iCLUradio is coming next spring

CLU is gaining a fully student-run radio station called iCLUradio.

The online radio station is scheduled to premiere in the spring semester of this year.  Prior to the launch, an advisory board will meet five times throughout the fall semester to decide on a few key factors.

The board is made up of ASCLU-G representatives Matthew Hamlett and Vim Iglesia, current students Jen Egermeier and Allison Mehnert, alumnis Jesse Knudson and Liz Glick, faculty Beverly Kelley and Jean Sandlin, technical advisors Erik Hagen and Lee Marshall and director Jeanette Villanueva-Walker.  In their five meetings they will determine a mission statement, charter documents, project regulations, format and programming, budget and the relationship that iCLU will have with the Echo and CLUtube.

The site plans to work hand-in-hand with the Echo and CLUtube.

"The correlation between the three is that while the Echo and CLUtube cover events and stories on an in-depth level, iCLUradio can be more on top of it as far as time goes," Kelley said.

At the first meeting, which took place last Saturday, the mission statement was at the top of the priority list.

"We want to give the students lots of freedom with this project, but we want the iCLUradio mission statement to mesh nicely with the university mission statement," Kelley said. "We want everything to be reasonable, but we also want to exemplify the aspect of diversity that CLU is so proud of as well as keeping up with our first amendment rights," she said.

In 1985 there was another student-run radio station that was reportedly shut down after the airing of an inappropriate interview.

"One of the students doing the interviewing said the f-word and the administration was supposedly not too pleased with that," Kelley said.

The new station will utilize first amendment privileges better than the old one did.

"Obviously we don't want an alumni listening in the middle of the day and hearing various colorful words, but if there's a show running say at 3 a.m the language could be a little looser," Kelley said.

The station will include CLU and local news, sports shows with live broadcasting, professor and student talk shows, and local music features.  When a show isn't playing there will be music streaming from the station.

Vim Iglesia, iCLU radio board member and musician, expresses interest not only in the project, but in performing musically in his own show slot on iCLUradio someday.

"I think this program will make CLU history. I'm just excited that I'm here to be a part of it," Iglesia said. "CLU is only 50 years old, we have a lot of catching up to do to all of the older schools that are so technilogically advanced."

Junior Brandon Kallen is also excited about the up-and-coming radio station.

"I'm definitely looking forward to listening. I'm getting tired of Pandora," said Kallen.

If you are interested in applying for a position at iCLUradio contact Dr. Kelley at kelley@callutheran.edu.

The positions available are: General Manager, Webmaster, Program Director, Music Director, News Director, Production Director, Sport Director, Talk Director, Traffic Director, Community Outreach, and Promotions Director. Include in the e-mail your Fall 2011 contact information, a short statement explaining why you are seeking a position on iCLUradio and a couple of paragraphs explaining your personal vision for a student-run radio station at CLU.