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...what about those kids coming in and out of the Pennypacker basement in the middle of the night? Don’t worry. You’re not missing out on the crazy party—unless that’s the way you like to talk about college radio stations...
...Pennypacker basement is the windowless home of the Harvard Radio Broadcasting Company (WHRB), 95.3 FM. Apparently, college radio stations don’t perform photosynthesis. There must be some strange chemical reaction that allows them to survive—and even thrive—however isolated and sunless their location...
WHRB is a non-profit commercial station, which means that its revenue is predicated upon the sale of advertisements. Although the university provides the station with the basement of Pennypacker, WHRB receives no financial support from the university...
What this means is that WHRB may continue to flourish in the basement of Pennypacker—but its success necessarily factors out a wide student listenership...
...care about these days is to listen to what they're laughing about. And on a recent Friday night, nine Brown University students who make up The Brown Stand-up Comics were drawing laughs from some 200 of their schoolmates who had paid $1 each to crowd into a basement lecture hall on the Providence campus to hear jokes about race, sex, pop culture and their generation's ambivalent feelings about current events. "My friends are fasting for Darfur, and I'm like, is that like Ramadan?" riffed Christine Sunu, 19, a pre-med student. "Free Tibet? Did it cost...