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Volume 56 Number 9 People Tv,0 wwern Carolinian Page 4_ Thursday, October 11, 1990 Student learning self-sacrifice for others Cassandra Barnett Staff Writer Stephanie Freeman is a junior from Greenville, South Carolina, and is a communication disorders major. She graduated from high school in 1988 and plans to graduate from Western in 1991, so while she may not be here as long as most students, she is packing four or five years of classes and many other activities into three. As co-president of Western Gold, she is involved in contacting and recruiting potential WCU students, and must always be a positive representative of the university. Freeman also has the honor of being one of Western Carolina's twenty Chancellor's Ambassadors. She Stephanie Freeman frequently attends receptions and dinners to act as a hostess of the university, because "the Chancellor can't be everywhere at once." The club for her major is the National Student Speech, Hearing and Language Association, in which Freeman is a communicator. As membership chairman for Alpha Xi Delta sorority, Freeman is involved in organizing rush activities and recruiting new members. The most recent event the sorority has managed is the Faculty Night Out. They plan to continue this babysitting service on a monthly basis. Part of her studies as a communication disorders major (formerly called speech therapy) includes working with clients who have language, voice or articulation problems, and sometimes those who wish to be able to drop a heavy accent, a service some foreign students have found to be useful. Clients include students at Western and other members of the community. Freeman has had training in speech therapy in her classes, and has an advisor to help construct a specific plan of therapy for each client. She also works with hearing, screening and special education children. One of Freeman's hobbies is ventriloquism. She uses her doll, Theodore, in church programs and as a therapy aid. Freeman became interested in communication disorders partly because her mother works in the field, and because she has been exposed to some aspects of the work. Her family has been highly active in the foster children program, and as a result, Freeman has come to love working with children. While she enjoys the great rewards of such work, she stresses the fact that it is not for self-gratification that she v. helps others, but that the client always comes first. This, according to Freeman, is a very important altitude for therapists to maintain. After graduation, Freeman hopes to attend graduate school at the University of South Carolina and get her master's degree in communication disorders. She would then like to work for a few years as a speech therapist in the public school system in South Carolina, close to her family. In the distant future, Freeman sees a possible private practice, primarily for children and senior citizens, but she says that is "a long time from now." Time, classes and radio station enough for student If what happened on your inside happened on your outside, would you still smoke? NOV. 15. THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT Pierre D. Dalmas Staff writer WWCU's General Manager Michael Jones took time out for an interview on Thursday afternoon and commented on the radio station and his role there. "I suppose the best way to describe the General Manager of a radio station is that he is like the manager in any organization but he is specialized for his area.. .to oversee his different departments." said Jones. "There is a lot of P.R. involved. Especially since my position is appointed. I'm a bureaucrat." Jones explained the station's current format by saying, "We play Contemporary Hits. Top 40 or actually Top 100 would describe it better." "Our day parts-the segmented times of the day's radio schedule, start with the morning show from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. We play Top 40 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with our Electric Lunch show breaking in between 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. In the late afternoon we move into more uptempo music until 7:00 p.m. when we play primarily dance music. At 10:00 p.m. we move back to Top 40." "For the segment of 2:00 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. we are creating some new programming. There is a progressive show in the works and other shows are still being created." "We currently base our playlist on Billboard, but we are planning to switch to Radio and Records-the industry's newspaper," said Jones, smiling. "We feel our purposes will be served better." "Last March when we switched from the old format to the new Z-91, the primary change was that we dropped all the block programming, the specialty shows. We became mainly Top 40 all the time." "We didn't feel the old format was succeeding. Rather than segment the formats, we wanted to be consistent and stick with one universally popular format," explained Jones. "We decided on which format was the most popular by.. .well we guessed!" laughed Jones. "No really, we based it on feedback we got here at the station and what we know about our audience." "No, there were not any surveys. I believe the last time anything like that was done was when a Marketing 300 class did some research. We would have liked to have seen the results, but we never did get to see them." "The Broadcast Sales and Promotion class is going to do some research this semester. I think they know what we really need in the way of information." "Yeah, maybe there are some people who feel they have to listen to 25 songs to hear one they really like," admitted Jones, "but there are also people who love every song we play." "To get involved with the station, there are two things you can do. One is to go to our meetings on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. or get in touch with Bryan Queen." Jones is a senior seeking a Bachelor of Arts degree in Radio/ Television and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. He does not plan to go into the broadcasting field. "I would like to get my Master's degree in Psychology after I've finished with my bachelor degrees. Eventually I'd like to get my doctorate degree as well." "Why am I not entering R/ TV.? I just got turned off to it. It wasn't any one thing, just a lot of little ones." In April, Jones' second year as the General Manager will be over. Willhecontinuetobeapartof the radio station after his term is finished? "I don't know. I haven't decided." LyVEHHEM WTthMilk^ Petticoat Junction 27 E. Main Street Sylva, 586-8303 ^ We support... Catamount Week! f * "Everything from elegant cottons; I 2S^s to luxurious silks" USITT-Southeast to hold workshop Jonathan Boulden Staff Writer The United States Institute For Theatre Tecnicians - Southeast Regional - will hold its annual master classes and workshop classes at Western Carolina University beginning Oct. 12 and concluding Oct. 14. Theatre technicians from the institute's nine southeastern states will gather for a weekend of workshops on topics ranging from make-up prosthetics to backstage safety practices. USITT is a national organization that was formed for promoting and advancing the profession of design and technology in the performing arts. Of the over 3000 USITT members nationwide, approximately 600 are in the southeast region. "This is an organization for people who work at places such as the Ramsey Center, civic auditoriums, repertory and schools and universities," said Lawrence Hill, head of Western's department of speech and theatre arts and a member of USITT's national board of directors. "These are the designers, the costumers, the stage hands and the production personnel." Theatre professionals from western North Carolina, including high school and college theatre and local repertory company members, are especially encouraged to attend the sessions said Hill. This weekend-long gathering will focus on safety and health issues regarding the theatre technician profession. Topics to be covered include treatment of shop injuries, the impact of AIDS in the performing arts, and safety in working with pnucmatic- hydraulic equipment. Many schools, including the North Carolina School of the Arts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of North Carolina at Asheville, University of Georgia, Florida Stale, West- em Kentucky and Radford University will be represented by experts who will make presentations. Randall Davidson will be the featured speaker. Davidson is the commissioner for health and safety for US ITT and is nationally known for his work in safety in the entertainment industry. Known as "Dr. Doom" by his peers, Davidson will speak on "Toxic Substance Abuse Across the Disiplincs" in a session beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 in the Hoey Auditorium. In addition, he will lead a tour of Western's Ramsey Center. Those wishing to attend any of the workshops can get more information or register by contacting Western's department of speech and theater arts at (704) 227-7491. There is a charge for registration, with a reduced fee for students. 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1990-10-11
  • Date digitized: 2019-09-30
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  • Dimension: 22.75" x 14.25"
  • Pages: 10 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1990-10-11_Vol56_No09
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