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Faculty Off The Clock
A podcast series hosted by the College of Charleston’s Office of the Provost that highlights the personal and lighter sides of our campus’s professors. Co-hosted by Associate Provosts Mark P. Del Mastro and Chris Korey.
Faculty Off The Clock
Faculty Off The Clock - Featuring Suzanne Austin
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What happens when faculty step away from the classroom and the lab? In this episode of Faculty Off the Clock, we sit down with Provost Suzanne Austin to explore the passions, pursuits, and pastimes that shape their life beyond academia. From unexpected hobbies to meaningful side projects, discover a different side of the Provost you thought you knew.
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We welcome you to this episode of Faculty Off the Clock, a podcast series hosted by the College of Charleston's Office of the Provost that highlights the personal and lighter sides of our campus's professors. I'm Mark Del Mastro.
SPEAKER_06And I'm Chris Corey, Associate Provost, and your hosts for Faculty Off the Clock. For this episode, we welcome Suzanne Austin, the College's Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provosts. Welcome, Provost Austin.
SPEAKER_07Thank you, thank you. I've been looking forward to this.
SPEAKER_06So, Provost Austin, we always ask all our guests before we get to the lighter side how you got to be here at the C of C.
SPEAKER_07Great question. I've been working as an academic administrator for about the last 20 years, and I was looking for my next adventure, and I saw the uh notification about the provost job at the College of Charleston, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought this would be really interesting and a good fit for me. So I applied, and six years later, here I am.
SPEAKER_05Wow. That's fantastic. And we're excited you make it.
SPEAKER_07Never a dull moment.
SPEAKER_06No, there's nothing. Never. So before we get off to get into your off-campus diversions, interests, hobbies, we'd like you to tell us a little bit about your life. So where are you from originally?
SPEAKER_07So I am from the great state of Connecticut, which is a big part of my story because Connecticut is a very small state, and I grew up wanting adventures and wanting to get out of the very small state of Connecticut. And so a lot of the decisions that I've made in my life, a lot of the directions that I've taken have been in response to that desire to see the world and have lots of adventures.
SPEAKER_05Were you also born there, Bravo Soscopy? I was.
SPEAKER_07I was born there. What what town exactly? I was born in Meriden, Connecticut, and grew up in Madison, Connecticut on Long Island Sound.
SPEAKER_05Did you have any uh particular interests or activities as a kid that you enjoyed?
SPEAKER_07I had two younger brothers, and I think I spent a lot of time um directing my younger brothers and helping them make sure. You were the role model. I was the older sister who liked to push them around. And they'll tell you I still try to do it, but they don't listen to me anymore.
SPEAKER_06Did you have a favorite vacation spot growing up?
SPEAKER_07Um we would go up to the coast of Maine in the summer, and it's still a favorite vacation spot.
SPEAKER_05I we assume that like most uh American kids in our culture, you had a summer job growing up, and if you did, what was your most memorable?
SPEAKER_07That's a good question. I had a few interesting summer jobs.
SPEAKER_05Do tell.
SPEAKER_07Well, one summer job that I had that figures into the story a little later on was that one summer I spent my time tending bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That was a very interesting adventure.
SPEAKER_05How long was that gig for?
SPEAKER_07Probably from May until sometime in August.
SPEAKER_05Wow. Do you have a particular anecdote that you'd like to share? I'm sure there's many. I'm so intrigued by this.
SPEAKER_06A particular cocktail you like to make best?
SPEAKER_07Well, this was a long time ago, and Pino Coladas were very popular. I made a lot of those. Um It was just a wonderful opportunity for me to see the uh the semier side of human behavior. There was a lot of bad behavior.
SPEAKER_05Aaron Ross Powell Did you have a uh a special signature drink that you like to make as a thing?
SPEAKER_07It was mostly Pino Coladas. People were there in San Juan and they wanted to drink those.
SPEAKER_05That sounds like it was it was not only memorable but but fun often. Do you have a uh uh uh uh a job? Did you have a job that was you considered the worst summer job you ever had?
SPEAKER_07Um that's a good question. Another summer job I had, I'm not sure if it was the worst. The tending bar was pretty bad. I did work one summer in the North Carolina State Archives. Not the most exciting of jobs. A little mind-numbing at times, yeah. It was, it was. But as a historian who works in archives, sure, I probably should have enjoyed it more. But it was mostly running back and forth through those big document boxes and schlepp and everything was organized by county, and North Carolina has 100 counties. I remember that. And so it was a lot of lifting heavy things and running around the archives, which was good exercise.
SPEAKER_06Were you ever did you ever have a paper route? Everyone seems to have a paper route. No, I didn't.
SPEAKER_07Darn! I missed that. I missed that. I wish I'd had a paper route.
SPEAKER_06Never never too late. There's a guy who drives around my neighborhood quickly with the paper hand.
SPEAKER_07Well, see, I could I can put that on my list of of you know things I could do. Yeah, I could do that.
SPEAKER_06Um so did you have a first pet or a pet growing up?
SPEAKER_07So I came from a cat household, so we always had cats. Multiple cats? Sometimes. Sometimes multiple cats.
SPEAKER_05Were they indoor or outdoor?
SPEAKER_07They were both. Okay. They were both. And my current cat is both indoor and outdoor. And I love dogs too, but for some reason my family just always had a couple of cats. I've always had cats. I did have a small dog at one point, and he was wonderful. I inherited him from someone. So I love dogs too, but I've just always had cats.
SPEAKER_05Gotcha. Do you have a uh favorite board game if you played any board games growing up?
SPEAKER_07No. I I did not play board games. I do not play cards, I don't find any of those things very interesting.
SPEAKER_05Well, you're in good company because I share those sentiments. But mine were probably more a result of PTSD growing up with board game and card experiences. It was just uh not good. So yeah, I avoid them at all costs.
SPEAKER_07I do too. I I just don't want to engage.
SPEAKER_06We do have that 1980s risk game in the office that we can always bring up. Yes, yes. It was gifted by a previous one.
SPEAKER_05Given in the spirit of this podcast.
SPEAKER_07Mark and I will be gone that day.
SPEAKER_05We sure will. Doors will be closed in our offices that day. Um we're gonna focus on your grammar school years and ask you if there's a fun fact you could share about yourself from that time that you think might be amusing to our listeners.
SPEAKER_07Well, that's interesting. I actually don't remember a whole lot about my grammar school years, but I was a big reader, so I think I spent a lot of time reading. I've always liked to read.
SPEAKER_05Any particular books or authors that you call that you gravitated towards?
SPEAKER_07No, I mean I would read anything. I never read science fiction, I didn't read comics. Um I th I read a lot of classic things that um I think my parents had read. So I read Greek mythology, I really like that. I like to read about archaeology, um, paleontology, those kinds of things. And then I went through a phase of reading Jane Austen and all of the great British novelists, and so I that's what I did mostly. That's what I remember.
SPEAKER_05Well, let's let's move a little bit forward to your high school years. Same fun fact question that might be amusing to us that we don't know.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Well, things start to change in high school.
SPEAKER_05So do they call you Suzanne in high school or do you have a nickname?
SPEAKER_07No, Suzanne. Okay. Um I was pretty rebellious in high school. I'll just say that. We'll we'll leave it there. All right.
SPEAKER_04And um, you're welcome to expand if you'd like. No, no, no. I think that's plenty. That's fine.
SPEAKER_07I think that's plenty. Sure. Um and I couldn't wait to get out of high school. I couldn't wait to get out of the house. I couldn't wait to get out of Connecticut. Um and so what was the name of the high school you went to? So I went to um three different high schools, which ties into my college journey later. But I graduated from a place called Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Large, small?
SPEAKER_07Small.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_06Well, listeners may or may not know that you were a transfer student, so you have a couple institutions you can you can talk about. Uh I wonder uh so it you can pick whichever institution, a fun fact about your your undergraduate years, or maybe talk about your your transfer life.
SPEAKER_07Yep, yep. I went to five undergraduate institutions. Wow. So when I graduated from high school, I started at NYU and I had a wonderful fun time in Manhattan.
SPEAKER_00I bet.
SPEAKER_07Didn't last at NYU for very long. I I stopped out to work for a while and attended the new school um for a while. And then after that is when I launched into my adventures, and I went to a place called Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico for two years on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico, and then I transferred to the University of the Americas in Cholula and the state of Puebla in Mexico, about two hours south of Mexico City. And then I came back to the U.S. Um and finished my undergraduate degree at North Carolina State University.
SPEAKER_05But of all those undergrad institutions, do you have a particular neat memory? Certainly very different experiences in different countries.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. I think um I think the two years I spent in Puerto Rico were uh really important for me in a lot of different ways, um, as was the year in Mexico. And uh it was those three years that really set me on the path that that led to uh my academic career as a historian of Latin America. So particularly formative, I would say.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, absolutely. And w were both those institutions uh in English? Or were you speaking Spanish by then?
SPEAKER_07Well, in Puerto Rico, no. I mean I went to Puerto Rico and I didn't speak any Spanish. Um and the coursework at both institutions was in English and in Spanish, so you could sort of take different courses. Um but they were really amazing institutions in um very interesting and in some ways compelling locations. So I learned a lot about Puerto Rico, the history of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, the role of the US in that area. Uh and then in Mexico, it was just an amazing experience because Cholula had had a very large um pyramid at the time of the arrival of the Spanish, and the Spanish, it was a huge pyramid. And the the Spanish demolished the temple that was on the top and built a large Catholic church on the top. So in the fields all around the base of the pyramid, there were all kinds of um relics from from this period. It was an amazing, really amazing place to live for a year.
SPEAKER_05I bet. Was it your favorite, you think? It could it could have been.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it was it was really a wonderful place to be.
SPEAKER_06So we're uh last stop on your education tour, yeah, graduate school years, a fun fact about your your graduate program and graduate studies?
SPEAKER_07So I um started my graduate work at UNC Chapel Hill, and my plan had been to work on uh the Mexican Revolution, and I did that for a year and it became clear that the program probably wasn't a good fit. The um their track record with the completion uh the track record for women completing their PhDs in that program was not very good. So I decided I probably needed to transfer elsewhere. Um and because I did that, it meant that I needed to switch my topics. So the senior Latin American historian at Duke offered to take me on as his student, but he was a colonialist, and so if I was gonna do that, I had to switch to a colonial topic. And um I wanted to pick something where there hadn't been a lot of work done yet, and I ended up working in Ecuador on epidemiology and demography in the 16th and 17th century. There had been relatively little work done at that time. There's been a bit more since then, not a whole lot, but but more. Um and so I ended up at Duke for four years and got to live in Ecuador and in Spain on fellowships during that time.
SPEAKER_05Now very different places. Very different places. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, before we go on, we always have our pool for the NCAA tournament that you're a big fan of. You have the Wolf Pack, the Tar Heels, and the Blue Devils. Who do you usually go with?
SPEAKER_07Well, it's a very conflictive period of time for me every year. I would say. But and it it depends on who's having a good season. Of course, you know, some years are better for others than others for any of those particular teams. But I would say if all three were having a good year, then I would probably go first with Duke and then with North Carolina State, and last but not least with Chapel. But it just depends. Seldom are they all having a great year at the same time.
SPEAKER_06And plus you want to win the brackets, and you want to do that.
SPEAKER_05Can you tell us about a current pastime or hobby that you enjoy regularly and and how that first started?
SPEAKER_07Sure. So um currently I enjoy spending time working outside in my teeny tiny yard in Mount Pleasant in my garden, if you will. Um and it started because when I got my first tenure track job at the University of Delaware many years ago, I decided that I wanted to take some botany classes. I don't remember why, but I wanted to take botany classes. So I signed up for two botany classes, one each semester, and I took them for credit to hold myself accountable and make sure I did everything. And I think that if I had um if I had stuck with that, um I know one of the questions later on is what would you do if you weren't a faculty member? And I think uh if I wasn't doing this, I would either have been a botanist or a landscape architect. So that's what I enjoy doing.
SPEAKER_06Do you do you have a favorite perennial or annual that you like to put in the ground each year? Or maybe depending on where you live?
SPEAKER_07Yes, that's a really good question. Um I am fond of everything in my yard. Um I have some amazing palm trees. I've always one of the reasons I'm particularly happy to be living here is I'm happy anywhere where I can see palm trees, in our case, palm meadows, they just make me happy. So I have a number of them in my yard, and um I love looking at them and taking care of them. I'm very fond of orchids, which I find very easy to care for and grow. I'm a complete failure.
SPEAKER_06But look at them, the flower. Yeah, it's not good.
SPEAKER_07Once you have the right light, it's really not that hard. Yes. I have this year for the second year in a row, I have two large hibiscus. Yeah, they're beautiful. Beautiful. I have a Borgon via. I've never tried Borgon via before. I have this uh Borgon via it's doing really well, but it's not flowering. I'm very disappointed. I ordered special Borgon Villa food. If anyone has any hints on how to get their Borgon Via to bloom, please let me know.
SPEAKER_05Haven't tried the Borgon Villa yet. So you can't.
SPEAKER_07So I'm I'm I like tropical vegetation a lot. And this climatic zone allows us to grow a lot of things that um that that I just find wonderful.
SPEAKER_05Do you have any particular um plant that tends to evade your care that you have become frustrated with? Um says the person who's had a lot of frustrations with certain plants.
SPEAKER_07Yep. I you know, I've never had any luck in in uh the south, both in my previous location and here with geraniums. I I think it's too hot, but I know people here who who do well with geranium, so it must be me. I don't know. Right now I have some zinnias, I love zinnias. Um they always remind me of New England in the summer, and they're kind of hanging on, but they're looking a little straggly. So um those have been difficult. I think there are a couple of things I've given up on.
SPEAKER_05Um I'm trying to remember.
SPEAKER_07You know, there's a very pretty light blue shrub that you see here. Um not hydrangeous. I can't I know what it is. I can't remember what it's called. Anyway, you see them around in the low country, and I love them. They're a beautiful light blue. And I had had a couple and they've done absolutely nothing, so I've given up on those. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_05But it hasn't died, it just hasn't flowered, is that the kind of perished.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. They weren't in the right spot, and you know. They had things have to be in the right spot or they're not gonna do well.
SPEAKER_05This is true. Geraniums m my wife has had great success with them, but she's got a specific spot on the front porch that doesn't get a lot of sun. Oh. And they just thrive. In fact, she's been able to carry them over from season to season. It's quite remarkable. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, if you want a palm tree that will not fit in a very small yard and will outgrow it quickly, the Washington fan palm. I have like an 80-foot palm tree next to the house. It looks ridiculous. Wow. It is so tall. Did you did you plant it from from I did? I did not read the instructions. It was like this tall, and now it's like twice the size of the house, and my wife wants to cut it down, but I was like, you can't. It's it's it's amazing. It's just like you go into the neighborhood and you can see our house from blocks away because of this ridiculous palm tree. Wow. That's Washington fan palm. I love that.
SPEAKER_05I love that. Um, is there a particular off-the-clock activity that you haven't done that you would like to do?
SPEAKER_07Oh, so many. Um I like I like things that are physically challenging. And I have been able to jump out of a plane. Um I've gotten to do a lot of really exciting, physically challenging things. For some reason, I have never been able to go zip lining. I would like to do that. Um I want to go on a hot air balloon ride. I have not been able to do that.
SPEAKER_05Um like a little thrill, don't you?
SPEAKER_04I do. I do. Have you ever bungee jumped? No. Would you like to do that? Not so much. That seems too much.
SPEAKER_07And especially after what happened to that woman somewhere recently where they did forgot to attach the thing. Was that in Spain?
SPEAKER_05I don't I can't remember. It sounds terrible to any part of that activity. Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_07No, no, no. But but there's still so many places I haven't been that I want to go. So many. So, you know, the list goes on and on and on.
SPEAKER_05Um we're gonna jump into our lightning round, and this is what we always uh Lightning. Yeah, this is this is what we always showcase to conclude our faculty off the clock installments. Okay. Where we ask you some really important standard questions again about your life off the clock.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_05We also want to clarify that we do know the difference between thunder and lightning. But since this is an audio podcast, we had to settle on the thunder sound effect to cue this portion of the interview.
SPEAKER_07Wow. Okay.
SPEAKER_05What's your favorite meal?
SPEAKER_07Pizza.
SPEAKER_05Mmm. A certain type of pizza?
SPEAKER_07A margarita pizza.
SPEAKER_05Do you have a local place that you like to get?
SPEAKER_07I think here my favorite place is Wooden Grain in Mount Pleasant. However, I would say that the best pizza, and a lot of people in the U.S. agree, is in New Haven, Connecticut.
SPEAKER_03Oh boy.
SPEAKER_07Yep. And they have amazing, amazing pizza in New Haven at Sally's and Peppy's. People from all over the world go there.
SPEAKER_05It's time when you're in New Haven, Dr.
SPEAKER_07Corey.
SPEAKER_00You have to go to Sally's.
SPEAKER_06Do you have a favorite dessert?
SPEAKER_07Hmm. I do like sugar. Um I like ice cream a lot. And flavor? Um coconut's my favorite. Right, I like coconut. Yeah, coconut. Um, but the other thing I really like is yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Ah, wonderful. Pretty mundane, but I don't know. I really like it. Okay.
SPEAKER_05Pancakes or waffles?
SPEAKER_07Pancakes.
SPEAKER_05Pancakes.
SPEAKER_07I'm not a big waffle person. No. I find them rather dry.
SPEAKER_05How do you like your pancakes? Do you like them like thick and fluffy? Like a thinner pancake?
SPEAKER_06Like a fruit, like a banana or like nut scrim? Straight pancakes. Just straight pancake. Classic. The classic pancake. The classic. Yeah. That's it. I think we know the answer to this. Coffee or tea?
SPEAKER_07Tea.
SPEAKER_06Definitely.
SPEAKER_07Yes. Uh Assam tea from India. I get loose leaf tea, and it's wonderful.
SPEAKER_05What's your favorite snack food?
SPEAKER_07Hmm. Um I should say pretzels, but I'm not going to. Wow.
SPEAKER_06I love a good pretzel.
SPEAKER_07They tend to be very healthy. I like, you know what I like cashews. I like peanuts. Yeah, they're all good. I like yogurt as a snack. Okay. And pretzels.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, pretzels are great.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I know you're a vegetarian, so this question may not uh prefer topping on a submarine sandwich.
SPEAKER_05What kind of topping do you like on it?
SPEAKER_07Um Well, I can tell you what I always get.
SPEAKER_05What's that?
SPEAKER_07Uh cheese, lettuce and tomato, pickles, black olives, and some honey mustard. Oh, that's good.
SPEAKER_00It's delicious.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's delicious.
SPEAKER_04Favorite soft drink? Diet Coke. Diet Coke. That's right. As opposed to Diet Pepsi? No, no, not Diet Pepsi. You really are. There's a huge difference. Really?
SPEAKER_05See, I feel that way too, but I'd rather have a Diet Pepsi any day of the week. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Oh Lord. Really? Oh yeah. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_06And it has fountain versus can. Definitely fountain.
SPEAKER_07No comparison. But those are harder and harder to find.
SPEAKER_06Favorite off-the-clock activity you like to do alone.
SPEAKER_07Hmm. I listen to audiobooks. Oh. Yeah. So when I drive back and forth, I listen to audiobooks. When I go to bed at night, I listen to audiobooks. Yeah. But I set the timer so I don't the whole book doesn't matter. That's smart. I set it for 10 minutes or 15 minutes depending. And then I rewind it in the morning because I don't want to have missed.
SPEAKER_05I'm always intrigued by these people who can who prefer to have some kind of sound when they're falling asleep. I have to have absolute silence. Or a very dull, monotonous, consistent back like a fan, for example. Anyway. Do you have a favorite music group currently that you like to listen to? Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Um, I like Bad Bunny a lot.
SPEAKER_05Do you?
SPEAKER_07Yes. Oh, I was so excited when Bad Bunny did the Puerto Rico connection. I know. Wow. When Bad Bunny did the Super Bowl, I thought it was fabulous.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, I agree. How about from your youth? Do you have a favorite? Uh what was your favorite?
SPEAKER_07Um well I was very fond of the Rolling Stones. Oh, yeah, stones are good. Still am. They have a new album coming out, or just came out. How is it possible they have a new album?
SPEAKER_06It's still them, are they robots? Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Still going strong in their 80s. There you go. It's pretty remarkable. It's pretty remarkable.
SPEAKER_06All right, I'm audibling this question. I'm gonna go to a botany question instead. Yeah, do it. Uh lichen, moss, or ferns?
SPEAKER_07Oh, what a wonderful question. Definitely ferns. Always love ferns.
SPEAKER_05Ferns in your garden at home?
SPEAKER_07I have some, yes. I love ferns. I know the they do very well here.
SPEAKER_05What is the most memorable restaurant of your entire life?
SPEAKER_07Oh my god. Wow. Wow.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, dig deep here, probably. That's really hard.
SPEAKER_07I know. Um hmm. I'm sure there have been some memorable ones. It's not something I think about for you. I'm not a big food person, so I don't I tend not to think about it.
SPEAKER_05But you like a you like a good meal.
SPEAKER_07I do, oh I do, I do. Um you know what, uh I haven't thought about this in a long time. But in Spain, as you know, they have these peradores.
SPEAKER_00Yes, ma'am.
SPEAKER_07And there's one in Granada up at the top at the Citadel. And um it's very famous, and you can stay there, but they also have a restaurant there. And the year I was living in Spain on my Fulbright, I got to go there several times. And um that was it was always just special and spectacular. They had incredible the food was very good, but you were inside the Alhambra, you know, having a meal. The ambiance really complimented the same thing. It was amazing. Sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Walk, bike, or drive.
SPEAKER_07Hmm. Well, being the good U.S. citizen that I am, I'd say I spend a lot of time driving. However, I also like to walk. I will also say that here in Charleston and where I was living in Alabama before, I um would not feel comfortable bike riding because I think it's fairly dangerous. Oh I agree. Yep. A little bit treacherous, yes. It's too bad, but I think that's the case.
SPEAKER_05How do you approach dispensing toothpaste from the tube? Ooh. Yeah. What's your method?
SPEAKER_07Well, I say uh uh over the last several years, the the toothpaste that I buy comes in a relatively it it doesn't come in a long tube the way it did when I was growing up. So it it comes in, you know, these shorter tubes, and you really don't have to roll them or anything. You just have to sort of keep pressing to get all of the toothpaste out. I remember the days, however, when you could buy these little things you'd clip on the end of the toothpaste tube and you could roll it to make sure that you got it.
SPEAKER_05I never had one. I never had one, but are you satisfied with the end of the road with your toothpaste tube? I am. I am and when you throw that out, do you feel like you have exhausted the content? Oh, I do. Okay. That's incredibly important. That's right.
SPEAKER_07I've been very I'm I'm very conscientious about I try not to waste things. I just don't think that's a good thing to do. So I try to be I try to be very careful and recycle everything that I can and just not waste things.
SPEAKER_05Aaron Powell A good steward.
SPEAKER_07I try.
SPEAKER_06I try. Uh popcorn, yes, sir. You like popcorn? I do. Do you have a particular type or way of making it or flavor?
SPEAKER_07Well, I mean, I used to like to get popcorn at the movies and they would put all that butter and all those chemicals on it. That was really good. Yeah. Really good. But in the last few years, I would say I buy these bags of popcorn at the grocery store that have um, I hope, fewer chemicals on them. And um but but it's good. It's lots of salt and probably not a lot of butter or anything on it. It's still good. Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER_05So you by nature of your position, Suzanne, attend a lot of events, but uh you have the opportunity to select an entrance song. I mean, you are the featured uh personality at this event in question. What is gonna be your choice entrance song?
SPEAKER_07So uh for con for commencement or convocation. You could be a rock star. I mean, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_05You're a bad bunny side dancer or side singer, backup singer. How's that? Okay. Ooh, I like it.
SPEAKER_07Okay. So um the only time I've ever had to do this is here when we have convocation in the cistern. Okay. And the song that I chose several years ago and have continued to use is High Hopes by, I don't remember who sings it. Anyway, that's what they play. However, I was thinking, because I've been really engaged in the World Cup games, I've been listening to the theme song for the World Cup this year and thinking, well, maybe I'd use that. Um I mean, there's so many good songs out there. Good Rolling Stones song? Yeah, there's a good one. Yeah. Or um yes, I l I do like the Rolling Stones. But but to be more contemporary, something bad bunny would be would be fun. Yeah. Yeah, it would be. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, Provost Austin, thanks so much for sharing today about your time off the clock and for giving listeners an alternative glimpse into your life outside the office of the provost. Stay tuned for next month's installment when we learn more about the life off the clock of another College of Charleston professor. Thank you, Provost Austin.
SPEAKER_07Thank you. This was fun. This was great. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Off here.