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News Thursday, October 12, 1995, Page 4 WMCRmakesanewmove ROTC marches ahead with New location near Glar will improve a strong team of leaders visibility; add needed space claims Knauff An unlicensed AM station will reach a BY SARAH SNELL radius as far as 20 miles and does nOI have SljJlVriler ROTC goes to the field; Cadet command sees The radio station WMCR made an im- to comply with the Federal Communications portant move on September 29 to the former Council regulations. An unlicensed FM sta- learns leadership and new Exec; leaves tough Christian Fellowship office. WMCR is also lion does not have to comply with FCC regu- act to foUow as far as a five survival skills considering the possibility of obtaining an lations, but it only broadcasts FM radio station. mile radius. WMCR was running out of room in their Knauff said that he would prefer the FM former office, inside the Rouzer Hall laun- station because it offers better sound qual- dry room, according to the general manager, ity. He added that though he wants to ex- Ridge Knauff. They especially needed space pand the stations audience, he would also for the 200 to 300 new compact discs they like to keep it within the Westminster com- received over the summer. The office is now munity with the FM station. Although the radio station does not have located across from Englar Dining Hall. to adhere to FCC regulations, it has its own set Knauff, who is currently serving his second of informal rules. Knauff said, 'The station semester as general manager and has been does not have an ethics code," but some things part of the WMCR staff since his freshman that have happened in the past, "won't be go- year, is pleased with the move because it will give the station greater visibility. ing on anymore." Greater visibility of the station will en- The station has a policy of not using CUSL words before 10 pm. Any questionable radio courage more students to participate in the shows are listened to by Knauff first, and the organization, which last semester had a show hosts are warned if they violate a rule. record number of forty on the general staff. Knauff expects to receive a bid from a con- lfthe problem is not corrected, the show is can- tractor for the construction of the disc jockey celed. DJs are simply told to go by what they booth soon. The booth will be made of ei- hear on other radio stations, as there are no ther glass or plexi-glass, so that people 'walk- restrictions on the music played. But if they question the material to beplayed, they shouldn't ing by can actually see what goes on inside broadcastit. the booth. WMCRis undergoing acompleteoverhaul. The station is also hoping for a change Transmitters are located in every building on cam- of frequency from its former 640 AM. pus, but in many cases the transmitters did not WMCR staffers are trying to get an unli- work and had not worked for a long time. Knauff censed AM or FM station so that the station described the system as "antiquated" and hopes will reach beyond the school into the com- munity. to update every part of it. Bibliographer Jackson R. Bryer todeliver Holloway Lecture Courtesy of Public Information Samuel Beckett, O'Neill, Ralph Waldo Westminster, MD - Jackson R. Bryer, a Emerson, and Wallace Stevens. He has also national authority on American literature, edited collections of leiters and "converse- will present. the tenth annual Fred Garrigus nons" of Thorton Wilder, Ezra Pound, Holloway Lecture Thursday, October 26 at O'Neill, Lillian Hellman and Fitzgerald. His 8:00 p.m. in McDaniel Lounge. The pro- bibliographical work also includes a volume gram, titled "Snooping or Illuminating? Ed- on American women writers and a two-vol- iting a Writer's Correspondence," is free and ume study of Black American writers. open to the public. Inaugurated in 1986, the Holloway Lec- The prolific author, editor, and reviewer ture is named for Western Maryland's fourth is known for his numerous leadership roles president, Fred G. Holloway, who guided the in scholarship focusing on F. Scott institution from 1935 to 1947. He died in Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene 1988, having served as president of Drew O'Neill and contemporary American drama. University, as a bishop for the United Meth- Bryer's most recently published biblio- odist Church and as a trustee of several col- graphical work, The Playwright's Art, is a leges. Literature was an integral part of Dr. Volunteers Needed to Help MUrplly, continuedfrom p.I collection of conversations with contempo- Holloway's intellectual curriculum. The interest. He said that the recent estab- rary American dramatists. Currently he is college, though well aware of his leadership Prepare Income Tax Returns lishment of an internet connection at working on critical essays of William Inge, in church and in education, has elected to WMC is a good thing. O'Neill, Fitzgerald and the correspondence present these annual scholarly lectures as a Student volunteers are needed to join the Although he prefers more tradi- between Thomas Wolfe and his editor, Max- lasting tribute to one of his deepest commit- 4th annual VITA program at WMC. The tional forms of information, like read- well Perkins. ments. VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) ing magazines, Murphy said that the After completing his undergraduate Recent Holloway lecturers include John program offers free tax help and/or tax connection is very important to aca- work at Amherst College in 1959, Bryer con- Barth, professor of English and creative writ- preparation to people who cannot afford demic institutions and that the college tinued with graduate studies at Columbia ing at Johns Hopkins University in 1994; professional assistance. Each new volun- is going "in the right direction." Murphy University and University of Wisconsin. Nancy Walker, professor of English and di- teer will be required to attend a 3 day tax also said that he has been .to Westmin- Since 1965, he has been a distinguished rector of women's studies at Vanderbilt Uni- training session to be held at WMC Janu- ster many times because his mother-in- member of the University of Maryland Col- versity in 1993; and Jonathan Yardley, book ary 25-27. Upon completion of training, law lives here. lege Park English department. critic and columnist for The Washington Post students will be expected to work in The William and Edith Ridington Bryer has either edited or co-edited, in in 1992. WMC's VITA program during tax season. Annual Lectureship was endowed by the addition to the Heath Bibliography of Ameri- Additional information about the Hours spent in training and in working will children of the two late WMC profes- can Literature (1994), checklists of Holloway Lecture may be obtained by call- count toward internship credit(s). For fur- sors. Murphy was the fifth speaker to Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, William ing Ms. Virginia Story in the Department of ther information, please call Susan Milstein participate. Styron, Louis Auchincioss, Hamlin Gartin, English at 857-2420. atX456.