Save The Metal Zone

  • by: TheMetalZone
  • recipient: Claire Brucker, Terry Siggers, Paul Wright
Against all sense and common decency, Dave the Metal Guy, 16 year veteran DJ of the 27 year old Metal Zone, was fired from WVUA by a 19 year old "station manager," a girl with no musical or industry education and no ties to the community. She wants to homogenize WVUA with the station she listens to in her home town in Georgia and has been targeting Dave since day one. She found a spurious excuse in a comment on The Metal Zone's Facebook and has drummed it into a hanging. The faculty adviser has decided that the whims of a temporary "manager" are worth more than what Dave The Metal Guy means to this community and the WVUA experience. And this is all being done over Christmas break, to keep things quiet. That's right, they took away his show on Christmas.
 It is up to us to show them that we will not be bleached out and we will not sit quietly by while one of our own is persecuted. We must either change Terry Siggers' mind or convince those above his head to see reason. The Board of Directors needs to understand that The Metal Zone represents a sense of history and identity - we should be proud that this show has the history and carries the weight it does. Without the Zone, what possible accolades does the station have? And what about our rights to free speech? Help save the Metal Zone! Please help us to show them what The Metal Zone means to Music, Tuscaloosa, the University, and YOU!
We the undersigned wish to illustrate that The Metal Zone represents a sense of history, tradition, and identity for Tuscaloosa and the Univeristy of Alabama. We should be proud that this show has the history and carries the weight it does. Dave "the Metal Guy" Standifer is the most dedicated DJ ever to enter the booth. Students, both DJ and staff, have been relying on his wealth of experience, knowledge, patience, and reliability since 1993. He has touched the lives and influenced the careers of nearly three decades of UA students. Many UA graduates can chart the course of their lives from the day they met Dave the Metal Guy. The Metal Zone is an institution. He makes WVUA special. Please reverse Claire Brucker's bid to make a name for herself by targeting WVUA's most notable DJ. The airwaves would be so very, very much the poorer for his loss. Please keep Dave The Metal Guy in the Zone.
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