Memories tagged “WKCR”

Adversaries, Old and New In 1964, I was a staff announcer at WKCR and was assigned to do the halftime newscast at the Columbia-Princeton basketball game. For some reason, I could not do the newscast from the WKCR studios in...

Columbia College 1965

Advice to My Columbia-Bound Self Reconsider the nose ring. You’ll like it for a few years, but in the end your mother will be proven right. Break up with him. He’s a nice boy, but you two have practically nothing...

Columbia College 1999

FBeeOtch 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...

Columbia College 1999

James Farmer and the Cable Guy In senior year I arranged for James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), to speak at Columbia. I reserved a large corner room in Hamilton Hall, infomed “Spectator” and WKCR, and...

Columbia College 1963

My Roommate? What Roommate? My first semster living in a Columbia dorm was also the first time I’d ever had to share a room (other than bunking with my older brother at home as a kid). Naturally, before arriving on...

Columbia College 1969

Something New for Astronomy Class My defining moment at Columbia involves neither my arrival on campus nor meeting a Barnard co-ed. In fact, I was not even on campus when it started, but home eating dinner when a reporter on...

Columbia College 1960

Stretch & Bobbito Moving from my hometown, Wheeling, West Virginia, to Manhattan to attend Columbia was an eye-opener in innumerable ways. But more than anything, it was the music that made me glad I had made the journey. During my...

Columbia College 1998

The Chopped Liver Malted When WKCR was located in Hamilton Hall Annex in the 1950s, there was a coffee shop across Amsterdam Avenue called Columbia Chemists. Every afternoon, the WKCR regulars would repair there for a cup of coffee and...

Columbia College 1959, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1961

Where to Hang Out I had three hangs-outs during my time at Columbia. My favorite was WKCR’s lounge, as my Barnard girlfriend did a classical music show there, and I could count on her showing up a lot of the...

Columbia College 1960