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Alex Jutila, a former student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-founder of Customer 49, a student activist group active from 2015-2018, explains how he started Customer 49 with Noe Pliego Campos. Topics discussed include the mission of Customer 49, their efforts to educate students about the finances behind higher education, and their concerns about the instating of Margaret Spellings as President of the UNC system in 2016. Mr. Jutila shares the various protests and projects that Customer 49 participated in and how the organization lost structure towards the end of his time at UNC Charlotte.

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Title
Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29
Creator
Jutila, Alex, interviewee
Contributor
Belk, Madison, interviewer
Mulvihill, Victoria, contributor
Ostrea, Lauren, contributor
Stinnett, Jason, contributor
Date (Text)
2019-10-29
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 audio file (1:13:52) : Digital, MP3
Biographical/Historical Note
Alex Jutila was a 30-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place on Skype. He was born in Plano, Texas in 1989. He was educated at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was employed as the Program Coordinator at the David Caldwell Historic Park in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:5127
System Control No.
SJ-JU0005
Subject (Person)
Jutila, Alex
Noe Pliego Campos
Dubois, Philip L.
Spellings, Margaret, 1957-
Subject (Corporate)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina (System)
Subject (Topic)
Student movements
Education, Higher
Civil rights movements
Geographic Coverage
North Carolina--Charlotte
Subject (Occupation)
Executives
Subject (Date)
2010-2020
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Oral histories
Interviews
Language
English
Usage Statement
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Copyright Holder
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Record Appears in
University Archives Collection > UNC Charlotte Oral History Interviews
Oral History Collections > Organizing for social justice on campus
Internet Mime Type
audio/mpeg
Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on a Macbook.
2019-10-29
Condition
Distortion due to laptop recording and connection issues

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