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2 WQFS changes format to meet FCC rules BEN THORNE staff writer Do you like your friendly neighborhood college radio sta tion? Then don't change that dial, because WQFS is about to face a big challenge: the FCC. WQFS must reapply with the FCC every six years for its broadcasting license. However, this year there is a slight catch. As a non-profit radio station, WQFS has to comply with certain regulations set by the FCC, stipu lating among other things how much air-time must be spent cov ering news and community ser vice, areas which the FCC has de cided our radio station is weak in. "It's possible that our col lege (station) is in jeopardy, and that we need student involve ment," stated Kelly Davis, the station's manager. Faced with this obstacle, the staff of WQFS has designed a new foimat for the station which should not only satisfy the FCC, but also delight the station's audience as well. This includes more news coverage, a morning show, and a new type of radio show featuring blocks of music from a certain genre. The morning show, hosted ■ iiaiiiiMJiiftii The Guilfordian seeks to correct all errors. Please bring them to our attention by contacting us via any or all of the above communication methods. * Cory Birdwhistell • editor in chief Mariah Sawyer • associate editor Amy Broach • business manager T T Kari Albcrtson • news editor Susan Allen • features editor Keir BickerstafFe • editorials editor •4^] Sara Johnson • photography editor -• Elly Lonon • arts and entertainment editor Rob Mirchin • sports editor John Cocking • copy and online editor Steve Marasco • advertising manager I W Brad Hammett • subscriptions manager I M J Richard Dailey • circulation manager -4J Alice Reid • assistant to the editor JeffJeske • advisor Leigh King • Josh White • Betsy Blake • Damian Deßello Christy Herbes • Jamie O'Sullivan • Michael Belan • Lauren Gill Adam Lucas • Jack Shuler • Ben Thorne • Paige Mcßae Tripp Oakley • Tim Forbes • Will Cooper Olivia Braden • Sarah Weissberg Staff meetings are Mondays at 8 p.m. in the Passion Pit THE GUILFORDIAN Box 17717, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410 (910) 316-2306 • FAX (910) 316-2950 GUILFORDIAN@RASCAL.GUILFORD.EDU i The Guilfordian by Kelly Davis and Ben Johnson, represents an effort on the part of the station's management to mir ror the commercial radio market's stronger points, while still remain ing as alternative and independent as before. Also, they hope to reach out to the station's audience outside of Guilford College. "Kelly and myself are doing a show together in the morning be cause it makes WQFS more pro fessional," said Johnson. "We're an alternative, non commercial radio station, but re news A WQFS D.J. at work alistically we have to do something like them. We have to do a radio show, because they're the biggest part of the radio industry. Plus, it will establish us in the greater Greensboro community." Davis added, "This is part of an effort to reach the greater com munity, an attempt to reach our larger audience. We're not going to change anything. We're just appealing to a wider market." "We're doing the regular music rotations, but trying to bring in rock'n'roll, jazz, world music, acoustic, folk, any genre we pos sibly can," he continued. Trying to produce a morn ing show anyone can listen to, WQFS also wants to provide an al ternative to both commercial sta tions and another rush-hour favor ite, NPR, for people who may want to hear some news—but mostly Submissions for Dean's Writing Awards now being accepted ALICE REID staff writer The time has come for the Dean's Award writing contests. Anyone interested should consider competing for one of the five awards being of fered. These awards are the Dean's Award for first year Carrie Fletcher writing, the Dean's Award for scholarly/ critical writing in the humanities the Dean's Award for reflective/ narrative writing by a sophomore, junior, or senior, and two Dean's Awards for writing in the physical and natural sciences. All submissions are due on February 2, 1996 their favorite music. The news being referred to is another improvement being made at WQFS —three times a day, at BAM, 12PM, and SPM, lis teners can tune in and find out what is happening throughout the community, the nation, and the world. Named the GuilForum and overseen by Brian Lowitt, the of ficial news director, this news ser vice will have access to several sources of current events, includ ing Guilford's own The Guilfor dian. "We're expanding our pub lic service broadcasting," stated Johnson. 'That used to be read ing 'riding a bike to stay fit' stuff. We can already get the weather, community calendar, and concert dates. But [having] news makes us feel more like a real station. Friday March 1, by 4:00 PM. You must submit all work to Jeff Jeske in the English department. The awards will be presented at the Awards Convocation this spring. Each award in this contest has a monetary prize. For the first year contest, the prize is a hundred dollars. The Dean's Award for scholarly/critical writing in the hu manities and the Dean's Award for reflexive/narrative writing by a sophomore, junior, or senior carry fifty-dollar prizes. There are actu ally two separate fifty-dollar prizes for writing in the physical and natu ral sciences. In the Dean's Award for re flective/narrative writing, the first prize goes to the essay which best fuses voice, style and composi tional skill in a non-scholarly con text. The essay types include nar rative, descriptive and reflective. In the awards for writing in We're hooked up to all sorts of sources." Starting with the major events of the day, the GuilForum will cover national and then inter national news. "What we're trying to be is a cross between the New York Times, Rhinoceros Times and the News and Record , but all from an alternative and student-oriented standpoint," commented Davis. He also stated, "We're also going to try and expand the avail ability of air time in terms of in terviewing, so we can do more in terviews." WQFS will also be adopting a block-programming format on a special time during the weekends. Already used on other radio sta tions and on MTV, these will be "blocks" of a certain genre of mu sic. "For instance, on Fridays we'll have a rock'n'roll block party from 6 to 8 PM. We'll also have them for world music, jazz, industrial, techno, even a Saturday Night Fever Disco show, and we' 11 do publicity for it," stated Davis. Davis emphasized that WQFS can't do all of this alone. The station needs more students who are willing to do more secre tarial duties, paper, legal and tech nical work. "We'd also like more student help with some DJ experience, which would be great for them be cause it could be used for volun teer job experience. The more people we have working, the bet ter," commented Davis. Sara Johnson the physical and natural sciences, one award recognizes excellence in sci ence writing for a general audience. Essays may present issues, contro versies, phenomena, or experiments in the form of an argument or expla nation. The other award is for the best reporting of a scientific investigation or experiment which the author has done as a student at Guilford. The first-year prize is given to students for the best submission. The work can be in any field from per sonal to scholarly writing. Carrie Fletcher, last year's firt year winner, said with a grin, "The biggest prize was the honor, not the money." She was encouraged to enter the contest by her teacher, Carol Hoppe. Carrie says that first-year stu dents should 'Talk to your teacher. Clean it up and turn it in!"
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