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Page eleven/Carolina Journal/October 24, 1978 FCC says go; no word yet from HEW By Lisa Andrew The Student Broad casting Association (SBA) at UNCC has big plans for the FM radio station on campus, WFAE. Currently WFAE is a 10-watt sta tion, but if things go the way the SBA and Bo Pittman, station manager, have them planned, WFAE will be a 100,000-watt station by next summer. This means instead of a 10 to 12 mile broadcast area, the station’s broadcast area will probably reach as far as Greensboro and Columbia. The funds for this ven ture will come mainly from an HEW grant. The HEW grant has been applied for, and WFAE has gotten “unofficial” word the station does have the $122,034 grant, but can not give a definite answer until they hear BUDWEISER COLLEGE SUPER SPORTS Competition begins at the local level on campus. Teams will consist of four men and four women. These teams will com pete for the right to represent UNCC in STATE WIDE COM PETITION LATE THIS YEAR. EVENTS INCLUDE VOLLEYBALL OBSTACLE COURSE 880 RELAY TEAM FRISBEE ROUND-OF-BUD TUG-A-WAR Organizational meeting for all interested teams. Monday, November 6th, 6:30 p.m., Room 045 Gym COMPETITION DATE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18th For further information, contact: INTRAMURAL OFFICE — 597-2121 or YOUR BUDWEISER MEN ON CAMPUS Jon Stevenson 597-0744 Jeff Dixon 596-6885 official word from HEW. WFAE was recently granted a building per mit from the FCC. Because of this Pittman feels the FCC knows something about the grant. Pittman said, “My feeling is, since the FCC approved our ap plication to go to 100,000-watts, HEW has most likely notified the FCC of our grant ap plication as being ap proved.” Pittman’s reas- ing here is the FCC does not grant building per mits unless they know for sure adequate funds are available. The rest of the money for this pro ject will come from student fees, donations and hopefully the state. WFAE’s plan for next summer is to go on the air with 100,000-watts without losing a day of programming. The whole radio station, located in the basement of the Cone University Center, will be renovated without disrupting the broad casting. Presently WFAE is on the air from noon until midnight playing only jazz and classical music. WFAE will continue to play this type of music in the future. When ask ed why they don’t play rock music, Pittman said, “We don’t play rock because it’s already being done, why should we duplicate? Our job is to fill the void.” WFAE has been broadcasting since April 1977 and the response to their programming has been favorable. “When we went on the air the response was phenomenal. No one was doing classical music. We got letters from peo ple out there who were just eating it up,” Pitt man says. Once the station is built and transmitting, the SBA hopes to ex pand the radio broad casting programming on campus. They hope, perhaps in 10 to 12 years, WFAE can rival the public broadcasting systems at some of the larger schools in the area. The SBA also hopes to be able to pro vide courses for Authority to allocate office space questioned (continued from page 5) decided they did not need as much space and would divide one of the longer offices they used into two. One office would be used as a workroom leaving another empty office. The peer counselors were relocated and their office space became va cant. “The office allotment to BSU was made dur ing the time I was vice president and Ed Hen dricks was president of the student body. Michael Ferrar, presi dent of BSU, put in a re quest for office space. There was no document specifying who had authority to allocate of fice space. This power was just an assumed one C one Cen&r • JOHNPRUL LUCKS ROOM Auction Saturday,, free A^issidii/ Re^rcshmetviQ Ml T-nnted/ - students • faculty • STAFF - FRIENDS-FAMILY SOME ITEMS TO BE AUCTIONED: DINNER WITH THE COLVARPS; Books; AUTOGRAPHED BASKETBALL - UNCCTEAM; TICKETS: MOVIES, COLISIEUM, BASKETBALL; DINNER WITH BONNIE CONE; OBJETS D'ART- T-SHIRTS; PLANTS; TOYS; MORE, MORE AUCTIONEERS: DM MORRILL, ED PEEZEL SPONSORED BY UNCC DISTAFF CEU6 PROCEEDS GO TO SCHOLARSHIP FUND academic credit in future years. This would mean hiring more fulltime employees at the sta tion. These employees would provide a con- tinuality of programm ing for students enrolled in these courses. When the station is fully ex panded there will also be more opportunities for students interested in working for the station. by the president. “Ed just made an an nouncement to legislature during his report he had allocated the empty office space to BSU. We felt at the time this was a slight to other clubs but we didn't have any say-so over the mat ter,” Dunn said. Black said the motive behind this motion “was not to get the BSUkick- ed out of their office but to make the point to other clubs and organizations they are the only organization chartered by student government that has of fice space.” The question as to who has the power to let BSU and UPB stay in their offices was really a problem until this past There has been some concern over whether or not student fees should fund the station if they receive the HEW grant. Pittman feels like WFAE will eventually be able to tear itself away from student fees, but thinks they will be needed, at least for the next few yers, to pay operating costs. Tuesday. Since a motion to suspend the Legislative and Ex ecutive Act was vetoed by Larry Springs, stu dent body president, there is no question as to who has say in office space. Section 5, Offices of the Student Body Government, subsection a, states “that office space for use by clubs, organizations ... shall be assigned by the Stu dent Legislature under the direction of the chair of Student Legislature.” Which translates into plain English saying: Jack Summerlin, chair of legislature, holds the final decision as to whether BSU or UPB will remain in their of fices.
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