Word: djs
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Conceptions of the station's identity cleaved on the issue of representation: university suits saw the station as fundamentally responsible to its (material) supporters, while DJs saw the station answering to its listeners. In 1996, aiming to gain the upper hand in this conflict, Rice University formed a committee of faculty and students to examine KTRU's role as an "asset to the university." KTRU members bristled, fearing the loss of their programming autonomy. The committee's eventual report recommended that KTRU should add several new types of programming, including interviews with faculty, recordings of visiting speakers and, especially, more...
Serious troubles started this past fall semester when Rice's Athletics Director asked that KTRU double the number of baseball and women's basketball games it broadcasts. The Advisory Committee eventually decided on a formula halfway between the status quo and the proposal. Simultaneously, two Rice DJs lodged a public protest. The two arrived for their punk-ska shift on one day in late November and discovered that a women's basketball game had not yet ended. Angry, the two decided to broadcast their show right over the basketball broadcast stream...
...Life and dozens of other groups that press for particular ends apparently do not always realize that success isn't just a matter of turning up the heat. Unfortunately, administrators will do whatever they want unless they are shown why an alternative goal serves the university better. The KTRU DJs failed to convince Rice why the university is better off with the "mutant hardcore flower hour" on the air than a basketball game...
Seattle buddies and night-life impresarios Wade Weigel and Alex Calderwood realized that there was really no place to stay for the people in their crowd--designers, DJs and other fashion-conscious urbanites. So with partner Doug Herrick they took over a former halfway house in a downtown neighborhood and created Ace, Seattle's new haven for flophouse chic--a mode that could be hospitality's next wave. "They're outsiders," says Ian Schrager, the pioneer of hip hotels. "Which is the way we were, and which I like...
Smith says he wants to sponsor a music series with performances by student bands and DJs, and is authoring The Harvard Guide to Campus-wide Events to help bring different groups together...