2008 Woodie Awards
Returning student says voice silenced at KSYM
Radio-television-film faculty decline to comment on student because of grievance.
By Regis L. Roberts
Issue date: 4/18/08 Section: News
Originally published: 4/17/08 at 3:18 PM CSTLast update: 5/16/08 at 9:33 PM CST
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Now, he is not so sure he can achieve a radio career after a series of events starting with attendance problems caused by a bad hip.
He is moving forward with a grievance he filed against the radio-television-film department, but feels he is getting nowhere.
The problems in the department and at KSYM are "systemic," he said, and his case is not an isolated incident of unfair treatment of students.
"We're older guys trying to get new careers," he said.
He also said the problems students have had with the department may have gotten his friend in trouble with the district's department of public safety.
Price, 48, talks slowly and clearly with a deep, booming voice.
He received many compliments about his voice and decided to give radio a shot.
He described his voice on his Voice 123 profile, a Web site that dubs itself the voice marketplace," as being "warm and deep for narrations, sexy and fun for commercials, smooth and professional for presentations and strong for those commercials that are serious or provocative in nature.
Price also served as a radio operator when he was in the Army.
He came back to school a year ago after leaving a career in human resources to study in the RTF department.
His previous education at this college included being involved in what he called a "hell-raising" student government starting in 1993, when he attained the position of vice president.
Price said student government did a lot in those days with the full support of Dr. Robert Zeigler, then vice president of the college, with whom he had a friendly relationship.
After coming back to this college, Price needed to reflect on those times to give him strength.
He said his main problem was that Mark Watson, his COMM 2303, Audio/Radio Production, instructor, was not treating him and other students fairly.
Watson, Price said, treated students like they were high school kids.
Watson also did not give Price any leeway on attendance, Price said, despite his disability after his right hip was replaced.
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JIm Boyle
posted 4/18/08 @ 12:40 PM CST
Excellent article!! The administration at all levels uses the "smoke screen," about not being able to comment because of a grievance that seems to have been going on for upwards of one year. (Continued…)
praecrag
posted 4/18/08 @ 1:43 PM CST
So Mr. Price is a great worker only if he gets a 7-8AM time slot and plenty of parking?
My classes are at inconvenient times and there is never parking. (Continued…)
David O'Rourke
posted 4/18/08 @ 4:26 PM CST
How ironic to have this article posted in the last issue of the Ranger so that no other side of the story can be explained in a future issue.
First and foremost, I empathize with Price's disability. (Continued…)
JIm Boyle
posted 4/18/08 @ 6:58 PM CST
Well, well!! Another uniformed new student. John Evers knows how much I love him. The time he witnessed me being abrupt with John, I was on a deadline to get cmj reporting done, and I had to cut John off, but you can verify with him that I later apologized. (Continued…)
bordn12
posted 4/19/08 @ 12:21 PM CST
jimmy boyle should don his own flame retardant uniform if he wants to keep pumping gasoline onto his own fire, and should also provide a can of pesticide if he's willing to open "the can of worms". (Continued…)
Brian Zavala
posted 4/19/08 @ 5:10 PM CST
What a sad, sad man with nothing to do but complain!
Is this what retirement entails? If so, I plan to work for a really long time!! He's like a "Boyle" on our butts that we can't get rid of. (Continued…)
JIm Boyle
posted 4/19/08 @ 8:07 PM CST
Yes, but at least I am man enough to put my real name on my postings. Before you retire, you actually have to do some real work for a living.
jim boyle
posted 4/19/08 @ 8:12 PM CST
BTW, this will be my last posting, because you don't deserve to be in our company! You would rather act like children instead of mature "college" students, who choose to take a serious situation, and turn it into personal attacks. (Continued…)
noneya
posted 4/20/08 @ 8:04 PM CST
Oh scoop....you are nothing but a bitter old man who is upset that after you,who quit 3 times and always came back due to the lack of anything else going for you in your life, could not come back because KSYM finally put their foot down and said no, we don't want you to come back! You were very unprofessional in your treatment towards students. (Continued…)
The Fly on the Wall...
posted 4/21/08 @ 3:33 PM CST
Dearest Citizens,
It seems that when people "in general" do the wrong thing and mis-treat others, there is always an antagonist or an un-empathetic and non-understanding individual. (Continued…)
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