The guy in the front of the room in the picture below is one of our professors. He keeps in touch with some of his former students and one of them is a graduate school alumnus who works in Kyiv. She joined the professor’s broadcast media analysis class to talk about what she and her family have seen and heard and done in the early hours of Russia’s invasion and war with Ukraine.
She wrote an opinion piece for CNN this morning, and had this chat and we captured some video. She talked about spending a night finding all the fallout shelters and gathering things in case they needed to evacuate. She talked about hearing artillery shelling and distracting her kid with Ironman movies. She said they’ll all probably sleep in their clothes tonight, just in case they need to scramble.
Of course, cats the world over understand video chats, and hers cat tried to steal the show. She said the cat carriers are prepped, as well.
There’s just a little something there, at the end of that video, that will stick with you.
To be in a war, to know it is coming close to your home. To have the composure she had this afternoon. It’s a scary, impressive thing.
To lighten the mood, let’s take a look at some of the sports shows the IUSTV gang produced last night. Here’s the highlight show.
And here’s one of their new sports talk shows. They are discussing basketball, of course. It is Indiana, after all.
There’s another sports show, and so much other stuff, tomorrow. It, and the weekend, are only a day away.
