WQFS interferes all over campus
By Daphne Lewis
Staff Writer
They are coming in through the
telephones. Through the tape re
corders. Through the answering
machines.
They whisper and mumble on
tape recordings. The voices of
WQFS are invading and infiltrat
ing electronic devices all over
campus.
More problems seem to occur at
Mary Hobbs, where approximately
25 women signed a complaint.
"People are getting the radio sta
tion in their phones, sometimes as
loud as the person on the other line.
Sometimes you can hear the radio
station when the phone rings," said
Calyta Hill, resident of Mary
Hobbs.
But complaints come from all
over campus.
In Bryan Hall, John Terry says
that he can also hear WQFS on his
telephone line, and that it "blasts"
on messages on his answering
machine. He says that when he re
plays a message, he hears two dif
ferent songs from the radio sta
tion—one from when the message
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In Milner
Hall, Jonathan
Coulter says
that he picks up
WQFS on his
recording s
when he copies
music from a
CD to a tape.
WQFS can
sometimes be
picked up on
battery-oper
ated alarm
clocks and ra
dios.
Doug Curl DJ's while interference disturbs the campus.
According to several veteran
students, these voices are not so
new. "The voices have been here
as long as I have," said senior Chris
Hosford.
But where do these voices come
from?
According to Telecommunica
tions Manager Jim Luke, the
voices may be the fault of the ra
dio station broadcasting too loudly
or out of Federal Communications
programs would be well-attended.
"We try to provide a variety of
activities to try to appeal to a
broad...audience and raise their
awareness of alcohol abuse," said
Mulhern.
Mulhern commented that there
are programs dealing with alcohol
jfctai
Commission (FCC) guidelines.
"The first thing to check is the ra
dio station itself. I asked WQFS
to check out its transmitter and
grand system by an engineer, to see
if it fits in the FCC guidelines."
Nothing has been done about it
yet because Luke claims that
WQFS never gave him the results.
"I asked them to give back to me a
written statement from the engi-
awareness at other times during the
year, saying Alcohol Awareness
Week is "a jump start to get people
thinking about it." She hopes for
continued involvement from the
community.
The organizing committee itself
is open to anyone on campus.
people out
to examine our equipment. They
thought our transmitter was faulty
and that our signal was wandering.
Well, we hired an engineer to
check it out and he said that ev
erything was working as it should
be. So our signal is not wander
ing; it is not WQFS's fault."
Lee says that the most-likely
reason that WQFS is coming over
electronical devices is simply that
the campus is just too close to the
tower. "The tower is located on
top of Founders—in the middle of
campus. The campus is just so
small, and everything is so close
together, that it just can not be
avoided."
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result in lower quality if we
reduced costs."
Business Manager Dick Coe
agreed. "We are tuition-driven
and that's where the rub lies. If
the tuition dependency goes
down the student [financial] rate
would go d0wn....1f you really
start cutting comers in tuition,
room, and board you start
sacrificing the quality of
education." >-
Another reason for Guilford's
costliness is its relatively small
endowment.Guilford's
endowment market value
currently stands at S3O million.
"Most schools that offer the
quality of education Guilford
does have larger endowments,
five to ten times as large,"
Poteet said. He also stated that
many Guilford alumni have
chosen to enter into service
oriented professions, which
normally pay less.
Poteet also discussed the
benefits of living in residence
halls as opposed to apartments.
"Residence hall living at
Guilford is more than a roof
Photo by Eric Forman
Lee stated that the radio station
transmits 1900 watts, what he says
is "significantly larger than most
college radio stations."
But Lee says that the tower can
not be moved. "We can not move
it because it does not belong to us.
It belongs to the HAM radio op
erators on campus. If this is the
problem, then the only solution is
to build another tower somewhere
else on campus."
Lee also mentioned that the
problem might stem from the elec
tronic wiring in the dorms. He
supports this theory by noting that
Mary Hobbs, the dorm with the
oldest wiring, is also the dorm with
the most complaints.
Luke agrees that this could be a
possible cause, and he said that
when the dorms are rewired that
they will find out whether or not
wiring has anything to do with the
transmission problem.
Right now, Luke says that Resi
dential Life is running a question
naire to see where on campus there
are problems with the radio station
transmission. "We are running the
questionnaire so we can see if there
is any pattern. After we get that
information together, we will sit
down and see how we can accom
modate everyone, the solution that
is most cost-efficienL"
neer that de
scribes the
tests that
were run
and that
gives the re
sults of
those tests,
but I never
received a
written
statement."
WQFS
station
manager
Dave Lee
disagrees.
"They sent
some
over your head and walls and
heat." Guilford provides
"counseling, support and
programming that an apartment
complex cannot provide."
According to Larry West,
director of admissions, Guilford
is viewed as a good bargain to
those families living out-of--
state. 67% of Guilford's students
live outside of North Carolina.
"In this neighborhood we are
perceived to be outrageously
priced and elsewhere we are
seen as being competitively
priced...students from the
Northeast looking at institutions
comparable to Guilford are
looking at $20,000-$25,000
price tags," he said.
"Whether [a Guilford
education] is worth it is what
each individual must decide for
themselves...you have an
extraordinary opportunity to
grow andJTmd yourself...these
are things you can't find
anywhere else. We think
something pretty special goes on
here, and you can't put a price
tag on that," Poteet said.
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