FCC Infractio Ns Silence WMHB Colby Radio Was at the Wrong Frequency and Wattage, but Could Be Back Soon by MAX SADLER ASST
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FCC infractio ns silence WMHB Colby radio was at the wrong frequency and wattage, but could be back soon BY MAX SADLER ASST. NEWS EDITOR Colby's radio station, WMHB 90.5 FM, was shut down July 10 after learning of problems with the Federal Communications V Commission, the government h agency governing all broadcast ' media. Officials have been work- ing throughout the summer and, after an estimated cost of $10,000, predict the station, will be back on applied for a temporary license to the air by the end of September at broadcast on the new frequency a new frequency and lower with a lesser wattage, 10 watts. At wattage. the same time WMHB also filed During June, Summer General for a new Class A license to broad- Manager Lee L'Heureux '03 and cast at 110 watts. former faculty advisor Joe Poole The station will also be found that WMHB was broadcast- required to install a new antenna ing on a different frequency than atop Roberts Union. listed on the FCC web site. The Calareso said "Monday, the frequency listed, 91.5 FM, was thirteenth [of September] is the home to WMHB until 1983, when goal date" for WMHB's return to it changed to 90.5. L'Heureux sent the air, a letter the FCC requesting that Until . the spring of 2000, the database entry be changed. though, WMHB will be forced to On July 6, L'Heureux followed operate under the temporary up on his letter to the FCC. He was license, greatly reducing the area informed that the incorrect listing of reception to "just the campus was "the least of (the FCC's) prob- and some of Waterville," accord- lems." She informed L'Heureux ing to Calareso. that WMHB had been broadcast- Calareso and L'Heureux both ing at not only the wrong frequen- agreed the shutdown could have cy but also at an unapproved been avoided if the problem had strength. been recognized earlier. After contacting the "All you have to do is what Intercollegiate Broadcast System we're doing now," said and having additional discourse MELANIE GURYANSKY /THE COLBY ECHO L'Heureux. "Do the paperwork and follow up." ¦with the FCC, L'Heureux was WMHB General Manager Jeffery Calareso ' 01 checks the station equipment. Though the station went the air this summer, he antci- off The station and the College advised that new forms needed to pates it will be on air by the end oj the month. Nearly $10,000 has been spent to solve the station' s problems. be filed to officially change the have roughly $10,000 in construc- wattage that WMHB broadcasts capable of examining WMHB, could be resolved with the FCC. wanted to clean it up." Sentinel and the Associated Press, tion, engineer and legal bills with. The wattage increase had L'Heureux also learned that Maine After a consultation with a FCC As the summer progressed, began to take notice of WMHB's according to Calareso and occurred in 1986, but nobody had Public Radio had been awarded lawyer, L'Heureux met with the L'Heureux, Calareso and Assistant situation and cast MPR as "a vil- L'Heureux. filed the proper paperwork. the 90.5 FM. Once MPR had been summer executive board of General Manager Tom DiBrita '00 lainous behemoth which ruthless- "When you have students leave . A member of the FCC also awarded 90.5, WMHB could no WMHB and decided to shut down worked with Student Government ly stole our frequency," said it and graduate (necessary paper- informed L'Heureux that a study longer feasibly continue operating WMHB at 2:00 a.m. on July 10. Association to procure proper Calareso. work) doesn't necessarily get of WMHB had to be completed on that frequency. "We didn't want to be on air funding for the impending legal WMHB then had to search for a done," said Calareso. "We're deal- before the new paperwork would Dean of the College Earl Smith knowing we'd be illegally broad- proceedings. new frequency on which to broad- ing, though, with the FCC which be accepted. suggested that WMHB discontin- casting," said current General Soon after the shutdown, the cast. It found 89.7FM. is a business and is not sympathet- After contacting an engineer ue operation until the matter Manager Jeffery Calareso '01. "We press, including the Morning WMHB management then ic." just about everything at Colby, the institution the Echo staff represents Even the Echo and serves. Summer carbon monoxide accident kills Parr y '01 Sure, we've seen our share of BY MEGHANN FOYE roommate from in the attached garage of the and dizziness. She woke her husband must change redesigns, following the basic trends NEWS EDITOR tlie previous year Chesapeake Landing Way townhouse. and soon passed out. After going of news design. In the 1930s, we ran at Colby. According to Maiy Kline, Parry's downstairs to investigate, Mr. everything down five columns, A female Colby student died from Parry had mother, Mrs, Hickman had gotten into Hickman was able to call 911 before Fro m the putting the headline of one story at carbon monoxide poisoning this sum- planned to drive a fender bender before Parry and passing out as well. Police, firefighters the end of the next. That was the mer while visiting a friend in home that night to Douglas had arrived and forgot to turn and rescue vehides soon arrived on the Editor way things were done in the journal- make it to her job the car off. scene and paramedics found Douglas ism world. Maryland. Matt Apuzzo Bryn E. Parry '01 of Alexandria, Va. the neat morning, Carbon monoxide gas seeped Jr. and Emily still awake but disorient- But, seeing as though this paper died June 19 when an automobile was but instead chose through to the family room where ed. came about just two years after the inadvertently left tunning in the PARRY '01 to stay at the Parry was sleeping and then upstairs, Parry was found unconscious and telephone was invented and today garage attached to the home at which Hickmans, where Mr. and Mrs. Hickman, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma has been 122 years since the our media ranges from wireless fax she was staying. Parry was spending the night at the Douglas, and their other child, Emily, Center in Baltimore. Itfirst pages of the Colby Echo machines to high-speed digital Parry, , Hickman's Annapolis, Md. home 20, were sleeping. The Hicksons were also affected by 20 was visiting her grand- came off the printing press. A lot See EDITOR, when Hickman's mother, Ann, inad- At around 5 a.m. Mrs. Hickman See PARRY, conitnued on page continued on page parents in Rehoboth Beach, Del. with has changed since then, inchiding three Douglas Hickman Jr, 22, her friend and vertently left her 1999 Acura running awoke to feelings of lightheadedness two Health Center almost closed evenings I UNVEILED: By MATT APUZZO "Many of our sister institutions , unwilling to pay the necessary the hospital at a cost of approximate- The Lunder Wing Editor in Chief (Bowdoin, Hamilton, Trinity, Tufts, salary," Humphreys said. ly $1,250. UVM, Holy Cross, Carleton, opens to the public. The Garrison Foster Health Oberlin, Skidmore and others) have Center nearly closed its doors on 24- already discontinued overnight care See page six f ora hour service this summer after on their campuses," said Smith in preview. administrators were unable to hire the letter. nurses to service the facility around In the event of emergencies, stu- the clock, While nurses were hired dents would be transported to and the center will remain open Thayer Unit, MaineGeneral In throughout the 1999-2000 year, the Waterville. I REVIEWED: possibility of ending 24-hour health "i^ll care for Intoxication will be Need a cup o' joe f or a care is still very real. In fact, the 1998 referred to the hospital," said Smith. Overseers' report criticizes the "Heretofore, some marginal cases late study break? See overnight infirmary as "expensive, have been monitored at the Health page three f orwhere diff icult to staff , and variable in Center, Based upon protocols used quality," to identify ' danger signs'... students to go. In a July 9 letter tp Health Center will ; be transported to staff members, the Health Center MnineGeneral'a Emergency Advisory Committee, Student Department cither by the Security Government Association Executive Department or by die local (Delta) RENEWED: Committee members, Colby ambulance service." rii_u ri-uiu / inm-wupi dv.hu Emergency Response lead ers and SGA President Benjamin A nursing shortage nearly forced Garrison Foster to close at night, Can a slum be the Dear of Students Office staff, Humphreys '00 responded to the let- reborn? See page two Dean of the College Uarl Smith out- ter with a 4-pnge memorandum out- The 1998 Overseers Report cor- "Students will certainly think lined a "contln- . lining Ills belief roborated Humphrey 's statement, twice before calling CER if they f or the Foss- gency plan" to that the Health suggesting that If tlio Health Center know the results will be embartasaS close the facility at Center should is kept open, the administration ing, expensive/ and damaging for Woodman tale, i night. remain open and should " adopt a pay scale that the themself or their friend/' he taid, Citing Colby's challenging reflects both experience and train- He also argued that Colby would inability to hire Humphreys ing. Our understanding is that the breach its contractual obligation to tho Xdt UliOrialP MIIMIMIlMMUtKHHHim.MI IIMIIIll llMHHtMMI PS* ni ghttime also challenged current pay scale does neither/ ham- student body — as laid out In the stu- Ward's Words pg.