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Western Carolinian Volume 69 Number 09

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  • 8 WCnewsmagazine WWCU FM produces Free Speech show WWCU FM Press Release Anew student-produced radio show called Free Speech Cullowhee has begun broadcasting on WWCU-FM. After only their third week on the air co-hosts Bob Wiley and Tom Spane have received national attention for speaking to Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards during a news conference on Monday, November 29, 2004 in Asheville. Radio Personality Bob Wiley drilled John Edwards: Senator Edwards, you say you want to give all Americans a voice, but | think the major media is not giving most Americans a voice. We've got a problem in Michael Powell of the FCC, The Shrinking Marketplace of Ideas. You're not seeing a lot of opinions in the media, its just the same things over and over- What do you want to do about that? Senator Edwards agreed: You're exactly right. We have a consolidation of media in this country and its not good; its not good for you, its not good for America, its not good for the diversity of ideas to _ be heard. The States outgoing Senior Senator failed to _ commit to sponsoring legislation after Bob Wiley pressed him to do so in a follow up question. Though Mr. Edwards did not commit himself to sponsoring such legislation, the exchange between the WCU student journalist and the Senior Senator ended with Edwards saying The answer _ is that its important to me and it always will be important to me. The program has booked another member of congress for the December 12th edition. Bob Wiley has told the Western Carolinian about the show: We're taking on corporate media and the issues that are important to our audience. Were encouraging people to be the media by getting involved in campus radio or other student media outlets, like the Western Carolinian Newsmagazine. We are not afraid of anyones opinions, but for some reason with all their fancy equipment and sexy personalities, the mainstream media is scared by a lot of opinions. That is why the same views are seen over and over again in the major networks. It is absurd. Free Speech Cullowhee is not afraid of anyone's view. We have our own opinions on the show, but were far less concerned with our audience agreeing with us than we are with empowering our audience to use this forum to get their issues and ideas on the air. We'll respect them every time. Thats what free speech is all about. The Program, Free Speech Cullowhee, airs Sunday nights from 8:00 until 10:00 P.M. on the student run campus radio station, WWCU-FM. Co-host Tom Spane agrees with Wiley. Spane says | want the show to be one in which national and local issues can be discussed openly and freely, and where all viewpoints are respected and welcomed. | hope that more Americans will begin taking the media into their own hands and finding out the truth for themselves. One way they can do that is to participate in our show and talk about whats important to them. The show airs Sunday nights from 8 until 10 pm. Beats & Baby Beats celebrate at BMCM+AC WCU Press Release 2K RUNNERS | | December 13th - 17th sae and I Janurary 7th-15th 2005 Duties: tssueand - 4 jreceive textbooks,stocking, cleaning, etc. MUST BE ABLE To Lirr | Meprum To HEAVY LOADS CONTACT | | CATAMOUNT BOOKSTORE | _227-7346 On Friday, December 10 a select group of local poets and writers with ties to the Beat generation will read and perform their work and that of their predecessors at the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center located at 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville. The event will continue a three-month celebration of the Beat movement and the 1950s San Francisco Renaissance inspired by the exhibition of paintings and prints by artist Leo Krikorian that opens on Dec. 3 at BMCM+AC. On December 10 poets and musicians will honor West Coast Beat writers such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Bob Kaufman, Gary Snyder, Diane DiPrima, Janine Pomy-Vega, Richard Brautigan, Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, Lenore Kandell, Philip Whalen, Jack Micheline, and Ken Kesey. Visual artist and Black Mountain College student, Leo Krikorian was known as the Grandfather of the Beats because of a now-legendary bar he opened in 1953 in San Francisco called The Place. The Place was a watering hole and cultural mecca for Beat era poets, artists, musicians and filmmakers. In addition to the San Francisco Renaissance writers named above, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, Robert Duncan, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg also frequented Krikorians bar--a place where artists met to talk, drink, socialize and perform their poetry with local jazz musicians. Honoring the spirit of The Place and the San Francisco 1950s, local poets, writers and aficionados who will be featured performers for the Friday, Dec.10 event include former Beatitude magazine editor and founding Director of the San Francisco Poetry Festival, Thomas Rain Crowe; 1960s neighbor to and cohort of Ken Kesey, Michael Revere; grandbaby Beat poet and performance artist Ted Pope; Sebastian Matthews, editor of Rivendell journal and of Search Party, the collected poems of his late father, William Matthews; poet, renaissance man and Black Mountain College and Beat scholar, Jeff Davis: poet and publisher/editor of Black Mountain Review, and owner/proprietor of Bookdogger Bookstore in Black Mountain, David Wilson; owner/proprietor of The Readers Corner bookstore In Asheville, Gillian Coats; Brooklyn College student of Allen Ginsberg who now teaches at UNC-A, Lori Horvitz; Warren Wilson College student, Malaprop $ Bookstore employee and editor of Thistle Journal, poet Jaye Bartell. Provid'l jazz accompaniment and music for the evening will be outstanding region musicians. This special evening of Beat generation-inspired prose, poetry at music will be recorded live for a future show to be aired on WPVM, 103.5FM. Doors open at 7:30pm, and performances will begin at 8:00" refreshments will be available throughout the evening. A $3 cover fee Wl | be charged at the door for students and members of BMCM+AC, aC a $5 charge for general admission. All proceeds will go to BMCM + to help support exhibitions and programming at the non-pro ct For more information about the Dec. 10 Beat Writers event, con Alice Sebrell at 350-8484 or at bmcmac@bellsouth.net. The Black Mountal College Museum and Arts Center is located at 56 Broadway in downting Asheville. Hours are 12-4 pm Wednesday through Saturday or by appointmem The Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center preserves and continues ie unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain Con for public study and enjoyment. We achieve our mission through age conservation, and educational activities including exhibition, publication, public programs
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