University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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I came across WUAC, UNC-C ' s radio station, quite by accident. I was attending summer school at Guilford College as a student of Croensboro College. I had lis- tened to the station maybe four times when I called then- and asked them if I could work. Unbelievably, they said yes, I had always wanted to be a disc lockey and now here was my chance. Things went really well while we were training to go on the air. One by one I heard new D|s go on the air and none of them sounded quite like I had expected. When it was my turn, I fi- nally found out why. About fifteen minutes before I went on the air my toes started tingling. From then on it was downhill. The knack of spinning records came easily; talking was another matter. After about twenty minutes I got up the nerve to open the mike — what an ex- perience! I thought I was going to shake myself out of my chair with nothing coher- ent coming out of my mouth at all. An hour or two passed when I figured il would be much better for everyone and myself if I just crawled under a rock for a few years and left everything alone for awhile. But, I went back the next week and eventually started picking up extra shifts from people. I don ' t really plan to make radio a career, but I en|oy it |ust the same. It has given me experience in being comfortable around myself and other people. WUAC ' s format of new music is great because it pulls from many other kinds of music — rock, gospel, reggae, ska — and incorprates them into one. Very few bands sound alike. Listening to a typical format radio station is boring to me. You stagnate with the same old thing. (Continued) a o a z l-H I mM (f WUAG began broadcasting 24 hours a day in the fail of 1983, giving interested students the chance for more air time. Lori Hart struggles between the controls and the telephones on her shift at the station.

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Card Sharks: Eric Wile, Steve Henlon, Tim BlanLenship, Ben Hopkins, )enniter Mee, jnd DougCnsbaum get toRelher tor a game inCoil!. newly renovated parlor, a popular place to study or relax Colt Dorm 21

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(Cont ' d) The station will get some utterly fantastic music and we ' ll play it like mad. Three months later WKZL will pick it up and it will be a big hit with the masses. The other stations will then start playing it and soon everyone will be exposed to it. This hap- pened with Duran Duran, Naked Eyes, A Flock ot Seagulls, the Fixx, Bily Idol, and even the Police. The list doesn ' t stop. It just goes on and on. And I LOVE IT!!! Mark Gentry The transmitter -.wilch is easily located by the handy sign Byri.n Woods, a night shitt Dl, deverly remarl ed that the transmitter has less total wattage than a household hairdryer No one disagrees I And the hand-monitored controls are the ultimate in technology.)