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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 23, 1956
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THIS LOOKS GOOD—Shirley Jones, Ottawa senior, pulls records for a show from the record library at KDGU.
Pleasure, Credit, Learning- The Objectives Of KDGU
An orphan—that's the best way to describe campus radio station KDGU. It is not under any particular department of the University, but is an entity in itself. Students may get a degree in radio and television through either the speech department or William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Actually KDGU is a child of the University. Many students participating in it are not enrolled in any courses pertaining to radio, speech, or journalism, but work at KDGU because they enjoy it.
KDGU went on the air in the fall of 1953. It was the first time a major could be obtained in radio and television at the University. Since then the station has grown into a nationalAbout 800 students in University dormitories
At present, approximately 50 students are involved in the station jobs of directing, engineering, announcing, and writing. Victor Hyden, instructor of speech and drama, is supervisor of KDGU.
A Training Station
Primarily, KDGU is a training station for students. Its programs are all entertaining, but are chosen for the experience they will yield the student, rather, than how much they will please the listener.
KDGU is known as a "wired wireless" radio station. This mounts to no more than a regular telephone line running from KDGU studios in Flint Hall to its subscribers. Instead of going into a telephone receiver, the line is hooked into wall sockets in the various dormitories that use KDGU's service. Radios are plugged into these wall sockets and take the place of telephone receivers.
Station manager Shirley Jones, Ottawa senior, is in complete charge of all KDGU operations. In the evenings a night manager is responsible for his specific evening's programs. This type of organization has worked very well and is being adopted from
KU by training stations in colleges and universities all over the nation.
Serves 7 Dormitories
KDGU now serves Battenfield, Douthart, Templein, Grace Pearson, Carruth-O'Leary, Corbin, and North College. Plans are being made for an expansion program this summer with the service extended to sororities, fraternities, and other dormitories. The new "customers" will be added on basis of interest and house enrollment.
Twenty-five hundred records representing 8,000 tunes may be found in KDGU's record library.
Students participating on KDGU find themselves in complete control. Their instructors do not step in when things go wrong. They let their students work mistakes out for themselves and only tell them how a particular mistake could have been avoided.
Kappa Psi Attend Convention
Twenty-two seniors in the School of Pharmacy attended the Kansas Pharmaceutical Convention March 17-19 in Topeka. Alumni of the KU chapter of Kappa Psi, pharmacy fraternity, held a reunion during the convention.
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