.HE The unofficial memoirs of a WRPI president

      This "document" is necessary because there are things I
wish to say that I can't quite put in my "Memoirs of a Station
President."  Not everything I liked about WRPI would make the
Dean of Students happy.  That doesn't mean that these things
should change; not in my book, anyway.

      WRPI is more than a radio station.  I have been to lots of
radio stations and at very few have I seen people sitting around
in the lobby, drinking cokes and talking to each other.  Even at
student stations, the idea of the station as a real club is
fairly unusual.  This is a shame -- the social atmosphere makes
WRPI more enjoyable than it would be otherwise.

      It will not do for the station to become too straight.
Small-scale anarchy makes things run much better than they would
otherwise; at least as long as the station doesn't take any heat
for things that "didn't happen."  As I've often said, there are only two
real sins.  The first one is hurting anyone, in a VERY broad
interpretation of the phrase.  The second is getting caught at
anything that doesn't come under the first.  Thus, something is
only wrong if it is to someone else's disadvantage or if some
sort of authority tells you (after the fact) that it's wrong.


     The  station  has  always operated under a version  of  this 
philosophy as well.  Of this I approve.  The station has managed 
to appear reasonable in many cases by taking what it wanted 
WITHOUT