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Sen. Steven Lockfield said the Exec
utive agreed to veto the allocation
after he and Sen. Rodrigo Moreno
asked them to do so. Lockfield said
ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales
"wrote the veto."
Morales, however, said he had
not vetoed the allocation and is
"undecided."
According to the ASUO Constitu
tion, the ASUO president, not the vice
president, holds power to veto Senate
allocations.
ASUO spokeswoman Taraneh Fos
ter affirmed that the Executive had not
vetoed the allocation.
"I don't know if it's necessarily like
ly, either," Foster said.
The funds are crucial to the com
pletion of KWVA's renovation, ac
cording to Nisser. The campus radio
station continues to work with ana
log equipment, but commercial sta
tions have turned to digital technol
ogy. Nisser said she hopes the
upgrade will create a more realistic
training ground for the 250 students
and community members who
work at KWVA.
The station will have two fully op
erational digital studios and a digital
production room upon the project's
completion.
"We're trying to simulate, as much
as we can, a real-world working envi
ronment," Nisser said.
Meanwhile, disc jockeys, produc
tion technicians, news staff and oth
ers are forced to endure cramped
conditions while the renovation
takes place.
But it the Executive vetoes the al
location, KWVA's project will likely
face further delays while the sta
tion requests the money from
ASUO's surplus fund, a reserve ac
count that includes incidental fee
money from higher-than-expected
enrollment.
Lockfield indicated KWVA would
have little difficulty convincing senate
to approve an allocation from the sur
plus fund.
i
"Most likely they'll be able to get
it," he said.
KWVA's studios, which are locat
ed on the Mezzanine floor of the
EMU, are cramped, and the radio
station still uses sound cards that
look like eight-track tapes. Decorat
ing touches, such as carpeting and
band stickers, help create a friendly
ambiance in what was once a
women's bathroom.
Nisser said the station offers a
unique service to University stu
dents. KWVA doesn't compete di
rectly with Eugene's corporate radio
stations, which play a different for
mat and, unlike KWVA, are licensed
to run advertising.
"There's so much of that Top 40
stuff out there that it's hard for us to
justify competing with that," Niss
er said.
Instead, KWVA has carved out a
niche playing a wide variety of
songs not usually heard on the up
per band of the radio dial. A song by
Boards of Canada or The Staple
Singers would get more play time
on KWVA 88.1 FM than Britney
Spears or Blink-182.
KWVA DJ Peter Weinberger, a 45
year-old Eugene resident who gradu
ated from the University in 1981, said
he enjoys wide discretion in deciding
what to play.
"I found out you get to play what
ever you want," Weinberger said.
Nisser said KWVA employs sever
al DJs, like Weinberger, who aren't
tied to an academic schedule be
cause they help keep the station
mnning when students leave town
for breaks.
Whatever happens with the Exec
utive veto or construction delays,
Nisser said KWVA will eventually
provide a state-of-the-art office for
students to learn the ins and outs of
the radio business.
"It's just procuring the funds and
finishing up," she said.
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