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Bless us University of Maine students and these electromagnetic waves which we are about to receive.
Come this evening, WMEB will be sidelining RoboDJ’s jams and giving some play time to a new segment entitled “Looking Around,” a local half-hour radio show similar to the likes of “This American Life,” which voices the stories of people of the nation and world over.
Somewhere in the windy city, Ira Glass should be humbled in his bundles.
Headlined and created by Bourcard “Bhuki” Nesin, a fourth-year sustainable agriculture student, and Amy Becker, a journalism and ecology student, “Looking Around” is set to look at community roots and the tales of the people who tend to them — something our student-run station has long lacked.
“It’s about engaging your local environment and utilizing it,” Nesin explains in a story on page A1.
At long last, 6 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays will bring UMaine a creative fertility to bracket and assuage the inevitable stress that may arise during any given workweek. After all, who doesn’t enjoy the treat of a good story about someone they know?
But “Looking Around” will do more than uplift the moods of UMaine students — it also will attest to an instance of reinvigoration of collegiate ambition.
By simply getting their show on the air, Nesin and Becker are mutineers for radio and this campus, even during the video era, by capitalizing on a resource long left by the wayside, giving it new frequency.
As is often the case, many students are content with their discontents, perfectly willing to talk smack about the UMaine community but not act for betterment upon criticism. The result is a looming aura of pessimism even more overcast than Maine winter weather.
But a select few possess the gumption to take their passion and put it to the test by immersing themselves within the process. Nesin and Becker employed their interest in honing the storytelling scope on local figures via “Looking Around” and, in the same wavelength, were able to raise the heavily condemned medium of college radio to a higher standard.
Ambition marches forward to the beat of a new ear drum for both Becker and Nesin. And such change doesn’t have to be wielded by just the look-about duo — the power lies within every scholar who knows of aggravation or shortcomings and longs for something different.
Who knows — perhaps acting upon your dissatisfaction could land you the spotlight on an upcoming episode of “Looking Around.”
It’s something to look up to.
