# BoricuaReceipts Source Packet - UPR Arecibo

Date: 2026-08-14
Series: `Grandes de la UPR: recinto por recinto`
Status: Site source packet for published YouTube Short `BSwU5vjYbSE`.

## Episode Title

`Arecibo: el recinto que le dio voz al norte`

## Source-Safe Angle

UPR Arecibo's receipt is not only that UPR expanded to another regional campus. The source-safe frame is a northern public-university chapter with an official communications/media trail: UPR's official page describes the campus as dedicated to teaching and research in arts, sciences, and technology, while UPRA Web Radio and the Departamento de Comunicacion Tele-Radial document a path through radio, creation, research, dissemination, and community service.

Source-safe thesis:

`UPR Arecibo helped give the north a public-university voice: a 1967 regional UPR chapter with official receipts in teaching, research, arts, sciences, technology, communication, radio, and community service.`

## Source-Backed Receipts

### 1. Universidad de Puerto Rico - UPR Arecibo

URL: `https://www.upr.edu/upr_arecibo/`
Checked: 2026-07-27 / source packet carried into site 2026-08-14

Usable claims:

- Official page identifies `UPR ARECIBO`.
- The page describes the campus as dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge through teaching and research in arts, sciences, and technology.
- The page says the institution promotes interaction with the community through services, professional improvement, and continuing education.
- The page lists `UPRA WEB RADIO` as a topic of interest.

Best use:

- Primary source spine for the campus identity and broader-than-media guardrail.
- Keep `norte` as geographic/storytelling framing, not a formal exclusivity claim.

### 2. UPRA Web Radio - Quienes Somos

URL: `https://upra.edu/uprawebradio/quienes-somos/`
Checked: 2026-07-27 / source packet carried into site 2026-08-14

Usable claims:

- Mission: varied programming with scientific, humanistic, cultural, and artistic themes for the university and adjacent communities.
- Vision: online radio with specialized programs, regional prestige, local consciousness, and universal perspective.
- The page frames UPRA Web Radio as university radio in academic, student, and cultural/public-interest senses.

Best use:

- Main receipt for the `voz` hook.
- Do not claim UPRA Web Radio is Puerto Rico's only university radio project.

### 3. Departamento de Comunicacion Tele-Radial UPRA

URL: `https://upra.edu/comunicaciónes/investigación-creación-y-servicio-comunitario/`
Checked: 2026-07-27 / source packet carried into site 2026-08-14

Usable claims:

- The department frames communication through research, creation, innovative design/production techniques, dissemination, and integration with the community.
- It describes creation areas including scripts, production, videography, audio production, radio, television, cinema, mass media, photography, and interactive/new media.
- It connects communication work to public service campaigns and community-oriented communication activities.

Best use:

- Supporting receipt for research, creation, service, and media formation.

### 4. UPR central timeline / existing UPR source packet

Local source: `sources/upr-system-opener.md`

Usable claim:

- Regional college sequence includes Arecibo in 1967.

## Published Video

- YouTube Short: `https://youtube.com/shorts/BSwU5vjYbSE`
- Local final caption/source packet: `deliverables/puerto-rico-history-channel/posting/upr-arecibo-voz-norte-final-caption-source-packet-2026-07-28.md`
- Master SHA256 from posting packet: `ff47e8574cf06496996fd19cdafc3d3a0401cd62ddfa89666da9bc008c4b9b78`

## Guardrails

- Do not imply UPR Arecibo is only a communications campus.
- Do not claim UPRA Web Radio is the only university radio project in Puerto Rico.
- Keep the Arecibo Observatory out of this episode unless a future direct UPR Arecibo source connection is clipped.
- Keep `norte` as geographic/storytelling framing rather than an exclusivity claim.