8, 1974
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Volume
XLIX NUMBER 7
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1974
NEW EVALUATION CENTEH AT MUC
t>y Wyatt Bibb
The competence-
^3sed curriculum is a
'Relatively new con-
^ept in functional
RROllege curricula.
^^^■8 Hill College is
"''ique in that only 5
6 other colleges
the U.S. are now
''sing a competence-
®sed curriculiom.
This is the first
Vear of the compe
tence-based curricu-
here at Mars Hill
it' s sharper
remain to be
®een. (por a person
^®siring a fuller
^owledge of this
^"triculum and the
'T~4 calendar, we
®"99est he or she be-
intimate with
41 page recommen-
ftion from the Cur-
■'■eulinn Committee.)
Consultant has been
^T-'Red by MHC to as-
in the develop-
and the evalua
tion of the present
curriculum. He is
Dr. Joe Steele. Dr.
Steele's office, or
the Evaluation Center
as it is called, is
located on the first
floor of McConnell
and is now a perma
nent part of the col
lege. The primary
purpose of the Eval
uation Center is for
assisting the admini
stration and the fa
culty with problems
in -the new curriculum.
Asked what the signi-
fiance of the Evalu
ation Center is for
students. Dr. Steele
offered this, "The
Evaluation Center is
also open to students
and one of its pur
poses is to explore
the attitudes and
feelings of students
and faculty towards
the programs at Mars
Hill. This informa
tion will be used to
help and revise
courses to achieve
competency in a spe
cialization rather
than working with the
inadequacies of an
individual course.
Dr. Steele received
his B.A. at Oklahoma
State, did graduate
work at the Univ. of
Chicago, and complet
ed his Ph.D. at the
Univ. of Illinois.
Before he arrived
here in October he
was a consultant for
the Biological Sci
ence curriculum
Studies at the Univ.
of Colorado in Boul
der . He has active
connections in con
temporary educational
circles and seems to
this reporter to be
the ideal personality
for the work.
We urge any student
intent on becoming
more involved in his
own college life to
visit Dr. Steele and
the Evaluation Center.
i-- '.'Si
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\
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Joe Steele, direatov of MHC's Evaluation Center
nADIO STATIOn
FEeBOAR!
ti,
lO-watt educa-
°hal radio station
'■Or -i-u
. tbe campus is
■‘■oser
to being a
because of
Silty
jji recent develop-
according to
"ie Howard, student
Mger of the sta-
'R'-on.
a four-month
' the Federal
Mnications Com-
®®ion has awarded
the
str,,
- ^ Action
vh.
Ich
IS
a Con-
Permit,
the first
ej, ^ step toward the
of a broad-
ing license.
the col-
1, ® has submitted a
^•^St 4T
Of five prefer-
in
- the assign-
call letters
Si ^he proposed new
(The new
will not be
Ugg ^tted to continue
the letters
the ^®oause that is
Si^. sign of a
at Mount
College in
,j, h Hadley, Mass.)
a new 10-
VJilkinson trans-
othgj. antenna and
hen^ 'Related equip-
Voj.ir-'R'®arly $2,500
'"have been
he^jj Delivery has
the Atomised within
Vser'^'^^'Rent calendar
''ev, * This means the
0(1 vu^^^ton could be
the g early in
^'RRtng semester,
Fee
tules call for
engineer to
check the equipment
and its operation to
verity that it con
forms to plans out
lined in the 17-page
application for Con
struction Permit,
which was filed last
June. According to
routine FCC procedure,
after the equipment
has been installed,
tested and its per
formance verfied by
the FCC engineer, the
station may begin
broadcasting. Formal
approval of the li
cense application u-
sually comes soon
thereafter.
"The process of ob
taining FCC approval
for a new radio sta
tion is complicated,
slow and expensive,"
according to Walter
Smith, chairman of
the Board for Student
Communications Media
here at the college.
"The FCC is a typical
federal bureaucracy,
and it takes an un
believable amount of
time for an applica
tion to work its way
through the maze of
red tape," he stated.
"Hopefully, however,
most of the difficult
time-consuniig aspects
are behind us now. If
no additional compli
cations arise, we
should be able to get
the station on the
air soon after the
mini-mester."
In the light of re
cent developments re
lated to the radio
station, Mr. Smith
had several other
comments:
"Ernie Howard,Steve
Rushton and certain
other persons on the
campus are to be con
gratulated for their
good work in planning
and promoting this
updating of the col
lege radio station;
and the student body
should be commended
for its patience
while the station
has been off the air.
Furthermore, Dr.
Benrlty, the officers
of SGA andthe members
of the Board for Stu
dent Communications
Media are to be
thanked for theri
vital parts in the
financing of this
project.
"We now have the
potential for a really
excellent campus ra
dio station, one which
will truly werve the
needs of the student
body' however, it
should be pointed out
that there is much
hard work remaining.
"First of all, we
are going to need a
lot of students who
are interested in
working for the sta
tion. Some will have
to be trained in the
technical operation
of the equipment.
Others will have to
be organized and
trained as a program
production staff. For
every hour of on-the-
air prograimming nu
merous hours of be-
hind-the-scene, off-
the-air labor is re
quired. News has to
be gathered much as
the HILLTOP staff
gathers material for
its issues; other in
teresting programs
will have to be plan
ed and produced.
"A third group of
students will need to
be trained for on-the
air operations. They
will have to become
professionals in
broadcasting and to
Mars Hill-The 8th
annual Bascom Lamar
Lunsford mountain mu
sic and dancing fest
ival will be broad
cast over the Nation
al Public Radio sys
tem this winter. Fes
tival committee mem
bers have received
notification that the
festival, which was
taped during the
three day weekend in
October, will be re
leased for airing be
tween January 19 and
February 8, 1975, on
the network's "Folk
Festival USA"program.
Titled "The Minstrel'
of the Appalachia,"
the program will fea
ture many of the
mountain musicians
who participated in
the event, which was
more than simply play
records and make
casual comments.
"All of this will
be hard work, but we
cannot have a first
class radio station
without it; and if we
are not willing to
try to have a first
class station, we.
ought not to waste
our time and money in
this entire venture.
"I am firmly con
vinced we can have an
excellent radio sta
tion."
held on the Mars Hill
College campus.
Radio officials
note that it would be
appropriate to call
local NPR stations
for specific broad
cast times. NPR stat
ions are located in:
Durham and Winston-
Salem in North Car
olina: Greenville, S.
Carolina;and College-
dale , Johnson City
Knoxvi1le, Memphis,
Murfreesboro, and
Nashville, Tennessee.
Festival sponsors
termed this year's
event as the best
festival yet. Atten
dance was reported at
over 1600 as a third
night of activities
was added to the
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