Macalester’s on-campus radio station, WMCN, welcomed three new and eager managers this fall. Over the years, WMCN has been a place for students to express their creativity on air and to gather and meet with students with similar interests. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station effectively shut down for a year, not allowing students to DJ or host community events in-person. Student radio shows returned in the fall of 2021.
WMCN’s three new co-managers, Sarah Gregor ’23, Ozzy Osborne ’24 and Zoë Chinander-McFaul ’24, have been discussing their goals and the new directions they hope to take the station this school year. One of the biggest goals they have for the radio is that the station will become a community space for students to gather and make friends.
Osborne expressed the sense of inaccessibility they felt last year towards the station.
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