RTP-area local music and culture

[Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>]

Do they offer classes in corruption and influence-peddling in the high  
schools now? This candidate seems awfully advanced in those arts, and  
I wonder where she got the head start!

Is it not selling out if you never had the thing (idealism, naive  
dreams) to sell in the first place?

d

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On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:10 PM, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> . . . time for student-body-president candidates to take pot-shots at
> college radio:
>
> http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2008/02/07/Diversions/Left-Of.The.Dial-3192741.shtml
>
> This one comes with a twist:
>
> "UNC student body presidential candidate Kristin Hill said WXYC has
> "kind of lost touch with student interests."
>
> Her campaign platform includes plans to work with the station to  
> help it
> cater to more students, especially by working with other student
> organizations.
>
> She met Monday with Brenner regarding their potential collaboration.
>
> "They don't want to be detached from the student body - they're  
> looking
> for a way back in," she said.
>
> Hill also is a student representative for WEA, the parent company of
> Warner Bros. Records.
>
> But she said her affiliation with the label has nothing to do with her
> interest in helping to make changes with WXYC.
>
> Her interest in radio, she said, existed before she came to UNC, even
> though she has been working with WEA since only October.
>
> And Hill said she doesn't see this as a conflict of interest; she is
> open to the possibility of collaboration between WEA and WXYC.
>
> "Whatever we can do at Warner without overstepping boundaries of what
> WXYC can do - we can collaborate that way."
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