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Cory Willis, a December 2000 UNCW
graduate and former WLOZ personality,
has offered the Student Media Board
(SMB) his time and talent to help bring
the station back on the air.
WiUis, who has worked in radio for five
years, is currently employed by Sea-
Comm, Inc. He has offered to help train
the station’s next general manager and
bring radio knowledge and experience to
WLOZ. The SMB wiU consider his writ
ten proposal at their next meeting on
Thursday, February 22.
“I want to see the station resurrected
for people who genuinely care and want
to put out a good product,” Willis said.
“Hands on experience is extremely nec
essary.”
According to WiUis, he would like to
help make improvements to different as
pects necessary for a radio station to be
successful; such as station sound, promo
tions, sales and production.
‘There needs to be a sense of unity at
the station, where there isn’t right now,”
WiUis said. “I really want to see WLOZ
grow and become a source of pride for
the university.”
WiUis expressed concern about the sta
tion being off the air, and would like to
see it broadcasting near the end of this
semester. He is worried about the percep
tion it is creating on campus, with poten-
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Cory Willis, right, participates in last Thursday’s Student Media Board
meeting. Willis, a recent UNCW graduate and local radio personality,
is volunteering to help reorganize campus radio station WLOZ.
tial advertisers and record companies.
‘The longer WLOZ is off the air, the
less chances there are for getting under
writing,” Willis said.
He believes the station needs to focus
its attention on the campus community au
dience and cater to what they listen to.
“You have to think about your demo,
women 18-27 make up 70 percent of the
population on campus,” Willis said. “If
you don’t care about your audience,
you’ve lost your Usteners.”
Bill DiNome, student media coordina
tor, said that while he has a few concerns,
he thinks that Willis’s ideas might work.
“As long as we’re not doing anything
that’s either unethical or cross purposes
in any way, I think there’s some potential
there and I think we should explore it,”
DiNome said. “So far, I like what I’m
hearing.”
WiUis, a native of Hickory, came to
Wilmington with hopes of pursuing a ca
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Students reach out to potential freshmen
Spiorte,
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Staff Writer
The application process required
by universities and colleges in
volves extensive preparations and a
lot of patience, and most students
apply to several institutions at a
time.
When an applicant is accepted,
the tables sometimes turn on col
leges and universities. Students
who applied and then are accepted
to several different schools have the
privilege of making a choice as to
which school they will attend.
Accepted applicants receive a let
ter of congratulations from the
school to which they have applied.
In a letter a school will encourage
the prospective students to choose
their institution. Sometimes the
school receives a reply, sometimes
they don’t.
“Whatyou’re trying to do is
contact future students..., and
what we have found is that stu
dents talking to students are
the best way to do that. ”
- Susan Vanecek
There are also students who have
indicated interest in a particular
school by taking a campus tour or
submitting their SAT scores, but for
whatever reason they have yet to
apply.
This is where a new program at
UNCW is set to begin. The pro
gram, without a formal name as of
yet, will utilize currently enrolled
students to call prospective students
on the phone and discuss with them
the benefits of attending UNCW.
The objective of the program is to
look at those students who have ex
pressed an interest in UNCW but
have not applied.
Susan Vanecek, a program coor
dinator for admissions, said, “What
you’re trying to do is contact future
students and help make sure they
have the information they need to
make the best decision for them
selves, and what we have found is
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