Remember
that mysterious mélange of eclectic music wafting
through the Old Student Center? Student-run KSDT radio has been broadcasting
to UCSD for almost 30 years. In the 1970s, the station started with
an FM signal, then it was piped into dorm hallways and during the ’80s
cabled into rooms so you could plug in and tune out. Its current
metamorphosis is as an Internet station, playing albums that range
from Grandaddy’s Sumday to Dandy Warhols’s Welcome
to the Monkey House.
“
It has been here a lot of years, but it still has the same mentality,” says
the station’s general manager Rishi Shah. “It gives
people what they don’t usually hear.”
According to Shah,
students have shown an unprecedented amount of interest this year,
and the station hopes to expand its operations.
“We’re
gonna get bigger and better,” Shah
says. “It is just the beginning.”
So if you want to
sample the sound of contemporary UCSD anywhere around the world,
surf to www.ksdtradio.org. |
