Posted on 06/11/2004 10:14:03 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A college disc jockey who was initially fired after devoting a radio show to celebrating the death of Ronald Reagan will be reassigned to another job until he can respond to complaints about his actions, officials said Friday.
Scott Hornyak, a 28-year-old undergraduate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was told Friday that he was fired from his paid position as business manager at KSUA-FM, a student-run station.
A university spokeswoman later said the firing was premature and the decision was rescinded until Hornyak had a chance to respond to complaints about the Sunday show.
"The university process wasn't followed properly," Debra Damron said. She said Hornyak will be temporarily reassigned to another job.
Hornyak had earlier been suspended indefinitely from his other job as disc jockey. He said Friday night he will appeal any reassignment or termination.
"They're firing me because of what I said, and the public's reaction to what I said," said Hornyak, who goes by the call name "Spider Bui."
H.B. Telling, the station's general manager, said he could not comment on whether Hornyak was fired because of the broadcast. The university has a policy against discussing personnel issues.
No tape of the show was available. But according to Hornyak, he berated Reagan, who died June 5, for his foreign policy in Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan, and for his response to the AIDS epidemic.
Hornyak said the show was "a celebration that Ronald Reagan was dead, was finally dead," and that he told listeners he wanted to "walk over the newly laid dirt" on Reagan's grave.
Telling said the station received numerous complaints about the show.
Telling said Hornyak was suspended as a disc jockey solely because of his failure to obey the station's rules, not because of the inflammatory content of the show.
He said Hornyak did not fill out a log of the songs he played on air and did not play the station's standard disclaimers announcing that his views did not represent those of the station or the university.
Hornyak said he did not fill out the logs due to absent-mindedness and that he did not play the disclaimer because he was busy taking song requests.
KSUA, like the campus newspaper, is supported by student activity fees and allocated by the campus student government. It is considered independent, Damron said.
"Perhaps the lefties are learning that the First Amendment may protect freedom of speech, but it doesn't gaurantee job security."
It's known that the lefties in Hollywood black ball any republican in the arts field. If you don't think so just ask any republican, remember to be hush hush about it. Lefties are the biggest reverse bigots. Hypocrite elite
The thing with UAF, is that there are a whole but-load of weirdo's going to school there. Alska is primarily republican, but we have a lot of free thinking people. The AIP continues to try an succeed from the Union. For some at UAF being a student is their job.
There are a couple of links here that may get you some info about what the freeper did. It seems as though the DUer was posting on company time.
The DU headline for a thread on this story is "Freeper gets DUer Fired"
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