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The Rice Thresher
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by Olivia Allison Thresher editorial staff
The committee will suggest the number of events to be broadcast for the remainder of the academic year and possibly for future years. The recommendation will be given to President Malcolm Gillis, who will make the final decision concerning the number of games broadcast. Shepard said the Athletics Department submitted a proposal Nov. 7 requesting a maximum of four games per week when baseball and women's basketball seasons don't overlap, and a maximum of six games per week when they do. During tournaments, more events may be broadcast, but the number is not specified because these games depend on the teams' performance in the tournament. The proposal notes that there are only three weeks in this academic year that require more than four games and only three days that have two events in the same day. Shepard said committee members will try to come to a multi-year agreement about the maximum number of games broadcast. However, KTRU Station Manager Johnny So said that because KTRU is making structural changes to increase student involvement, he hopes to postpone making any long-term agreements until these changes are implemented. "My impression is that they want the decision on athletics this Friday, which is fine for an agreement that lasts this year," So, a Will Rice College senior, said. "But for a long-term agreement, I prefer it not be that soon. "I think the best way to go about it is to hash out a long-term agreement this spring, after KTRU has had a chance to work out these structural changes. I think to make that decision by this Friday would be premature," So said. These changes include making the KTRU station manager a position elected by the student body, revising the KTRU constitution and creating a standing committee like the KTRU Committee that is called for in the By-Laws of the Student Association Constitution. SA President Lindsay Botsford and Sid Richardson College President Laura Rees, along with the other college presidents, brought up these structural changes with Vice President for Student Affairs Zenaido Camacho at the college presidents' meeting Monday afternoon. Botsford and Rees then further discussed the changes Wednesday with Camacho and Associate Vice President for Finance and Administration Neill Binford, who chairs the KTRU Oversight Committee. Rees, a senior, presented these proposed changes to the SA at the meeting Monday. Rees said Camacho was interested in increasing student involvement at the station but that Camacho told them he was not involved in the committee's decisions. Rees, Botsford, So, DJ Director Ben Horne, Thresher Editor in Chief Brian Stoler and SA Parliamentarian Rudy Fink met to discuss these changes Sunday. So said they discussed removing the rules governing the station out of the SA Constitution and giving students greatest preference in hiring DJs. "What the SA wanted is for KTRU to create some hierarchy of preference for hiring," So said. "The first tier being undergraduates, because they pay for KTRU, the second tier being graduate students, the third tier being faculty and staff at Rice and then the fourth tier being community members." KTRU officers will meet Sunday to discuss changes to KTRU's organization, including how this type of hiring structure should be formed. The KTRU committee that would be created by the radio station and the SA would be similar to the committee currently outlined in the By-Laws of the SA Constitution concerning KTRU. Article H-1 of the SA By-Laws states that "KTRU ... shall be controlled by the KTRU Committee and by the station manager pursuant to federal regulations." The by-laws concerning KTRU are years out of date, Botsford said. "It's been years since they followed what it says about KTRU in the SA Constitution - at least 1995," Botsford said. Although the committee has not met in years, Rees, who worked with So in making these changes, said a standing committee will make programming decisions in the future. "Right now, the committee that's negotiating is an ad hoc committee on programming, but we're talking about having a standing committee on KTRU that is consistent with the SA Constitution," Rees said. "Hopefully, the new KTRU committee would be meeting once every semester, and if anything ever came up again, this would be the committee President Gillis would look to to deal with it." The KTRU Oversight Committee has met since the beginning of the semester to negotiate the number of women's basketball and baseball events to be broadcast on the station, which resides at 91.7 FM (91.5 FM on campus). Early Athletics Department proposals requested 10 hours per week of athletics events. The committee then requested a new proposal from Athletics specifying the number of games rather than the number of hours, Shepard said. Athletics then submitted a proposal Nov. 1 asking that between one and six events be broadcast every week, with an average of three events per week. This proposal also requested that starting next year, KTRU air every football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball and women's soccer game on KTRU, in addition to baseball games "as agreed.". Binford, KTRU General Manager Will Robedee and So met Nov. 3 and decided to request a revised proposal. The proposal as it stands now was then submitted to the committee Nov. 7. Shepard said in the future, other sports, including women's soccer, volleyball and men's basketball, may be broadcast on KTRU. However, he believes a long-term agreement would only specify the number of events broadcast and not which sports would be covered. "I think the idea would be that ... the committee would decide on number of games per week and the committee would not decide what sports those are," Shepard said. "Those can be whatever games they choose to put on. The committee is not going to get into the business of designing the programming day to day."
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