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Nick Spacek, 2009 graduate and former station manager, says he will miss the Shack because of it's individuality. He remembers it as "the little building off on its own, at the edge of campus, a little cabin of cool right there at the top of the Hill." Spacek says the Shack and the station were the only things that brought him back to the University after a six-year hiatus from school. "I'd always thought of it as a home," he says.
As other buildings were updated on campus, the Shack managed to be a constant for Spacek. "Hashinger had been remodeled, most of campus is all woky, but KJHK had stayed the same — albeit with new graffiti — the entire time I'd been in Lawrence," he says.
The Shack harbors years of music history on its walls. Current and former students have expressed their creativity (or perhaps boredom) in the form of graffiti. Dirty drawings, curse words and strong opinions such as "indie is shit" cover the walls.
The station's bathroom walls are plastered with band flyers from the past 34 years. You can find popular musicians such as Nick Cave, REM and Henry Rollins, who played small, underground, now-defunct venues such as The Outhouse.
Alison Cain, 2009 graduate and former KJHK music director, says the bathroom is what she'll miss most about the Shack. "I was always impressed when I went in there, and not because it's a swanky bathroom or anything. There are the most awesome old fiers from '80s punk shows plastered on the walls in there," Cain says.
Unable to remove the wall from the Shack, the fliers will be thoroughly photographed for preservation. The organizers also plan on taking as much as they can to maintain the originality of the Shack in the station's new home.
FOR A PLACE THAT
HELPED LAUNCH THE
CAREERS OF SO MANY
GARAGE BANDS, IT'S AP
PROPRIATE THAT IT WAS
IN FACT ONCE A GARAGE.
LONG LIVE THE SHACK."
Steve Doocy, former KJHK DJ
KJHK may be leaving 34 years of history and the solitude of the Shack behind, but it also leaves the clutter, the occasional flooding and an old, unsafe building.
"The Shack isn't going to physically last forever ... the studio in the Union will allow KJHK to grow in size and professionalism in a new state-of-the-art facility," Cain says.
Also a former DJ, Spacek knows the one thing everyone will miss from the Shack: "The experience of sitting and watching sunrise over campus, from probably the best chair in the entire university," he says. Jp
Photo by Jerry Wang
Shack stacks: Thousands of CDs and records line the walls of the Shack, the home of KJHK, the University's student-run radio station. JKHK has provided a "sound alternative" of progressive college radio since the 1970s.
The Shack has 34 years of both KJHK and music history scribbled on its walls or in the floor-to-ceiling music collections. Here are some of the items that will be moved from the Shack to the Union. Some are too sentimental to throw out and some will be fondly missed.
THE MUSIC OFFICE DOOR
This door will be moved with the shift, the new location, all its hundreds of stickers laquered from the original stadium. The door just pends on a young, hard-earned. This Dependency as numberless versions of Kajik stickers.
Photo by Valerie Bruhn
THE BATHROOM WALLS
this backpack cartoon is pristine
to calling with 20 off a year-old tux
K9HK events as well as blinds sun-
and Nike Cowl when they were play
indie venues in Lawrence.
Photo by Jerry Wong
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