Lafayette College’s radio station WJRH returned this semester after an 18-month hiatus. The station hosts a variety of student-run shows, covering everything from dad rock to friendship. Here are a few of the shows students can tune in to during the spring semester:
Off The Record
“It’s such a fun way to just think about what you’re feeling,” Jolie Saint Vil ‘27 said about running a radio show. “If you have your friends on, they can help you figure it out.”
Saint Vil’s show, Off The Record, plays on Fridays at 7 p.m.
Saint Vil said her show includes “music, information, a little bit about myself, a little bit about the artists.”
Astral Projection
Aster Rollo ‘26 hosts a show called Astral Projection at 9 p.m. on Thursday. Rollo said his show is not spiritual or about astral projection. Instead, the title serves as a pun on his first name.
“I get to just talk into the void,” he said. Rollo said he talks with his friends on air, shares his experiences from the week and plays music.
“It’s a way for me to keep in touch with people back home as well because you can send out the link to listen to the radio show, so I send it to my dad and my cousins,” Rollo said.
Rollo said WJRH’s new system works within a catalog in the program. He said that radio show hosts can play music from this catalog or bring in their own CDs and records to play in the studio.
“I usually just use the program and so I end up playing a lot of dad rock,” he said.
Rollo started hosting his show during his freshman year but had to stop when the system broke.
“WJRH has been working incredibly hard the past two years getting it up and running,” he said.
Eva Kills
Eva Donato ‘26, who has been on the WJRH board since she was a freshman, also runs her own radio show. Eva Kills plays on Mondays at 8 p.m.
“My radio show is not menacing and scary,” she said. “It’s a very calm, gentle place to be, so I liked that juxtaposition.”
“It used to be really just music,” Donato said her show. “But I’ve started having my friends on it and we just have conversations on air about being young and confused and everything.”
Donato encouraged Lafayette students to start a WJRH show.
“It’s a really therapeutic way to kind of hang out with yourself,” she said. “I hope everyone knows that we put a lot of work into the studio and we’re really, really excited for WJRH to just get bigger and bigger again.”
