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At the moment, the best thing you can do is contact the appropriate individuals within Vanderbilt's Administration and let them know how important WRVU is to you. Community members should get intouch with marypat.teague@vanderbilt.edu in the Vanderbilt Office of Community & Neighborhood Relations. The Letter Writing Campaign is well-underway and many important individuals at Vanderbilt University have become interested in our cause.  Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to write on behalf of WRVU.  Despite the VSC opinion, this IS a campus issue.  -- PLEASE KEEP UP THE PRESSURE & GET EVERYONE INVOLVED !!!

VANDERBILT ADMINISTRATION Chancellor Zeppos Office of the Chancellor 211 Kirkland Hall Nashville, TN 37240 James Stofan Associate Vice Chancellor Vanderbilt Alumni Relations PMB 407735 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37240 Mark Bandas, Dean of Students Vanderbilt University VU# 351508 Station B 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37235

Ayo O. Ositelu Chair of the Student Activities Committee Office of the Board of Trust 305 Kirkland Hall Nashville, TN, 37240 Andrew Morse Student Finance Committee Chairman (AcFee) Student Government Association 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37235 Mary Pat Teague Associate Director VU Community, Neighborhood, & Government Relations 2007 Terrace Place Nashville, TN 37203

WRVU is an invaluable part of the Vanderbilt community.  Without it, campus life would not be the same.  Every day, around the clock, for half-a-century, "The Student Voice of Vanderbilt University" has provided quality programming to Middle Tennessee.  Without the eclectic sounds of WRVU transmitting across the frequency of 91.1 FM, Nashville and her surrounding areas would fall eerily silent. Radio station WRVU offers Vanderbilt students unique educational opportunities in FFC broadcasting, station programming, public relations, and equipment/transmitter maintenance.  Although Vanderbilt does not offer an official degree in Radio Communications, the students who work at WRVU leave the University well-equipped for careers in broadcast media.  Many WRVU alum have gone onto become local and national broadcasting personalities.  Many others now work behind the scenes in commercial and community radio.   WRVU welcomes any and all students to participate and the station has a longstanding reputation for being diverse!  With the format change of 1996, WRVU made a commitment that would protect itself from becoming "just another college station".  DJs were pushed to experiment with international music and revisit great music legacies of the past.  Likewise, this format change encouraged student DJs to develop "Specialty Shows" which provide in-dept musical explorations of particular artists, genres, or musical time periods.  In short,WRVU does what a college radio station should - - it educates. After just one semester in training, young DJs can have their own radio program focusing on news, sports, or music.  With just a little more time, they can earn positions on the Executive Staff such as Station Engineer, Local Music Director, Public Service Director, Program Director, and General Manager. By offering accessibly to the FM airwaves, WRVU offers prospective students with a unique incentive to choose Vanderbilt.  Likewise, WRVU provides Vanderbilt graduates with a long-term relationship to the University and many remain with the station as Alumni DJs. Also, and perhaps most importantly, WRVU 91.1 FM provides Vanderbilt with a constant and personal connection to the surrounding community.  WRVU has long been known for bursting through the mythological "Vander-bubble" and reaching out to audiences of all cultural backgrounds and economic stratifications.  Since 1953, Vanderbilt University and radio station WRVU have been providing Nashville and her surrounding areas with Music, News, Community Concert Calendars, Public Service Announcements, and Emergency Broadcasting Services.  If Nashville's oldest (and most beloved!) radio station were to be silenced by Vanderbilt Student Communications, it would cause a painful blemish on Vanderbilt University that "Music City USA" would not easily forget.