So here's a fun little tidbit from our campus radio station, WUOG:
"Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, folks, but WUOG is temporarily off the air from 7am-4pm Monday through Friday due to some mad interference with some experiments going on in the UGA Chemistry Department."
I don't know all the details, but apparently these pinheads (and yes, I think the derogatory term is justified in this case) are doing some kind of experiment that involves radio waves, and WUOG is interfering with them. So rather than suck it up and deal with the fact that they didn't do their due diligence and check on where the two campus radio stations broadcast from and how strong their signals are, they instead have made the problem WUOG's until they can get the shielding for their equipment they should have purchased in the first place. Good job, guys. It's people like you that give academics a reputation for being self-absorbed prima donnas.
UPDATE: Learned a little more about this today. Apparently the experiment in question has been running for about five years, and the problem only cropped up recently. There haven't been any changes at the radio station, but something as mundane as a file cabinet getting moved anywhere between the tower and the experiment could have caused the interference to suddenly appear. So scrap the due diligence crack, but I still think the faculty overstepped their bounds by asking for the radio station to shut down.
Posted by Jason at June 27, 2006 10:14 PM