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Volume XI, Number 4
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina
September 9, 1975
Status of FM station on UNCC campus
The student radio station's FM control board.
New American Studies Program
By Ruth Townsend
It began in the United
States soon after World War II,
faded, and sprang up again in
the late 1960’s, and can be
found on the UNCC campus
today with growing popularity.
It is not a department, a major
or a school. It’s an old idea
yhich centers around a different
^proach to education. At,
BVCC it’s called the American
Studies Program. It is a
Boalition: --the English and
History departments have come
together to provide students
with a more in-depth way of
learning old subjects.
Dr. Julian Mason,
co-ordinator for the American
Studies Program, says that the
program attempts to show
students how things fit together
in a time period. The courses in
^rnerican Studies are designed
to correlate literary, historical,
and philosophical ideas of each
time period studied. For
example, a student might sign
up for a course in Southern
ante-bellum lit. in the English
department, and a related
(X)urse in Southern history of
the same period through the
History department. The
method of instruction is geared
to small classes with planned
field trips and independent
study. Dr. Mason said that the
courses were designed to make
.students aware of more than
^e aspect of a time period-to
'grease their knowledge and
'icourage independent research
itside the class.
The American Studies
committee consists of
professors each from
English and History
departments, and one from the
^ilosophy department.
dean of Humanities.
Well, what are the courses
in the American Studies
ProgramTThere are 27 hours of
courseS”three more hours and it
would be a major-which can
overlap requirements for either
history or english majors. These
courses are open to any student
who has an interest, and Dr.
Mason describes the response
thus far as “very heartening”.
The Southeastern American
Club Football deficits
two
the
The
1^-ordinator is appointed by the
By M. P. Agresta
Three months ago, Mark
Cox, the former president of the
UNCC football club, came to
the Student Government
looking for help. He found
trouble! It seems that the
football club, through deficit
spending, had incurred a debt of
$6,000. When the finances to
cover the debt failed to
materialize the club looked to
the student government for
help. The student government
responded by denying
responsibility of the debt and
revoking the football club’s
charter.
According to Sam Wilson,
chairman of the Executive
Committee, the debt was
incurred without the knowledge
of the Student Legislature.
However, after a meeting of the
Executive Committee last
Friday, it was decided to
recommend to the Student
Legislature that the student
government pay the debt .to
clear the name of the
University. They will also
recommend that a second
charter not be granted to the
football club and the club’s
equipment be sold in order to
pay back some of the debt.
Also, some legal action might be
taken to regain some of the
money.
Wilson said, “the Executive
Committee, after its
investigation, is certain that no
club football member or any of
its officers perpetrated in a
criminal act.” Wilson also stated
that the reason the club had
incurred such a large debt was
due to the club’s officers’
“inability to accurately project
income.”
Over the past two years the
Student Government has
allocated over five thousand
dollars to club football. During
the past two years club football
has spent about $15,000,
including the $6,000 debt and
the allocations.
If the Student Legislature
decides to pay the debt the
money will come out of the
students’ activity fund. This
means that they will have to cut
back on some other student
activities in order to make up
for the loss.
For almost one year.
Student Broadcasting
Association members, students
at large and the University at
large have been curious about
FM radio at UNCC. The concept
of FM at UNCC began about
three years ago, but the past
year has seen great progress in
the atempt to gain FM radio
here.
In a September 4th
interview with station manager
Bozo Pittman, FM and the new
SBA application, which is
pertinent to the efficient
operation of an FM station were
discussed. The interview was
conducted by David Ledbetter,
with tape transcription and
editing by Russell Long and
David Ledbetter.
At the outset of the
interview, Station Manager
Pittman was asked to expound
on the status of FM.
Pittman.The best way to tell
where we stand now Ts to tell
where we came from. The first
thing you have to do is get a
consulting engineer and he must
do a frequency search for an
available frequency on the dial.
For educational stations, there
are certain bands for high
powered and low powered
stations. Our first frequency
search was for 89.1 FM. It was
found that this was for a class C
station where as we will be a c
class D station. Class D is less
powerful than class C, so 89.1
was abandoned and they found
88.1 .to be available. Our
consulting engineer is Barney
Goldberg in Columbia, South
Carolina. He did the 88.1 survey
and it was turned in with our
application to the FCC. It was
filed on February 27. We
received a file number and it
was not until July 10 that I
(Contmued on page eight)
Studies Association will hold its
biennial meeting in Charlotte
during the first three days of
April. Part of the program will
be on the UNCC campus. The
emphasis of the meeting will be
the period of the American
Revolution. Although plans are
incomplete. Dr. Mason hopes
for demonstrations, lectures,
and exhibits. He says “variety
will make the difference.”
Where is your
money spent?
The Student Media Board is the branch of the Student
Association which caters to the needs of the students through
publications and broadcasting. The Board received $70,330.98 to
divide among its five branches. The radio station, the student
newspaper, the art and literary magazine, the yearbook and the
darkroom-Student Media Board are these five accounts.
With the Student Media Board decision to print the 1974-75
yearbook as a portion of the 1975-76 yearbook, the Board received
an extra $10,000 to work with, giving them a base figure of
$80,330.98. During their meeting of August 17, 1975, the Board
decided to distribute the figures as follows:
Carolina Journal—$24,822.27 or 30.9%
WVFN-$22,412,34 or 27.9%
Rogues ’n Rascals-$2i ,769.70 or 27.1%
Sanskrit-$ 10,844.68 or 13.5%
Student Media Board-Darkroom-$481.99 or 0.6%
The Carolina Journal was budgeted for a twice weekly
newspaper, causing much of their increase over the past year. Other
major costs in their budget include the final set of payments on the
two year old IBM Selectric Composer (input and output units) and
the addition of a headline machine that has not yet been officially
purchased.
WVFN received the largest budget cut from proposed budgets
of any media. Their original request came to over $32,000, which
included all of their programming for the FM station. The Student
Media Board made the allocation it did with the understanding the
Board would only be funding, the student oriented programming
(progressive rock music), plus covering the debt from last year.
Their decision leaves the station in a position of having to go into
the community to solicit money for the FM station.
The yearbook had to cover the cost of producing annuals for
non-continuing students from the 1974-75 academic year as well as
for those students presently enrolled. The original bid for the annual
included 352 pages. The number of pages had to be changed due to
the addition of 1975 graduating seniors. The actual student portraits
will not be in color due to the combining of the two annuals.
Sanskrit is working with approximately the same amount which
they received last year. Their tentative plans are to produce two
large magazines (in excess of 50 pages) and one smaller publication,
possibly to center on one particular area of art or literature.
The Student Media Board itself and the darkroom have only
one third of the amount received last year, but less than $100 less
than they spent last year. The budget does not include any
improvements for the darkroom facilities, but the Board is looking
into this possibility. The Student Media Board portion if the money
is used for general payments such as promotion for awards and
special events.
This year has provided the Student Media Board with its
greatest fiscal interests in the history of the University and through
proper planning and production, UNCC could have excellent quality
pubhcations and radio entertainment. This could easily lead the way
to better facilities for the present media and possibly the addition of
more media on campus.
Michael Evans
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