I’m just abjectly horrified today, for reasons many others have given lots of space to and that I could do no better in explaining. I will say that I feel completely helpless to stop the sale of what is one of the few remaining gems on the Rice University campus where I spent my four years. Here’s my plea, then, to anyone reading:
Listen to your local radio station. Listening to KTRU was the only way I ever discovered anything outside of my roommate’s significant Deep Purple CD collection. Listening to KTRU was the only way I ever got past the Steve Miller Band blasting in the quad. Listening to KTRU was the only way I ever learned to appreciate music being created outside of a business setting, music being created for the sake of music. People do it all the time, and it comes out unpolished and delicious, and you can only hear that on KTRU or WMPG or WBOR or WRBC or other local community radio stations.
It makes me sick that Houston and Rice University would lose the best, most diverse radio station in the area. Because that means Houstonians and Rice students have one less way to discover the rich musical underbelly that is teeming well below the Lady Gaga/Katy Perry surface. Surely discovery has to count for something. Right?
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Discovery and rediscovery happen constantly for me, with my music collection on shuffle more frequently these days, so let me post something I rediscovered from my dark Houston past and something I newly discovered that, I hope, will be part of the brightening Portland future.
Matt and the gang make me wistful for a more innocent time.
04 Harvard Street Actor (Demo)
Aubin has an unhinged sense of harmony. Not sure where it comes from but I like it.
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First of all, I want to thank you guys for sharing information with me regarding the interior perspective of this entire KTRU state of emergency. I really wasn’t sure how it all worked and to be honest, I am still not- but I feel like I have a better perspective on the argument against the University for the sale.
Stupid question here…
Can Rice be sued for this sale?
There is something to be said for public outcry, but is it only pressure from the public that can turn this thing around?
It seems like ideals and casual promises versus business… not business versus business.
I am very cloudy on this whole thing and I apologize if my question is ignorant or detracts from the progress of the dialogue in general. I just don’t have a clear view of what rights KTRU has in fighting this.
I have signed petitions that come my way. It’s not like I haven’t chosen a side- I am just peripherally uncertain of what can actually be accomplished by protesting in this instance.
Can Rice be sued for this sale?
You’d have to have a reason to sue them. They own the license, so legally it’s theirs to sell.