wombat_socho

The only problem with that is that I don't really know that much about the station, except for its rather preventable and extremely stupid end. The more I read about the history of the station in the 1970s (http://www.dcrtv.org/wgtb.html), the more I wonder what took the university so damn long to throw the morons running WGTB out on their asses. Let's face it, for all their musical coolness, these people were a bunch of spoiled upper-class white kids who never understood that they were playing with somebody else's toy, and the more they screwed around with that toy the more likely it was to be taken away from them.

I suppose that part of the problem was that nobody in the administration was paying much attention to what was going on until long after things had gotten completely out of hand. If the university had strictly enforced the rules about who was allowed to work at the station, it's possible that the radical politics might never have had the chance to get so dug in there that the only solution was to go with the nuclear option.

There's an NPR segment featuring an interview with station engineer Ken Sleeman and some clips from the station here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1054148).