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Student remembers I Stevie Wonder I Poge 6 1 rHi’PAR J Presenting... Underdog Productions Pages Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982 Thursday, Nov. 14, 1985 VH, Number 11 Administration * disappointed' Radio station moves to off-campus location % Scott Luckadoo The radio station located at UNGA. has found a new home since evacuating their studio in the Upinsky building Oct. 28, and WCQS-FM (88.1) will not be re- th^^^ the campus despite ^^®i^stration*s hopes of i^-eeping it here. State officials granted the ^ s for the Lipinsky renova- tln*^ with the stipula- ^ that a substantial portion build a new studio, m, ^'^“i^istrators and faculty ^ ®t now decide how to use the ®xtra money since WCQS has Sen to leave the campus. Tentative plans call for up- «.Lading the lighting system in e auditorium and building a ^ cording studio large enough to ccomodate a sjnnphony orchestra, ^ cording to Tom Byers., admini- rative assistant to the chan- ^llor. ^ The new facility is located ^ than a mile from campus at St Barbara Sayer, stai^i’^^ manager, said that the was "fortunate to be ter^^« ^he space under generous WCQS had to move out of Li- nsky due to the extensive novations scheduled to begin j ®P^ing, and the ^^^^^sion to make the move per- ®nt culminates a five-year od during which the station university-founded, ^ ^ent-run WUNF-FM to WCQS-FM, national public radio station ^ ose charter gives its board of »i. the authority to make a decision. According to Sayer, the WCQS of Directors decided to make the move permanent because even though the Broadway loca tion was at first considered temporary, expensive renovations were still necessary and the board did not want to use public donations to remodel the facili ty and then abandon it after only one year. Furthermore, WCQS would have lost its federal funding if not located in a permanent home by the winter of 1986, and the UNGA administration could not give WJQS an ironclad guarantee that the remodeling in Lipinsky would be completed by that time. Byers said the university of fered to allow WCQS to use the space in Lipinsky "basically rent-free for the next five years and to work with them in every way possible," but the WCQS board rejected the pro posals. Sayer confirmed that WCQS directors and the administration tried to work out a compromise, but couldn’t. "We had to remodel the tenqx)- rary facility because it’s not like moving an office," said Sayer. "It would sound like we were broadcasting from a tin can if we didn’t modify the space. "We receive federal funding, and since the work in Lipinsky is already behind schedule, the board passed a motion that we make the move permanent if the ' university couldn’t premise us a definite conqpletlon date and pay for the needed renovations at the temporary site," said Sayer. However, the university could not legally agree to pay for the necessary renovations at the continued on pg. 3 \ \ \\ ^ A UWE Ban re»U defiantly tn note a ^ front of a sl»i that students at proUe. * often find ».t I UNCA student court tries various cases this semester By Jennifer Heglar The UNCA Student Court has tried four cases out of eight filed this semester and expects to hear many more before the end of the school year, according to Chief Justice Doug Griffin. The student court is comprised of the University Student Court, the Administrative Hearing , Board, the University Court of Appeals and other committees authorized by the student senate and the UNCA Board of Trustees. The power of the student court is limited. The student court has the au thority to fine a guilty party In court costs, which goes into the student government’s continued on pg.
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