Audacy’s original weekly podcast “Campus Files” has returned for a second season — with a brand-new series of investigations into scandals and controversies that have rocked higher education.
“Campus Files” Season 2 premiered Wednesday (March 11) everywhere podcasts are available. New episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays.
This season, hosts Margo Gray and Ian Mandt explore stories including Yale University’s naked freshman photo scandal, which is featured in the first episode. For decades, freshman orientation at Yale came with an unusual requirement: Students had to pose for a photograph completely naked. And Yale wasn’t alone. Colleges across the country, including several Ivy League schools, had the same tradition. Gray and Mandt look into the why of it all — and what ended up happening to all those photos.
Upcoming topics in “College Files” include the political battles engulfing Texas A&M; the Cold War espionage ring known as “The Cambridge Five”; Lane Kiffin’s dramatic college football career; the business of sorority consulting; the tragic death of a Bucknell football player; and what happened when DOGE came to Brown University.
“College holds a mythic place in American culture, hailed as the best four years of your life and revered as a beacon of integrity and excellence,” Audacy said in announcing Season 2 of the show. “But behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of ‘Campus Files’ uncovers a new story, investigating how institutions built on ideals of integrity and excellence can become magnets for controversy.”
Margo Gray and Ian Mandt are Audacy producers and journalists specializing in original documentary podcasts. Their past projects include the award-winning series “It Was Said,” “About a Boy,” “The Sunshine Place” and “Gangster Capitalism.”
Listen to the trailer for “College Files” Season 2:
