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Bobby Allen

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617 total appearances

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Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

My name is Bobby McAlpine, and I am the current sitting student body president at The Ohio State University.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

This last semester, quite frankly, has been one of the hardest. So, you know, I expected to graduate. It's an amazing time, a celebratory time. We're going to dance. We're going to laugh. We're going to do all the fun things. But when it comes to the work to get here and as student body president, it has significantly grown the job to something that I never thought it would be.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

This last semester, quite frankly, has been one of the hardest. So, you know, I expected to graduate. It's an amazing time, a celebratory time. We're going to dance. We're going to laugh. We're going to do all the fun things. But when it comes to the work to get here and as student body president, it has significantly grown the job to something that I never thought it would be.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

This last semester, quite frankly, has been one of the hardest. So, you know, I expected to graduate. It's an amazing time, a celebratory time. We're going to dance. We're going to laugh. We're going to do all the fun things. But when it comes to the work to get here and as student body president, it has significantly grown the job to something that I never thought it would be.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

A lot of people have asked me this question, and I always struggle to answer it because You know, on the one hand, we are an amazing school. We just won a national championship for football. But on the other hand, students have come to me and just, they feel really scared.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

A lot of people have asked me this question, and I always struggle to answer it because You know, on the one hand, we are an amazing school. We just won a national championship for football. But on the other hand, students have come to me and just, they feel really scared.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

A lot of people have asked me this question, and I always struggle to answer it because You know, on the one hand, we are an amazing school. We just won a national championship for football. But on the other hand, students have come to me and just, they feel really scared.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

I just think that people think that a lot of, or some of their government, people are making decisions in their name without actually consulting them.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

I just think that people think that a lot of, or some of their government, people are making decisions in their name without actually consulting them.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

I just think that people think that a lot of, or some of their government, people are making decisions in their name without actually consulting them.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

There are people on all sides of the spectrum all the time. I mean, I delivered... I can't even count, probably over about 400 letters from conservative students. It was from liberal students, from black students, white students to the governor of Ohio asking him to veto a bill, Senate Bill 1, that did pass. And it's very unfortunate, but we'll continue to move forward.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

There are people on all sides of the spectrum all the time. I mean, I delivered... I can't even count, probably over about 400 letters from conservative students. It was from liberal students, from black students, white students to the governor of Ohio asking him to veto a bill, Senate Bill 1, that did pass. And it's very unfortunate, but we'll continue to move forward.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

There are people on all sides of the spectrum all the time. I mean, I delivered... I can't even count, probably over about 400 letters from conservative students. It was from liberal students, from black students, white students to the governor of Ohio asking him to veto a bill, Senate Bill 1, that did pass. And it's very unfortunate, but we'll continue to move forward.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

Yeah, Senate Bill 1, unfortunately, it gets rid of all offices of diversity and inclusion in all public university spaces within the state of Ohio. The only and sole reason why I am at the Ohio State University is because of our Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

Yeah, Senate Bill 1, unfortunately, it gets rid of all offices of diversity and inclusion in all public university spaces within the state of Ohio. The only and sole reason why I am at the Ohio State University is because of our Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

Yeah, Senate Bill 1, unfortunately, it gets rid of all offices of diversity and inclusion in all public university spaces within the state of Ohio. The only and sole reason why I am at the Ohio State University is because of our Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

when I lost my grandmother, when I lost a really good friend to mental health, that's where I was able to go to make sure that I not only stayed in college, but I was able to stay afloat. You know, you could just go in, talk to the folks I call, some of them my campus aunties, campus uncles, and you really just feel at home.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

when I lost my grandmother, when I lost a really good friend to mental health, that's where I was able to go to make sure that I not only stayed in college, but I was able to stay afloat. You know, you could just go in, talk to the folks I call, some of them my campus aunties, campus uncles, and you really just feel at home.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

when I lost my grandmother, when I lost a really good friend to mental health, that's where I was able to go to make sure that I not only stayed in college, but I was able to stay afloat. You know, you could just go in, talk to the folks I call, some of them my campus aunties, campus uncles, and you really just feel at home.

Up First from NPR
The Class of 2025

And they made you feel heard when, quite frankly, some other parts of Columbus, some other parts of the university, when you didn't feel heard, they allowed you to be heard.