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by Mike McGaughey Radio UPEI -— at last a Reality

To many students it was the “impossible dream” — at least for this year —— but Radio UPEI has become a reality in the first year of UPE-I’s operation. At last we will have a means of mass communication with not only the students of our university but with the general public at large.

Since the project was given the go—ahead early in the university year, a tremendous amount of work and research has gone into the feasibility stud- ies as well as into the nitty-gritty technical mat- ters. This immense effort will reach its cumulative fulfillment when Radio UPEI reaches broadcast po— tential Within a month to a month and a half if all goes according to schedule.

Radio UPEI will be an \FM station and will broadcast on a high frequency (Megacycles) as 0p- posed to the low frequency AM stations (Kilocycles) such as CFCY. The decision to broadcast FM in- stead of AM was influenced by many factors. FM is technically far superior to AM in many areas, in- terference as encountered in the common AM sta— tion is practically non—existant, an FM station re- quires a low power output to provide a strong s1g— nal i.e. theoretically a 10 watt output could give us a broadcasting radius Of up to 75 mi. with a prac- tical broadcast radius of about 35 mi. versus a pow- er output of 10,000 watts (10 KW.) that is neces- sary to generate CFCY’s signal. The only draw- back as far as this is concerned is that we would not have the broadcast range that AM stations do. In our case this is relatively unimportant.

The relative ease in obtaining an FM license as compared to the mounds of red tape and regulations encountered in procuring an AM license. If we re- quested an AM license our application would go to a board on which the local AM stations would be represented. For obvious economic reasons they would be forced to veto our application. For exam- ple: if we were to obtain an AM broadcasting license we could go to all the local merchants and offer to broadcast ads at half the going rate since our star tion does not need to show a profit to stay in busi- ness. Thus —we could crucify any local AM stations and they would never consent to giving us an AM license for reasons of survival. This does not mean that our station will not be able to deferr any of it’s expenses with advertising but that our adlrver- tising will be limited by the very nature of our FM license. Since there aren’t any local FM stations, there shouldn’t be too much difficulty in obtaining an FM license.

The most important reason for establishing an FM station, however, boils down to plain econo- mics. We can establish an FM station for about $3,000 including the licensing fee. Due to it’s very nature the FM station is very portable and can be set up nearly anywhere, since only a limited quan- tity of equipment is necessary. During the process of the feasibility study a suggestion was made that a closed circuit radio station be set up but subse- quent investigation proved this to be too costly.

The people in charge of this project have in-

formed me that they are in desperate need of people to help set up the station now and to operate it once it becomes operational. These students have invested a lot of time and work and deserve more than just our thanks. Let’s not let them down. Who knows? Maybe there’s a career in broadcasting in YOUR future. P.S.—Be sure and fill out the questionnaire that is making the rounds. The time to determine what your station will broadcast is now and the ques- tionnaire is the chance to state your listening pre- ferences.

Honesty — NOT The Best Policy The SUC has once again proved that honesty

* CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E“. I:

, (FEBRUARY 3,1970 M

is notnecessarily the best policy. The victim in? this current case was Rick Hancox. It seems that in- stead of losing over a hundred dollars on the pre sentation of the Kinetic Arts films, the film so- ciety actually made an unexpected profit of a hun- dred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents (a highly novel and shocking occurrenCe for anything sup- ported b S.U. funds). This fact was not known to the SUC until Hancox presented» himself at the SUC meeting on the fifteenth Of this month.

Hancox asked the council if the film workshop could keep this profit as they needed the money to rent some films (five in all) on film-making which would be open to any interested persons and to put on an exhibition of student films this spring.

What should have been a five minute item of business on the SUC agenda was prolonged for almost twenty-five minutes by the ineptness of the council and their inability to make a decision in a reasonable amount Of time. First 'the SU presi- dlent wanted to know why the film workship didn’t ask the administration for the money to which Han- cox replied that they had already been extremely generous and couldn’t afford to contribute more money. Then the SU president suggested that the film workshop not be given any of the money for fear of setting a precedent (speaking of precedents ——this was the first time any SU supported or par- tially SU supported organization with the exception of the Social Committee has made any money this year.) Then the SU president wanted to give the film society the money with a handful of strings attached (i.e. that the film society would have to

‘make a film for the SU), to which Hancox replied

that it was too late in the year to make another film since the members of the film society were working on their own films at the present time in order to have them ready for the spring film ex- hibition. Then Hancox told the Council that a ten minute film with sound costs $200 to make, anyway.

Finally the film society was given the money under the condition that they;would make a film for the SU ‘sometime’.

In ’ such a situation as this possibly the best thing that Hancox could have done would be to have kept quiet about the whole issue and gone ahead and used the money anyway without telling the Council about the profit. In all actuality the SU was mak- ing a profit anyway even without the $115.80 since they weren’t losing the money they had‘ budgeted to lose on the Kinetic Arts exhibition. Thus they

were trying to make over $200 by trying to take,

the profit too. However in all fairness I must state that this was not the attitude taken by all members of the council.

In view of these proceedings it would make you really wonder if honesty is the best policy.

Recent Damage on Campus is Compounded by Inflation

Recent reports of the ‘severe damage” alleged to have been perfitrated by students of this were discussed at the SUC meeting on Jan. 15. As a re- sult of this discussion the SJC was severely repri- manded and censured for their irresponsible action in recommending that the Duffy Amphitheatre be closed to all students until the supposedly guilty party or parties admitted to the alleged crimes and surrendered to the security police, before first in— vestigating and basing their decision on the evi- dence as they found it. .

A report was filed by the security police des- cribing a case of arson and malicious damage that was have supposed to taken place in Duffy. On the basis of this report the SJC made the aforemen- tioned recommendation without first visiting the scene of“ the crime and examining the evidence. When this report was brought to the attention of SU president Keaveny who investigated the report

by going to have a look for himself. The ‘arson’ consisted of a scorched desk top (which was com-‘ posed of arborite, a non-combustible material—not wood) which was remedied by rubbing the smudge from the desk in question with a paper towel, and the malicious damage consisted of one of the seats which had indeed been removed from it’s moorings (in this case the responsible party had owned up to the accident before the SJC had decided upon its recommended course Of action.)

During the discussion both the SJC and VP ’

Comptroller Leo Trainor were censured for their part in the mishandling of the whole mess and a Council member accused SJC head Foster of delib- erately pulling the wool over the eyes of the SJC for the purpose of furthering his own political aims.

The whole affair had the affect of leaving a bad taste in the mouths of all those at the meeting and caused more than one person to seriously ques-

tion the present SJC and its policies as well as rais- '

ing doubts as to the credibility of the security police.

Some Financial Help for the Administration ‘

Since the Administration obviously needs more money to meet the rising cost of operating the uni- vers1ty as is envisioned by the proposed raise of "$100.00 in both tuition and residence fees I believe

that I have come up with the perfest—well almost

perfect—alternative to raising the fees.

_ 'The university needs some sure-fire method of ralsmg enough cash to meet the increased operat- ing costs brought on by inflation, so here it is.

Obviously the answer to the problem is the in- V

stallation of pay toilets in the university. “WHAT?”

I can imagine you scream, “What can you do with

a measley dime?” —— Well, you see it is much more subtle and it goes much deeper than that. This is how it works: — Student approaches cubicle and in-

. serts quarter, door opens and student walks in. Door

closes and locks behind student. Student approaches the desired machine and inserts quarter. Timer starts. Three minutes pass. If student has not pere formed the desired function when time period has expired student receives electric shock. Voice from speaker says “Your three minutes are up, deposit another four dollars and thirty—eight cents.” If student does not do so student receives more severe

, electrical shock and! fee doubles. Process is repeat-

ed until student finally pays/is electrocuted. Hav- ing concluded function student approaches cubicle door and has thirty seconds to deposit fifty cents. If student fails to deposit the required coinage be- fore thirty seconds has elapsed student receives sev- ere electrical shocks and fee doubles. Process is re- peated until student pays/is electrocuted. Student leaves cubicle when door opens. Student pays 8% sales tax to government official at door or is arrest- ed.

Sound like a good scheme? Oh, I can imagine you saying, “What about the students that can’t afford such a scheme?” Well they can--—--.

Notes by the Wayside

The CADRE is going with about the same staff as last term due to a poorly advertised organiza- tional meeting. Even members of the staff didn’t know about the meeting since the signs never; went up until the night before the meeting, so onereally. couldn’t expect too many new members. .

(Ed. Note — bullshit)

. . .sports should be better this term since they

are in the capable hands of Dave Mitchell. . .

. ..lack of organization not poor organization was the cause of the demise of the Freshman party on the seventeenth, miraculously it cleared about $20 Who was in charge anyway? . '

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