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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XIV, Number 6
International Festival bigger and better
By Nancy Davis
The UNCC International Festival
will be held Saturday, Sept. 30, from
; 10a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and will mark the
fourth year of the festival. The impor
tance and impact of the festival has
I grown in those years that now the
I famous International Festival Com-
mittee spends most of its time on
I organization and not so much publici-
■ ty-
More than 20 countries will be
I represented at the festival located
I outside on the Cone University
■ Center patio. Many of the groups are
I from the community and there are
I also student groups that will be work-
ing with community organizations.
I Marian Beane, director of Interna-
tional Studies, is very pleased with
I the student participation thus far.
I Student volunteers are helping out
I greatly in setting up the festival.
Four years ago, after the Interna-
I tional Studies program had begun, a
■ committee, headed by Beane, was
n,;^ Ml go on as usual as WFAE awaits the final decision by HEW.
(photo by Robin Colby)
WFAE awaits final word
By James Braswell
Il seems everyone is trying to get
Bo Pittman, WFAE-FM's station
manager, to say "we have the grant."
But Bo is having a hard time convinc
ing everyone they don't — at least not
yet.
WFAE-FM, UNCC's radio station,
has met all the prerequisites to get
the HEW grant they highly covet,
hut they don't actually have the
grant, nor the official conformation.
Though it has been printed in
newspapers that WFAE has the
grant, they actually don’t.
What they do have is an unofficial
conformation from their contacts at
HEW that they will get the grant.
When that word leaked out, and it got
hack to HEW, HEW warned WFAE
not to make any announcement.
In other words, WFAE unnoffically
has the grant, officially they don't --
least not yet.
With the grant, WFAE will be able
to increase its power to 100,000
Charlotte, North Carolina
organized to look at ways to com
municate the program and the inter
national experience through campus
programming. They came up with the
idea of the International Festival and
from the beginning, it has been a suc
cess. They found this type of program
"did accomplish that purpose,"
Beane said. For that reason, they
chose September as the month,
because it was the “beginning of the
year and was before people got too
bogged down.”
Carolina Journal takes on
One never fully understands what
is meant by "red tape" until they ac
tually experience it, and the staff of
the Carolina Journal has experienced
it in its reddest form in the past five
months. In an effort to improve the
physical appearance of the newspaper
editor Nancy Davis and typesetter
watts. The increase will also mean
that they the station will also reach
1.5 million people. In effect, WFAE
will also become Charlotte's public
radio station, something which the ci
ty doesn't currently have. And that
status is much higher than being a
Ill-watt student radio station.
In the wake of all the havoc over
the grant, the station has managed to
function in its usual efficient manner.
In fact, it is going to increase its
programming.
Beginning Oct. 1, WFAE will
broadcast 12 hours daily, from noon
until midnight. The programming
will still be the same, with mostly
classical music, some jazz and a few
educational and news programs. One
new edition though, is "Drive-time."
“Drive-time" will occur from 4:30
until 6 p.m. weekdays, and is obvious
ly named after the time when most
people drive. The new program will in
clude mostly Baroque and
Renaissance music.
The first year the festival was held,
it was set up down around the library.
Beane said it was moved to the Cone
University Center patio because of
problems with the wind and even
though the space was becoming
smaller there, she said, “it does mean
we rub shoulders."
There is a large cross section of
countries being represented. Euro
pean. Oriental, Middle Eastern,
Islamic, Latin American and native
(continued on page nine)
Michael Evans began shopping
around for some new typesetting
equipment.
After deciding on the general kind
of equipment needed, it was
necessary for UNCC's Purchasing of
fice to send the specifications to
Raleigh. From there companies were
sent the information and bids were ac-
cepted through that office. Davis
specified the equipment must arrive
by August 15, in order to use this
equipment in publishing the first
Carolina Journal. The bids sent in all
agreed to that delivery.
A hearing board met in Raleigh to
look over the bids and recommended
to the Carolina Journal which
machine to buy. However, the final
decision was to be made by the
Carolina Journal staff and at that
time, was torn between two machines.
When it was agreed both machines
were fairly comparable except in price
“we went with the cheaper machine,"
Davis said.
Things seemed to have been runn
ing pretty smoothly up to then, ex
cept for the fact that when Davis had
talked to Purchasing Director Jim
Houston in May, he.had said this pro
cess would be through by July. It was
Aug. 7. The order was sent to Pur
chasing on time, however, during the
summer, there had been holdups in
Raleigh with the bid process.
Evans did most of the communcia-
tions since he was on campus and had
been assured the Compugraphic
equipment ordered would arrive Aug.
15. There had been no word on
delivery by then and Davis and
Evans began calling offices in
Georgia (regional office) and
Massachusetts (main office). They
were told the earliest possible date for
delivery would be November.
"Naturally, we were upset," Davis
said. "This equipment can update our
layout piocess ano there win uc a
noticeable difference in the overall ap
pearance. We have bought a wide
variety of typestyles for headlines
and texts, and plan to make the
September 26, 1978
Music is a main attraction every year at
the International Festival.
(photo courtesy Office of Information)
a new look
newspaper not only neater, but an
easier, more attractive paper to
read."
Several phone calls a day to the
main offices began. Each week a pro
mise was made the machine would be
sent by the end of the week. "And
each week ended without a machine,"
Davis said. “Michael wrote the presi
dent of Compugraphic, called his of
fice and at one point called Senator
Ted Kennedy's office and left a com
plaint with his consumer affairs of
fice. He figured it couldn't hurt the
main office in Massachusetts to
think the government was checking
up on them."
Finally, on Sept. 13, unexpectedly
the 900 pounds of equipment was left
outside the entrance to the basement
of the Cone University Center. After
Davis was assured that a crew from
the Physical Plant would have
somebody to move it inside by at
least the next morning, a crew of
volunteers pushed it into the layout
room.
The next day a representative from
Compugraphic was sent out to install
the machine and train the operators.
Unfortunately, it couldn't be used for
the Sept. 19 issue. The filmstrips that
were to be delivered “with no pro
blem" a week and a half earlier hadn't
been received. The filmstrips allow
the machine to photograph the styles
in order for it to be typeset.
"It's all ready to go, now," Davis
said. "We've been through such a
hassle, but we hope it'll be worth it.
This machine cost over $17,000 and
we'll be working all year to pay that
off."
When asked how she plans to pay
for the equipment, Davis responded.
"All our advertising revenues go
towards paying for the equipment.
We traded in our old equipment, so
that will pay the down payment.
Also, we will be doing typesetting for
various departments and organiza
tions. The profits from that will help
pay, too."