The Pendulum
Thursday, February 16,1984
Volume X, Number 16
WSOE
^Ifs great to be heard!^
By Loukia Louka
Staff Writer
Photo by Paul Harr
Dominoes Delivers
Billy Chenault of Kappa Sigma munches out on pepperoni
pizza when his fraternity competed against Sigma Pi in a
pizza eating contest that began on Feb. 2 during halftimes at
the basketball games. That Saturday Tau Kappa Epsilon de
feated Sigma Phi Epsilon, but lost the championship the
following week to Sigma Pi. For the women. Phi Mu lost to
Alpha Sigma Alpha. The Munch Bunch Moffitt has beat Zeta
Tau Alpha, and lost the championship to Alpha Sig. Each
person on the winning team won a large pizza and T-shirts
while the team was awarded a plaque.
After a five year struggle, on Feb. 1,
WSOE finally became a 500-watt station.
Having suffered numerous financial and
technical setbacks over the past year, the
station has been rolling along smoothly
now for a couple of weeks. “It’s unbeliev
able,” says WSOE advisor Gerald Gibson.
“Without any kind of public notice in the
newspapers, the listener response is unbe
lievable. The first Saturday we were on the
air at 500 watts, someone did a shift that
was nothing but requests.
“We have a Big Band show, and in two
years, that announcer had one request.
The other night he was on, and he got five
phone calls, and one was from a manufac
turing plant here in town that had the sta
tion on over the PA system.”
More than 100,000 people are in WSOE’s
listening area. The station has been picked
up on the west side of Greensboro; pre
viously, it was difficult to pick up WSOE a
mile from the station.
WSOE Assistant Manager Charles Bruce,
noting new restrictions on the announcers
said, “We have a larger and different audi
ence to consider in programming. The DJs
are thrilled with the response’to the sta
tion, so each DJ can have a greater poten
tial to please the audience.”
“I hate to keep using the word ‘phe
nomenal’,” Gibson said, “but phenomenal
is the work that went into building the sta
tion. Bob Goodman, our engineer and
Broddy Fitch, now with T.D. Miller Com
pany and formerly WBAG’s engineer,
hooked up the new equipment, tested it,
and put up the power. We sound technical
ly as good or better than any other station.”
WSOE will soon be broadcasting Elon
basketball games. Gibson hopes to get pro
fessors to use the station by having them
assign projects on tape. This, he said,
would especially benefit music students,
who could listen to projects, instead of
writing them down.
“People are turning down on the dial,”
Gibson said, referring to the station’s 89.3
FM frequency. “They have to look for us
because we are all the way down, but there
are people out there. It’s almost scary. It’s
great.”
Fundraiser bemn this week
Phonathon has goal of $100,000
By Margaret Caldwell
Staff Writer
The fifth annual phonathon
is underway in the Chandler
Hall multi-purpose room
under the direction of Jerry
Tolley, director of annual
funds and the assistant direc
tion of Mike Langone.
The phonathon began Mon
day and will continue through
March 8. Tolley said that if
'"ings moved smoothly and all
alumni, parents and friends
were contacted, he hopes the
solicitations will be over by
March 1.
Phone calls are being made
Sunday through Thursday
nights 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and
Saturday mornings 9 a.m. to
noon. This year the goal on be
half of the Annual Fund has
been set for $100,000.
A new feature this year is the
“Great Alumni Challenge.”
The two phonathon teams rep
resent alumni and will chal
lenge them in hopes of getting
more donations. The teams and
the organizations that provide
team members will be compet
ing for prizes.
The Maroon team represents
the Grand Old Time Alumni,
those graduating before 1968.
The team consists of these;
Koren Welzant, captain for Tri-
Sigma; Jane Beard, captain for
Phi Mu, Pam Sellew, captain
for ZETA; Carlton Jarratt, cap
tain for Kappa Sigma; and
Mary Eubanks, captain for the
Black Cultural Society.
The Gold team represents
the Younger Time Alumni,
graduates after 1968. These
representatives include Diane
McSheehy, captain of The Stu
dent Government Association;
Bob Moser, captain for Sigma
Pi; P.J. Haviland, captain for
Tau Kappa Epsilon, P.J. Skip
Lewis, captain for ROTC; and
Nancy Moreton, captain for the
New Area.
The teams are competing for
the prize of a steak dinner. The
organizations are also compet
ing for the prize of a trip to Myr
tle Beach for spring break.
A look back:
Janie Council talks
about her 24 years
of teaching at Elon
p. 4
Concert Patrol
Elon Police fan
reviews performance
p. 5