The Wake x Real College Podcast

The Wake & the Real College Podcast team looks into what it means to have a safe campus. Who does the UMPD protect? What's up with that rabid bat? All this and more. Check out Real College Podcast for more!

Homelessness in the Twin Cities

By Ben Halom

For students coming to the University of Minnesota from rural or suburban areas, seeing unhoused people on the University of Minnesota campus can be their first encounter with homelessness. Oftentimes, the sight of homeless people is associated with a feeling of unsafety or insecurity, even a fear of crime. But, as RCP reporter Ben Halom shows through interviews with St. Stephens outreach workers, a homelessness scholar, and a formerly homeless man, it is the unhoused themselves whose safety is most at risk.

The University's Safety Bubble

By Nathan Fervoy

The Safe-U and Timely Warning alert system is meant to keep the campus community safe, but the all-reaching notifications also feed campus-wide conversation and memes. Nathan Fervoy investigates whether the system might also play a part in creating a divisive campus-safety bubble, serving students at the expense of a neighboring community.

Cops on College Campuses

By Tosin Faseemo

The UMN student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) has launched a campaign calling for the University of Minnesota Police Department to be disarmed in response to a perceived hostility from campus police against marginalized groups of students. This segment looks at the presence on police on a college campus, and investigates the relationship between cops and students.