More changes at WERS

[A Joseph Ross]

On 8/20/2013 1:04 AM, Donna Halper wrote:

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>> Are decisions like this made by student station staff or by faculty?
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> I'd say both, but while the students do have some input, it may be 
> more a decision of the faculty adviser & the administration than the 
> students.  When I was still at Emerson, there was a bit of a battle 
> going on about the future of WERS; for example, some in the 
> administration wanted WERS to play less controversial music, and they 
> tried several times to cancel rap & hip-hop programming, ostensibly 
> because of obscene lyrics and complaints from the alumnae (we were 
> never told who exactly complained). But hiring community members 
> (professionals) or changing/canceling programs would not be a decision 
> made by students, as far as I can tell.

I hope it isn't a move to take over the station the way Boston 
University did many years ago with WBUR.


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