ASA to discuss JC membership/ control of fees By Hal DeKeyaer nned sweeties Photo by Andy Gordon Whan the win come« out, so do the sunbatherm. M any o f these M ananH « resident« have book» near them, but only a few are studying. Wednesday Arizona State University Vol. M No. 47 February 11, 1*74 state! Pass Tm um . Arina* I wasn't going to m ake m y station i Love Lucy' I * :d I I The Arizona Students’ Association will meet Saturday to Hi«-»« junior college student membership in ASA and control of student fees. -The discussion will include alternative methods of unifying student governments in Arizona community colleges. Al Senia, ASA assistant director, said no decision will be made on community college membership until ASA meets with community college student leaders and membership problems are worked out “The problem here is that they’re governed by different boards,” Senia said. “Our approach to common problems would be different “One solution would be for the community colleges to form their own organization and have the two organizations work together,” he added. „“The first step is obviously to work together on common problems and see where that leads.” Senia said ASA has invited Sherri Panke, Scottsdale Community College student president, to discuss control of student funds, tuition and 'th e nomination of Dwight Patterson to the Arizona Board of Regents. “I feel that we need some unification throughout the community colleges,” Panke said. "A statewide unification of students would make it easier to deal with administrators.” Student leaders at other community colleges expressed an interest in a state-wide student organization, but wanted more information on how it would operate. “It sounds really interesting to us,” said Ron Marney, Maricopa Technical College student president Marney said it probably would go over well at MTC, but they plan to look at the proposals and alternatives before making any decisions on their involvement Craig Webb, student president at Mesa Community College, said the MCC student government is concerned with budget and tuition issues. “We’re trying to get as much involved with the universities as possible,” Webb said. KDKB honchos spill secrets of success By John Edmsn Bill Compton slammed the phone down and shook his head. He was upset because Phoenix officials had just halted .an an­ nounced kayak race set for an Bncanto Park lake between Compton's radio station, KDKB, and a record shop. “I wanted confirmation on this thing before I promoted i t I got i t and now this. Sometimes I wonder about the city of Phoenix,” For some -radio stations the cancellation of a kayak race might spell disaster. But for Compton’s KDKB, a kayak cancellation is no worse than a warped record. Compton is , the ^production m anager of ^ICDKB a n d v is responsible for everything that goes out on the air. Unofficially, he’s the 30-year-old balding, bearded, bespectacled brains behind one of the most successful progressive radio stations' in the country. “When I came here from Texas, people told me progressive radio would never work in this- town, that progressive radio is a fad and would fold in a year. “ My goals at the beginning were to get progressive radio out of beingycojisidered the bastard child of radio. The progressive radio I heard was sloppy, unprofessional and everyone was so laid bade th a t, it bored the hell out of you.” In September, 1969, Compton formed KCAC in Phoenix, the nation’s first progressive AM radio station, jit was lacking, in funds and facilities but loaded with youthful ideals. “The main thing we wanted to accomplish with KCAC was to generate positive energy because the youth movenfent was going sour. American youth was taking itself seriously at that time and thought they were going to b eth e saviors of the world. We wanted the youth to keep a sense of humor about itself because, when you don’t laugh at yourself, you can become absurd. “At KCAC we didn’t have a production room or a teletype machine. We goofed with the news and did satirical take-offs. We didn’t have the money or the facilities to approach news as a serious project” Approaching KCAC as a serious project was eyen more difficult for Compton. “ We knew with KCAC, a daytime AM station, that we would never survive economically.” Compton packed up his radio genius, his personal staff and started KDKB in 1971. What has happened since is progressiveradio history. According to most ratings, KDKB is listened to by more young adults than any other radio station in the city. And Phoenix has more radio stations per capita than any other community in the country. Not bad for a station once described as communist and underground. “The station is also very well known nationally,” ' adm its Cqmpton. “Bumper stickers have been reported in almost every state and five foreign countries.” Even mote fascinating is the KDKB guest list The station has interviewed such notables as Jane Fonda (three times, once with hubby Tom Hayden), G loria Steinmen, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Bonnie Raitt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie Daniels, two Allmans and one David Bromberg. B ill Com pton, w ho got KDKB radio started In 1871, «m il— during a break. “People told me progressive radio would never w ork in this tow n," he said, but the station KDKB has proven to be one o f the m ost successful in the country. “Artists who are into radio love the radio station,” said Compton. “Charlie Daniels was just freaked out that he could come down here for three hours. We just sat around and shot the bull “We will not interview artists we aren’t into,” said Compton. “It’s a disservice.” What makes KDKB so popular is its lack of predictability (a definite Compton no-no), either in the music played or the people who play it “The - record companies feel good toward us because we play music because it’s good, not because the billboards say it is. “I listen to everyone on the station and check them o u t We all have our Ifavorite groups. There are some groups I want people to like and I want to play them everyday. B u t you’ve got to break out of th a t. “Most of the mail we get is negative criticism. Some people want us to play more rock *n’ roll. Then on the other hand, people write us and say we used to be so mellow.” Compton refuses to hire “ m ilquetoast people” at his station, and the people working for KDKB are anything b u t “ Toad” Hall, “ the perfect morning man,” is a very religious family-oriented Mormon. Dennis McBroom is the “king” for the southwest division of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group which studies medieval history. And Hank, Cookenboo started iti radio on the same day and in the same town as did Compton. Cookenboo is 80 percent blind. “ It was a freak thing that happened continued page 2 KJ ' M ore about Febru ary 11/1976 State Press •Á' Pa ge 2 \ -■■ YOU M A Y B E KDKB honchos spill secrets of success •L • \ .. .. . ,• % • ■ continued from page 1 several years ago,” said Compton. “It’s a virus — only 10 cases of it in the United States,” Compton, said. “I feel all the people I have on the air are capable of sounding like anything. I want people on the air other people will react to.” Because of his absolute stand against censorship, radio life for Compton has been less than hassle-free. "We did have trouble with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) when we played a record called "Dynamo Hum” by the Mothers of Inventiop.. A m other found her children listening at the tíme. She called the station and said she was very uoera. our that mav the ^ song W«K was w « the ^ liberal but most disgusting thing she had ever ,heard. “Her children were 13 to 14 years old. I told her KDKB was geared to people 18 to 34. I told her that I wasn’t in the business of raising children. I wasn’t going to make my station ‘I Love Lucy for her kids. "She wrote a letter to the FCC. The FCC latched on to i t They told their lawyers they thought they had a case. They held it over our heads for eight months, then In the news they let it go. I think the FCC is so incompetent that they don’t know what we are.” KDKB has often been described as a peoples’ radio station. “This station should improve the quality of life and make a person’s day better,” said Eric H auenstein, KDKB’s general manager. "I think we’re changing things. We’re making it more acceptable for homosexuals to feel they aren’t Sick and feel more socially com fortable. We actually broadcast information on how they can get in touch with each other and solve their minority problems.” . "We do public service an­ nouncements for women’s rights Ànd we-ve com. infonnation about rock collecting, gliding, trucking, hockey and photography.” One of Hauenstein’s biggest concerns is having the station sound like "a blatant piece of propaganda. “We don’t editorialize that much because today’s issues are so complex that there aré no simple answers. We don’t want people to take what we say as the Bible. “Stations have described us as . . . b riefly iFro^TheAssociatedPressI COCAINE RING BROKEN PH O EN IX — A federal Brand lury has indicted 23 persons in what the federal Drug Enforcement, Administration has called one of the biggest International cocaine-smuggling rings. The group is suspected of smuggling cocaine into the United States from Colombia. BENTSEN WITHDRAWS AUSTIN, T E X . — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex., withdrew as a national contender for the Presidential nomination Tuesday. He has become the second Democratic Presidential aspirant to announce his withdrawal from the race. UFO TRAVELER PASSES TEST P H p E N IX — Travis Walton, who said he was abducted from an eastern Arizona forest in an unidentified flying object, passed a lie detector test, sources said Tuesday. ,_____ Pamper your good taste for the Unusual. with Gifts - Cards & Jewelry at "underground” tb potential advertisers. We didn’t know how to fight with them because.we’ didn’t know what they meant Now, if they try to say anything about us on the air, they’ll em­ barrass themselves.” Hauenstein likes to think of KDKB as the hippest station in town. “Those other stations just try to sound hip.” i H STATE PRESS is publisMO by Arizona State U n iv e rsity Tuesday through Friday during- the academic year, except h olid ays and exam ination periods. 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A n d ain't that a big enough majority in any town?” M ark Twain state press Joe Gerson M id East co n ce rn s I have been concerned for some tim e about th e level of the public debate in your pages and pn the cam pus mall con­ cerning the M iddle E ast conflict I was disturbed today to find a group, calling itself “ Students Concerned for Israel,” plan­ ning a rally “for Israel” w ithout knowing o r understanding the articulated positions and proposals o f th e Palestinian people in the form of PLO policies. Furtherm ore, they were ignorant of significant areas of Israeli-jewish thinking, dialogues and publications th a t take a line other th a n th a t of the Israeli government or the U nited Jewish A p p e a l I t is indeed u n ­ fortunate th a t th e majority o f the A m erican Jewish community and much o f th e Am erican “ G entile” com m unity has allowed itself to be the captive audience o f th e Israeli public relations dep artm en t • As a Jew, I am sorry to have to write t h a t today, it is the state o f Israel which provides the greatest barrier to peace in the M iddle E a s t Since its 1974 m eeting in Alexandria, E g y p t v the Palestine Liberation O rganization has indicated its.openness to a compromise solution which would allow fo r t h e / creation o f a Palestinian-A rab state and the continuance o f the Israeli state w ithin its pre-1967 boundaries.. Neighboring A rab states, fnçhiriitig E g y p t Jordan an d Lebanon, have indicated they would recognize th e state o f Israel once the lands conquered by Israel in 1967 are evacuated an d once Israel recognizes the national rights o f the Palestinian people. The trad itio n al an d I think suicidal, in tra n s ig e n t o f the Israeli * government was again articulated by Prime. M inister R abin in hjs recent visit to W ashington, D.C.> H e said he would only negotiate with K ing H ussein o f Jordan — a m an who neither the Palestinian-A rab people, nor the “ A rab world” will accept as a Palestinian spokesman. I have also heard m any Jewish students say they “w ant peace in the M iddle E ast as, m uch or more th a n anyone else. B ut “ w hat after all, can Israel do?” I would suggest th a t Israel has more alternatives th a n intransigence and the bom bing of Palestinian refugee cam ps, wherein hundreds of innocent civilians have been injured and killed* Even within Israel there are voices of dissent, voices proposing other alternatives. These include the student m ovement o f SIAH and the proposals of intellectuals and form er m em bers o f th e Israeli parliam ent — such as U ri Avneri, Simha Flapan, Amos K enah, M attityahu Peled, U ri D av is___ T he list is enormous, b u t these views axé often suppressed inside Israel and rarely heard, let alone publicized w ithin the U nited States. O ne frequent cry o f the unquestioning supporters of Israel is there are no Palestinians who .understand the Israeli-Jewish dilemm a, th a t all Palestinian leaders wish to destroy Israel. This simply is not true. B ut I will g ran t th a t it has been dif­ ficult to obtain the writings and have insight into the thoughts of Palestinian leaders here in our desert outpost. T he fact of the m atter is th a t the leaders of the “ rejectionist front” — those who will accept no compromise with Israel — have been removed from positions o f power w ithin the PLO and its executive. There are now a num ber o f statem ents in English which com m unicate the PLO ’s orientation to compromise. Sabri Jyris o f the PLO Research C enter and a m em ber o f the Palestine National Council has articulated such views (see S e p t ’75 edition of “ New O utlook,” published by Israeli Jews in Jerusalem. Nabil Shaath, PLO director o f planning and the leader o f the first PLO delegation to the U nited Nations, a r­ ticulated such views in an interview recently published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. A nd even Y assir A rafat’s U nited ■*. Nations speech indicated a willingness to accept the “ two-state solution.” I would suggest th a t my. fellow citizens who are concerned about the Tâte o f Israel and its people should begin to think more creatively, with regard to both the short and long term . The quaiity o f life in Israel is deteriorating because of the trem endous investments being m ade for military in­ transigence. A;new car, taxes included, today costs $9,000 in Israel. Thé rate o f em igration is so high the government refuses to publish the figures. T he dream of the founders of Zionism is floundering on the rocks of militarism and, I fear, racism. ; , Over the long term it should be obvious th a t the societies surrounding Israel will develop themselves. They anil become economically and militarily m ore powerful. Over the long term Israel will not be able to com pete with them unless the government decides to threaten to use one of its nuclear Weapons. A t the sam e tim e it should be apparent th a t the feudal and autocratic rulers of some of Israel’s neighbors will not be in power forever. There will be changes — changes represented by the dem ocratic and 20th century orientation of the PLO. Israel would do well to reach back to its socialist origins to flentify with these forces which will play a greater role in the future. Cooperation is the key to survival. ( named TEMPT ■Hie busiest pori* in •Hie nation, wi+to importe OuhvJtnbehnq experts FAMOUS SCULPTURE WAS ACTUALLY a prototype MASCOT, b u r THE HORNS AND1TAIL WERE BROKEN OFF DURING SHIPMENT AND NEVER WERE _ REPAIRED. THEY ARE PRESENTLY TOURING THE COUNTRY IN THE’FREEDOM S lf ì91,841 kiicymmejo (55. Tempe has no connedjc " -to~H>e sea! -— TRAIN." A f i h l IS THE FIRST w m r COLLEGE CAMPUS IN THE COUNTRY 70 BE UT SPENT M