Chicken and Waffles (Sharkey Andrews and Raj Dwivedi, respectively) pool their resources every Thursday from 8pm to 9pm to bring students the answers to their questions. Although easy-going and comical, the duo knows when to take a question seriously. Between the two spans a love for good music and a healthy spectrum of experiences, good and bad, from which they draw their answers for advice.
About Chicken (Sharkey)
The Student Government President is not your typical straight-A-getting-the-world-handed-to-her type of student. In fact, she isn’t that student at all—a first generation college student, Sharkey understands the skill necessary to balance working part time with a full time class schedule: at one point, she was working three jobs while taking a fifteen hour course-load. She’s worked on-campus (The Pub, Peer Advisor, Research Assistant, President) and off-campus, lived on-campus, off-campus, and has generally been in the Dallas area since she was a child. She spent seven and a half years as a strict vegetarian, is an avid cooker, likes kayaking on White Rock Lake, and will be celebrating the anniversary of her marriage to her husband in March. She feels passionately about gay rights, animal rights, education, Madonna, and thinks the world is going to end by 2050 if we don’t get serious about the environment. Sharkey’s self-proclaimed areas of expertise include getting involved on-campus/with UTD, sex (STI’s included) and sexuality, and tough interpersonal situations.
About Waffles (Raj)
An international student, student union worker, Student Government Executive Committee chair, Orientation team mentor, and member of the Greek community, Raj dons several roles in his everyday life at UT Dallas. He has been in the United States for not more than a couple years and represents a rare minority of undergraduate international students at UTD. An avid music lover with a keen interest in day to day politics and ardent Kanye West fan, he has a beautiful taste in all things common. Majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Political Science and preparing for law school admissions, he is your typically confused college student. He is a self-proclaimed genius on issues such as politics, relationships, UTD, chemistry, law schools, dressing up, and vegetarian food.
Some questions we had from the inaugural show (1/26):
How do I break bad news to my boss?
How do I break bad news to my friends?
Where’s the best sushi?
What’s a Sharkey?
You can be in on this whole shebang. Seeking advice? Got questions? Tune in, call in, send us an IM. Or you can send us a message ahead of time (or during) at advice@radioutd.com. It can be anonymous, you can pretend to be your sister, secrets’ safe with us.
