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Spartan Daily .'olume 76, Number 1 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Friday, January 23, 1981 Technical problems hound KSJS radio by Jeffrey R. Smith KSJS, the campus radio station, has been given 90 days to bring its broadcast signal within Federal Communications Commission standards, according to KSJS student manager Chet Davis. The station could not meet the FCC's engineering standards because of the hum and distortion caused by the station's obsolete audio console. The audio console mixes the radio signal which is sent to the tran- smitter. All sound heard over the air is sent through the console, which is used to mix sound from more than one tui ritaLle or cartridge-tape machine. Occasionally, the KSJS console would lose one channel, producing sound in only one of the listener's stereo speakers. Because of the sound problems and other signal imperfections which could only be detected by electronic testing, the station was faced with either purchasing a new console or jeopardizing its FCC license. Davis said that in the last six months the station spent about $1,500 to conduct six tests of its engineering quality, each of which showed that KSJS was operating below specifications. Since surplus funds were unavailable for a new console, KSJS has canceled its other orders for major equipment purchases to help pay for a replacement, according to chief engineer Mike Gallagher. The Theatre Arts Department, which controls KSJS's finances, also had to cancel its requests for two $1,200 cartridge-tape mactunes used for taping jingles and music and a request for replacement lamps for the lights in the television studio, according to Prof. Clarence Flick, coordinator of the ra- photo by 8111 Andrews 'THIS ISN'T EASY' -- seems to be the expression on the faces with the problem of calculating a smooth spring semester and dio/TV/film program. Gallagher said that additional orders for $5,300 worth of TV monitors of Bill Dickey, graduate student in computer science, and Kim joined the lines of other students with the same intention. Al- and a $600 portable videotape recorder for use by field reporters also had to Purcell, senior in physical education. Purcell and Dickey es- though walk-through registration is over, students can still add be canceled. caped the cold winter day in the warmth of the Men's Gym dur- or drop a class. The last day to add or drop a class without spe- Gallagher said the new console KSJS hopes to purchase irom ADM ing priority add/drop registration last Tuesday. Both wrestled cial permission is Friday, Feb. 13. Technology in Roseville, Mich., is a demonstrator model that the Theatre Arts Department has agreed to pay $7,000 for. The unit's retail price is $8,600. The broadcasting license is worth considerably more than the cost of To be heard in San Francisco replacing the console. "It would be impossible in Santa Clara County to buy an FM licerse for less than $1 million," according La Prof. Ken Blase, director of the radio/TV trial starts Monday news program. Bombing suspect's However, since no one in the department has the authority to purchase the console, it must go through the California State University and Colleges by Russ Fang Building Oct. 3. courtroom at the trial.," Mansfield years in prison and/or a $20,000 fine. purchasing system in Sacramento. The trail of an Iranian national While the $1 million bail set by said. The threat against the president has If there is a delay in purchasing or if someone offers ADM a better deal accused of plotting to bomb a U.S. Magistrate Nordin Blacker "I will tell ou Vie court and I a maximum penalty of $1,000 and/or for the console, then KSJS will be in danger of missing its 90-day deadline, meeting of the Moslem Student during AJrnaneih's arraignment Oct. had a chuckle over it because the five years imprisonment. which expires April 3. Association at SJSU last semester 7 remains in effect, attorney Paul only people we could find were The threat against Carter stems -Any little windsto in can blow the whole thing down," Gallagher said. has been rescheduled to begin Mansfield hopes it will be reduced reporters, so we'rs not alarmed," he from an organization that police say But Flick, who said he "put the station on the air in 1963," has more faith Monday. once his client's trial starts in the added. -but apparently the Almaneih was trying to organize than Gallagher in the CSUC purchasing process. Naser Rahimi Almaneih was to courtroom of Judge Spencer government was, so we're in San called the "Iranian Free Army." "Where there is an urgent need, they come through for us," he said. its hit list were .iave been tried Dec. 1 but received a Williams. Francisco." At the top of Prof. Alex MacKenzie, faculty director of KSJS, also downplayed the the IFA is hance of venue order from San Jose U.S. Attorney Louis Thrasher Almaneih was arrested Oct. 2 by Carter and his aides who seriousness of the situation. to San Francisco Nov. 21, following said the change of venue order was the FBI at his business, the Almaden said to have considered eesponsible "I see no calamity," he said. "I see no crisis." Inrr. the shah in 978. 1 indictmeet by the ledeeal grand maJe to sccommodate the judge's Fsame end Glsss Pe in San for the fall of However, chief engineer Gallagher said, "The department is so un- jury here. schedule, but Mansfield disagrees. According to the FBI, he was FBI agent Joe Chiar imonte said derfunded that we're always falling further and further behind. We're so far Almaneih faces seven counts, "Apparently the FBI and/or the making pipe bombs and had planned the agency has invetig ted the IFA behind now that we're illegal. including the unlawful making of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and to disrupt the MSA meeting hosting in connection with four other "If you're going to teach higietechnology subjects, you're going to have firearms, threatening President Firearms reported to the court that a pro-Khomeini Iraqi speaker. bombings in the Bay An a. to fund them with high-technology bucks." Carter and attempting to bomb the there had been threats and there Almaneih has also been charged Although the government MacKenzie, however, said KSJS is operating "legs.11y, professionally MSA meeting in the Old Science would be demonstrations outside the with the August bombing of the declined to comment on the up- and to the best of our cdpabilities," but slightly outside of FCC engineering Confederation of Iranian Students at coming trial, Chiaramonte is certain limits because of the failing audio console. the west campus of Berkeley High it has a good case. Flick said that even if the station does not meet FCC stall:lards by the School. Five-hundred people were "The evidence is pretty April 3 deadline, it will probably receive another 90-day extension if he can New library to meet due date evacuated there and one was in- damaging," Chiaramonte said. "But show that they have worked in good faith to correct the problem. jured. it's going to be a unique trial Although KSJS did not meet the FCC's technical standards, it did meet The charge against Almaneih of inasmuch as we're going to find in the commission's programming requirements. damaging a building with explosives this case a strong show of political Every three years, the F'CC monitors the amount of news, music, carries a maximum penalty of 20 beliefs." public affairs programs on a station to determine if it is See TRIAL, back page commercials and brosdcasting in the public interest. Police force acquires new bite A University Police officer to walk four-legged beat by Rich de Give 1 The University Police have acquired a member of a Mfferent breed. U- No, a 2-year-old German shepherd, joined the force on Jan. 5 and will be walking the beats with campus police this semester. SJSU is the first campus in the state to use a dog on patrol. "The principal value of having a dog on the force is as a crime deterrent," said U-No's trainer Jim Faggiano, who has trained dogs for five other police departments in the Bay Area. Using a dog on campus was the idea of University Police I.t. Maurice Jones, who worked with police dogs for six years as a member of the Topeka, Kan., police department. "A dog has keener senses than a human and is an extension of the of- ficer's senses," Jones said. "Dogs are also a tried and proven safety tool." U-No will work with Officer Eric Zeno, who was specially picked for the job. Jones said Zeno was chosen because of his even temperament, his low profile and his adaptability to the situation of working with a police dog. Despite weather delays, the new Clark Library is expected to meet First patrol dog the fall '81 target date. on state campus by Bruce Rockland to be installed. Despite heavy rains during the Also awaiting installation is the and a labor dispute last new building's solar heating and spring Zeno was previously employed as a juvenile corrections officer and on summer, construction of the new cooling system. the police force in Wheatland, Calif., but this is his first experience with a Clark Library on Ninth Street should According to project engineer dog as a partner.