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The Pendulum
Thursday, November 10,1983
Volume X, No. 10
Southern Association O.K. still needed
Faculty approves MBA program
Photo by Paul Harris
Decisions y Decisions
Connie and Lucille Howard cast their votes in
Tuesday’s town elections. Elon College residents
voted on three seats for the Board of Aldermen
and the mayor. Voters re-elected Mayor Tim Par
ker and Alderman Charles Gantos, and also
elected Jerry Tolley and Sam Cousin to the Board.
By Loukia Louka
Associate Editor
Last Friday the Elon College
faculty voted 75 to 47 to
approve the master of business
administration (MBA) prog
ram, to be implemented in the
Fall of 1984.
Now, the Southern Associa
tion of Schools and Colleges
(SAC) an accreditation agency
of colleges, universities and
educational institutions, who
will meet the week of Dec. 12 to
give the final decision on the
program.
If SAC gives its approval the
college, in January, will pub
lish a flier or brochure on the
MBA program. The purpose of
this brochure will be to explain
the goals, admission require
ments, cost and application
procedures. “It will be like a
mini-catalogue,” explained
Vice President for Academic
and Student Affairs Chris
White.
“The brochure will ade
quately represent the program
and its distinctives. We will
also make announcements in
the newspapers and use the
services of George Lentz, direc
tor of the Continuing Educa
tion program here. He knows
the business community; so
through him, we can let com
panies know we have the
program.”
For the first time in White’s
12 years at Elon, the issue of the
MBA program was voted on by
secret ballot, instead of a show
of hands. President Fred
Young said he requested a sec
ret ballot “because I wanted to
speak freely on the issue to the
faculty.”
“Because of the high interest
in this issue, I wanted there to
be freedom for the faculty to
vote the way they felt and by
doing a secret ballot, pretense
could be avoided,” he said in
an interview this week.
White added, “Another
reason for the secret ballot was
because after the issue is over,
we still have one faculty and we
don’t want dissention that is
lasting.
During the meeting, there
was substantive debate over
the issue, with speeches or
statements both for and against
the MBA program.
“The positions taken were
well thought out and well pre
sented. I’m proud of the facul
ty,” White said. “We want to try
to come collectively to what is
best; people who can express
their opinions and not let it
passively go by. I think (phi
losophy professor) John Sulli
van said it best when he said its
not whether we win or lose, but
its simply another step in the
growth of the college.”
White maintained that the
school has not changed its
Continued on page 4
WSOE prepares for 500-watt debut
By Loukia Louka
Associated Editor
College radio station WSOE
is expected to increase its wat
tage from 10 to 500 watts by the
end of November.
Originally, WSOE had plan
ned to work with a company out
of Pennsylvania, Radio Sys
tems, to assemble and install
the equipment to accommo
date the increased wattage, but
ran into difHculties.
After Radio Systems came
here, the company sent WSOE
an estimate of what had to be
done, which included $4,794 for
labor. “That amount was in ddi-
tion to $1,300 worth of labor we
already knew about,” says
Gerald Gibson, advisor for
WSOE. “It was more than we
anticipated. We had them do a
Federal Communications Com-
mission (FCC) — required
proof of performance of the au
dio board for quality of sound.
It was worked on for four weeks
and still didn’t pass.”
Radio Systems recom
mended that WSOE buy a new
audio board for $4,900. “We
didn’t have that money , so we
went back and started looking
at how to save money. A local
antenna company told us about
an alternative tower that will
stand right next to the present
tower. By contracting with loc
al people, labor is now only
$1,000.”
The alternative tower will
not require guy wires, because
it is self-supporting. The new
FCC guide lines say that the
tower must have guywires for
support. These wires, under
the plan given by Radio Sys
tems, would extend 80 percent
of the height of the tower and
each one would have 1,800
pounds of pressure behind it.
Because these wires would
have run level to Maynard
dorm, the original plan was to
move the tower to the top or
Harper Center. “When we were
working with Radio Systems,”
says Gibson, “We didn’t know
about this new type of tower. Its
shape is like an elongated
pyramid; it gets smaller as it
goes up, so there isn’t a need
for guywires.”
In addition to the new tower,
there will be other changes. A
small room to hold the trans
mitter, which gives the fre
quency and power to be on the
air, will be constructed in the
station, because it will give off
too much heat and noise to be
in the air studio.
“We’re getting a lot tougher
on training, because we’ll be
serving a bi^er community so
we’ve instituted an active
training program,” says Gib
son. Prospective disc jockeys
must make audition tapes and
tests before they will be given a
license to broadcast. WSOE has
also put together an intense
training manual that will even
tually turn into a standard
guideline for procedures in ev
ery area of WSOE, from broad
casting to house rules.
Gibson says, “We’re going to
be a new station from top to
bottom. We are rebuilding in
ternally and physically. There
have been a lot of times I
thought this would not come to
pass but I believe in the
eleventh commandment: thou
shalt not give up.”
“ELectfic
Boogaloo”
Read about Zoids
p.5
Peoples to Join
‘Up With People’
p.4
Hitting the courts
Basketball
season
preview
p.7