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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2014
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RADIO
KJHK awarded for dedication to station
MADDY MIKINSKI
news@kansan.com
FRANK WEIRICH/KANSAN KIHK moved its studio into
KJHK senior Sarah Brennan runs the French Connection, a slot of songs from France. KJHK moved its studio into the Kansas Union in the spring of 2010. Its radio programs run 24/7.
On Tuesday, the Society of Professional Journalists honored student-run radio station KJHK with five regional awards. The station won two awards for In-Depth Reporting, two for Features Reporting and one for Best Affiliated Website.
These awards are a result of the hard work that KJHK hosts put in behind the scenes to generate such high-quality content.
"I would spend all day working on a setlist and picking out the right music and making sure [the setlist] had a good flow to it," said DJ Haven Harbert, who's on her third semester with KJHK. "We put in hard work to think of good things."
Harbert's show, Femme FM,
runs Wednesday nights from
10 p.m.-midnight.
The turnaround from Wednesday night's show to Thursday morning is a fast
one. Harbert needs to be on campus at 8:30 a.m. for her campus job. Despite this, Harbert says there's no major conflict in her schedule.
"Matt [Primovic], the program director, is very good at making sure you have a time that fits comfortably [into your schedule]," she said. "You may have to adjust some things but he's never going to give you something where you will have to rush from one place to another."
While Harbert juggles her show, work and school, DJ Vince Meserko takes commitment to the next level.
"I started out doing live events staff [for the radio station] in 2006," he said. "It has to be some kind of record."
Right now, Meserko, a fourth-year Ph.D student, is trying to balance two radio shows and a dissertation on the topic of soul music. On top of that, he's a graduate teaching assistant in the communications department.
Meserko's first show was in the Sunday morning 8-10 a.m. timeslot.
"I'll spend an hour and a half
working, putting together my playlists. I want every song to flow together," Meserko said. "So for it is a commitment."
to the DJ shift and see all the wreckage from Saturday."
"It was a great time to DJ," Meserko said. "The station used to be right across from the stadium. It was always fun on Sunday mornings to drive
Meserko has played the same shows for five years. One, Hickory Wind, features traditional country and folk music, while the other, The Juke House, is a tribute to soul and blues music.
Over the past eight years, Meserko has noticed the effort of the KJHK staff to produce
new and unique content.
"The station has changed a lot since I've been there," Meserko said. "I think people affiliated with the station target their energies in different places. So now we have a lot of online content. We have people doing some incredible videos and interviews online that we didn't have originally."
Edited by Brook Barnes
Big 12 council creates leadership opportunities
CAMPUS
MCKENNA HARFORD
news@kansan.com
After years of being involved in Black Student Government, juniors Katherine Rainey from Shawnee, Paige Whiteside from Overland Park and Somorah Smith from Lincoln, Neb., have big plans for the Big 12 Council on Black Student Government.
Rainey, Whiteside and Smith were elected chair, vice chair and secretary, respectively, at the Big 12 Conference, which was Feb. 27 to March 1 at Iowa State University.
To have three executive council members from the same school is very rare. It's an honor the girls take seriously.
"It's just exciting." Rainey said. "I love the fact that we were all willing to step up and be leaders on such a huge scale. I think it shows that our (Black Student Union) fosters leaders."
As chair, vice chair and secretary, the women will get a chance to manage the other committees in the Big 12 Council, including the finance and public relations committees. Rainey says that one of her plans as chair is to create goals for every committee that improves upon last year's accomplishments.
"At the conference we will reach anywhere from 400 to 600 students all over the Big 12 and I love the idea of us being more active in playing a role showing students that you can be leaders and creating opportunities for growth," Rainey said.
"My hope is to continue to expand," Smith said. "To make not only council better, but the website a better thing and making scholarships so much bigger."
Smith will be in charge of sending out conference information and promotions to all of the Big 12 schools and committees. Rainey adds that communication will be more efficient between members and their schools this year because they are all
at the University of Kansas. Smith will also work to be a "bridge of communication" to help schools reach out to their students.
Vice Chair Whiteside will be mainly focusing on the Freshman Action Committee, which is a group under the Big 12 Council that gets freshmen involved with the freshman version of Black Student Union, which is the Kansas branch of the Black Student Government. She says one of her main concerns this year will be the committee's philanthropy project; one of her ideas for the project is to build a high school bridge program.
school can meet with the Freshman Action Team and build connections, so that way when they do come to college they don't feel like they don't know anyone and they can be more acclimated to campus." Whiteside said.
In order to encourage this behavior, the council gives away around $8,000 in scholarships and awards each conference. Junior Jolene Gilkey from Wichita received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. award, which is awarded to a student who contributes to breaking walls of social inequity, and the Nelson Mandela award, which is awarded to a student who exemplifies leadership,
The idea is that through improvements in every committee, the Big 12 Council will be able to increase retention rates, build a network of students to mentor and form leaders within the campus communities.
"Any students that have been admitted to their prospective
courage and self-sacrifice. She was awarded for her work in creating diverse communities and being a role model to other students.
"I hope that more students recognize that they can become leaders too as long as they work hard toward it," Gilkey said.
Edited by Blair Sheade
BIG 12 COUNCIL FACTS
The University has been a part of the Big 12 Council since it was founded in 1977 as the Big 8 Council.
The next Big 12 conference will be hosted by Oklahoma State University on Feb. 26-28. Kansas will host the conference in 2016.
The Big 12 Council meets three other times a year for community service and political action projects.
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