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Jude Banihani:
Welcome back to the podcast! This week, we interview Carson Frizzell about his experience learning Japanese with ASU!
Joahan Lopez:
Also, we talk to the President of the national association of Hispanic journalists club here at ASU, Nicole Macias-Garibay, about their new and up and coming magazine called “VOCES.”
Jude Banihani:
I’m Jude Banihani.
Joahan Lopez:
I’m Joahan Lopez, and this is State Press Play.
Joahan Lopez:
The National Association of the Hispanic journalist club here at Cronkite is set to release their very own bilingual magazine called Voces. We are here with Nicole Macias. Garibay, the president of that club, and she's here to talk about the new magazines coming out. Thank you so much for being here. How are you feeling today?
Nicole Macias:
I'm good. Thank you for having me
Joahan Lopez:
Of course, first, I want to talk about you. Obviously, you know, talking to you before this podcast, it seems like you have quite the journey here. So can you tell us about that? When I asked you where you're from, you from either Juarez or navalis, right? You said, You're from the border. Well, what do you mean by that? Talk to us about a journey, yeah.
Nicole Macias:
So what I mean by saying that I'm from the border is, like, I really identify with the community there. Like cities that are like along the border are very interconnected, like their economies, their society, the languages, and so I grew up in both Navelis and Juarez, and I just, I just feel very connected to that, like I feel like I'm from both sides of the border and like, so I did Middle School here in the US, high school, community College, and now here at ASU and I would cross the border every morning to go to school and then the same to go back home. So, yeah, it was like, extremely like, I had to do a lot of things to get here. I have a scholarship. My parents helped me a lot. They've always supported me. And I, yeah, I just feel very grateful that I'm here. And, yeah,
Joahan Lopez:
No, it's amazing and all that. So that was this forward. Obviously, you're one of you know, you're here at Cronkite. You are the club, like, president of the n, a, h, j club and all that. And now you guys are releasing a magazine called voces . And so what like? Why did you guys decide to start, you know, a magazine that's has to do with your club?
Nicole Macias:
Yeah, so we've been, we've been a club for, like, a lot of years, here at ASU. And the main goal of the club is to advance Latino students, professionally networking, helping them with scholarships and things like that. But I think, like, we have a very big support system in terms of, like, people go to the club and they feel very seen and supported, but then it's only that. So we were like, Okay, we need something for them to stay, we need something for them to be able to flesh out the ideas that maybe they don't have the opportunity to do at a classroom because it's not very Latino focused. And so we were like, Yeah, we should release a magazine. We should do it like for the students. We should do it about our community. We say it's by our comunidad to la comunidad.
Jude Banihani:
Hi everyone. I'm Jude Banihani, and today I'm here with Carson Frizzell. So Carson, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself.
Carson Frizzell:
I'm Carson Frizzell. I'm a political science major with a minor in Japanese. I am at the junior level.
Jude Banihani:
So what made you want to major in political science and get a minor in Japanese?
Carson Frizzell:
They're not that related. Political science - I've always been interested in politics and history and all that stuff. So politics was just kind of the thing I decided on because I felt like that would be more applicable to a career later down the line, rather than history. Japanese, I decided to minor in because, I mean, it's not entirely because of anime and manga, but that's, that's part of it. And I'm also just really interested in, like, Japanese culture, Japanese history, Japanese food. I really want to go to Japan one day, so that's part of the goal. And maybe there's a career for me there someday.
Jude Banihani:
As a Japanese minor, what kind of classes do you take? Is it just Japanese language or are you also taking cultural classes or history?
Carson Frizzell:
Yeah, we're taking Japanese language classes. Those are the most important ones, but we also have to take a certain amount of cultural classes and relevant electives. There is one other class that's required, I think it is about history or culture. I don't remember exactly which one it is, because I haven't gotten that far yet.
Jude Banihani:
And that’s all for this week’s State Press Play. I’m Jude Banihani.
Joahan Lopez:
And I’m Joahan Lopez. State Press Play is produced by our podcast desk editor, Kylie Saba. Our original music is by Ellie Willard and Jake LaRoux.
Jude Banihani:
Special thanks to our managing team, Morgan Kubasko and Matthew Marengo.
Joahan Lopez:
You can check out all these stories and more on statepress.com. See you next week.
