About 3 weeks after the April 12 sign-on, peacefully protesting students and innocent student bystanders were murdered by troops and police at Kent State University.
The same thing happened at Jackson State University.
Government officials said they deserved to be murdered since they were protesting.
These events completely revitalized student protests.
Suddenly there were thousands (as in over 5,000) in the streets of C’dale and the university; government and police officials thought the protesters should all be shot
as that would be cheaper than jailing them.
Suddenly WIDB had to have a news department, because it didn’t seem right to be playing rock jock hits and jingles when students were being shot, beaten and gassed by police and troops.

After 11 years of student efforts, and over two years of Jerry Chabrian’s relentless campaign for an official student station that was really student run, WIDB signed on from Wright I basement Sunday April 12, 1970 at 1 pm.  There was a crowd at the station.
There had been a publicity build-up for weeks, with posters all over town and campus as well as articles in the Egyptian.  Less than 45 days earlier, the Wright I activity room had been empty.  Now there were walls, windows, air conditioners, equipment and lots of wires.  It had been a tremendous manic effort.  Many who were there such as Tom Scheithe, Howie Karlan, and Charlie Muren are no longer with us.  But the fire that burned within them still burns within us.