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...collapse. Most Karen fighters fled, but not Johnny and Luther. Leading a half-dozen rebels, the stories go, they beat back entire companies of Burmese soldiers. Their followers swore they had magic powers and were impervious to bullets. For a desperate people, the boys became messiahs. At the police station, they seemed anything but saviors. Shorn of their weapons and fatigues, they appeared to be scrawny, stunted children smoking Thai cigarettes and munching on shortbread cookies. So what were they really...
...interrupted. It's a matter of life and death," says Dr. Ake Almgren, CEO of Capstone Turbine Corp., which has sold more than 1,000 units in two years to outfits ranging from high-tech start-ups and hospitals to a Blockbuster Video store and a BP Amoco gas station. According to estimates, 10% to 20% of new power will be distributed by 2010, so it's no wonder that heavyweights like Honeywell and Ingersoll-Rand are moving into the burgeoning business. Still, Maureen Helmer, chairman of the New York State public service commission, insists that "this is just...
Rice has in its radio station, KTRU, possibly the most archetypical "college radio" station in the country. Unlike Harvard's student-run WHRB, which plays commercials and follows a structured, fixed format, KTRU plays an eclectic mix of punk, ska, underground hip-hop, world music and several other genres. Like WHRB, KTRU is housed in university space and puts the university name on its letterhead. Unlike at Harvard, however, Rice undergraduates fund the station directly. KTRU also allows anyone to apply for a DJ position, although students receive a preference...
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...
KTRU finally returned to the airwaves on Dec. 8th after KTRU members, the Student Senate and Camacho reached an agreement on a new operating policy. The treaty nominally recognizes KTRU as a "student-run radio station" but acknowledges its accountability to the university. The deal also meets most of the athletic department's demands and provides that the KTRU station manager (a student) should be elected by all Rice undergraduates, since they fund the station. In essence, KTRU members lost the game...