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- From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.noncomm
- Subject: Re: SUPPRESSION OF MEDIA FREEDOM - PLEASE READ
- Message-ID: <gNeTXB3w164w@tweekco.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:34:03 PST
- References: <28641.9301212218@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
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- uns002@cent1.lancs.ac.uk (University Radio Bailrigg) writes:
-
- > IMPORTANT! Serious posting from an English college.
- >
- > Today (Thu 21 Jan) University Radio Bailrigg in Lancaster was
- > closed down by its own student Union.
- >
- > The basic premise behind this is that the Union do not like URB making money
- > off its own back. For this reason they have changed the locks and stopped us
- > broadcasting.
- > We have a highly successful deal with a local nightclub, for which
- > we provide Djs and publicity. This knocks spots out of the Union-run
- > nightclub in the area, which offers jobs to the entire Exec, who stand to los
- > if their club performs poorly... You can sense their motives now.
- >
- > With no warning given of any grievance they had with us, they simply
- > stormed our station and closed it down. This occured late at night,
- > not during office hours, but after an Exec meeting from which independent
- > observers were excluded (democracy?). The mass meeting held two days
- > previously was not consulted.
-
- Who owns the radio station (the physical space, the transmitter,
- other equipment) ?
- Are broadcasting classes given at your university using your station
- in an educational context?
- Your student government may well have overstepped its legal authority.
- I would recommend talking to an attorney (barrister? sorry, I'm not
- English) about this, you may have grounds for a lawsuit or a court
- order instructing the student government to reopen the facility or
- go to jail.
- Is there an instructor connected with the management/operation of
- the facility? There are academic freedom questions concerned with this
- as well that he might want to bring up at the next Academic Senate
- (or British equivalent; I'm talking about whatever organization your
- faculty uses to play its part in the governance of the school)
- That's a start...
- Good luck.
- A.Lizard
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