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November 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The Sun was pretty quick on this FOIA request, eh?
The sale of the arena and adjacent property is a complex issue and the City should not be stampeded into selling out to avoid the current annual operation deficit.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
By “Community Services” are we talking about the UML radio station? If that is the case I agree with Chancellor Meehan. The radio station is a waste of student tuition and tax dollars. If UML had a communications program it might make some sense. But they don’t. As an alumn of UML I want to see programs that benefit the students not the long list of people drawing salaries from that radio station. No-one listens to it. I know that you (Lynn) have something to do with the station but I’m not sure if you’re paid for it (???) or if its a volunteer type of thing. I think we’d need to know that to put your comments in context. The only way that station makes sense is if the students operate it exclusively. I think Marty’s doing a decent job over there. He’s got people coming to the Riverhawk games, he’s making improvements to the facilities, planning a new academic building. A new academic building hasn’t been added in decades. It makes sense for the city to unload the arena. How long do we have to own this thing and run million dollar deficits to get it? Not to mention the capital improvements that need to be made over there. I don’t like Marty playing coy with the whole thing. He should be more up front about his intentions. But I like what he’s doing.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Marty is Always For Marty, Nothing Has Changed
November 25th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
The radio station was taken from the students by the former Hogan administration that created the job and salaries that go with it for a couple of people. (not a long list)
Prior to that the 50 plus year old station was created by and operated exclusively by unpaid students. It was funded as part of the student activities fee and was something any student could avail him or herself to get involved in.
The station was operated by the Lowell Sun for about a year and when that failed (no money from “underwriting” was ever pumped back into the station as required by law) the universtiy did not return control to the students.
If you want to save a couple of hundred thousand dollars you eliminate the director of radio and her staff of one or two and turn the place back over to unpaid students.
Even though there is no formal communications program at UMass Lowell a number of folks that have gone through that station have gone onto good careers in various aspects of the business because of their exposure to the station.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
On this one, I am agreeing with Mayor Bud Caulfied, “This whole thing [Marty’s actions] is bizarre.”
November 26th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Sounds to me like Marty is speaking with forked-tongue out of *both* sides of his mouth!
November 28th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Eleanor: I do just have to disagree with you here.
I look at the end product. Sunrise is produced just a shade under the productions values of a local NPR station, and we in the ‘valley NEED them to continue. Not only that, but one daily radio show of that caliber is good for the students who intern it and learn what they could come to expect at a professional public or private radio station. Look, I don’t mean to denigrate any volunteer’s production, after all, I am a community radio host there myself, but there’s NO way that, with all the student turnover and the demands on their time, that they could consistently produce a drive-time show with all that entails. The number of guests interviewed in one week of Sunrise alone takes staggering time to produce. (I should know, just finding one guest a week for a 15-min interview slot is tough enough.)
Fact is, when it comes to driving or listening to the radio, in the AM I am flipping between WBUR and WUML. There’s an awful lot of stuff I hear on WUML in the morning about local stuff I can’t get anywhere else (including WCAP), and I find that invaluable. And a lot of it is university-driven as well. Could there be negotiations about students having more involvement or control at the radio station? Sure. Should we throw the baby out with the bathwater? I think it would be a shame to lose yet another venue for local discussion, and something that is quite a bridge between the University’s activities and the city’s. There’s no where else where I am hearing about what UML professors are up to, for instance.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Well it looks like Marty disagrees that the production values were anywhere near NPR standards or that it is being well run. I have read on Dick Howe’s blog that Friday is Sunrises’ last broadcast.