The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
XIV, Number 44
Charlotte, North Carolina
April 26, 1979
station to acquire satellite dish
By Kathy Espin
tudent radio station WFAE will
e a satellite receiver dish designed
receive National Public Radio
/FAE station manager Robert
)" Pittman, said a site inspection
m from the Corporation for Public
.adcasting(CPB) which is funding
NPR satellite project, was on
ipus last week to find a location
the dish.
'ittman said NPR plans to start
ellite broadcasts in March of 1980
and WFAE will probably have the
dish installed by that time. The dish
will be located near the track in the
woods between Cone University
Center and the gym.
One of the major benefits of the
satellite dish will be immediate, on-
the-spot broadcasts of important
events from all over the world, Pitt
man said.
WFAE is one of 10 developing
radio stations selected to receive a sa
tellite receiver dish. “You have to be a
qualified station to get a dish," Pitt-
Station Manager Bo Pittman.
man said. “We are not qualified, but
this shows CPB has faith we will be
qualified by the time we get the dish
installed." He said the 10 stations
were selected from around 45 stations
being built or upgraded around the
country.
CPB is building 126 receiver dishes
for NPR qualified stations, at a cost
of approximately $75,000 each.
WFAE will be one of four stations in
North Carolina to receive a dish.
Other sites will be Chapel Hill, Wake
Forest and Warrenton.
Demonstration planned for Hunt
Charles Parker.
Marvin Sparrow-
T.J. Reddy.
By Kathy Espin
A demonstration against Governor
Jim Hunt's actions in the Wilm
ington 10 and Charlotte Three cases
will be held outside the Charlotte Col
iseum on graduation date May 12.
Hunt has been invited to speak at
the graduation ceremony.
In a letter to Chancellor E.K.
Fretwell, UNCC alumni Marvin Spar
row asked the invitation to Hunt be
withdrawn. “If you do not do so, I in
tend to join those students, faculty,
former students and friends who plan
to ‘unofficially' greet Hunt and let
him know that his failure to act on the
case will not go unnoticed. Sparrow
wrote.
Sparrow was a leader of the
Charlotte Red Hornets May Day
Tribe, a local counterculture group of
the 60s, and was the main complain
tant in the “Billy Graham Day"
lawsuit against the Nixon Admini
stration.
Dr. Ann Carver, English instructor,
said for students and faculty
members who would like to silently
show their protest, there will be arm
bands available to wear during the
ceremony. The arm bands will be
given out outside the Charlotte Col
iseum on graduation day.
Carver said a number of concerned
faculty members are signing an ap
peal for action asking Hunt to set an
example to UNCC graduates by im
mediately reducing the sentences of
those still in prison to time already
served.
Charles Parker, T.J. Reddy of the
Charlotte Three, accused of burning
the Lacy B riding stables, and Ben
Chavis of the Wilmington 10, are
alumni of UNCC. Jim Grant, also of
the Charlotte Three, was the first ad
visor to the Black Student Union and
was instrumental in establishing the
black studies program at UNCC, ac
cording to Carver.
In his letter to Fretwell, Sparrow
said, “Thousands of people, including
the Charlotte City Council, have call
ed on Hunt to review the case, correct
“Rather than deal with the case
(Wilmington 10 and Charlotte
Three) in a forthright and direct
way, Hunt has chosen to play
politics with those men’s lives.”
—Marvin Sparrow
Ben Chavis.
the injustice, and release the men
from prison. Rather than deal with
the case in a forthright and direct
way, Hunt has chosen to play politics
with those men's lives."
Fretwell was unavailable for com
ment at press time.