KXLU Staffers Mary Ann Earl, Russ Iadevaia, GiGi Lorick, Mark Morris, Bart Devaney, Nestor Periera, Sherri
Rick Winward, and Maureen Flynn.
Lee, Tony Winn, John Peschong, Eva Hubbard,
1 oyolan photo by Michael Rivero
KXLU Raises Over *30,000
By Michele jgmes
Loyolan Staff Writer
KXLU has proven that dedica
tion and unity yield results. They
were only anticipating $30,000 in
pledges, but hard work and one crazy
week of fundraising merited $35,000 in
pledges for LMU’s FM radio station.
From Friday, January 20 through Fri¬
day, January 27, every dee jay made
pleas for funds during their regular
shows.
“As a public, noncommercial radio
station, we have no income/’ com¬
mented KXLU’s general manager
Maureen Flynn. “There is this thing we
have to deal with called expense
Library
Collection
Expands
By Gina Mancha
Loyolan News Writer
■he Charles Von der Ahe library is
still 18,000 volumes short of its size.
Last semester complaints were made
about the LMU library facilities.
Students were dissatisfied and voiced
their opinions about its inadequacies.
According to Betty Blackman, Universi¬
ty Librarian, improvements have taken
place since then.
Blackman stated that one common
omplaint she finds puzzling is that
students still can not find and/or obtain
the books they need. She stresses her
staff has been trying to alleviate this
recovery. lt means that the station myst
reimburse $8500 of the $42,000 given us
by the university.
“ Meanwhile, that budget only allows
us to function through the school year,
and we’ve got to keep going during those
summer months.”
In addition to expense recovery, the
station has many needs.
“Our FM broadcast console was
donated by RCA in 1944. It wasn’t new
then,” Flynn laments. “Needless to say,
we need a new one.”
Tina Welsh, who broadcasts three
news reports a week, noted, “We need
new cart machines. Those are thousand
dollar purchases.”
“We also need to upgrade the audio
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tor of KXLU. “The station should and
could be twice as loud.”
KXLU cannot sell commercial time as
per its FCC license. But more than that,
the people at the station don’t want to
go commercial.
Mark Morris, the public affairs direc¬
tor, was very earnest when he said, “Our
listeners tune in because of the modern,
non-top 40 music we play, and they like
us because we don’t have commercials.
“Really the largest response I’ve
received from listeners is that they have
a positive feeling about what we have to
offer. They don’t want us to change.”
Flynn explained that there are no op¬
tions fof raising money other than the
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situation. The library has been granted
an extension on its supplementary fun¬
ding, claimed Blackman, and 80 percent
of the fund has already gone toward the
purchasing of new books, periodicals
and films. The rest of the funding was
needed to renew and maintain existing
journals. Figures show that over the past
four years the library has been purchas¬
ing approximately eight to ten thousand
books per year, and in 1982-1983 over
12,000 books as well as over 1,800
periodicals were purchased.
Since the Von der Ahe library is small
it can only house 300,000 volumes. For
this reason, Blackman is firmly
dedicated to updating and improving the
quality of the collection. “The library is
buying current books related to the sub-
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. on-air fundraiser. , ,
“Sure, we
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have a benefit con¬
cert, but that costs a lot of money just to
get it off the ground,’’ she said. “Some
public stations have mail-outs for funds.
We don’t know who to mail out to and,
again, this costs money.”
Most of the workers at the station
recognized an improvement in the fun¬
draiser over the previous year’s.
“Last year,” Flynn remembered,
“We didn’t have a major purchase in
mind. We only needed to pay the univer¬
sity $5000, and we pulled in $12,500
after getting $18,000 in pledges.”
“I think we did better this year
primarily because we’ve improved the
quality of the equipment as well as the
music,’’ Morris commented proudly,
“we have more listeners and I believe
they are more devoted.”
Receiving $35,000 in pledges is no
easy task. Deejays inundated their shows
with special pleas — - pleas that made for
some pretty interesting listening.
Agent Ava, a KXLU deejay with a
daytime show, definitely had one of the
more unique pleas for funds.
“I already have a fairly raucous
show,” Ava explained. “So I planned
what I would do the week before the
fundraiser. My idea had incredible
response.”
Ava’s on-air promise was that she
would remove one article of clothing for
every $100 in pledges during her show.
This led to more shenanigans when
Flynn went into the broadcast room dur¬
ing Ava’s show and pretended to take
pictures of the supposedly scantily clad
Ava.
Tina Welsh, who answered phones
during Ava’s shift, chuckled as she
recalled the experience, “Callers were
offering to pledge 10 to 50 dollars if I
promised to send them a picture of
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