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...general freshman-year over-stimulation. So, I opted to channel my energies into nonstop Moral Reasoning-related freakouts rather than, like, joining organizations and making friends or whatever. It wasn’t until sophomore fall when I received a Facebook message inviting me to comp The Darker Side, WHRB??s hip-hop department, that I began participating in the frantic extracurricular whirl that defines the Harvard experience for many. Aside from my work for a certain weekend magazine, no class or activity took up as much of my time that year as my effort to know everything?...
...food and drink serving as an added incentive to attending live shows that is lacking at more obscure on-campus venues such as the Quincy Cage.FOOTING THE BILLBut while the perfect stage for live music may now exist at Harvard, financial issues may still inhibit the potential of WHRB??s involvement in promoting live bands.Gittleson makes it clear that the event is purely altruistic on the part of the station, which had to resort to selling more advertising time and using cost-cutting methods to pay $3,000—half of the sponsorship costs. Because there will...
...years after the station’s inception, only Harvard buildings had access to WHRB, via wiring threaded through the system of steam tunnels beneath the campus. Along with disc jockeys and announcers, WHRB??s membership included a board of student engineers who spent much of their time navigating the intricate tunnel system and making sure the network was running smoothly...
...station increased its accessibility yet again and began streaming online courtesy of WarpRadio, which gave WHRB free streaming in exchange for four 60-second advertisements per day. Then-President Alexandra J. McCormack ’00 told The Crimson that the new stream served to further WHRB??s overall goal: reaching a global audience...
...difference in WHRB now from ’57 would be that there’s probably a greater diversity of music,” says Frederick S. Hird ’57, a former WHRBie who listens to the online stream. Yet WHRB??s wide-ranging selection leaves little room for more popular music. Perhaps in an effort to go global, WHRB has transformed from the Harvard-only station it was 50 years ago to one that mostly serves listeners outside Harvard’s gates. But whatever philosophy guides its programming today, WHRB?...