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WMHB BERRIGAN COM ING —Margaret Saunders 70 COLBY WMHB, 91.5 FM, will be revising its format in the next couole of weeks. The station is also planning on a The Student Association Cultural Life Committee, particularly for radio complete transfer to new quarters designed the Newman Club operation , to be completed by Septem ber. , and the New World Coalition are pleased Andy Dcininger, Manager of WMHB, explains "We're to announce the visit of Father Daniel Berrigan on Monday, really more of a business than a student organization, with March 8. A Jesuit priest, poet, and long-time illustration of nity as well as responsibilities to the Waterville commu the art of civil disobedience the Colby community. So the station is run as close to a com- , Father Berrigan was recently mercial level as possible right now." But he adds, "We released from a Washington_D.C. jail for the crime of cele- are given $7,200 by the STU-A each year to pay our ex- brating the advent of the bicentennial year by helping to penses. In a sense, the students are our sponsors, and our dig a grave in front of the White House. He will speak primary responsibility is to them." on WMHB released a survey about three weeks ago in "The Violent Bicentennial and the Non-Violent Citizen" order to determine what kind of music students like to at 8:30 in Lorimer Chapel . listen to at which times. The results of the survey will be Father Berrigan became notorious for a variety of tabulated and discussed at the next meeting of the May- flower Hill Broadcasting Association, the non-profit corporation Vietnain War protest, which included marches on the capi- that runs WMHB., Andy believes this survey "will show us tal, fasts, sit-ins, and culminated in the burning of over the campus; we will what kind of variety in interests we have on 600 draft files in Catonsville, Maryland in 1967.
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