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the Rice Thresher
Vol. I.XXXVIII, Issue No. 14 — EXTIIA (1 p.m.)
SINCE 1916
Thursday, November 30, 2000
KTRU off the air indefinitely
Meeting among KTRU staff and administration at 6 p.m. in Sevvall 301 open to public
by Elizabeth Jardina
IHKI SHi K HIITOklAl STAIi
K TRU went off the air 8 a.m.
this morning. Regular program-
ming lias been replaced by satellite
content from the World Radio Net-
work. The station is locked; the
bumper stickers have been re-
moved from the office door; and a
sign on the door says, "No Admit-
tance: Violations subject to Code of
Student Conduct."
Complete coverage will appear in
another Thresher extra tonight.
Vice President for Student Af-
tairs Zenaido Camacho pulled the
plug on the station because of an
incident Tuesday in which KTRU
DJs Jones College junior Viki
Keener aiui Wiess College junior
Patrick Glauthier broadcast the last
hour of the women's basketball
game and music simultaneously.
"I don't think anybody was ea-
ger to have anything like this oc-
cur, but when the students started
trashing the programming on
K I RU, something had to be done,"
Vic e President for Public Affairs
Terry Shepard said.
Camacho sent an e-mail explain-
ing the shutdown this morning to
KTRU General Manager Will
Robedec, a Student Aflairs stafl
member, and asked him to forward
the message to the KI RU listserv.
Camacho refused to comment
on his decision and directed all
iiujuiiies to Shepard.
Shepard said KTRU wouldn't
mal programming until
,] . station was "reorganized," and
said there was no timeline on when
that reorganization would happen.
"1 Mi-ipei t, given the time of year
with finals and all. that it's probably
not "^ke '' 'bis semes-
ter," he said.
Students altiliated with Kl RU
were astonished by the shutdown
when they found out about it this
N-.wrninK KTRU DJs have been
l0 the second floor of the
Student Centei all morning to look
at the locked station. One girl left
in tears.
"I think it's a very good example
of the strong arm tactics that the
administration has been using with
KTRU the entire time the process
has been going on," Station Man
ager Johnny So, a Will Rice College
senior, said.
Yesterday, Camacho decided
that for the next two years, be-
tween three and four athletic events
per week will be broadcast on
K TRU. This decision is the result
of a recommendation made to Ca-
macho by the KTRU Oversight
Committee.
So, a member of the Oversight
Committee, said students who work
at the station were upset about the
decision because they think the
negotiations will result iu more ath-
letics being played on KTRU after
two years.
'When the students
started trashing the
programming on
KTRU, something
had to be done.'
— Terry Shepard
Vice president
for Public Affairs
With the station shut down in-
definitely, So's attitude is grim.
"This is definitely the death spiral
that everybody's been talking about
the whole time," So said.
Keener, in tears during an in-
terview this morning, said she tell
horrible. "I just wanted to crawl
somewhere and die," she said.
"I bis is the most horrible thing
that could have possibly happened."
She said she sent a formal
apology to the members of the
women's basketball team after the
incident Tuesday night.
Keener said she was not act-
ing on behalf of KTRU Tuesday
night. "I feel like [the administra-
tion] should have punished me
individually if they had wanted to
take any kind of action. I thought
they would be mature enough to
do that, since my actions were
not representative wf KTku al all,"
Keener said.
Shepard said KTRU leadership
did not respond to the incident ad
equately. '"Iliere was a sense that
the leadership of the station didn't
show leadership the way they
should have," he said. '"There was
no action on the part of the leader-
ship, and, at least tacitly, this was
allowed to happen."
So said he sent an e-mail to the
K'TRIJ listserv stating that although
he objected to some of the DJs'
actions, he would allow DJs to act
as they desired.
"[The e-mail) essentially said
that I gave individuals the liberty to
do what they feel is right," So said
"It does voice that I objected to a lot
of the things that some people were
doing."
However, So said he did not feel
it was his responsibility to punish
the DJs for their actions. "I don't
know what they expect me to do,
fire people? That's not going to
happen," he said.
Student Association President
Lindsay Botsford said she found
out about the shutdown when she
read her e-mail between 9 and 10
a.m. today. She met with Camacho,
President Malcolm (iillis and KTRU
Oversight Committee chair and
Vice President for Finance & Ad
ministration Ncill Binford this
morning.
Botsford said she understood
why the university took this step as
a result of the simultaneous broad-
cast of a basketball game and mu-
sic Tuesday.
"The problem is that this was a
blatant violation of a policy that was
created by both the university lead-
ership and students, and the one
end didn't hold up their end of the
agreement," she said "1 think it
showed a lack of respect for the
mutual collaboration that was hap
pening."
Botsford said the SA Senate
will remain involved in working
with students and administrators
to resolve the conflict over K'TRU
and to set up a structure for run-
ning the station. This will be a
continuation of the ongoing work
to restructure the KTRU and SA
constitutions.
7 think it's a very good
example of the strong-
arm tactics that the
administration has
been using with KTRU
the entire time the
process has been
going on.'
— Johnny So
KTRU station manager and
Will Rice College senior
"Right now, our role is going to
be figuring out how to deal with the
situation and set up a good ground
work for the future based on the
same principles we were working
toward already," Botsford said.
So has scheduled a meeting to-
night at (i p.m. among K'TRU DJs,
Camacho and Assistant Vice Presi-
dent for Student Affairs John
Hutchuia^ii uTJt...ail Hall, Room
301.
So said he called the meeting
before the station shutdown to be-
gin a dialogue between the admin-
istration and KTRU's volunteer DJs
about Camacho's decision that
K'TRU will broadcast between three
and four games per week.
The meeting is open to the gen-
eral public.
Other members of the Thresher edi-
torial staff contributed to this report.
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Stoler, Brian. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 88, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 2000, newspaper, November 30, 2000; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443212/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.