Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this episode, Claire Burke and Claire Schnatterbeck investigate what makes a rural student. How do Columbia and Barnard define “rural”? Does the quintessential “rural student” actually exist? Schnatterbeck and Burke use their own rural backgrounds as a starting point and begin to explore what it means to be a rural student at an elite institution. 
 
Credits:
• Script Edited by Sophia Cordoba and Caelan Bailey
• Produced by Claire Schatterbeck
• Music by Eva Scholz-Carlson
• Illustration by Julian Michaud 
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By investigating the past and present of Columbia University through audio projects, The Ear aims to uncover rich, controversial, and enduring stories that may be otherwise hidden from the community. The Ear is a podcast of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the undergraduate newspaper at Columbia.