WBJU-FM to air "Dusting for Prints" while students clean
It’s the classic whodunit. The scene: the residence hall room. The crime: failing White Glove. The culprit: dust!
To help pass the time while students clean their rooms, WBJU-FM will air its White Glove broadcast, “Dusting for Prints,” Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 104.5 FM.
Students will be able to participate in a campus-wide game of Clue, play mystery games with the roving reporters in each residence hall and request to hear mysterious-sounding or movie-themed music, according to WBJU-FM Manager and Program Director Mr. Jonny Gamet.
Mr. Gamet compared the WBJU version of campus-wide Clue to the traditional board game. “In the game Clue, [you] say, ‘Mrs. White, in the library, with the candlestick,’” he said. “We’ll say something to the effect of, ‘I’m looking for Josh Kaighen, with a baseball bat, in Graves.’”
To win a prize, a student needs to take a picture of the mentioned item or person and e-mail the picture to WBJU.
And Mr. Gamet said there are plenty of prizes. “We have a lot of coupons for food, which is good. We have a lot of pizza and Sonic coupons to give away—basically any fast food you can think of,” he said. “We’ve told our reporters to give out all those coupons.”
Other prizes include baseball tickets for the spring season of the Greenville Drive.
A big difference from last year’s White Glove broadcast is the way in which students can interact with the WBJU studios during games and contests.
“We’re going to have a lot of interaction with e-mail. We used to have, in previous years, a lot of run-in contests,” Mr. Gamet said. “I know we had a lot of response from the girls’ side, but we’d usually get one guy. So we’re going to try to do a lot more interaction through e-mail and phone calls.”
Both the phone number and e-mail address will be announced during the broadcast.
“It’s brand new and something we’ve come out with in the last year,” Mr. Gamet said. “It’s a great opportunity to listen to your favorite shows on the website. Plus we [have] a weekly prize drawing for everyone who’s registered on the site.”
Ultimately, WBJU-FM’s “Dusting for Prints” broadcast is to lift students’ spirits as they clean on White Glove. “If we can through music, contests, and our announcers joking on the air make the students have a little better day while cleaning, then we’ve succeeded in what we’re doing,” Mr. Gamet said.
