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When We Were Young in Las Vegas, 2025 Festival Preview

This weekend, Las Vegas will host the fourth edition of When We Were Young. A festival celebrating the scene out in the desert holds more than you’ve bargained for as 53 bands take on 4 stages in 1 day. A whirlwind for every pair of vans and fishnets in the pit, it’s Christmas in October for many. Here is your stage by stage preview of When We Were Young 2025.

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Ethical Gaming: Choices, God, and “How Fish Is Made”

Developer Wrong Organ’s existential horror game “How Fish is Made” left me with some deeper questions about the nature of choice in the broader context of our existence. If the only way forward is death, does it matter what choices you make in the meantime?

by Emily Woodbury and Brad Gaspelin [audio:http://www.krui.fm/assets/news/JakobsenConference.mp3] KRUI News sits down with Kyle Moody and Stef Shuster, the publicity and event planning co-chairs of the Jakobsen Conference. The Jakobsen Conference gives graduate students a chance to present their work, whether it is a video, piece of music, or science experiment. Kyle and Stef describe what the conference is like, how it is organized, and the diversity of projects each graduate student showcases.           Artist: Andrea Ferrigno – University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, “Space Squashed,” 2010

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by Ellen Woodward [audio:http://www.krui.fm/assets/news/ArtMuseumFINAL.MP3] Ellen speaks with the University of Iowa Art Director, Sean O’Harrow, on the future location of the art museum and the controversy dealing with the Jackson Pollock painting, “Mural.” She also reports on the Save the Pollock protest and speaks with the paint-splattered demonstrators.

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by Ridhi Madia [audio:http://www.krui.fm/assets/news/RidhiDanceCompFINAL.MP3] Saturday March 5 Indian dance teams from universities across the Midwest competed last Saturday at the IMU for a grand prize and a first place title for the year. Ridhi speaks with Rajiv Verma, the President of the Indian Student Alliance, on the organization and the competition.

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