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Page 4/The BattalionT'uesday, April 28, 1987
Alternative station seeks more listeners
KANM hopes to make switch to FM
By Lauren Naylor
Reporter
College Station’s college station is
the only station in the nation that is
not only non-commercial but also
leaves the programming solely up to
the disc jockeys. And now, with the
news, Chuck Cinek.
“The plans at this point are still
fluid, but one of the hopes of
KANM is to broadcast over the air
with low power,” says Cinek, a sta
tion assistant.
In layman’s terms, Texas A&M’s
KANM cable radio station wants to
“go FM.”
get more recognition,” Hudson says.
“The biggest complaint we get is that
not everyone has cable here. Hope
fully, making the change will draw a
larger listenership.
“We think that KANM is a much
better approach to radio because
people can tune in anytime and hear
something different.
“We have everything from classic
rock to jazz to new wave and Chris-
The station draws what little cash
it has from three sources. One of
these accounts is what Hudson calls
the “on-air fund.” Money in this ac
count is acquired through benefit
concerts, spray-painted T-shirt sales,
sunglass sales and sponsors.
we haven’t been able to get any he
from the University. We even ha 1
to make the DJs pav a fee to work,
One loyal listener, John Duncan,
an A&M student who sells on cam
pus the sunglasses called “the eyes of
Currently, for students to hear
the station, they must buy cable serv
ice from McCaw Cablevision for a
$35 installation fee and a $15
monthly fee.
Cinek says making the switch to
FM will take more than hooking up a
few new wires.
“It’s a rather long and tedious le
gal process,” he says. “Most of it is
filing paperwork with the Federal
Communications Commission, get
ting all the necessary permits and li
censes and, of course, raising money
to do the construction. Cash is some
thing which we have little of. It will
be a couple of years.
“But once you’ve built your facili
ties and done a little testing, well,
you’re on the air.”
Station Manager Ginger Hudson
is looking forward to getting on FM.
“Once we get over the air, we will
“We think that KANM is a much better approach to ra
dio because people can tune in anytime and hear
something different. ”
— Ginger Hudson, station manager
“I was in Austin during spriw
break for a radio convention and
just now, UT is getting a collegesia.
tion. 1 hey are going to be given
$30,000 a year from the University!
“T hey are so spoiled! They hate
their F-shirts printed while we are
here spray-painting ours. But, of
course, that fact makes ours all the
better.”
tian contemporary. We even have
one DJ (who) reads poetry on her
show.”
KANM began spinning discs in
1973. Originally, the station was an
outgrowth of Student Government.
Texas,” donates more than $1,000 a
semester to KANM.
‘Back in those days, we drew most
ays
funding from the Student Govern
ment fund,” Cinek says. “They sup
ported the operation as a way for the
students to get their hands onto a
little cable space and play the kind of
music they wanted to hear.”
Cinek says Student Government
cut off the financial support a few
years later, and KANM has since
had to fend for itself to make cash
flow.
KANM has 1 1 sponsors who pro
vide the station with $120 each se
mester. Each sponsor is given a show
during which it is recognized.
The Texas A&M Bookstore is the
second source of cash for the station,
donating $1,000 a year. KANM uses
this money to pay for its $300
monthly cable bill. Hudson says she
can’t understand why the station
doesn’t get more support from
A&M.
“Some people outside of the col
lege say they re just trying to sup
press us because of the conservatism
here,” she says. “I don’t know why
Another source of income for
KANM is money it collects from is
DJs. Each I)| has to pay a $13 fe
each semester. This money is usedu
buy new equipment and a S100si
scription to the College Music Jour,
nal. 1 he magazine. Hudson says,isi
worthwhile investment.
“Through this magazine, we get
an incredible amount of music,"slit
says. "College stations that subscribe
to the journal are listed in it alpha
helically. We’re listed first, by the
wav.”
A&M should not only recognize
KANM as an “alternative radio"sti'
tion, Hudson says, but also as an op
port unity.
“Right now, in Houston, oneof
our former DJs (Donna Oldnerjis
the No. 1 DJ in the city," she san.
“This station is an excellent place to
practice broadcasting."
As one DJ put it, "Listening to the
alternative makes you superlative. 1
cor
Federal judge lifts
threatened fines
from prison system
AUSTIN (AP) — A federal
judge’s threat of $24 million in
monthly fines against the Texas
prison system was lifted Monday in
what Attorney General Jim Mattox
called as big a victory as the state
could have won.
ate to recognize the good faith and
officii
diligence of state
time.’
fficials at this
Although Texas won, officials
were quick to say the prison prob
lems aren’t over.
“The order is as close to an across-
the-board victory as we could have
hoped,” Mattox said.
That order, signed by Judge Wil
liam Wayne Justice of Tyler, was
filed Monday in U.S. District Court
in Houston.
Justice scheduled another hearing
for around Oct. U when he will re
view progress made ii>> ^neeting
other requirements, including re
ducing the population of the 26 pris
ons now in use.
In Advance
-in
Student Senate positions to be filled
Several positions on the 1987-
88 Student Senate, which are
elected from within the Senate,
will be filled at the Senate meet
ing Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
room 204 Harrington.
The positions of speaker,
speaker pro tempore and chair
man of the Rules and Regulations
Committee are chosen through
intra-Senate elections after a brief
presentation by each of the candi
dates..
Student Bodv President-elect
Mason Hogan said the candidates
will have the option to give a
short speech illustrating what
they consider to be important and
then will have a Senate member
speak on their behalf before the
group.
He said that at this time he is
unsure of how many people, or
who exactly, is running for the
positions.
Also at Wednesday’s meetings,
Hogan and his choices for exec
utive vice presidents — he said he
will have three — will be sworn in.
This is a slight change from
this year’s administrative struc
ture, where there was one exec
utive and one administrative vice
president, but it is the prerogative
of the student body president to
create and eliminate positions
within his governmental struc-
tu re.
In it the judge granted the state’s
motions to modify his earlier con-
tempt-of-court ruling and to dismiss
fines that could have totaled up to
$800,500 a day.
The fines were threatened after
Justice on Dec. 31, 1986, found
Texas in contempt for failing to
make improvements in the nation’s
third-largest prison system.
Racism at Awareness Day sparks
council to re-evaluate program
By Carolyn Garcia
Staff Writer
But in Monday’s order, Justice
praised the Texas Department of
Corrections and others for “remark
able progress” in improving the
38,000-inmate system.
“TDC officials and state lead
ership are to be commended for the
steps they have taken during 1987 to
address the serious problems of non-
compliance described in the Dec. 31,
1986, order,” Justice wrote. “Prom
ises by Gov. William P. Clements Jr.,
referred to in earlier orders of the
court, have been kept, and construc
tive actions by the Legislature have
been forthcoming ... It is appropri-
Complaints of racism were
brought before the Memorial Stu
dent Council Monday night. The
problem, according to the Director
of the MSC Jim Reynolds, arose dur
ing MSG Political Forum’s Political
Awareness Day.
Although the Political Forum was
able to boast of many positive com
ments and a relatively large turnout,
it was marred by the derogative atti
tude of one of the participating
groups — the American Ethnic Co
alition.
Reynolds said he received com
plaints that the group was aggres
sively approaching Hispanic stu
dents. They went as far as to reach
across their table and grab Hispanic-
looking students and told them to
“go back to Mexico,” Reynolds said.
The Council will request its Pro
gram Review Committee to look into
the selection or approval of organi
zations wishing to participate and
possibly require them to he regis
tered Texas A&M student groups,
nationally or state-recognized org-
naizations or state lobbyists, Rey
nolds said.
Although this will not prevent
problems with registered groups like
the American Ethnic Coalition, it
will give Political Forum some con
trol over who is given a table at fu
ture events, he said.
Reynolds added that aside from
the one oganization’s actions, the
program was a success and has been
very successful and well-received in
the past.
Andy Kiser, a senior biochemisit)
major and one of the directors of Po
litical Forum, said he was not ni
aware of the problems until N
l-8i
A subsidiary,
Also offe
L
day’s meeting,
vas really
“1 was rea lly pleased with thealti j
tude of the crowds,” Kiser said
“ Fliere were heated arguments.Mi
had a lot of positive comments,and
the only real complaint we got
that the group led too much totkt
left.”
I n other action, the Council:
• Announced MSC Open Houst;
will be Sept. 6.
• Announced that the StudentFi-
nance Center has extra invitation!
available for any students ne
extras.
New' Council President Lind)
Hartman introduced her officers for
the 38th MSC council.
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