USL Students Vote for Radio Station

ID: 404 ~ Source: "KRVS-FM," Call Number: I 05 B, box 1, file 1, University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, accessed February 15, 2022.

This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern

A flier from the 1960 student election in support of a USL campus radio station that would help in "building up the University school spirit." Note the call sign: KUSL.

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KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern – When College Radio Came to Lafayette

By Lindsey DeLaughter

In 1940, the Fine Arts building of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute (S.L.I.), Burke Hall, had an “ill-equipped radio facility” maintained by various speech departments (1). During this time, KVOL acted almost as a radio station for S.L.I. and…