On Friday, Nov. 16, one of UNL’s Associate Professors and General Manager of the UNL Radio Station, Rick Alloway, made a trip to Lincoln Southwest. His mission was to help The Hawk Newspaper staff gain expertise in a brand new topic: podcasts.

Alloway instructed students to create a podcast with given guidelines and tips on how to be successful. The staff was given three weeks to create a podcast about a topic each student was passionate about.

“The hardest part about the podcast was finding something that I was actually passionate about,” senior Eleanor Schmiechel said. “Because I have a lot of interests.”

In the podcast, students were required to have intro and outro music, a strong, interesting topic and interviews if applicable. Some students’ stories were more personal, while others had more entertainment topics. Sophomore Ashley Finnegan and senior Nicasia Thelen did a podcast about ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). They were the only group podcast in the class.

“We hit some bumps in the road, and it took us about a week to get all of the recording done,” Finnegan said. “Rick gave us some really good tips to help us be successful. Honestly, I don’t think we would have come out with a good result if he wasn’t there.”

Alloway hopes to return to help the new Hawk newspaper staff in the spring semester, which begins January 2019.