Student affairs blog finally posts support of self-operating option

Posted by Save the Cactus Cafe on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 11:26am
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Although the vague, incomplete and misnamed “KUT plan” (actually the “SEC bifurcated plan”) appeared on the “Cactus Comments” blog almost two weeks ago, it took over a week after submission before the Student Friends of the Cactus Cafe’s “Support for the Self-Operating Cactus Option” was published there. The blog, managed by the Office of Student affairs, shows a false dateline on the blog entry, which was actually published only yesterday, May 5.

Please support these students, whose efforts are aligned with the undergraduate and graduate student government and the many councils by adding your comments of support there.

If you left comments on the UT blog and don’t see them there immediately, please post them here, too.

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 7:17am.

I just submitted this to the Cactus Cafe blog.

- Wiley

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The Cactus Cafe's closure announcement was attributed to monetary issues and the need for greater student involvement.

The Self-Operating model builds on the current Cactus Cafe, which has garnered world-wide praise with its programming. The plan creates revenue-generating channels, increases student involvement through internships, *and* retains the 10-15 student jobs that current exist there. The plan also brings KUT into the mix by utilizing the station's strengths of broadcasting and artist relations.

The "KUT Plan" starts from scratch--getting rid of the staff & student employees who've made it what it is today. It then replaces them with a currently undefined (at least publicly) combination of management by a yet-unknown KUT employee, some combination of SEC students and music business interns, and a still yet-to-be-named entity to run cafe & bar operations (which is also still not yet known to be legally feasible).

I hope that a decision is made that is based on current successes, adding to them ingenuity that will make the Cactus Cafe even more successful. It would be a shame to "throw the baby out with the bath water" and start from scratch, attempting to run the Cactus with management consisting of 3rd party vendors, students, and a radio station--none of whom have any experience running a successful listening room.