And WHRB provides notable opportunities for itsmembers.

While students running the Emerson Collegeradio station, WERS-FM (88.9), recently faced astation coup as college administrators began toreplace their home-grown programming withprofessional deejays, WHRB is by-and-large studentcontrolled.

"Harvard radio is far more about undergraduatesthan many places," Vasan says. "Many collegesdon't have radio stations; many don't havestudents running their radio station's management;many don't have students doing the station's air;some are unashamedly commercial."

Part of the station's explicit mission is toeducate its staff in broadcasting. So while notevery Harvard student will like what WHRBplays--and will choose not to comp thestation--those who do get an education whilespinning the tunes they love.

Appel takes his job seriously--spending sixhours every week just selecting the music he willplay during his broadcast.

"Ever since I was 14, I have been interested inpunk music," Appel says. "And now I can share themusic with a lot of like-minded obsessives."

--Roberto Bailey, Robert L. Chan, AdamChristian, Vasugi Ganeshananthan, Peter D.Henninger, Jonelle M. Lonergan, Meredith B.Osborn, Suzanne Pomey, Tova A. Serkin, Jared B.Shirck, Robert K. Silverman and Adam C. Weisscontributed to the reporting of this story.