Ayesha Roscoe

But Bobby, who's the student body president at Ohio State, had a different kind of answer to my question. Instead of talking about his own unclear future, he wanted to talk about his school.

How would you describe morale on campus right now?

How would you describe morale on campus right now?

How would you describe morale on campus right now?

Do you have some students, though, who are happy with the changes they're seeing?

Do you have some students, though, who are happy with the changes they're seeing?

Do you have some students, though, who are happy with the changes they're seeing?

And what did that piece of legislation do?

And what did that piece of legislation do?

And what did that piece of legislation do?

How did the DEI office keep you on track?

How did the DEI office keep you on track?

How did the DEI office keep you on track?

I can imagine at a big state university, the importance of finding people in the staff and professors who care about you and connect with you, who make you feel like family and not just a number. And it sounds like for Bobby, that is what the DEI office did. And I'm sure he wasn't alone in that. There was something else I wanted to know. How were they making sense of the funding cuts?

I can imagine at a big state university, the importance of finding people in the staff and professors who care about you and connect with you, who make you feel like family and not just a number. And it sounds like for Bobby, that is what the DEI office did. And I'm sure he wasn't alone in that. There was something else I wanted to know. How were they making sense of the funding cuts?

I can imagine at a big state university, the importance of finding people in the staff and professors who care about you and connect with you, who make you feel like family and not just a number. And it sounds like for Bobby, that is what the DEI office did. And I'm sure he wasn't alone in that. There was something else I wanted to know. How were they making sense of the funding cuts?

And how were they adjusting to these curveballs that have now been thrown at them? Alyssa, you're having a hard time finding work in the wildlife space that you wanted to do your research on.

And how were they adjusting to these curveballs that have now been thrown at them? Alyssa, you're having a hard time finding work in the wildlife space that you wanted to do your research on.

And how were they adjusting to these curveballs that have now been thrown at them? Alyssa, you're having a hard time finding work in the wildlife space that you wanted to do your research on.

Do you think it was your particular field of study that made it harder for you to get chosen? Or do you think it was just overall because of the funding cuts, as you said, they just had to pick less people?