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From Nora: <\/em>This past weekend I was able, along with any other interested ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ies, to get an up close look at the issues, music, and people of a country not often discussed: Iceland.<\/p>\n

I admit, freely, that I\u2019m not generally up on my Icelandic culture, news, and happenings\u2026 although I was totally aware when, this past fall, they entered a state of extreme economic crisis. But, it was just Iceland, right? Well, in the growing state of economic concern that the United States now resides, I find it refreshing to be able to really understand the issues and results of Iceland\u2019s economic troubles. And how did I do this, you ask? My four favorite letters : W-R-B-C<\/p>\n

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Radio station, WRBC, brought Icelandic band FM Belfast to perform a free concert this past Saturday night for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community. A totally great band that I would never have discovered were it not for the WRBC, the four fashionable Icelandic rockers also participated in a symposium on Saturday, similarly open to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community, in which they discussed what\u2019s ACTUALLY going on in Iceland ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½\u2019 own Associate Politics Professor Aslaug <\/span><\/span>Asgeirsdottir, also of Iceland, providing two contrasting but informed points of views. [More…]<\/a>
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The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Radio station, WRBC, brought Icelandic band FM Belfast to perform a free concert this past Saturday night for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community. A totally great band that I would never have discovered were it not for the WRBC, the four fashionable Icelandic rockers also participated in a symposium on Saturday, similarly open to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community, in which they discussed what\u2019s ACTUALLY going on in Iceland ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½\u2019 own Associate Politics Professor Aslaug Asgeirsdottir, also of Iceland, providing two contrasting but informed points of views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010],"tags":[1602,3123,11003,4319,6135,238],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","tag-benjamin-mays-center","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-iceland","tag-music-tag","tag-wrbc-fm-student-organizations-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82644,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/82644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}