31
Aug
2010
Open Forum at Rice this Wednesday night
There will be an open forum meeting to discuss the KTRU sale this Wednesday, September 1st. It will begin at 7:30pm in Sewall Hall, Room 301. Look at this map to find Sewall 301: http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html. Everyone, including the Rice administration, is invited to attend. There will be FREE T-shirts, pizza, and music!
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The Sewall Hall label doesn’t display on this map. Is someone trying to keep visitors away?
If you go through “Find a Building” to the letter S, you will see it. I don’t see a way to directly link to a map with Sewall pointed out.
Can this be streamed so that those of us who are far away can at least follow it, if not participate?
Yes Jeff, the CIA is.
Whoever it was, it worked. The administration couldn’t even find the meeting.
Openly and repeatedly challenge Leebron to a public debate over the alleged merits of the sale. Do it over and over again. Then step up the confrontation by bringing the debate home to him, closer and closer, more and more.
They will continue to duck like cowards and hide behind their high handed PR lies, which will only strengthen KTRU’s position and weaken theirs as time goes on.
Much of this is about whether there is a truly place for YOU in the “Rice Community” or whether such “community” is an empty lie. If Leebron and the Board are afraid to engage the very members of this “community” they must live and work among, they need to get the hell out, because they can’t “lead” a “community” that they deny the existence of.
That community doesn’t want to be “led” by them in such a patronizing manner to begin with; it wants its autonomy recognized and respected, instead of being dealt at arm’s length using PR proxies and specious arguments. They couldn’t ask the students directly if they wanted KTRU to be sold, because they are too afraid to ask the students anything directly. This is a regression, a de-evolution from the Call to Conversation. It is time to take advantage of their refound fear. Hound them until they will face the students directly and acknowledge your dignity as full members of the “community” which they are constantly speaking of.
Hearing that the Rice admins (especially someone like the Dean of Undergraduates for god’s sake) didn’t even bother to show up to this open forum , I was finally motivated to get off my a$$ and send a donation to SaveKTRU. So thank you, lazy and uncaring Rice admins for your inaction and fear, because it helped me step it up.
Support for KTRU, as a radio station, extends beyond the Rice University campus. In fact, there are KTRU supporters from all walks of life, all ethnicities, all income levels, and all ages.
A group of concerned University of Houston students and alumni have launched an online petition to show (1) their strong support for KTRU 91.7 FM, as a broadcasting radio station on the public airwaves; and (2) inform top administrators at the University of Houston and the University of Houston System Board of Regents that we urge them to end all negotiations with Rice University regarding KTRU. Please see: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/UH-for-KTRU/
When signing the petition, please state your UH affiliation. THANKS.
Little birdies tell me that Rice Admin is getting cold feet about this deal so keep the PR pressure on, but THE most important place to make this case is the FCC. Start barraging them NOW with your complaints since THEY have final say in any sale or transfer of license. MAKE them see that this is bad public policy and not good for the city and listenership. Start putting money pressure on U of H & KUHF as well, boycott their advertisers and be vocal during their upcoming “Fundraiser” by calling in and telling them how you feel, over and over and over…you get the idea.