An AP Scholar, City Election Fodder and College Radio Needs Dollars

Happy Tuesday, Rockville.

The Rockville City Council went until about 12:30 this morning. My brain is a sieve. Creativity is lacking.

It's one of those "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning" days.

Here's today's "Cowboy Junkies" edition of "The Rundown":

• It was another night at the City Council with another Rockville-area student making me feel dumb (relatively speaking—some days that's not tough to do). On Monday, it was Alexander Zhu, a senior at who was recognized for being named in February as one of two Maryland state recipients of the 2010 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement. The award recognizes America's top achievers in Advanced Placement courses in science and math. Winners receive a $2,000 scholarship. This year, 98 high school students in 50 states were recognized. Zhu plans to study biophysics and engineering in college and plans to be a doctor or engineer.
• "Tour de RM" continues on Thursday as county school planners travel to the  for a 7 p.m. meeting to discuss whether the site could become home to a new elementary school. The school would be built with the aim of relieving overcrowding in the Richard Montgomery cluster. The meeting is part of a cluster-wide study that is .
• Consider this the call to the post for this year's city election. Prospective candidates can pick up election information packets at beginning on Friday. Election Day is Nov. 8.
• And now a word from . 
  A campaign is on to #saveWMUC (as the kids say on "the Twitter"). WMUC is the student station at the University of Maryland, College Park. Noteworthy alums include former Rockville Patch sports editor , who is spending this spring as the No. 2 man on radio broadcasts for the Lynchburg Hillcats in baseball's Carolina League.
  Media folks love writing about media. (Yes, I realize how "meta" that makes this post.) Much has been written in the past week since the university's Student Government Association cut funding for the station, which operates on funding from the SGA and through donations. 
  Oster reports that an SGA committee held an emergency session on Friday and restored $6,000 to the station. "Which is a step in the right direction, though it's still less than 50 percent of what they need," he wrote in an email.
  (I'm sorry, but when I hear about misfit broadcast stations and their funding fights—and let's be clear, most college stations have a bit of a "misfit" element to them—I can't help but think of the "Weird Al" Yankovic cult classic "UHF.")
  College radio is an important training ground for young broadcasters and I believe that even in this iTunes age it can play an important role in the fabric of campus life. If you agree, you can learn more about helping WMUC stay on the air by following wmucsports.com to the WMUC Support Fund site.
• Though we still enjoy "Fireside Chats," we're also into new forms of social media. "Like" Rockville Patch on Facebook. Follow us @RockvillePatch on Twitter.