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Campus Current Featured in the Miscellany News!

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:29:39 +0000

The Campus Current is featured in an article this week in the Miscellany News, Vassar’s campus newspaper. This week’s issue will be available around campus beginning Thursday, December 8th, but you can catch a sneak peek on their website: http://www.miscellanynews.com/2.1579/campus-current-offers-forum-for-discussion-1.2681209#.Tt_-864mC8E. As always, if you’re interested in being involved with radio journalism, e-mail Rachel at newsdirector@wvkr.org. The Campus Current’s last show of the semester was December 6th, but tune in Tuesday, January 31st at 5 p.m. for our first show of the spring semester!

Do you have a Thanksgiving-related story that you’d like to share?

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:43:18 +0000

The Campus Current, WVKR’s campus news and talk show, is producing a show titled “Complicating and Celebrating Thanksgiving” and we’d love for you to be involved!

E-mail Carly at storyhour@wvkr.org by Monday, November 21^st if you’d like to share your story/anecdote/reminiscence on air.

If you’re not interested in contributing, tune in Tuesday, November 22nd from 5-6 p.m. to hear what others have to say about this national holiday.

New Queer Talk Show Added to our Schedule

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:31:13 +0000

Another news show joins the WVKR line-up, this one coming all the way from Vermont. Ken Schneck, Dean of Students at Marlboro College, has put together an incredible program focusing on gay news, views, and culture. While working in an art museum in Southern Vermont last summer, I had the opportunity to meet Ken when he moderated a discussion after an Independent Lens screening of Two Spirits. Ken shared his own past with queer activism and education, and nimbly and impressively guided a conversation that grappled with questions of queer existence and identity. I hope you all take the opportunity to tune into “This Show is So Gay” on Mondays at 5pm, where you can listen to the program that originally aired the previous Thursday on WVEW 107.7 Brattleboro, Vermont. We’re happy to have “This Show is So Gay” on WVKR and we hope you enjoy!

-Rachel Vogel, News Director

The Campus Current Reflects on Educational Activism November 8th

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:35:02 +0000

Have you listened to WVKR’s new campus news and talk show, The Campus Current? No? Well then you should tune in November 8th from 5-6 p.m. and check it out!

In response to Jonathan Kozol’s lecture last Thursday, Tuesday’s show will be talking about education as activism by talking to people engaged in various aspects of education here on the Vassar campus. Listen at 91.3 FM or at www.wvkr.org to hear interviews from organizers behind Smashing History (http://blogs.vassar.edu/smashinghistory); Emma Schaeffer, a Vassar senior pursuing a certificate in secondary education; and students involved in the Vassar After School Tutoring program (VAST–http://blogs.vassar.edu/vast/).

Contact Rachel, WVKR’s News Director at newsdirector@wvkr.org if you’d like to get involved in radio journalism and campus issues!

Radio at Vassar

exec — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:17:15 +0000

If you haven’t checked out Vassar’s homepage yet this year, it’s high time to visit www.vassar.edu. In honor of the college’s 150th anniversary, the website homepage has featured a new photograph every day with a link to more information about what event or historical period that photo represents. WVKR was featured the other day when a photo from the 1940s graced the homepage, showing students working together on the “Radio Workshop Committee.” Check out the photo here: http://www.vassar.edu/archives/2011/10/17. For more information about WVKR’s history, visit the Vassar encyclopedia here: http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/organizations-events-activities/vassar-radio-wvkr-fm.html.

-Sarah Scott ‘12, Program Director

Tune in to the second episode of the Campus Current!

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:15:58 +0000

Hey guys, Rachel, the news director, here. This year (and hopefully for many years to come!) WVKR is producing an hour-long, biweekly show about campus news, organizations, and events that alternates with our good pals, Dead Hare Radio. That means that every other Tuesday at 5pm you can tune in and hear a diverse collection of segments that attempt to capture a glimpse of things happens at Vassar that are interesting, unique, fun, inspiring, creative, and many many more adjectives.

Before October break we talked with Thea Ballard, about her field work at a gallery in New York City, Kaylee Knowles, the head of the Vassar Feminist Alliance, and Zoe Van Buren, who spent the last summer in Alaska on an URSI fellowship. This week, on October 25^th, we’re discussing Occupy Wall Street, the involvement of Vassar student’s in various capacities, and what this means for us as Vassar Students in a general sense.

On November 8^th, we’re focusing on education and activism, with a summary of the lecture entitled “Education Under Siege: Race, Poverty, and the Mania of Testing in our Public Schools” given by Jonathan Kozol, the author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, in the Chapel on November 3^rd at 5:30 pm. We will also speak with graduating seniors, pursuing careers in educations, as well as speak with members of the Vassar After School Tutoring program.

On November 22^nd, we have a show that is celebrating and complicating Thanksgiving. We will speak with Professor Molly McGlennan and students in the Native American Studies correlate program about indigenous peoples in America, as well as have WVKR DJ Carly, who does a storytelling show from 11am-12pm on Wednesdays, curate a series of Thanksgiving stories and memories.

We hope that at least something up there piques your interest, but more importantly, we’re also interested in you participating beyond just listening. If you have an idea for a show or interview, an organization doing interesting work, a professor writing a cool book, a student doing something extraordinary, let us know. Feel free to email me at newsdirector@wvkr.org if you had a great idea, or even if you’re interested in helping out. We’re hoping this can be outlet that both covers the many wonderful things happening on campus, but also for any budding radio journalists ready to get in on the action.

Hopefully in the near future we will have the prerecorded segments of the show available for streaming and download, as well as more information about our guests. In the mean time, every other Tuesday, 5-6pm, listen in!

PLEDGE DRIVE 2011!

exec — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:10:05 +0000

Dear Loyal Listeners,

Our annual pledge drive is upon us! WVKR is an independent station, which means we can provide commercial-free programming but only with the support of our listeners who are the dominant provider of station funds.

From Tuesday, Sept. 6 to Monday, Sept. 12 you may pledge by calling in at 845.437.7178, or at anytime by downloading the forms attached below and mailing in your pledge.

Why pledge?

WVKR operation is only possible with listener support. Please help keep independent radio alive. For one week each year we interrupt our programming to ask our devoted listeners to donate. For the rest of the year, you may enjoy non-stop, commercial free programming!
You can show support for your favorite shows. Let our DJs know just how much they are appreciated. The variety of programming on WVKR is achievable only because of listener contribution.
Your pledge to WVKR is tax-deductible!
You may take advantage of your employing company’s matching grant program to give your favorite station an added boost.
WVKR has been bursting at the seams with its current CD (over 30,000 items) and vinyl (over 25,000 items) collection, so we are working on making a digital music archive. Your donations help to complete this process.
Through your support in the past we have been able to fund this website and our webcast allowing you to access to our diverse programming from anywhere in the world. Your support helps us maintain this capability.

WVKR: Online Pledge Form 2011 (pdf)

WVKR: Online Pledge Form 2011 (doc)

Best,

Mike Henrich

General Manager

Help Support Radio Uprising!

exec — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:34:39 +0000

If you’ve ever tuned in to WVKR on Thursday at 4pm you’ve heard Radio Uprising, an hour of youth-produced talk radio covering anything from community news to critical discussion organized by the Children’s Media Project. Together with WVKR, the CMP gives youth an independent voice and outlet.

CMP provides an exceptional learning experience for youth in media arts. Youth at CMP experience positive risk taking, community involvement, and artistic advancement, things all kids need to succeed and grow in their communities. But they need your help. Media equipment and studio space is expensive. In order to create quality programming for youth and provide a safe space to creatively explore after school, we need to pay rent and update our equipment. Your donation is tax-exempt and the proceeds go directly to help fund the creativity of the kids!

With only 9 days to go, every dollar makes a difference! Help support the Project at Kickstarter.

It’s Baseball Season!

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:51:49 +0000

Hold on to your hats, WVKR will be broadcasting live coverage of Vassar the men’s baseball game against University of Rochester on April 23 at 12 noon.
Tune in for a play-by-play commentary by Dean of Students, D.B. Brown. Turn the dial to 91.3 or catch our live stream at wvkr.org. The only thing you’ll be missing is the hot dogs, but our multi-talented Dean/DJ/Public Address Announcer will more than make up for it.

Democracy Now!

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:13:44 +0000

Since last Thursday, we have been having difficulties with Democracy Now due to our recent attempts to implement a new program for managing the automated playlist. Today, there was dead air from 8:00 am to 8:12 am, at which point Dem Now began playing. We would like, primarily, to apologize for this complication and, secondarily, to assure all of our listeners that it will be running smoothly as of today.

If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to techdirector@wvkr.org and get in touch with Raffi Kiureghian.

-WVKR