Vol. LV., No.8 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Friday, October 22,1917 WGTB . to Resume Directors Reaffirm Broadcasting Soon Task Force Study Campus radio station since March 4 of this year, when a by Ken Koenig and Larry Peters Student Modifications WGTB-FM, for more than eight newly constructed tower atop Members of the Georgetown Cochetti raised four basic ques­ months the victim of an act of Copley Hall was blown over in a University Undergraduate Student tions: nature and intense infighting among high wind. Government met formally with the (1) "In an attempted com­ the station's management and staff, Since then, allegations concern­ Board of Directors Friday, Oct. 15, promise we proposed that the apparently is headed back to the air ing the station's direction and to discuss the July 1 directive of report of the student lifE: policy soon as the "student voice of programming-which became the Board which created the task formulations and review commit­ Georgetown University." dominated by hard rock early this " force on the quality of student life. tee be followed on an experimental The station can be ready to year-came under attack from , -- Student Government President basis while the task force is broadcast within 48 hours, but former staff members, former :i Roger Cochetti and Joe Grochow­ studying the question; station personnel emphasized that moderator the Rev. Francis Hey­ ,; ski (ColI. '73), representing Student (2) "That the essential nature of even after technical preparations den, SJ and Dr. William Thaler, Government Vice-President Nancy the task force be defined as are completed, permission to start who charged that the station's Kent, presented the views of the advisory, with the report of the broadcasting mus~ c~me from t~e In endorsing the Viet Cong student government to the Board. task force limited to recommenda­ Federal CommUnICations Commls- peace proposals the American The major points of the presenta­ tions of guide-lines for action; sion. This could further delay the delegates present'at the conference tions concerned student self­ (3) "That the opportunity be station's return up to a week. development and recommended given for appropriate members of J Garvin Walsh (Coll.'72), who (ContInued on Page 12) FR. HENLE modifications for the task force. our community to study, evaluate directs the station as program ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and make comments on the report director, indicated that the full 'A Itt· G t ' of the task force prior to its cooperation of University President n Dves men In rea ness presentation to the Board of the Rev. R. J. Henle, SJ, is needed Directors for final review; (4) "That before any nomina­ tions are presented, a clear indica­ to::fec:~:~~u~;::::::::::: Mandate 81 Goal: $51.3 Million tion of the composition of the task force be given to all segments of the Tuesday stating that he supports , by Bernadette Savard off of Mandate 81, are an opening services and in fiscal stability." To University community." the report of a special committee fulfill this mandate substantial Grochowski, speaking by a appointed by him to investigate News Editor address, "Mandate 81, an Invest­ ment in Greatness," to be numbers of alumni, parents, prepared statement, said that various charges surrounding the Mandate 81, a flexible ten year friends, foundations and corpora- students should be allowed "to station's operation. That report development program aimed at delivered by University President the Rev. R. J. Henle, SJ, at 8:15 tions must be asked to make a make decisions, to make mistakes urged Fr. Henle to "move im­ meeting Georgetown University's major investment in the Univer- and learn from them, in a situation mediately" to return the station to academic and physical needs for the tonight and a Saturday luncheon address, "Why Save Private Univer­ sity's future. The report lists several where persons qualified and experi­ the air. next decade, will be announced at a sities?" to be delivered by Dr. dividends from this investment: enced are available to give advice, Walsh said that it is "now up to national leadership convocation James M. Hester, president of New "Superior academic quality. Dis- participate ,in the decision and Fr. Henle to return the station to today and Saturday. The convoca­ tinguished educational programs. provide support if mistakes are the air swiftly and in accepting the York University. tion will bring together approx­ Also scheduled for Saturday are Broadened opportunities for learn- made. The University thus provides committee's proposals show that imately 300 alumni, parents and ing. Greatness." a unique atmosphere in which to good faith which he failed to briefings on Mandate 81's organiza­ friends of Georgetown who, along tion and timetable, symposiums on make the transition to adult re- exhibit previously." He said that a with University officials make up 'Leadership with Values' sponsibility." further delay in returning to the air several areas of the ten priorities the National Development Commit­ assigned to the program and an "Georgetown University's, The statement added that dormi- could result if Fr. Henle decided to tee. mission," the report states, "is the tory living offers, among other await the appointment of a pro­ audio/visual presentation, "The Scheduled to highlight the kick- Priorities of Mandate 81." education of creative and respon- things, the opportunity "to fessional manager for the station sible leaders-young men and examine the worth of personal before permitting broadcasting to 'An Investment in Greatness' women with a firm sense of feelings abQut moral values with begin, as called for in the commit­ Mandate 81 is divided into two traditional, spirituai, moral and peers and with those who have tee's report. phases. During 1971-1975, intellectual values." This concept of more experience or professional The professional manager will $51,300,000 in private funds must (Continued on Page 14) (Continued on Page 13) join Walsh and the two other be raised to fulfill the objectives of student members of the station's Phase I. The Mandate 81 report, board of directors in guiding the "An Investment in Greatness," station's operations. Walsh said that notes that "we at Georgetown Court Blocl~s 3 Sisters~ he favored beginning broadcasting University have now identified the immediately, before the appoint­ essentials of our own charted ment of a manager, because all course." This course is based on Opponents to Celebrate allegations against the station "conscious choices" derived from management were dismissed by the difficult questions and "promising Last week the U S Court of at noon down near the District site committee. and positive answers." The next Appeals blocked the Department of where the bridge was to have been Walsh said that further delay in decade for Georgetown "must be a Transportation's plans to construct constructed," Washington Environ­ returning to the air will endanger decade of meaningful change, the Three Sisters Bridge across the mental Center spokesman Bill the FCC license of the station, heightened educational impact-and Potomac River near Georgetown. Painter revealed Tuesday. which expires in October, 1972. constructive yet selective growth." Tomorrow, several Washington The Appeals Court decision was "Not broadcasting at all is the The six areas in which growth environmental and conservation the latest development in a con­ highest abuse of the FCC require­ must occur are "in academic groups are going to celebrate. troversy that developed three years ment to broadcast in the public quality, in numbers of students, in "We, along with several other ago when the Department of interest," Walsh added. diversity of programs, in educa­ groups, are sponsoring a victory Transportation announced plans for The station has not broadcast MALCOLM McCORMACK tional facilities, in community celebration to be h~ld this Saturday the bridge. The bridge proposal drew widespread criticism from citizens' groups claiming that the span would increase air and noise 'Evict Nixon" pollution and create added traffic congestion. The controversy reached the Georgetown campus in 1969 when Rennie Davis at Gaston Hall: Act Now! several University students were arrested during sit-in demonstra­ Slated for Monday tions at the site of the proposed span. Last week the controversy by Andy Lang that Lyndon Johnson was in power ended when a three-man panel of Assistant to the News Editor he dropped 60,000 tons of bombs judges sent the bridge proposal Declaring that "we are going to on the people of Indochina. Every back to the Department of Trans­ drive Richard Nixon from political month that Richard Nixon has been portation for further stUdy. office," Rennie Davis invited a in power he has dropped 96,000 "The decision," Painter ex­ crowd of approximately 250 stu- tons of bombs on the people of plained, "was in response to a suit dents at Gaston Hall last night to Indochina. Every month that that had been brought by a number participate in the "Evict Nixon" Lyndon Johnson was in office he of citizen groups here in DC demonstrations slated for early killed or maimed or drove into a regarding the manner in which the next week. refugee camp 95,000 people. Every bridge planning had been taken and Davis, one of the defendants month that Richard Nixon has been raised questions about the legality indicted in the Chicago conspiracy in power, while the war has been of some of this." The suit, he trial, pointed out that Georgetown 'winding down,' that human toll continued, also questioned "if students can play an important role has climbed to a staggering 127,000 adequate environmental considera­ in the upcoming protests. "Think people every. thirty days." tions had gone into planning the how close you are to Richard Davis outlined the details of bridge." Nixon," he observed.