Whats a guy to do when he can throw a Frisbee?
Spin vinyl, of course. Extracurriculars were important to me in high school. So, I wanted to get involved at Union. Was I bred for the environmental club? Was I mechanical enough for the robotics team? Could I throw a Frisbee? The answer was a resounding “No.” However, I knew I liked to listen to music. I’m not talking about Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson here either. I’m talking about the kind of music you hear in those vintage record stores, like the one in the movie High Fidelity, where employees’ sole purpose in life is to complete their set of bootleg tapes from the Grateful Dead’s 1972 European Tour. I’m talking about meaningful, powerful music, the kind of music that isn’t always played on commercial radio. I had always enjoyed listening to independent college radio. Where else could you hear the whole side of an album commercial free? I felt that Union’s historic radio station, WRUC “the first station in the nation” was just the outlet I needed to share my music with the wor
