Bylaws

Article 1: KTRU officers

1. The Board of directors shall consist of the station manager (1), the program director (1), music directors (2), DJ directors (2), publicity director(s) (1-2), promotions director (1), operations manager (1), folio director (1), social director (1), PSA director (1), special events director (1) and small concerts director(s) (1-2). The number of votes given are in parenthesis. Depending on the number of officers in a given year, the size of the board of directors will vary, but any one individual will get a maximum of one vote, even if they should hold concurrent offices.

2. The Board of Directors shall be current students enrolled at Rice during the duration of their term of office.

3. All student directors mentioned in clause 1 of the above must agree to hold a KTRU shift, at least in the fall and spring semesters, during their tenure.

Article 2: Hiring

1. In hiring, preference is given to undergraduate students over graduate students.

2. In those cases where there exists a sufficient number of qualified student applicants as determined by the DJ directors, no student DJ applicant (undergraduate or graduate) should be passed over for the hiring of a community member. A community member defined as alumnus, faculty or staff member of Rice University, or other persons not affiliated with the university,

3. Should the case arise where openings for community members exist, the following hiring hierarchy will be followed assuming equally qualified candidates:

1. KTRU/Rice alumni

2. Rice alumni

3. Rice University faculty/staff

4. Non-university affiliated persons

1. Qualified DJ applicants passed over in hiring by students as a result of the above, may still be hired as DJs as part of the KTRU sub-list, or as other non-DJ positions, at the DJ Directors' discretion.

Article 3: Shift Assignment

1. The goal is to have student involvement in programming of every show.

2. Should there exist more qualified student DJs than open DJ positions, DJs must be at minimum willing to either concurrently share their shift in the form of a DJ partnership or agree to an alternating schedule.

3. If there is an excess of student DJs, community member DJs must be willing to forego holding a general shift during the period of great student interest.

4. Priority in general shift assignment will be based on a combination of seniority and student status. Liabilities for prime shifts include missing shifts, arriving late, not reviewing the required number of CDs, warnings from music department (e.g. not a diverse enough shift), and other factors the DJ directors will take into account, such as involvement in station activities.

5. Specialty Show DJs should make an effort to include all interested DJs in the programming of shows.

6. Specialty Show DJs should have two semesters experience as a general shift DJ before assuming the responsibility of a Specialty Show DJ. Exceptions to this rule can be made if approval is granted by both DJ directors and the Station manager.

Article 4: Programming policy

1. All on-air programming decisions resulting in the addition or deletion or changing format of specialty shows, athletics events, etc. must be approved by Program Director and approved by the Station Manager, with the consultation of the student station management.

2. Should requested programming changes, as outlined above, be turned down by the student station management, they may be appealed to the KTRU Friendly Committee (KFC), who may vote to implement changes as outlined by the decision-making guidelines of the body.

3. All programming decisions with respect to the scheduling of specialty shows shall be determined by the program director, approved by the station manager, and be within the tolerances (if any) set by the KFC.

4. Specialty show programming can occupy no more than 55 hours a week of KTRU programming. The remainder must remain as general shifts.

5. Designated time slots should not be interrupted by "unanchored" events/broadcasts more than 4 times in a 12 week period unless the consent of the DJ(s) whose show is being interrupted is given to exceed that number. "Unanchored events" are defined as those events for which there is no consistent time for when they occur (e.g. athletics events) or those events which are singular in occurrence (e.g. concerts, lectures, interviews, etc.).

Article 5: DJ manual

DJ behavior is outlined in the current edition of the DJ manual. The editing of the DJ manual is overseen by the DJ directors.

Article 6: Amendments

These bylaws may be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Board of Directors.