17
Aug
2010
Let Rice Know You’re Unhappy
Try emailing or calling people in charge to let them know you are unhappy.
- Rice President and Board of Trustees info
- News & Media Relations office at Rice information
- Send an email to Kevin Kirby, David Leebron & John Hutchinson at Kevin.Kirby@rice.edu, president@rice.edu, jshutch@rice.edu
- And contact the giving office, giving@rice.edu or 713-348-4600
When they shut ktru down in 2000, sarah pitre, alexei angelides and ben horne met with administration vp dr. camacho several times. when we met the friday after the shutdown, there was no willingness to budge.
Over the weekend, the administration received 400 letters from alumni who said they were no longer going to donate.
On monday, dr. camacho was willing to negotiate.
This is the best way to have your voice heard.
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Can someone clarify why Hutch is on the list of contacts? Does he now have an administrative role? [Sorry if it’s a dumb question, but when some of us graduated he was Wiess master and a chemistry prof — not a logical target for this campaign]
Hutch was just appointed Dean of Student Affairs yesterday. Welcome to the job.
Hi SRC ’00,
John Hutchinson is the newly named Dean of Undergraduates, which is why he was included.
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=14460
Another thing you can do is write KUHF, they are having a board meeting today. Write the board members and tell them to vote no! Here’s a link to their staff contact page: http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-staff_directory.php
John Hutchinson (aka Dean Hutch) would actually be a pretty good person to email. He’s the new dean of undergraduates, and he might be sympathetic and actually listen the students.
Just FYI, John Hutchinson was one of the two administrators who initiated the lockout in 2000:
http://www.houstonpress.com/2001-01-11/news/spin-control/1/
Response from the KUHF CEO to my e-mail encouraging them to reconsider buying KTRU:
“Rice University chose to sell KTRU some time ago.
They engaged a media broker to assist with the sale.
The media broker contacted UH and KUHF after the fact to ascertain our possible interest in acquiring the property for sale.
Thanks for your comments.
Best regards,
John Proffitt”
One wonders when this decision was actually made. Perhaps enough unhappy e-mails from students and alum will get Rice to at least have an open discussion about the issue.
In the opinion of the late Dr Bill Wilson, Hutch was not a decisionmaker in the KTRU shutdown in 2000; he was merely carrying out orders, except by his own admission in the instruction to remove the door stickers. Now, this time in a similar role as Dr Camacho was, he may or may not have the direct influence on the real decisionmakers.
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OK, I’ve written Kevin/David/John, cc’d the admin for the trustees, and cc’d giving@rice. Now, what else? Tell me something concrete I can do so that I can distract myself from wanting to cry.
The student leaders in 1991 worried that a high-powered station would be a prime target for an administrative takeover. Bill Cordell, a veteran radio man and the engineer who built KTRU’s tower in Humble, warned them. “Guys, it won’t be long before the administration sees what this will really do,” he told them. “It will be like my alma mater, University of Houston. It will become more of a conventional radio station as opposed to something for the students to enjoy”
–From the Houston press article. How prescient.
This is a great point about contacting KUHF, as well. I give to both Rice and KUHF, but I will no longer give to either if this goes through. Give them as many reasons to reverse the decision as dollars you spend with them.
This really sucks.
More reguritated mainstream, commercialized garbage.
Gotta get more of mind-numbing, commie-controlled crap to the listening public.
Suck on it Rice and UofH – not only would I never donate a dime to either of your campuses, I will never listen to your f*c*ing radio station even if you used it to expose fake Barry Soetoro, reveal the HIV hoax, tell the story of historical energy tech suppresion, or explain why the media broadcast fake planes on 9/11.
You will NEVER get in my head, my wallet, or my girlfriend’s panties – well, that is, unless she’s really drunk w/ no friends around to help er out and I could use a laugh or two.
I got the governor on the line – gotta go.
j rotten
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