At Loyola Marymount’s KXLU, College Radio Keeps Its Cool - The New York Times

Against the odds, campus broadcasts remain a space of discovery, for students and listeners alike. Especially at KXLU in Los Angeles. Against the odds, campus broadcasts remain a space of discovery, for students and listeners alike. Especially at KXLU in Los Angeles. Carmela Michaeli is the music director at KXLU, a popular college radio state at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Credit... Supported by By Nathan Deuel Photographs by Adali Schell On an early morning, outside the student center at Loyola Marymount University, gardeners trim bushes around the “sunken garden,” which — this being Los Angeles — is actually a massive and manicured green lawn. It’s too early for most students, but Elias Herrera, a slim marketing major in a black T-shirt, chunky glasses, and bluejeans, is browsing the Latin jazz and salsa CDs in the sprawling collection at KXLU, an unlikely powerhouse of college radio. Some call it the very best in the nation. It’s approaching 9 a.m., and Mr. Herrera,

Against the odds, campus broadcasts remain a space of discovery, for students and listeners alike. Especially at KXLU in Los Angeles. Against the odds, campus broadcasts remain a space of discovery, for students and listeners alike. Especially at KXLU in Los Angeles. Carmela Michaeli is the music director at KXLU, a popular college radio state at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Credit... Supported by By Nathan Deuel Photographs by Adali Schell On an early morning, outside the student center at Loyola Marymount University, gardeners trim bushes around the “sunken garden,” which — th