Mustang News Staff Report
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Campus administrators are discussing selling KCPR’s radio license, according to an article by Cal Coast News.
The information comes from a series of emails between administrators, obtained by Cal Coast News via the California Public Records Act.
“I am beginning to believe that we should sell the radio license,” College of Liberal Arts Dean Douglas Epperson wrote in an email sent May 19.
Discussion about the station’s future follows a fundraiser hosted by two of the station’s student DJs, who offered explicit Snapchats in return for cash donations.
When asked for comment about the future of the station, university spokesperson Matt Lazier remarked on the importance of KCPR, but declined to comment further.
“KCPR has long been and continues to be an important hands-on learning experience for many Cal Poly students from a variety of academic programs,” Lazier said in a written statement. “As with all of our programs, we are always evaluating how we can optimize the educational aspects of the station.”
Why should the license be sold because of the actions of a few DJ’s? That’s the most ridiculous and extreme reaction possible. KCPR is part of Poly and always will be. We don’t need a new president trying to prove some point by getting back at the dj’s by punishing the radio station like that and ruining it forever. Clearly that is a short sighted reaction. That radio station is a local favorite, and it’s sad that someone who isn’t even from here would come in and try to just steam roll it like that. How about making guidelines for being a dj? Perhaps redoing the rules a bit? That would be far more logical. also WHY is this being decided through private emails? It’s not your radio station to decide what happens to, it’s us, the alumni’s, and the public’s and the students. Not some overblow admin who wants to do some publicity stunt.