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Gabe Patterson sits at a small desk in a cramped room
at the KANM radio station studio, surrounded by hun-
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for the right reasons. Some people
are too influenced by the media
as far as what to like.”
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disc jockey and sophomore journalism major
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weenha^nusic choices. Instead, she shows her personality in her
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Mitchell, a junior journalism major, are among several
^“tudents who are gaining on-air experience working at
rea radio stations.
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too influenced by the media as far as what to like.”
ij In his position as KANM’s urban-music disc jock
ey, Patterson has free rein to choose the music he wants
to play. , , .
“I focus on quality,” he said. ‘‘I’ll play Eminem, be
cause he’s one of the greatest rappers ever, but I’ll also
play Jay-Z and the Black Eye Peas,” he said.
Patterson tries to stay away from playing off the repet
itive list of Top 40 music. KANM aims to provide alter
native programming and to support local music. Accord
ing to its Website, the station is dedicated to playing
music that cannot be heard on other local stations.
“The goal of the station is to present an alternative to Top
40,” Patterson said. “I’m a little more liberal with that rule
because hip-hop has been commercial since 1 got into it.
“When I first got into it, (rap) was more about music
and having fun. Now you have to dig through the for
mulaic, watered-down stuff.”
Patterson said he found out about KANM at the
Fall 2000 MSC Open House. He said he was the
only person interested in playing hip-hop music,
so the station gave him a show.
Nikki Mitchell found her position in a similar
manner. A year ago, she answered an advertise
ment looking for help.
“I had absolutely nothing in the way of experi
ence. I just answered the ad,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell encourages potential disc jockeys to “defi
nitely give more tHan (your employer) expects.”
“Go above and beyond just doing the basics and keep
impressing people/’ she said. “There is always someone
after your job.”
Mitchell said she loves music and loves her job, but
she admits there is a little more to it than just playing
records.
“I have to keep up with music and celebrity news so I
have something to talk about on the air,” she said.
She also said part
of her job is paying
attention to the
commercials and
incoming music re
quests. But she does
not mind.
“It’s fun,” she
said. “It’s not a stress
ful job at all.” t
Mitchell had the
many graduate and move on. Each semester, KANM
takes on a lot of new talent.
Enderle, a senior English major, started at KANM 2
Zi years ago as a DJ.
“I found out about the station the middle of my
sophomore year and started DJing,” he said. “I’d
heard about it before and thought it would be
cool to do.”
Enderle said he got to know his
way around the station and
found his tastes jibed with
the then-directors at the
station. Before long,
he became the
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good fortune to be in the right
place at the right time. It can be difficult to break into
radio, particularly on-air jobs, without previous expe
rience. One of the many advantages of college radio is
that on-campus radio jobs can be easier to find.
“Come in and fill out an application,” said Scott En
derle, KANM’s music director. “You’ll probably get a
show. We don’t have enough DJs right now.”
There is a high turnover rate for student DJs because
station’s director.
“Now, I call up various la
bels, let them know >we exist, and
they send us CDs,” Enderle said. “I re
ally like working with the labels. It’s cool
making connections with them.”
In addition to assembling music for the station, En
derle is responsible for keeping KANM ahead of musi
cal trends. He does this by studying the College Music
Journal and other trade magazines.
“We definitely try to avoid even stuff that gets played
at other so-called alternative stations,” Enderle said.
KANM DJs play a wide variety of music, with
guidelines directing the amount of commercial music
per show. This ensures that the DJs are exposed to a lot
of different music.
Exposure to a range of music is only one of the perks
of working at a radio station as a college student. The
biggest perk is experience.
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Teen tries to mimic
‘Jackass’ stuntman
TORRINGTON, Conn. (AP) — The fa
ther of a 13-year-old boy, hospitalized
with second- and third-
degree burns after mim
icking an MTV personal
ity who set himself on
fire during a stunt show,
blames the network for
his son’s injuries.
Jason Lind was se
verely burned Friday night
when he and a friend
poured gasoline on his
feet and legs and lit him on fire while imi
tating a stunt on MTV’s high-rated show
“Jackass,’’police said. The fire grew out of
control and burned the boy’s legs and hands
before it was extinguished, officials said.
Jason remained hospitalized Monday in
critical condition in the burn unit of
Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Boston.
“I don’t want another parent to go
through what I went through — when you
see your son laying on an emergency room
LIEBERMAN
table with his skin falling off, and he’s
apologizing to you,” Eric Lind, the father,
told WFSB-TV on Monday.
The MTV program also drew fire from
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., an outspo
ken critic of media violence.
“MTV is an enormously influential
force in the world our children inhabit,
and with that power and the right to ex
ercise it comes a certain level of re
sponsibility,” Lieberman said Monday. “I
intend to make clear to the network’s
owners that we expect more from
them.”
Jason’s 14-year-old friend was arrest
ed Saturday and charged with reckless
endangerment. Police would not identify
the suspect because he is a juvenile. An
other teen who looked on was not
charged.
“Jackass” features an array of pranks
and stunts. In Friday’s episode, show cre
ator Johnny Knoxville donned a fire-re
sistant suit hung with steaks. He then lay
across a makeshift barbecue while his
cast mates shot lighter fluid onto the grill
to fan the flames.
One of the teens said Jason volun-
— People in the News —
teered to re-enact the stunt, which took
place in one boy’s back yard.
MTV spokeswoman Tina Exarhos said
the show includes written and verbal dis
claimers stating, “The following show fea
tures stunts performed by professionals
and/or total idiots under very strict con
trol.” The producers “insist that neither you
or anyone else attempt to re-create or per
form anything you have seen,” the warning
says. Exarhos said the warning is repeat
ed by Knoxville.
Barrymore, Hopkins
win Pudding award
HOPKINS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(AP)
rymore and Sir Anthony
Hopkins are this year’s
recipients of woman
and man of the year
awards from Harvard
University’s Hasty Pud
ding Theatricals.
They will receive
the traditional brass
Pudding Pots next
Drew Bar-
BARRYMORE
month, university officials announced
Monday.
The Hasty Pudding
awards are presented to
performers who have
made a “lasting and im
pressive contribution to
the world of entertain
ment.”
Barrymore will lead
the traditional parade
through the streets of
Harvard Square on Feb. 8. Hopkins will ap
pear Feb. 15 at the opening night of the
comedy troupe’s annual theatrical pro
duction, Fangs for the Memories. Both per
formers will participate in roasts of their
careers.
Barrymore, 25, has starred in E.T. The
Extra-Terrestrial, The Wedding Singer and
Charlie’s Angels. '
The 63-year-old Hopkins won an Oscar
for his role as Hannibal Lecter in the 1991
thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
He stars in the sequel, Hannibal,
which opens in theaters nationwide on
Feb. 9.
George Clinton loses
rights to own music
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has
ruled American funk music star George
Clinton can’t keep the rights to music he
wrote in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruled
on Monday that Clinton signed away the
rights to the music, which Clinton claims
is worth more than $100 million, to Michi
gan-based music publisher Bridgeport Mu
sic in a 1983 contract.
Hinkle also barred Clinton from profit
ing from the songs, written between 1976
and 1983, saying the singer did not dis
close them in a 1984 bankruptcy filing as
possible future income.
The 60-year-old singer argued in a law
suit filed in 1999 that he never signed a
valid contract and that he also lost money
from rap music artists sampling his old
songs, but not paying to do so.
A Tallahassee-area resident, Clinton
founded the popular funk group Parlia
ment, which later changed its, name to
Funkadelic.
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