Foreign policy, bipartisanship, immigration, and midterm elections were among the conversation topics Tuesday night at Wilks Theater.<\/p>\n
So, too, were the Miami University experiences of Paul Ryan \u201992 and Shefali Razdan Duggal \u201993 \u2014 and a friendship that started with studying together at Shriver Center and has endured through their prominent political careers.<\/p>\n
Razdan Duggal, the United States\u2019 Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2022-2025, and Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015-2019, returned to their alma mater as part of the annual JANUS Forum. The event, titled \u201cTwo Miamians, One Ballot: Lives of Public Service,\u201d drew a large crowd to Armstrong Student Center\u2019s Wilks Theater.<\/p>\n
Moderated by Nate Novak, president of the JANUS Forum and a junior Political Science major with a Business Leadership co-major, the near 90-minute presentation offered the longtime friends a platform to discuss several issues surrounding the current political landscape, as well as reminisce about their own Miami memories.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look upon my time here with nothing but just gratefulness, gratitude. I have lots and lots of friends from here,\u201d said Ryan, who noted he and Razdan Duggal became \u201cstudy buddies\u201d during his junior year. \u201cI don\u2019t even know if we knew each other\u2019s politics in those days. We\u2019re obviously from other sides of the aisle, but we\u2019ve maintained our strong friendship for many, many years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign policy, bipartisanship, immigration, and midterm elections were among the conversation topics Tuesday night at Wilks Theater. So,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-427767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}