A week after being barred from the Rice University radio station, student disc jockeys are to return to the airways at 4 p.m today. Rice students and administrators resolved their conflict over control of the 50,000-watt KTRU-FM, one of the country's most powerful college radio stations.
Their agreement provides for a nine-member committee of students, faculty, alumni and staff to develop station policies and programming.
It also calls for the student body to elect the station manager and for the committee to field concerns and programming ideas.
It is a great relief to the volunteers at the station and to the SA (Student Association) that we will have an official structure through which students effectively exercise control of programming," said senior Johnny So, station manager.
A university news release announcing the committee said Rice President Malcolm Gillis backs the agreement "100 percent."