. The Hollywood Hills ging into that stratospheric level of privilege. The open floor plans, the sleek white exterior finishes. My most vivid memory was observing how unperturbed at all scenes by it, the BIA clothing, the luxury mansions their entire life. Back when I was a kid, I were feeling uncomfortable when I was at that friend's house, looking at all the wealth, I felt like I had intruded on some sacred ritual. I had no right witnessing. And yet there I was standing on the tertiary looking into a foreign world. I was observing unmistakable normalcy relative of course, but normalcy, nonetheless, speaking of normalcy, the show attempts, normal situations that you and I might have. I've already mentioned the backyard barbecue. And during that, there's a moment when St. West Kim and con six year old son, he's playing Roblox on the iPad. He comes over to Kim with the tablet to show her what he's doing. And Kim realize there's an inappropriate thing in the game.
Speaker 8 00:11:06 Oh, hold on, Chloe, you look at this. What? Let me see.
Speaker 10 00:11:13 I can put a pillow in a chair,
Speaker 8 00:11:15 Chloe, come here. I feel like you're
Speaker 6 00:11:16 The only one. I have a seven year old brother who also plays Roblox. And, and now I've also been in those awkward situations. It was a cool moment knowing I could empathize with Kim Kardashian, even over something innocuous as seeing something in iPad game.
Speaker 8 00:11:31 Oh, well then we're suing them. If it's a game with my name and picture,
Speaker 6 00:11:34 That is until the it's revealed what's on the screen, looked
Speaker 8 00:11:37 At it and it said something super inappropriate like Kim new sex tape. This is supposed to be unreleased footage from my old sex tape. The last thing that I want as a mom is from my past to be brought up 20 years later, especially when it's
Speaker 6 00:11:55 This for the rest of the episode, Kim tries Sue Roblox to remove her sex tape from the game. She's worried that it will distract people from her upcoming appearance hosting Saturday night live. So yeah, it's not quite our town, but the Kardashians is still entertaining. If you have the past for, to your sisters Hulu premium account, like I do, I highly recommend checking out. The first episode, episode two is already out and episode three comes out on April 28th. So yeah, for w Nur news, I'm Nick song and I just reviewed the Kardashians.
Speaker 7 00:12:30 The princess is in the building.
Speaker 11 00:12:32 I'm Chloe
Speaker 1 00:12:39 Senior, Y Eugene Kim competed on behalf of Northwestern in the jeopardy national college championship. Earlier this year, reporter reporter Margo Amal has the story. Picture this. You are walking across the stage, shining with lights to compete in the jet national college championship. Well, that was exactly the reality for McCormick senior. Yay. June Kim
Speaker 13 00:13:11 Here are tonight's next three college competitors at Evanson, Illinois. Yay. June Kim.
Speaker 1 00:13:22 She describes how she felt. The second she was first on the stage.
Speaker 14 00:13:26 It was really stressful. They don't really tell you what time you're going on what day? And they don't tell you who you're playing against until right before. So that was like really petrifying, you know? Cause I was like, I didn't wanna go last. I didn't wanna go first
Speaker 1 00:13:43 From w N news. You're listening to news at six. Yay. June was featured in the second half of episode two and competed against Joey Koman from Brandis university and Mitch Masick from Villanova university by the third attempt. Yay. June got a question right in a smile, covered her face due to the accomplishment.
Speaker 15 00:14:06 Yay, June. What is Ulta? Correct? The element 600.
Speaker 1 00:14:10 The contestants kept buying for correct answers soon. Yay. June accumulated nearly $3,000 in earnings. Yay. June kept buzzing in and so did the others as the questions dwindled. Yay. June ended up in third place by the final question. The final jeopardy where all three contestants, get to answer a question and wager as much as they would like up to how much they have earned. So far.
Speaker 12 00:14:32 Welcome back to final jeopardy. Anything can happen here. The category 20th century leaders. Here's the clue
Speaker 1 00:14:41 At this point, she decided her best. That was to wage her $0 on the last question. Why you may ask on the surface one might think had she bet more she could have seemingly had a stronger shot in coming in second place? Well, it was her best strategy. Yay. June said,
Speaker 14 00:14:57 And I just wanna clear the record that it was the best bet in my situation. I'll say I studied final aging strategy. So my strategy is like, yeah, I could bet everything, but I wasn't confident in the category. And then why would Mitch and I both met everything cause I know Mitch's gonna be everything. Yeah. So I should just try and go for a second place.
Speaker 1 00:15:18 And yay. June's guest was mostly right in the technique. Highly effective. Mitch did bet everything as she thought he would. And a final attempt to beat Joey and come in first place. But Mitch got the question wrong. His final earnings dwindle to zero.
Speaker 12 00:15:33 Did you come up with Winston Churchill?
Speaker 5 00:15:35 I'm afraid not
Speaker 12 00:15:36 <laugh> all right. Who is Nelson Mandela? Unfortunately, that's not correct. What's that gonna cost you everything that will take you down to zero puts you in third place.
Speaker 1 00:15:45 Meanwhile, yay. June, even though she thought she wouldn't get the question right, dead, but even without mood during money, she came in second place since meant fail to $0. And even if she had bet everything, she would not have had enough to beat Joey
Speaker 12 00:16:00 And Joey Cornman. What did you come up with? Who is Winston Churchill? That is correct. And how much are we gonna add to your score? $801 with $17,201. Congratulations. You are moving on the semi-final.
Speaker 1 00:16:17 Yay. June has been watching jeopardy since she was a kid, but stepping on the real stage fall very different. For one, it was extremely fast paced.
Speaker 14 00:16:26 I feel like in preparation for it. And like in my life I watched so much jeopardy, right? Like with my friends stuff where you sit on the couch and my like you just like say the answers lot. Or like you laugh about like the dumb guesses. And then I was like standing there and I was like, oh, there's no like do over skipping categories. I don't like, there's no like laughing off like bad answers, stupid guesses I made with my friends. I was like, oh, like, this is like actually the whole thing that's gonna be recorded. And I think that feeling was just really scary
Speaker 1 00:16:53 More than 26,000 hopeful students from over 4,000 different colleges auditioned to be on jeopardy this year, but only 36 students made the final cut and a chance to win the grand prize of $250,000 and jewelry, glory. Yay. June describes the audition process.
Speaker 14 00:17:09 I think like the core makes sense, like emails out. I remember like the producers are just like advertising to all the big schools and I told my roommate it would be fun. So we took it. It was just like a random afternoon. And then I went and made lunch and I forgot about it. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:17:24 A few months later Eugene and her roommate both received an email that they passed the initial test and they were asked to participate in the first round of interviews.
Speaker 14 00:17:33 So that was like in November of 20, um, which was a really long time ago. And then it was like, not until like January of like 20, 21, but like they sent out emails for like the first round of auditions, which was just the same type of test, but Proctor. So they're like checking if you're not cheating. And I thought that was cool in itself.
Speaker 1 00:17:55 And then yay. Jude kept being asked back for more interviews.
Speaker 14 00:17:59 And then there was a third interview and the last one, which was in March and that was like, not a test. It was like, they put you on like a zoom call with like tentative kids and a major, like a mocking. And then they would ask you questions like, oh, like what are you gonna do with the money? If you win.
Speaker 1 00:18:14 Yay. June said she would spend the money, attend the Coachella valley music and arts festival after that interview. Yay. June said she forgot about jeopardy for a while. That was until she got a bizarre phone call in March.
Speaker 14 00:18:28 It was like, I was just think in the backyard of my roommate, we were just like doing homework out there and it was like an LA area code. And then it was basically like the contestant producer being like, oh, like you're basically concerned. You just need to do like a background check, I guess, like I was excited. And like my roommate was right there with me and I was just like in shock, but then I got really stuck and then I had to study <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:18:52 Yay. June was not allowed to tell anyone, including her parents or friends that she got accepted until the competitors were officially announced in February. Then come February. Yay. June took a plane to California for the official tournament in filming. Once she arrived. Yay. June along with the other competitors immediately began preparing for the showdown.
Speaker 14 00:19:10 So like, we were there for like a few days. It was like one day where everyone gets there. The next day was like promotions, like taking pictures and like filming like clips. And then the next two days were the quarter final gig.
Speaker 1 00:19:23 Yay. June dedicated her first few evenings to diligently studying.
Speaker 14 00:19:27 I felt Anese I like cramp. I was like, oh my God. Like I to go study, it's been like two days.
Speaker 1 00:19:32 And after yay, June filmed the episode and knew she was not progressing to the next round. She went out to dinner with her jeopardy contestant peers.
Speaker 14 00:19:39 And I think that was so much fun. Like it was really sweet. We all like went to like this random restaurant and it was like just such a good time because like everyone had been done at that point. And like, we all hung out in like so much hotel room and it was like really fun. <affirmative>
Speaker 1 00:19:52 Yay. June said with all this time together, some jeopardy friendships turned into romantic relationships.
Speaker 14 00:19:57 Well, I noticed two people started dating afterwards. Yeah. I thought I didn't even find that out until like they said something in like a group chat,
Speaker 1 00:20:06 That group chat it's still very active.
Speaker 14 00:20:09 Like someone says something like almost every single day. And I think that's been really cool. Just seeing how like people reacted to their episodes, like how they watched it with their friends.
Speaker 1 00:20:18 AJU said she made some incredible friends from the experience as well. AJU said that there are a lot of techniques to jeopardy from daily double hunting to learn, to press the buzzer. Really Fast's tactic of choice, pick questions related to stem, given her engineering background. That way should be most likely to know the answers, the buzzing technique. Meanwhile, that's something you June said she really struggled with.
Speaker 14 00:20:43 And I think that's what makes things so different. It's like, it's literally like, just like so much concentration, but it's over so fast in like 30 minutes. That, and then also that the budget timing is really hard. People assume that like, if you don't buzz in on something, they're like, oh, you didn't know it. Most of the times it is the case that like all three people knew it, but just like one person was just like, what? Like a millisecond faster.
Speaker 1 00:21:06 But according to yay, June a part of jeopardy is also just chance,
Speaker 14 00:21:11 Such a game of chance. And I feel like people don't really realize that it's a chance what categories show up. It's a chance. Like if you find a daily, double or not, it's a chance, you know, to find jeopardy. It's just like very like randomized.
Speaker 1 00:21:22 Yay. June said one of the craziest aspects of participating in jeopardy, in addition to being interview news outlets was being featured on the official Northwestern, Instagram.
Speaker 14 00:21:32 Oh yeah. Crazy Northwestern. Put me on their Instagram. That was like the biggest <laugh>. I think that was the biggest point they followed me. I think that was like my biggest celebrity moment. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:21:42 Yay. Also said a lot of people from her hometown of Naperville Illinois have reached out to her about the in
Speaker 14 00:21:48 I think the best part was that a lot of like my old friends and like teachers reached out on social media. I thought that was really sweet. My elementary school teachers, people I haven't like talked to in a while, just like, congratulations. Oh like this is so cool. But it was like nice to like reconnect with that.
Speaker 1 00:22:05 After the torment ended. Yay. June said she had a viewing party with her college friends and one of the craziest things. Yay. June tried competitive quiz ball in high school and it wasn't for her.
Speaker 14 00:22:15 And I like actively remember, I thought trivia would be cool freshman year when I was like a naive, like what? 14 year old? And I joined it for one semester and then I quit <laugh> because it was too stressful. It stressed me out like the whole like buzzing, which I just find very ironic. I wonder how I'll the teacher for that would react. Cause I think he retired. I go to Bob's like once a month <laugh> that counts and my team has never gotten like more than like 10 plays.
Speaker 1 00:22:41 So where is the AJU headed next? How does she intend to spend the $10,000 she earned for competing? Well, for one, probably not on Coachella, she's had the earnings or are going towards paying for her Northwestern education as for her future career. She has some ambitious schools. Yay. June plans to go to graduate school where she hopes to concentrate on biological engineering and sell research from w N your news. I'm Margo. Mial interested in watching college jeopardy. Well, that's great because you can watch it for free on the ABC website. After a week of drama, it's time for the B list, w N R news' Roundup of pop culture highlights from the previous week. Here's Allison RA with more
Speaker 16 00:23:29 Welcome to the B list, your weekly Roundup of celebrity mess and pop culture this week, NBA playoffs, celebrity arrests, and an update on Twitter's fate. First up in celebrity news, many stars are swimming in legal trouble. Rapper ASAP. Rocky was arrested Wednesday at lax in connection with the shooting last November, he was released three hours later on bail and has a court date set for August 17. Actor as Miller was also arrested Wednesday in Hawaii for a second time, they were charged with second degree assault. After throwing a chair at a woman, Miller was released several hours after the arrest, but the investigation remains active.
Speaker 16 00:24:10 The Johnny DEP and Amber herd defamation trial continues today for the uninitiated de is suing, heard for 50 million over a 2018 op-ed in which he claimed to be a quote, public figure, representing domestic abuse, both heard and DEP have accused each other of physical violence in their relationship. And rolling stone released never before seen footage yesterday. It shows rapper to baby's 2018 shooting of teenager, Jaylen Craig in a Walmart Deba real named Jonathan Kirk had previously claimed he acted in self defense, but the footage shows Kirk appearing to instigate the attack. Kirk was originally not charged due to reasonable doubt in tech. Elon Musk bought Twitter today to the tune of about 44 billion Twitter shares were up about 6%. Following the news
Speaker 16 00:25:00 In sports NBA playoffs continue some shocks in the west. The one seat Arizona suns are to up at two two with the new Orleans pelicans. The Memphis Grizzlies and Minnesota timber wolves are also at two, two. And despite a close loss last night to the Denver nuggets, the golden state warriors are looking to do well. As the series continues in the east, the Miami heat are up three, one against the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics are looking to week the Brooklyn nets at three oh, they play tonight at 6:00 PM. CST the Toronto Raptors in Philadelphia, 70 Sixers play at seven and the Utah jazz and Dallas Mavericks at eight 30. That's all for the B list this week. Check in next Monday to hear about what happens this week in pop culture for w R news I'm Allison rap.
Speaker 1 00:25:51 A look at the weather for tonight, expect the temperature to remain in the mid to low forties for the rest of the night tomorrow. We'll see slightly cloudy skies with a high of 51 and a low of 45. Taking a look at the headlines more than 70 students gathered on Saturday at the rock for a vigil honoring Palestinian lives lost to recent hacks by Israeli forces. During Ramadan, a Chicago police department, SWAT team responded to an active intruder threat made over the phone at Northwestern Memorial hospital. Last night, after a sweep of the building C P D gave the all clear Elon Musk and Twitter reached a deal for the sale of the social media platform. Today, Musk will take over Twitter for about $44 million or 54 20 per share. Today. The Biden administration announced it will send diplomats back to Ukraine and work to reopen the embassy in Keve in the coming weeks.
Speaker 1 00:26:39 American diplomats left Ukraine during the Russian attack on Keve. But secretary of state Anthony Lincoln said American diplomats will return by next week. That's all for w Nur news at 6:00 PM. For more news and updates. Follow us on Twitter at w N R news. You can listen to these and other stories of the day on our website, w nur.news that's w N r.news. Find us on apple podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to or podcasts. Our producer today is Madison Bradley. Our reporters are sh Flinner Margo and Nick song, and Allison rock from all of us here at w N R news. I'm Katherine NOTAM. Thanks for listening and catch our next cast on Wednesday, April 27th at six P am. Now back to regularly scheduled programming.
