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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 28, 1968
GOOD MORNING WORLD
KUOK morning disc jockey Tim Taylor tries to awaken students five mornings a week on the campus radio station.
KU disc jockey starts early
At 5:30 a.m.—an hour when most hard-working students are tucked away in bed — Tim Taylor can be found in the basement of Hoch Auditorium getting ready to spin records and make conversation.
The Paola junior, who's real name in Tim Maher, has a radio program on KUOK, the campus radio station, from 6 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. five days a week. During that time, he gives news, weather, items of student interest and plays "contemporary" music. It's this "contemporary" music that greets you as you enter the basement and proceed down a hallway, up a ramp, around a corner and eventually into the broadcasting studio. A small room, it has panels equipped with switches, earphones, turntables, tapes and records.
There seem to be five arms flying as he changes records, tapes,
makes a notation on the program sheet in front of him and adjusts the earphones. He is wide awake and alert and says it isn't that hard getting up so early. "You get in a rut doing the same thing. You get to used to." He admits it could get boring but feels it's "worthwhile sitting down here."
Maher, who's majoring in radio-TV-film, gets credit for doing the program which is part of one of his journalism courses. He is free to play whatever he wants. He used to begin the program with the "Reveille Rock" but someone took the record, so now he plays anything he feels like.
He doesn't consider his job work, though. "It gets to be work if somebody lords it over you," he said.
KUOK tries to catch the student interest and appeal to them, he said. "The way I think of radio
is that it should provide entertainment. Anybody can put a quarter in a jukebox and play three records. It takes more than that."
The program is spontaneous for the most part. He tried using stories he found, but they got "flat and static." Now he ad libs and finds it comes out much better.
He has run into a few problems in his job as a disc jockey. A Kansas City station he worked for told him "Maher" didn't sound too good, so he changed his last name for program use. There is also the problem of cutting off a record before it's finished because the show is going off the air. Last summer a lady called him every day complaining because he kept cutting off the end of her favorite record. "That's the way it goes," he said.
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Mormon movie to be shown tonight
A movie, "Man's Search for Happiness," will be shown at 7:30 and 8:30 tonight in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The color film was prepared for the Mormon Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Two Mormon missionaries will discuss the "Signs of the True Church," as part of the program.
Hearing clinic begun
The KU Speech and Hearing Clinic is establishing a special program for preschool children with hearing problems. The program includes regular work with the children and conferences with parents.
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