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Volume 6 | Issue 5 Friday 27 January 2012 thefounder.co.uk
the independent student newspaper of royal holloway, university of london
Insanity
Occupy RHUL
Conflicting accounts emerge over Insanity Radio’s intentions to go FM, an application process with years of work behind it. Jessica Phillipson News Editor It has been alleged that, on Monday 9th January, the Insanity Board passed a motion deciding that they were not going to pursue their FM licence, citing a lack of support from both the college and the SU in completing the application. Ofcom becoming much more stringent and opening up Insanity to fines was thought to be the primary reason for the decision. Monday’s regular Board Meeting had the issue of the FM licence put on the agenda and, following a four hour discussion, a vote was taken
‘‘ ’’ “Citing a lack of support from both the college and the SU in completing the application... Ofcom becoming much more stringent and opening up Insanity to fines was thought to be the primary reason for the decision.”
David Bowman Editor From Wednesday the 30th of November to Thursday the 8th of December a group of Royal Holloway students occupied the corridor containing the offices of the senior management team including that of the Principal, Paul Layzell. The occupation was primarily a protest against the governments white paper on education along with demanding that the Principal agreed to ‘The Principals Pledge’, a list of demands including guarantees that there would be no cuts to courses and student services. However the protest wasn’t as simple as that. What began as an occupation with permission given by the college management ended with threats of taking an injunction out against the protesters at the high court, which would have made all political protests on campus unlawful for an entire year. Something that would have oppressed a legitimate cause on campus and would have done irreparable damage to the reputation of the college. The legal costs associated with the occupation came to £13,000.
and the Board voted not to take the FM licence further. At the following General Meeting on Tuesday, the Station Manager, Gunanika Singh, formally resigned, making David Lamb the new Manager. However, Insanity have denied that there was a definite ‘no’ vote regarding the FM licence, stating: “Insanity Radio would like to make it perfectly clear that it fully intends to continue pursuing its FM licence... Discussions regarding Insanity’s efforts to become Community FM station were raised in the Production Board meeting of Monday 9th January 2012, however, despite rumours to the contrary, no final decision not to move onto FM was made at that time...It was suggested in the General Meeting that the Production Board had voted on a final decision to surrender its Community FM licence. This was not, and is not, the case. We would like to reassure all concerned that Insanity intends to continue working towards Community FM and is looking forward to moving to our new frequency of Insanity Radio: Plan B? 103.2FM in the very near future.”
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