KTRU helped me grow up during my years at Rice – the closest I came to holding responsibilities that the ‘real world’ entailed. Sure, the music was weird, and the hours during my first year were inconvenient. But if I didn’t show up at 1am on a Saturday night for my three-hour shift, the station would not operate. That was my first lesson in personal accountability. It is a lesson that won’t be taught to other students if KTRU were to move to an online-only format.

Nirav Bhagat, 2002, Jones College