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Last night the students celebrated their return to Purdue.

Here is one picture from a politically charged beer pong match between Israel and Palestine. I believe the former was on the far side and the latter on the one closest to the camera. Or was it the other way around?

It’s great the students are back.

Questions:

1. Why are you here?
2. You are the IMF out partying with Greece, having a great time. However, Greece has run out of money and needs to borrow some from you. What are your terms and conditions for the loan?
3. What piece of the Middle East do you want?
4. Obama has put you in charge of the world economy, what American products would you like to see recalled?
5. You are leaving a bar and you notice on the ground an electronic device. It’s red, white, and blue and labeled “military technology prototype”. You turn it on. What sound does it make and what does it do?

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The following audio was obtained on September 24th, 2009 in front of the Lawson Computer Science Building on the Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

In this soundscape you will hear various speeches, conversations, and the various other noises that occurred during the 4 and 1/2 hours we were at the protest. We apologize for the microphone grumbles and audio drop-outs near the end.

Click here for audio interviews from the Bill Ayers Protest at Purdue University

The following audio was obtained on September 24th, 2009 in front of the Lawson Computer Science Building on the Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

People started forming around the city block near the building, some of them belonging to the Citizens in Action and Purdue University College Republicans groups. Bill Ayers was scheduled to speak at 7PM that evening. We decided to interview those active in the protest and passerby from 5PM until about 9:30PM.

The full interview is listed below. To listen to the interviews broken down by Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, click the “There’s more! Continue reading” link below and then download the appropriate segment you want.

A soundscape of the protest will be uploaded in the coming week.

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While going on a bike ride around campus, we came across this group practicing between the Stewart Center and the Purdue Memorial Union.

We captured a time lapse video of their performance and put the first song to the video.

If you want to hear all of the audio I recorded (a little over 4 minutes), check it out here:

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Percussive Purdue (04-18-2009)