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Show deciding, maybe KRDC should ban O Sheila, Tonight She 1986 Page 4 DIXIE SUN January 17, to Comes, Stairway and The Beatles, Heaven, Wham or is promoting the Letters To The Editor In response lo Mindy Dear Editor, drus1 complaint (Letter to Ediior, Dec mber) that the role Have you heard the latest of Annie in the musical play news about our campus radio ANNIE will be cast with a station, KRDC? The advisor twelve-yea- r old girl, may I sughas banned these top ten gest that if Mindy or any other groups: Prince and the Revolucollege student can persuade tion, Madonna, and ACDC. the director that she can play Along with the groups, these convincingly the role of a singles have been banned: twelve-yea- r old, I will be glad White Lines, Sugar Walls, and to cast her or them. y Sex as a Weapon. You are The policy of Dixie College asking yourself why these Theatre is to utilize students in groups? A D.J. at KRDC inall roles for which they are formed me it was because of qualified and suited. When a suggestive lyrics. However, I play like ANNIE is selected for heard the advisor of the radio production, it is not inapstation say that this place is propriate to utilize members of more BYU than BYU itself. the community in roles, thus Could this be the true reason fulfilling our greater role as a these songs are banned? Is soy theatre. meone trying to make Dixie Similar problems are faced in College a Jr. BYU other productions where Goth made an interesting children are cast. The musical statement concerning people, OLIVER might be a case in he said, Let everyone sweep in point. Should the role of front of his own door, and the Oliver, a male child, be cast whole world will be clean. with a male Dixie College stuBanning groups and singles dent? I think not. from KRDC will not stop peoCollege and university ple from listening to the songs, theatre departments everywhere although it may stop people attempt to cast as believably as from listening to KRDC. possible, still giving students If students didn't want to opportunities for experience hear the banned songs they and exposure. There are at least woudn't request them, and two major women's roles in D.J.'s wouldn't play them. ANNIE for which students will Many of us enjoy the music, be eligible, and being selected and not everyone does coke for the Chorus in a musical is while listening to White not a demeaning, but rather a Lines. I think the students are rewarding experience. old enough to choose what music they don't want to listen Sincerely, to. C. Paul Andersen, Director If we aren't capable of Dixie College Theatre An- acceptable gay movement here at Dixie? Maybe we could ban everything but the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Vienna Boys Choir. That way all the problems involving drugs and sex would just disappear wouldnt they? Lets let the students those who listen to KRDC decide who they want to listen to. Mitch Neilson pro-pabl- college-communit- Dear Mitch: If this advisor were what you claim in the above letter to the editor, your epistle would have ended up in the garbage can Wednesday evening in the graphic arts room. Before you, and everyone else who would respond to the programs and policies on the college campus (or anywhere else for that matter), you should get the facts straight before you begin running at the mouth. Your first mistake was to listen to a D.J. from KRDC who wasnt even at the staff meeting where the above announcement took place (or if he was there, he didnt listen to what was said). Let me set the record straight: First of all it wasnt the advisor who did any banning as you say, but the station management, which includes students and advisor. Secondly--onl- y the first artist you mention was banned as you put it. This advisor recommended very strongly to the assembled staff Monday that whenever we play songs by Madonna, ACDC, and a number of others, that the songs be screened very carefully so that the music KRDC plays contains no questionable lyrics. I reminded the staff at least twice, Monday in class, that this advisor doesnt intend on becoming a music censor, and that each D.J. should be hisher own judge as to what is in mind the station proper-keepi- ng music policy guidelines. Every music oriented radio station in the country, whether commrcial or like KRDC, has a set of guidelines for music programming that every D.J. must operate within. In fact, a music director usually screens all songs very carefully and eliminates the questionable ones himself. This advisor could refer you to any one of a dozen area radio stations and feel very certain you would get the same kind of description covering their music policy as we have at KRDC. My experience tells me that many of them are probably more strict than we are regarding sexually oriented music. This advisor did in fact question a local associate program director who said The only artist of question is The next thing in your letter I take exception to is your reference to BYE and what this advisor said. I dont deny saying what you refer upsets me is that I made an expression to the members of the DIXIE SUN staff and two hours later it is fired right back in my face as a letter to the editor. What this says to me as advisor be much more guarded in the future as to what comments you make, around certain students and their roommates, and if people arent registered with a particular class, they have no business being involved at all with that program. Your use of the ...sweep in front of his own door..., quotation is interesting. If you understand the situation, you would have to agree that because the college itself (not the student body) owns the radio station, and that as a representative of the college, when the advisor makes recommend-ations-lik- e the subject of thes letters, he is in effect sweeping in front of his own door. Finally, in a time when cassettes and personal stereos are so easy to obtain, everyone, with jus a little effort, can have readily at hand, the music they want to listen to. Id suggest that you, and everyone else, who wants to listen to sexually oriented or drug music, head for the nearest record store and purchase whatever your ears desire. hai is-- prom-motin- g Ed Rogers KRDC and the DIXIE SUN advisor Prince... See Us For Your Girls Preference Corsages, Boutonnieres, and Tuxedos Any Tuxedo Rental $34.50 GARDEN of JOY I I fouJL&tAa 75 NORTH ST. George MAIN 673-469- 7 |
