Here's the core group of WEGL, circa 1995-1996. Very popular at the time was the legal ID, borrowed from Star Wars, that this was a hive of scum and villainy, but don't buy it, or the scary looks.

These were fun, nice, talented people who enjoyed poking at the edges of a conservative campus a little bit. Very popular, for example, were Naked Week, when the studios were plastered over and jocks were encouraged -- but not required -- to broadcast in flagrante, but never delicto. In fact, that was rule number three: No delicto in the studio. If it had been worded like that it would have been that much more respected a rule. Naked Week, by the way, was a feature in which your humble correspondent never participated.

We disliked bands the nanosecond they got popular. Generally we were unleashing them on the world if they were received well with our radio play. There are a few key magazines that receive airplay reports and ours was one of the few that reported to both of them. So, on behalf of the assorted people at the station you have my apologies for putting Kid Rock into the popular culture. You've no idea how sorry I am about that.

The walls were covered with music. The right hand side full of albums, including some of the early releases of the most important music of our times. The back wall was wallpapers with CDs. There's an interview booth in the background of this photograph and off to the working DJ's left there were two productions studios. It was one of the best outfitted college radio stations around. And we were all proud that we didn't take it too seriously. That was kind of the point.

The station had carts here, but went to computers during my tenure. Now its all digital. After the station moved next door in 2008 it became the production studio's board.

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