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...Harvard, Crawford was active within the WHRB radio station, a member of a church choir during the spring of her senior year, a Phi Beta Kappa member and a Hoopes Prize recipient. She also presented the Latin Oration at the Commencement exercises for her graduating class...
...birth control,” Klein says. (They are not.) In the past year, Klein has also set out on her own as a soloist. And she is the guitarist for the Sinister Turns, a co-ed indie rock group. She has juggled all this while working as a WHRB radio host and as a member of The Harvard Advocate’s poetry board. And she will graduate tomorrow with an array of accolades—a Hoopes Prize for her creative-writing thesis, induction into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and a George Peabody Gardner Fellowship, which...
...November of 1999 the 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...
...this goal by satisfying tastes that aren’t so well-represented on the airwaves, the majority of its content isn’t aimed at its own student body anymore. “I guess we’re not a typical college station,” WHRB President Kimberly E. Gittleson ’08 says, “but nearly every organization at Harvard is a little esoteric.” Gittleson, who is also an associate Crimson magazine editor, points out that WHRB continues to acknowledge its original Harvard audience—the station?...
...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?...