WTBU (640 AM, 89.3 FM) is a "Part 15" student-managed and -operated radio station at Boston University. This means it is not licensed by the FCC but operates legally under special "low power" rules (not to be confused with LPFM FCC licensed stations). It has a block-format programming schedule, with individual DJs able to play pretty much whatever they choose during their weekly airshifts (usually two hours in length). Overall the sound skews mostly rock/alternative, but can vary significantly, including pop, urban, rap, classic rock, Triple-A, trance, electro, industrial and metal...or just true freeform.
WTBU is on the air 22 hours a day, any day that the BU dorms are open (at least eight months of the year). During the summers the studios may be used for special classroom exercises by the Boston University College of Communication, or "COM."
Taking advantage of the large number of broadcast journalism majors at COM, there are regular newscasts and sports updates. There is also extensive live coverage of BU sporting events, like hockey, basketball, soccer and more.
WTBU is somewhat unusual in that it is entirely "student managed." There is a faculty advisor with some oversight duties, but students are effectively "running the operation" (which often has over 120 volunteer student DJs) in pretty much every aspect. Virtually all positions are unpaid volunteers. There is an informal policy of only having current students to be on the air; community volunteers and alumni are not allowed.
There is no formal class curriculum specifically for radio broadcasting at BU, save for some broadcast journalism classes in COM that include radio. Virtually all the students at WTBU learn by doing. Due to high student demand for airshifts, the standard procedure is for an incoming DJ to "intern" with an established DJ for a full semester to "learn the ropes" before they get an airshift of their own. Incoming DJs can also volunteer at various also aspects of running the station while they intern.
The earliest known reference to WTBU comes from the 1960 Boston University HUB (the name for the student yearbook at the time); at that time the yearbook would actually list student activities for each student. Some students listed both WBUR and WTBU, suggesting that originally there was some overlap in staff between the two, which makes sense as this was well before WBUR became a professionally-run NPR station.
The studios were originally located on the second floor of the George Sherman (student) Union building, in an area that was completely redone to become the modern-day ballroom. In 1969 it moved to the first floor of the Myles Standish dormitory. In 1982, it moved into the new Myles Standish Annex, where the defunct Grahm Junior College was...albeit the actual broadcast from the new space was delayed several months due to a broken water main. In the late 1980s, the basement studios were completely refurbished with new soundproofing, angled windows and the like. In 1997, WTBU moved to third floor of the College of Communication building (640 Commonwealth Ave), taking over much of the space vacated by WBUR when they themselves moved to 890 Commonwealth Ave. Both stations remain in those spaces today, and WTBU departed the Annex studios as soggy as it arrived in them - torrential rains in October 1996 flooded many basements (and the tunnel of the next-door MBTA Green Line!) including WTBU!
The heyday of WTBU seems to be in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While WBUR was suffering controversy after controversy (in 1964, a long process started of appointing professionals to run WBUR, only to have to fire them and start over again...a process that lasted until the early 1970s). During that time, WTBU enjoyed a significant boost in student attention from displaced WBUR volunteers and overall attention paid to "underground" radio stations by student protesters. As late as 1971 there were articles touting awards WTBU was winning (Station Manager George Schweitzer won the United Press International Broadcast Documentary Award First Prize), special broadcasts they were running (the Distinguished Lecture Series, for example) and being a core member of the "Ivy Network Corporation" - a collaboration between WTBU, WZBC, WBRS, WHRB, WTBS (aka WMBR), WZLY and WBRU.
At some point in the 1980s, the tradition of "Cram Jams" was formally instituted. This refers to the last week or two of the semester, when finals are being taken. The entire WTBU schedule is revised and DJs tend to play music they feel is especially relevant to test-taking.
In the mid-to-late 1990s there was a general drop in interest in college radio, and WTBU was no exception. But by 2000, renewed interest in media in society had brought WTBU back up to near-24/7 broadcasting during the academic year. On Halloween night of 1999, WTBU started streaming on the web as a means of finally reaching both the campus as well as alumni. This drew WTBU national attention when Bill Rigby, the station manager at that time, was featured in the New York Times discussing the station's expansion to online . Today WTBU enjoys over 100 student volunteers every semester, learning in a hands-on environment of DJ'ing, sportscasting, music review/label management, promotional events/remote broadcasts, news reporting, engineering, and audio production...not to mention the various business aspects of managing a staff that large.
Additional history can be found on the official WTBU website: wtburadio.org
Many WTBU alumni have gone on to careers in broadcasting and related fields, including:
There are radiating cable FM transmitters (broadcasting at 89.3FM) in the Warren Towers and West Campus dormitories, and carrier-current AM transmitters (broadcasting at 640AM) in the Shelton Hall, Myles Standish Hall, and Danielsen Hall dormitories, as well as one in the COM building itself. Not all these transmitters work at any one given point, though...many are decades-old. All are made by LPB Communications.
There used to be carrier-current AM transmitters in other dorms as well: The Towers was destroyed in a flood in the 1980s. Audubon Court was stolen. The AM transmitters in Warren and West (that the FM's replaced) were also lost; exactly how is unknown.
In modern times, WTBU relies more on its webcast, and on an audio feed to the campus cable BUTV channel 6, to reach its listeners.
The broadcast antenna and tower on top of the LAW Tower (BU School of Law building) is WBUR's backup broadcasting facility. It has nothing to do with WTBU.
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| Position | Defense |
|---|---|
| Shoots | Right |
| Height ft | 5 |
| Height in | 11 |
| Weight lb | 193 |
| Ntl team | USA |
| Birth date | January 29, 1989 |
| Birth place | Greenwich, CT |
| Career start | 2010 |
| Team | Colorado Avalanche |
| League | NHL |
| Prospect league | |
| Draft | 14th overall |
| Draft year | 2007 |
| Draft team | Colorado Avalanche |
After a solid rookie season with the Terriers in 2007–08, in which he was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team, Shattenkirk helped take the Terriers to the Frozen Four tournament in 2008–09. After being named in the NCAA Second All-American Team, Kevin then went on to help Boston University take the National Championship 4-3 against the RedHawks of Miami University, asssisting in the overtime title-winning Colby Cohen goal.
Kevin was named as co-captain, along with Brian Strait, of BU for the 2009–10 season on April 21, 2009. However, after Strait turned professional, Kevin became the sole captain of the Terriers and the first junior sole captain since 1961–62. In 38 games with the Terriers, while focused more attentively to defense he matched his sophomore goal total with 7 and posted 29 points to be named to the Inside College Hockey Preseason All-American and All-College Hockey News Preseason Second Teams. After defeat in the Hockey East semi-finals to Maine, Shattenkirk, along with Colby Cohen, was signed to three-year entry level contract with the Colorado Avalanche on April 3, 2010.
On November 4, 2010 Colorado recalled Shattenkirk from their AHL affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters, and made his NHL debut in a home game against the Vancouver Canucks the same day.
Shattenkirk was named to the United States national team for the 2009 World Junior Championships Serving as an Alternate captain and with expectations of helping USA to a medal, Shattenkirk led all defenseman in scoring with 9 points and despite a disappointing 5th place finish was named in the USA's top three players and praised for strong play by USA Hockey Executive Jim Johannson.
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In 1979 York moved from Clarkson to Bowling Green, taking over from Ron Mason. In the 1997-98, BC surprised the college hockey world by reaching the NCAA title game. In 16 years, York has led the Eagles to four Hockey East regular season titles in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, seven Hockey East tournament titles in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, four Beanpot titles in 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, eleven NCAA tournament appearances, and three national titles in 2001 by beating North Dakota, 2008 by beating Notre Dame and in 2010 by beating Wisconsin. York's BC teams have nine Frozen Four appearances in thirteen years from 1998 to 2010. During that span, BC has played in the National Championship Game six times. BC lost four national title games to Michigan in 1998, to North Dakota in 2000, to Wisconsin in 2006, and to Michigan State in 2007. Since 1998 York's BC teams rank 1st in the NCAA with a post-season winning percentage of 80% (61-15).
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| Name | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter |
|---|---|
| Pseudonym | Jean Paul |
| Birthdate | March 21, 1763 |
| Birthplace | Wunsiedel, Germany |
| Deathdate | November 14, 1825 |
| Deathplace | Bayreuth, Germany |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | German |
| Period | 1783-1825 |
| Genre | humour |
| Subject | education, politics |
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
Jean Paul began his career as a man of letters with Grönländische Prozesse ("Greenland Lawsuits", published anonymously in Berlin) and Auswahl aus des Teufels Papieren ("Selections from the Devil's Papers", signed J. P. F. Hasus), the former of which was issued in 1783-84, the latter in 1789. These works were not received with much favour, and in later life Richter himself had little sympathy for their satirical tone. A spiritual crisis he suffered on 15 November 1790, in which he had a vision of his own death, altered his outlook profoundly. His next book, Die unsichtbare Loge ("The Invisible Lodge"), a romance published in 1793 under the pen-name Jean Paul (in honour of Jean Jacques Rousseau), had all the qualities that were soon to make him famous, and its power was immediately recognized by some of the best critics of the day.
Encouraged by the reception of Die unsichtbare Loge, Richter composed a number of books in rapid succession: Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterleins Maria Wutz in Auenthal ("Life of the Cheerful Schoolmaster Maria Wutz", 1793), the best-selling Hesperus (1795), which made him famous, Biographische Belustigungen unter der Gehirnschale einer Riesin ("Biographical Recreations under the Brainpan of a Giantess", 1796), Leben des Quintus Fixlein ("Life of Quintus Fixlein", 1796), Der Jubelsenior ("The Parson in Jubilee", 1797), and Das Kampaner Tal ("The Valley of Campan", 1797). Also among these was the novel Blumen- Frucht- und Dornenstücke, oder Ehestand, Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvokaten Siebenkäs ("Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces; or, the Married Life, Death and Wedding of Siebenkäs, Poor Man's Lawyer") in 1796-97. The book's slightly supernatural theme, involving a Doppelgänger and pseudocide, stirred some controversy over its interpretation of the Resurrection, but these criticisms served only to draw awareness to the author. This series of writings assured Richter a place in German literature, and during the rest of his life every work he produced was welcomed by a wide circle of admirers.
After his mother's death in 1797, Richter went to Leipzig, and in the following year to Weimar, where he started work on his most ambitious novel, Titan, published between 1801-02. Richter became friends with such Weimar notables as Herder, by whom he was warmly appreciated, but despite their close proximity, Richter never become close to Goethe and Schiller, both of whom found his literary methods repugnant; but in Weimar, as elsewhere, his remarkable conversational powers and his genial manners made him a favorite in general society. The English writers Thomas Carlyle and Thomas de Quincy took an interest in Jean Paul's work.
In 1801 he married Caroline Meyer, whom he had met in Berlin the year before. They lived first at Meiningen, then at Coburg; and finally, in 1804, they settled at Bayreuth. Here Richter spent a quiet, simple and happy life, constantly occupied with his work as a writer. In 1808 he was fortunately delivered from anxiety about outward necessities by Prince Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg, who gave him an annual pension of 1,000 florins which was later continued by the king of Bavaria.
Jean Paul's Titan was followed by Flegeljahre ("The Awkward Age", 1804-5). His later imaginative works were Dr Katzenbergers Badereise ("Dr Katzenberger's Trip to the Medicinal Springs", 1809), Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz ("Army Chaplain Schmelzle's Voyage to Flätz", 1809), Leben Fibels ("Life of Fibel", 1812), and Der Komet, oder Nikolaus Marggraf ("The Comet, or, Nikolaus Markgraf", 1820-22). In Vorschule der Aesthetik ("Introduction to Aesthetics", 1804) he expounded his ideas on art; he discussed the principles of education in Levana, oder Erziehungslehre ("Levana, or, Pedagogy", 1807); and the opinions suggested by current events he set forth in Friedenspredigt ("Peace Sermon", 1808), Dämmerungen für Deutschland ("Twilights for Germany", 1809), Mars und Phöbus Thronwechsel im Jahre 1814 ("Mars and Phoebus Exchange Thrones in the Year 1814", 1814), and Politische Fastenpredigten ("Political Lenten Sermons", 1817). In his last years he began Wahrheit aus Jean Pauls Leben ("The Truth from Jean Paul's Life"), to which additions from his papers and other sources were made after his death by C. Otto and E. Förster.
Also during this time he supported the younger writer E. T. A. Hoffmann, who long counted Richter among his influences. Richter wrote the preface to Fantasy Pieces, a collection of Hoffmann's short stories published in 1814.
In September 1821 Jean Paul lost his only son, Max, a youth of the highest promise; and he never quite recovered from this shock. He lost his sight in 1824, and died of dropsy at Bayreuth, on 14 November 1825.
But in working out his conceptions, Jean Paul found it appropriate to express any powerful feeling by which he might happen to be moved. He made it his style to use seemingly out-of-the-way facts or psychological notions which occurred to him. Hence every one of his works is irregular in structure and his style lacks directness, though never grace. His imagination was one of extraordinary fertility, and he had a surprising power of suggesting great thoughts by means of the simplest incidents and relations.
The love of nature was one of Jean Paul's deepest pleasures; his expressions of religious feelings are also marked by a truly poetic spirit, for to him visible things were but the symbols of the invisible, and in the unseen realities alone he found elements which seemed to him to give significance and dignity to human life. His humour, the most distinctive of his qualities, cannot be dissociated from the other characteristics of his writings. It mingled with all his thoughts, and to some extent determined the form in which he embodied even his most serious reflections. That it is sometimes extravagant and grotesque cannot be disputed, but it is never harsh nor vulgar, and generally it springs naturally from the perception of the incongruity between ordinary facts and ideal laws.
Jean Paul's personality was deep and many-sided; with all his willfulness and eccentricity he was a man of a pure and sensitive spirit, with a passionate scorn for pretence and an ardent enthusiasm for truth and goodness.
The last scene of Jean Paul's Flegeljahre was the inspiration behind Robert Schumann's composition "Papillons" Op. 2.
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