Georgia State University's radio station, WRAS Album 88, is known for helping propel Radiohead and R.E.M. to stardom. It was the first radio station to play Outkast, and The Boomtown Rats wrote the song "I Don't Like Mondays" in its offices. Some students say the radio station is the reason they applied to GSU.

Since June, however, the station has undergone an overhaul: Instead of cutting-edge music, it now airs local- and national-news programs 14 hours a day, including during the peak daytime hours.

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