UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 15, 1996
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Pirate radio station to be an outlet for community
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
Clustered around a table in a dimly lit basement, the organizers of the Lawrence Community Radio project have the feel of true renegades.
A group of 10 Lawrence residents met last night in the basement of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., and discussed the logistics of a pirate radio station that will air in Lawrence starting Thanksgiving Day.
The goal of the radio station will be to provide the community with an open forum of ideas and music that is not dominated by commercial control, said Rich Wenzel, co-organizer.
Wenzel said that the station hoped to include public forums for area organizations like community support groups, neighborhood associations and campus activist groups. The format does not yet have a strict
structure, but the primary goal is for people's voices to be heard, Wenzel said.
"One thing we're are pretty much in consensus on is that we want to have a phone line for people to call in on," he said.
The Lawrence Community Radio Project started more than a year ago. Wenzel said the group originally requested a grant from the National Telecommunication Information Administration that would finance the purchase of a 100-watt transmitter required for licensing by the Federal Communication Commission.
"It has pretty much been decided that it is a legal gray area," Wenzel said.
When they realized the competition for the grant was fierce, they researched the possibility of transmitting on a lower wattage and forgoing the licensing of the FCC. They found that as long as it did not interfere with other stations' frequencies, a pirate station could not be fined.
The station will broadcast from Liberty Hall on a 6-10 watt transmitter. The broadcast range will be about five miles, with a goal of five hours of air time each day.
"I didn't feel like I was getting to do what I wanted musically," he said. "I think this is much more beneficial because it is focusing on people who live in Lawrence rather than a temporary group of students."
Dave Bennett, Lawrence senior,
said that he decided to get involved
with the Lawrence Community
Radio after became disheartened
with his DJ position at KJHK.
Everyone participating in the Lawrence Community Radio project is a volunteer, and Wenzel said that any member of the community was welcome to participate.
Aging is an issue for Thompson
Bv Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Students may not receive social security checks in 30 years if the federal government continues to increase the budget deficit, said Sally Thompson, Democratic candidate for a Kansas seat in the U.S. Senate.
"We need to put together a long-range plan," she said. "Fortunately we have 30 years to do that."
Thompson gave a speech last night sponsored by the Student Legislative Awareness Board and KU Young Democrats and answered questions from an audience of about 40 people at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Thompson, who is running against Republican contender Pat Roberts for Nancy Kassebaum's former seat and is the Kansas state treasurer, said social security was one of the biggest issues in the election.
She would ensure that pensions
wouldn't be cut to give tax breaks to big business, she said. And people switching careers would be given a cumulative pension for all of their jobs, rather than having to start building a new pension at a new job.
"If you can start over every time it can't build," she said.
Another issue Thompson concentrated on was crime. She said she strongly supported President Clinton's plan to put 100,000 new police officers on the streets of America.
Since the ban on assault weapons was put into effect last year, the number of drive-by shootings in Wichita had decreased from 47 during the previous year to 17, she said. She also supports programs that keep children off the streets.
"I would not vote to repeal the assault weapons ban," Thompson said.
"I'm a full supporter of the activities in schools," Thompson said. "I believe that the more active young people are, the less of a chance they
have to get into trouble."
When speaking of term limits, another issue she supports, Thompson delivered a few jabs at Roberts, insinuating that he had been in office too long. She said that she would serve only two terms.
"You go in, you get your job done and go back to the real world," she said.
"I think it's time to let him retire and go home to Virginia where he's lived for 30 years," she said.
Thompson called Roberts a career politician who needed to retire.
Jenny Lawson, Lenexa senior and education and forums coordinator of the Student Legislative Awareness Board, said that bringing political candidates to campus was a great educational experience for students.
"I think it's important, in addition to registering students to vote, to do the education part," she said. "Student issues are very different than other population issues."
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