<p><a href="http://ianmandt.com/PassionProjects/E10_Chris_PassionProjects.mp3">Chris Van Buskirk</a> is the incoming Editor and Chief of the Berkeley Beacon, the student newspaper at Emerson College. In his freshman year he was the student government reporter and has since grown to tackling college-wide issues such as Title IX reform, and breaking news.</p>

At this point, it’s a running gag that Emerson students are too busy—and it’s based on some level of truth. One result of this busy-ness is that we rarely get the chance to really appreciate the work of our peers. Passion Projects fixes that by spending each week talking to a student about a passion project of theirs.