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WLHA was the student run carrier current radio station serving the Lakeshore Halls area. The Badger Herald published this excellent and accurate history of the station back in 2002:
Dating back at least to World War II, the UW campus has never had a truly campus-wide station — though not from lack of effort.
The first attempt at creating a radio station on campus was made March 29, 1952, in the basement of Gilman Hall, which was then one of the Lakeshore-area UW residence halls. Engineering major Charles Bartelt began the first broadcast of a radio station, dubbed WMHA.
The acronym “MHA” stood for Men’s Halls Association, which was the governing body for the Lakeshore halls at the time.