Caption this photo contest! First winners….
3rd place:
Ed Munn Sanchez: I don’t know… I don’t think jet fuel can do that.
2nd place:
Dan Gerth: I didn’t know UMSL had Jewish friends who would let us borrow their space laser! Can I borrow it too?
1st place:
Reggie Hill: Finally, we are doing something to make our Palestinian and Ukrainian students feel at home!
Again, this is a real contest! Each issue, Brain Stew will pick a choice photo from UMSL DAILY for your consideration! Submit your captions to umsbrainstew@umsl.edu. If your caption is chosen, you will win a gift card! Be sure to tell us if someone is supposed to be saying your caption. Example is above! (Note: Dan actually said his quote, but that is not required for the contest).
RIP SSB Tower
Good day UMSL Community member,
My name is Remy Xa. I am a Junior at UMSL studying Communication. I transferred here last Fall from St. Louis Community College – Meramec after failing multiple times in my academic journey leading up to this point. For the past three semesters, I have fulfilled the responsibilities of many necessary positions at our campus radio station, UMSL Radio, including PSA Director, Treasurer, Station Manager, and General Manager. I have fulfilled these roles, sometimes without credit, because I have always felt strongly about UMSL Radio’s mission in helping students gain meaningful hands-on broadcast experience. UMSL Radio has helped me, and each of our other DJs, share our creative passions, connect with our community members, and find our voices.
On Thursday, October 10th, at UMSL Radio's most recent executive board meeting, I presented to UMSL Radio's General Manager, Thaddaeus, a petition of 53 (now 97) respondents, including UMSL staff, faculty, current and former DJs, past executive board members, alumni, and listeners, voicing their opposition to the proposal to integrate AI-generated content. This occurred because Thaddaeus would not listen to feedback from his fellow executive board members to deny the proposal which threatened the mission of our station, and these 53 initial signatures were collected in about 24 hours.
Unfortunately, the conversation did not end as I had hoped. When I called for a vote for our executive board of 3 people to approve or deny the presence of machinegenerated products at UMSL Radio, Thaddaeus instead made a unilateral decision to go forward with entertaining the proposal from the professor of the College of Business Administration's and "hearing out" what he's got to bring (implementing fully machine-generated voiced and scripted PSAs and podcasts). Thaddaeus also made this decision without consulting any of our other radio stakeholders: our DJs and listeners.
For the health and integrity of the station, I have made the decision to resign in protest from my position as Treasurer of UMSL Radio until the station creates a formal policy denouncing and forbidding the use of generative AI products at our student-run learning organization. Consequently, UMSL Radio no longer has both the President and Treasurer to be considered a student organization in good standing and receive Student Activities Budgeting Committee funding. I walk away full well knowing the many, many, hours of unpaid time and work I have dedicated volunteering for the mission of this
station and in ensuring its continuation since Fall 2023, as well as the vast implications my action has for its future.
This issue goes beyond one professor’s proposal; this is a question of value and policy which needs to be addressed immediately and concluded with a statement from UMSL Radio which declares that UMSL Radio in no way endorses or allows AIgenerated content.
The key players at UMSL Radio are our advisor Dorian Hall (halldc@umsl.edu), Director of the Millennium Student Center and a former UMSL Radio DJ, and Thaddaeus Morgan (tjmg8g@umsl.edu), a student of Communication at our College of Communication and Media and the current General Manager of UMSL Radio.
If this situation displeases you, then let Dorian and Thaddaeus know where you stand as an individual affected by this. If you question the mission of radio station or its leadership because of this news, UMSL Radio's advisor and general manager should know this.
Linked below is the petition I co-wrote alongside other UMSL Radio DJs and community members. If you have not already considered and shared this petition, I ask you please do so now. Please also consider forwarding this message to anyone you believe may believe to be a stakeholder in the future of our radio station, and to those who feel strongly regarding the displacement of student experiences and voices through machine-generated and scripted content at our university-sponsored campus organization.
https://forms.office.com/r/Hs6AvYcEmv
Please let me know if I might add any additional context or information about the organizational crisis UMSL Radio is currently facing. Thank you again for your consideration.
Best, Remy Xa
Lust:
The following pictures represent the idea of lust
Feet under the blanket Barking at nothing in the dark
UMSL Goose Poop
I don’t mean to be a bother, but does anyone have any good ideas for cleaning an office chair? I don’t know this Cullen person I hear about, but his chair needs some cleaning.
Kim Baldus,
associate dean
God, that’s so gross. When I moved into my office in 2020, the chair in there looked exactly like that. I tried everything. Just burn it.
Ed Munn Sanchez,
dean
God, that’s so gross. When I moved into my office in 2018, the chair in there looked exactly like that. I tried everything. Just burn it.
Nancy Gleason, ghost emerita
God, that’s so gross. When I moved into my office in 2014, the chair in there looked exactly like that. I tried everything. Just burn it. Also, why have you disturbed my slumber?
Ha ha fucking ha. Hardy fucking har. You guys are hilarious. Not! I did not poop on any office chair before I moved out. I’ve had the same chair since 2005, and I bought the damn thing myself because it’s the only kind that doesn’t aggravate my sciatica. Screw you, Kenny Miller! I don’t think it’s funny, and I’m going to file a complaint against you for forcing me to announce my medical history to stop people from thinking I poop chairs. Can’t you just make harmless jokes, like stupid stuff about me getting p----d by my cat or something? And you leave Nancy alone, damnit!
That’s right. I poop on chairs.
YOU HAVE BEEN READING BRAIN STEW
What the hell did I just read? “Brain Stew's mission is to provide for the Pierre Laclede Honors College student body a forum for uncensorED* free thought, commentary, and creativity, as well as news and event listings from PLHCSA and other related campus organizations,” yak yak yak! We publish A LOT OF THINGS. Like, things that make Ed regret ever taking a job at the Honors College!
We’ve been publishing since 1991 (or 1993). Longer than Dan’s car has been running, somehow. We must be doing a good job though. Despite our best efforts, grown-ups keep giving us awards stuff like Best Sustained Program in 2012 and 2017, and Best Cultural Awareness Program in 2018. Even some shady committee called the “National Collegiate Honors Council” gave us awards in 2017, 2018, and Program of the Year in 2020.
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