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         Radio Rensselaer Executive Committee Meeting of
                        4 September 1984
                (First of the Fall 1984 Semester)

Present were:
         Myself (President), Chris "Links" Pudlinski (PR Direc
    tor), Rob "the T.H.R.O.B." Galgano (Station Mangler), Bernie 
    "Boy Bernie" Rosenfeld (Program Director), Doug Lyon, Fozzie 
    "Thomas" White, Chris Andersen, Dave Omundson, John Lattyak, 
    Aaron Heller, Brian "Boo-boo" Borchers, Ed ("zED"), Russ 
    Brenner, Bonnie, and probably some other people that I forgot 
    to write down.

Absent were:
         The Member at Large, Business Manager, and Chief 
     Engineer.  Mostly because we have none of these.


I sort of called the meeting to order at about 7:15 or so.  It 
     was late because Bernie insisted on eating dinner first.  
     Also I didn't really call the meeting to order.  I just sort 
     of started it.


Department Reports (as opposed to Officer Reports, which can only 
     be given by officers, some of which we don't have):

   Business:  We were, at best guess, $15 in the red on last 
    year's budget.  That's not too bad out of a budget the size 
    of ours.  Congrats to all who juggled things so nicely, 
    notably John and Aaron.
          Aaron is acting business manager until we find someone 
    else to do that sort of thing.     

   Public Relations:
     We have notices in the Poly about our general and introduc
    tory meetings this weekend.  It was suggested that posters be 
    put up and cruising runs of the freshman dorms be made.

   Programming:
     In atypically untalkative fashion, Bernie told us that there 
    would be a programming meeting after the general meeting.  

   Station Mangler:  made a truly great wishy-washy initial 
    report which unfortunately was lost to posterity by my 
    failure to note its exact wording.
     It was noted that a new library key was needed to replace 
    the broken one.  Someone pointed out that the key shop would 
    do that without needing approval for a new key.  The location 
    of the key shop was then explained to our inimitable 
    THROBber.
     There is a key signup list on the bulletin board.  If you 
    want a key, you must write your name on the list, explain why 
    you need it, and get an E-Comm member to agree and approve 
    it.


At this point John asked if anyone wanted a pizza, being that a 
man carrying that very item had just arrived.


   Engineering: 
     John says to let Dug and him handle tek stuff for the time 
    being.  Thanks for a (very) clean tech room were also offered 
    to the two of them.

   MAL:  I am handling membership lists for the time being.

   El Presidermo:
     My first order of business was the activities fair, coming 
    up on Saturday, September 15th.  I looked for a volunteer to 
    coordinate our activities therewith, and found one in THROB.  
    I explained to him the details of the form in which we beg 
    and plead for what we want in terms of space and equipment 
    for the fair.  THROB stated for the record, "I thought I'd 
    bring you down in the eyes of everyone here" because I'd put 
    the wrong phone number down for him on the form.
          It was agreed that we would try to broadcast live from 
       our activities fair location if and as long as possible, 
       and that noon to two should be reasonable.
          RPL interviews also seemed like a good touch, getting 
       us out and noticed more. ("We're everywhere, we're every
       where . . .")
          A good location would be outside, pointing up at the 
       freshman dorms, at least if it's nice.  We could still use 
       the inside location for talking to people -- less volume 
       would make that easier anyway, and we could hook up some
       body's stereo to drive home the point that we're on the 
       air.
     I've got a calendar of station events on the E-Comm board.  
    Anything important will be placed on it, hopefully, and you 
    will be able to check it if you ever wonder about anything.
     I complained about Players' dependably scheduling meetings 
    to conflict with ours, which led to everyone complaining 
    about Kat Moynihan, Players' president, doing that sort of 
    thing often.
     Our new E-Board representative is Andy Morrison, who is not 
    known by any of us.  The word I have is that he's okay.
     This Saturday (the 8th) I have a Union club Presidents' 
    workshop to attend.  I will take enough time from it to run 
    the introductory meeting.



Business:

          re: the new members meeting
     Bernie will get a room for the meeting.  Aaron suggested we 
     try to identify talents, perhaps by using some paperwork 
     (maybe broken down by activities) to identify what each 
     person does well.  We need to follow up on our recruits, 
     particularly the ones we've targeted ahead of time.  Be sure 
     to emphasize the positive at the meeting.
          
          We decided to have a barbecue on the 23d of September 
     from noon until three, at which time we would have a general 
     meeting and elections.  This should be a good recruiting 
     tool, so we need to push it to frosh, especially at the 
     activities fair, maybe handing out written notices about it.  
     It may be possible to pay for it from PR, but Union rules on 
     food are very restrictive and we would need to check on the 
     details of the concept.  We may well charge members and no 
     one else or maybe "ask for donations."

          Someone (Bernie -- he volunteered) should get the list 
     of freshman who indicated at SO that they were interested in 
     us.  The Dean of Students office has the list.

          The concept of provisional clearance was brought up and 
     generally considered a useful way to get people doing some
     thing useful before they are ready to run wild.  Provisional
     clearance should definitely be taken away at the end of the 
     semester in which it was granted, and perhaps should require 
     its holder to continue attending engineering classes as 
     well.

          There was some discussion of the concept of allowing 
     newcomers to get shows again.  This would require changing 
     the policy requiring that a person be a station member to 
     get a show.  Announcer meetings and classes would be neces
     sary parts of this idea.  We would want members to still 
     have preference, and we would also want an experienced 
     announcer to engineer for the newcomer.

          Slug control is a continuing concern.  I asked everyone 
     with keys to keep all rooms not needed at any given time 
     locked.  John offered to put a key lock on the terminal, 
     something the E-Comm approved 2-0-1.  While one of our warm-
     hearted members suggested that we either get them involved 
     or shoot them, Aaron warned "don't get too draconian."  Be 
     positive where possible.
          Someone asked "Why are people slugs?"  We came up with 
     three answers, depending on variety of slug:
               1)  It's genetic -- they like being slugs.
               2)  They need encouragement.
               3)  They are wanted but still want to help.
          Doug suggested that everyone will help if asked.  Pud
     linski suggested a job list.  Posted pictures of E-Comm and 
     other important people would help new people figure out who 
     to talk to.

          The E-Comm disapproves of the recent theft of the door 
     sign of the Time Support Center, which was found in the 
     station.  We need to be much better to avoid the "hoodlums" 
     reputation that Aaron claims we have -- don't reflect badly 
     on WRPI.  It would help if we didn't tell impressionable 
     young freshmen about "scams" so much.

    Summer News:
        We had an obscenity complaint about Ray Parker.  The 
     "artistic license" defense doesn't count at times children 
     might be considered to be listening, generally taken to mean 
     before 10:30.
          Because of the blasting, many of our doors will need to 
     be rehung.  Ed Hinchcliffe is doing something about it.

          Doug Lyons asked for E-Comm endorsement to run for 
    chief engineer.  We decided to interview him at the end of 
    the meeting.  The final results of the endorsements will be 
    made public by Saturday morning 15-September.

          Doug also discussed making conversions to Control "C" 
    for mixing equipment for the PCM.  We might want to move Coke 
    to what is now the news room.  We decided to postpone the 
    decision until it was more pressing and we had had more time 
    to think about it.

          There is less junk around the station.  This is because 
    a lot of it has been moved to the quad room, which is quickly 
    filling.  Look there if you're missing something.

          The satellite dish is no further along than it was in 
    May.  AM is still in very questionable state.

          Birch rated this market and gave us a copy of the 
    results.  There are a few biasing factors, such as the fact 
    that they did sweeps during Spring Break and finals and 
    considered us 24-hour.  Their estimate was 22,000 to 25,000 
    listeners.  Given the known errors, 60-70K seems a reasonable 
    guess.  This is fairly respectable considering that even NPR 
    stations play the ratings game (helps get subsidies), and we 
    don't.  Most of our audience is in the 18-34 age bracket.  
    Time-of-day breakdown suggests we should sign on more depend
    ably and that our programming is hurting from 5 to 7 PM.

          I then closed the meeting so we could grill Doug.  
    THROB wanted grilled cheese instead.  We persuaded him 
    otherwise.



     The meeting was closed sometime around 9:45.  If you think 
these minutes are long, you obviously weren't one of the people 
who sat through a two-and-a-half hour E-Comm meeting. 
     Until next time I wish that you, 


                              Be well,