Katherine Howe

  • Columbia College (1999)

Tags: WKCR, Ferris Booth, Dorm life, Campus

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My freshman year, 1995/96, I began deejaying at WKCR the last year that the radio studio was located in Ferris Booth Hall. I did one of the overnight time slots, and the hour from three until four am was always the slowest–no phone calls, nothing going on. It was also during that hour that huge boxes of bread would be delivered to the lunch room downstairs. Sometimes I would put a very long record on air, prop open the station door with a brick, run downstairs, steal three bagels from the bread boxes, and run back upstairs in time to change the record. I would nibble my bagels until the show ended at five and walk with a full stomach back to Carman, just in time to see the crew team leaving for practice. If I was very lucky, I would manage to fall asleep before it was totally light out.