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...officers of the HYRC particularly object to the FCC's taking such drastic action without a hearing or even a fair warning...
...believe that the FCC should grant the station a temporary operating permit until a full and adequate hearing can be held. We further believe the FCC should determine a policy recognizing the valuable service and the experimental work of college radio stations...
Student engineers say that this radiation regulation is obsolete and grossly impractical. They say it may be impossible for a college station both to obey the rule and be heard. Sometime this spring student networks are to be given an FCC hearing to present this basic objection. In view of the impending hearing, the Commission's impatience to enforce its rules on WHRB seems even more surprising...
...years the FCC has been trying to discourage monopoly in the radio industry and to encourage small community stations serving the "public interest." In shutting down WHRB and in its present restrictive regulation the Commission is actually working against its traditional objective. The Harvard Network--like other college networks--is the only radio station the community can call its own. Through the years WHRB has set for itself higher standards than those of most commercial stations. Through its educational shows and continuous music programs it has successfully met the needs and desires of the community it serves. Such a station...
Thanks to the FCC, however, WHRB will be silent for several weeks to come. The Harvard Network will suffer, the community will suffer, and nobody, it appears, will gain...