The job of any radio station is to broadcast music to its listeners. WEHR-FM is making some noise of its own, but it's not just coming from the station's collection of discs and tapes.

The loudest of those sounds has been a chain of events that has led to the resignations of two WEHR student administrators, General Manager Marisa Kovanis and Sales Manager PollyAnna Gindlesperger, who have left due to personality conflicts with disc jockey The Amazing Nigel, said Russ Rossman, WEHR board of directors member.

"I can't work with a vigilante," said Gindlesperger of Nigel. "Everything I do to try and make this station work he undoes."

Gindlesperger said Nigel assumes responsibilities that he does not have the authority to undertake, such as station promotion and management duties.

Nigel was fired on Feb. 25 for those reasons. After winning an appeal in a board of directors meeting on March 14, Nigel was allowed to return to the station as a DJ only. Kovanis fired him again on March 24 for distributing fliers to promote the return of his Thursday night broadcast. The top of the fliers read, "Yeah, my ass I'm fired!"

Nigel said Kovanis had already resigned as general manager and did not have the authority to fire him the second time.

"I'd been putting all this work into my show, fighting the general manager, sales manager and business manager who want me gone, and then one hour before my performance I'm told, 'You can't do your show,' " Nigel said. "I blew my top and started screaming."

But Rossman said Kovanis was technically still the general manager when she fired Nigel.

"Both Marisa and PollyAnna had given me verbal confirmation of their resignations, but they hadn't given any official notice of their resignations to the board at that time," Rossman said.

Gindlesperger said she will submit her formal resignation later this week. Kovanis officially resigned Monday; she said her resignation stemmed from the board of directors undermining her authority by reinstating Nigel.

"Russ Rossman gave me the authority to fire Nigel and then rehired him one week later," she said. "What does that show the staff? I mean, how does that make me look?"

But the problems at WEHR run deeper than staff conflicts and resignations. Several DJs said they are not satisfied with the way things are run.

"It's in a shambles," said DJ Jeff Schlags (freshman-communications). "It's really hard to get anything done because no one person is in charge."

Schlags' radio partner, Chris Tarantino (freshman-division of undergraduate studies), agreed, noting that management is lacking in areas such as staff relations and professionalism.

Tarantino cited one instance in which a meeting for prospective DJs was advertised in The Daily Collegian but was never held. He said the station failed to get in touch with him after he had been trying to become a DJ since the middle of last semester.

"No one ever returned my calls or helped me out," he said.

But Rossman said the problems have been blown out of proportion.

"The only thing all of this has done is hurt morale," he said.

A board of directors meeting has been set for April 4 in response to these issues.