Worst Sumo
An interview with the band Worst Sumo, who performed at WTSR Underground Spring 2022.
Apr 05, 2022•8 min•Ep. 39
WTSR Interviews
Join the WTSR news team as well as the TCNJ student multimedia council and other student voices as they reach out to the community through the power of conversation and questions. There will be a variety of topics, covering local health, politics, non profits, environment, social issues, lifestyle, and the arts scene. If you have any tips or inquiries, please contact news@wtsr.org.
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Pillowinde
An interview with the band Pillowinde, who performed at WTSR Underground Spring 2022.
Apr 05, 2022•8 min•Ep. 38
Peach Face
An interview with the band Peach Face, who performed at WTSR Underground Spring 2022.
Apr 05, 2022•11 min•Ep. 37
The Lunar Year
An interview with the band The Lunar Year, who performed at WTSR Underground Spring 2022.
Apr 05, 2022•17 min•Ep. 36
Grant Claytor
An interview with the band Grant Claytor, who performed at WTSR Underground Spring 2022.
Apr 05, 2022•14 min•Ep. 35
Objective Joyride
An interview with the New Brunswick based band Objective Joyride, who performed at WTSR Underground Spring 2022!
Mar 29, 2022•19 min•Ep. 34
Joe P
An interview with musician Joe P, where we discussed growing up in New Jersey, his biggest inspirations, and his new EP "Emily Can't Sing".
Dec 07, 2021•28 min•Ep. 29
Lisa Heller
An interview with musician Lisa Heller, where we discussed her new EP and single, working through the pandemic, and how music helped with her anxiety.
Dec 07, 2021•19 min•Ep. 30
this HOLY! rodeo
An interview with the band this HOLY! rodeo, who performed at WTSR Underground in September 2021.
Dec 07, 2021•32 min•Ep. 33
Sizzy Rocket
An interview with Sizzy Rocket regarding the growth of her music, advice for college musicians, and hints about new music.
Dec 07, 2021•18 min•Ep. 31
Rob Rosiello
Halloween weekend on WTSR, TCNJ alum Rob Rosiello shared a ghostly thriller called “The Broken Hollow Banshee”, starring local NJ actors! Rob studied both Communications and Theatre at TCNJ and was the president of All College Theatre. Rob went on to write many productions throughout his career, but his job came to a halt when the pandemic struck. While theaters were closed, he got the idea to start writing productions that could be produced for radio and recorded remotely by each cast member. E...
Dec 07, 2021•9 min•Ep. 32
The Borgen Project
Join Olivia as she talks with Baylie McMahon from The Borgen Project to learn more!
May 04, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Exploding Kittens and Modern Card-Gaming
Games have always gathered family and friends for fun team building and a sense of community. Throughout the pandemic, games have especially reunited households and even have taken on unique forms for virtual play. Exploding Kittens, a popular card game series which has grown into an entire company, is on the forefront of collaboration and innovation in studying how people play. Josh Weaver, marketing manager of Exploding Kittens company, joins WTSR to discuss the process of developing their gam...
Feb 23, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 27
The 5 Love Languages with Dr. Gary Chapman
After selling over 15 million copies, over 30 years, author and psychologist Dr. Gary Chapman has created a platform for discussing love as a choice and the multiple forms of communication and action it takes. Author of “The Five Love Languages,” Dr. Chapman discusses his research, his inspiration and examples of love languages, and notably, how these love languages reflect every type of relationship in life. Visit Chapman's website for more information, more publications, or to take a quiz to d...
Feb 16, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 25
New Era of Online Dating with Meredith Golden
Through recent years, and especially during the Coronavirus, online dating has become more popular for young adults, due to its accessibility and innovation to connect in the virtual world. Check in with Meredith Golden, founder of Spoon Meet Spoon and Darma. With a background in psychotherapy, Golden shares misconceptions and strategies about the online dating world and how we can best support ourselves and our friends in the new standard of meeting people....
Feb 16, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Work Life Balance with Dr. Travis Parry
After starting his career in finance, Dr. Travis Parry quickly realized there was not enough support and conversation about normalizing a healthy work-life balance. Now, as an author, professor, and spokesperson on work life balance, Dr. Parry joins us in discussion about how students can jumpstart this balance in their prospective careers, the myth of multitasking, and how to build better productivity and trust in our work and lifestyle. You can check out more information on his website at trav...
Feb 10, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 24
News Staff Roundtable Special: 2020 Spotify Wrapped Series Overview
The WTSR News Staff (Nancy, Julia, and Zoyla) gathered during winter break for a fun chat over zoom about the 2020 Wrapped on Spotify Series, a statistical overview of listeners’ top songs, artists, and music preferences. We went through our personal lists and listening routines, discussing the role that music particularly played during 2020 and the pandemic.
Feb 09, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Robert Quicke Interview, founder of World College Radio Day
WCRD Founder Robert Quicke joins WTSR Radio in preparation for The 10th Annual World College Radio Day on October 2, 2020 to talk about his personal experience and passion with college radio as well as the creation and legacy of the organization. Quicke is also general manager of WPSC-FM and a broadcasting professor at William Paterson University. While programming may appear differently for this year’s festivities, radio and student media are still vibrant and present to the modern age of produ...
Feb 02, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 22
News Staff Roundtable Special: Strategies to Discover New Music
Featuring a special roundtable discussion with the news staff: news director Nancy Bowne, assistant music director Julia Landi, and staff member Zoyla Pineda. The special focus of this episode will be focused on discovering new music. We carried out three methods (Spotify, articles and charts, word of mouth) of finding new music and will discuss our experience and results.
Jan 06, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Remote Teaching Perspective From TCNJ Professors
After extensive planning for a remote semester, the College’s faculty are adjusting to the reality of teaching classes from their homes. With new technology and changes to classroom management, professors reflect on how the first few weeks of the semester have been anything but typical. A few professors from The College share their insights into the semester. Here are excerpts from the full interviews with them. Dr. Steve O’Brien, interim dean and professor of school of engineering, (0:39) discu...
Jan 05, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 20
World College Radio Day Part Three
Patrick Lavery is a TCNJ and WTSR alumni from 2009 who now works at Townsquare Media in Trenton as Afternoon News Anchor on New Jersey 101.5 WKXW-FM. Through his experience at WTSR, Patrick joins us today to discuss his inspiration and hardwork from college radio to professional radio.
Dec 31, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 19
World College Radio Day Part Two
Erin Vogt is a TCNJ and WTSR alumni from 2002 who now also works at Townsquare Media as a news reporter and occasional anchor on New Jersey 101.5 WKXW-FM. Through her background in journalism, Erin discusses how her education at TCNJ and WTSR helped her better connect with the local community and become a professional reporter.
Dec 30, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 18
2020 World College Radio Day Part One
Vin Ebenau is a 2014 college radio alumni from WHRT Radio at Sacred Heart University. He currently works as a reporter for NJ 101.5 as well as a News Anchor/Reporter for other Townsquare Media NJ stations at the Jersey Shore for 92.7 WOBM, 94.3ThePoint, 105.7TheHawk and Beach Radio 104.1. Today Vin joins us to talk about his experience in college radio and how it helped him gain the industry skills and to have fun every day in professional radio.
Dec 29, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 17
EMT Service During the Pandemic
Students are on the forefront of a changing workplace amidst the covid-19 pandemic. As a part of our special reporting on how students’ perspectives on their career aspirations during the coronavirus, I am joined today with Robert Kick, a senior TCNJ nursing student and member of the TCNJ Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Robert discusses the student organization’s responsibility in the community, as well as insight he has learned through a real life application working in his clinicals as well ...
Dec 23, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Commuter Collegiate Union Virtual Friendship Event
Throughout this semester, virtual learning has made forming new friendships and connections on campus much more difficult. The Commuter Collegiate Union (CCU) at The College of New Jersey has been planning a virtual event that would allow people to have multiple, casual short interactions with diverse students across multiple organizations. The event is planned for Tuesday November 17th @ 8:30 p.m. Lauren Wright, a sophomore TCNJ student and vice president of CCU joined me to discuss the event a...
Dec 20, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Football Analytics Debate with Ben Shpigel
During an unconventional football season in 2020, some NJ private high schools, such as Mater Dei in Middletown, are considering new strategies to strengthen their team, including collecting analytics through new softwares, such as Edjvarsity. Something banned in the NCAA and pro teams, analytics question traditional forms of collecting player stats by creating a play from multiple options of outputs. Originally reported from The New York Times , Sports Reporter Ben Sphigel joins us to further d...
Dec 18, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Darrel Frater, TCNJ MBA Student and Founder, CEO of TheClub
Darrel Frater, a 2015 TCNJ School of Business alumni and current student in the MBA program, joins us today to discuss his career in entrepreneurship, including, TheClub, an app he has recently developed as a platform for DJs and musicians during the pandemic to host parties and events. With over 1,000 streamers and several influencers and endorsements, the app has widely grown throughout the community, with the influence based in his background from PromSocial, a prom planning app for teens. In...
Nov 27, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Coronavirus Student Research Group Publication
Six students from TCNJ recently published a research paper on covid news coverage in a double-volume issue in the Spanish journal, Trípodos. The following students involved in this publication include: Suchir Govindarajan, Alexis Marta, James Sparano, Miranda Crowley, Abigail Lewis, Radhika Purandane, and Dr. Pollack, professor of communications and public health; all with varying backgrounds from communication, public health, and english. They originally published the first article on nationwid...
Nov 20, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Nadia Vaeh
Nadia Vaeh IMA Vox Pop Winner and trailblazer for creating conscious pop, Nadia Vaeh has recently released a single, “Anxiety,” in order to build awareness about important mental health concerns as well as deliver music that connects deeply to an emotional state. Through her new release this fall, just in time for “spooky season,” Nadia Vaeh joins us today to discuss some of her other songs, influences in creating music, as well as connecting with fans and inspirations during the coronavirus. Yo...
Nov 13, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Middle Ground
TCNJ Student Government and Korean Student Association present a new form of student communication and connection on campus. Alekhya Madiraju, VP for Diversity Equity and Inclusion for Student Government, and Gabriella Son, Vice President of Korean Student Association, present Middle Ground, a virtual forum on Zoom in which TCNJ students from opposite sides of the “table” will engage in intellectual conversations regarding political and social issues pertaining to the upcoming election as well a...
Nov 06, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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