CIMN back on the air

CIMN BACK ON THE AIR AGAIN,..,.FIWALLY...

By Derrick Webber

CIMN STUDENT radio is finally back on the air- Connections between the station and it’s carrier

waves.

current transmitter were re- established March 8th, ac- cording to CIMN Manager Rhonda McLellan. The sta- tion can now be heard in all UPEI residences and in the Robertson Library Lounge.

The station was cut off the air in October when a fire in service tunnels behind Dalton Hall destroyed cables. CIMN managed to get recon- nected to its FM cable al- most immediately, but has not been available on campus until recently.

McLellan blames the ex- treme delay in getting CIMN service to the campus recon- nected on a lack of a reliable technician.

McLellan says the re- connections finally had to be done by Don Coles of the Physical Plant with the assistance of station mem- ber Bob Stanley because CIMN’s’ technician John Bentley, didn’t have time. She said Bentley, a full-time

President: DEAN MACMILLAN 706 (E)

RHONDA MACLELLAN 91 TOTAL 797

Vice president

operations: TONY DOYLE 122 KIRSTIN LUND 259 MARY ANN FITZPATRICK 422 (E) TOTAL 803

employee of CHTN radio, was called repeatedly but didn’t have time to reconnect the station. She says that the station wound up wait- ing until the UPEI mainte- nance department had iden- tified all other wires dam- aged in the fire before they figured out which ones be- longed to CIMN.

The station manager also attributes the delay to lack of trying on the part of Heather Hickey, the Student Union executive responsible for CIMN.

Sy don’t think that enough was done by the VPO. And whether she knew the technical parts or not, which I’m sure she doesn’t, I think that what she should have done is to hound Maintenance and say ‘what’s going on?’ If she had done that they probably would have acted a lot more quickly”, says McLellan.

She said that as Manager she had done her part to get the station connected.

sey had called maintenance sev- eral several times. Don Coles

Vice president

finance:

JOAN MASTERSON 522 (E)

DON CARR 249 TOTAL 771 Senate: JOEL IVES 286 SUSAN ARBING 283 LAURIE REEVES 455

_ (E)

EARL BYRNE 379 (E) TOTAL 1403.

I talked to on many occa- sions... It’s not the fault of CIMN or CIMN manage- ment that the wires weren’t connected more quickly. I don’t take any responsibility for that.”

However. regardless of who is te blame for the ridicul:-us delay, CIMN has no plan to get its wires re- connected should they be cut again. McLellan says that it was suggested to Mainte- nance that the wires in the tunnel be labelled, but she does not know if this was done.

Presently when CIMN

has a_ technical problem,

they rely on the full-time

technician at CHTN Radio or Bob Stanley, a UPEI graduate and long-time sta- tion member. However, as demonstrated by the Octo- ber to March delay in getting the station broadcasting to the campus again, frequently neither have time to do the work.

But despite the fact the station hasn’t been available on campus most of the year, McLellan says it has been a good year for CIMN.

“Tt’s been really good feedback from the listening audience off campus,” she says. The station has been called from as far away as Bunbury from people tun- ing in on cable. Mclellan says many callers are stu- dents and they like listening to CIMN because there are not a lot of ads.

To combat the lack of audibility CIMN has suf- fered, the station plans to be recruiting at High Schools and has been doing remote broadcasts from the Charlot- tetown Mall.

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“It’s just promotion of the station. We get the DJ’s down there talking to peo- ple in the Mall and it sounds pretty good,” she says.

To expand the listening audience, McLellan says she is going to request that the Food Committee make sure CIMN is on in the cafete- ria at all times rather than playing C-100 which they presently play.

“It’s student radio and it should be played where students congregate and stu- dents can hear it. Not only does that benefit the stu-

dents, it benefits the station as a whole to increase lis-

tening audience which also increased our revenue be-

Election results

Vice president academic:

LISA MURPHY 510 (E) JOHN SCOTT 177 TOTAL 687

Business: VALERIE ADAMS 138 (E)

DOLLY BHATIA 82 SHANNON MACDON- ALD 114 (E)

TOTAL 334

Arts:

HANS CONNOR 185 (E)

ROB MACDOUGALL 169

SANDY JARDINE 96 JENNIFER BARTLETT 203 (E) TOTAL 653

YES NO ABSTAIN DARYL COLE (E) 163 25 66

LAURA KILFOIL 219 24 54

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she says. CIMN would also like to see speakers set up in many of the student lounges on campus.

Presently, CIMN is look- ing to update some of its equipment. McLellan says they would like to buy two

cause of advertising,”

new turntables over the sum- mer and are waiting for coun- cil approval. She says the station needs repairs on two cart machines, but in general the station has all the pieces it needs.

“It’s really good equip- ment,” she says, “CHTN wouldn’t have the cart ma- chines we do. It’s really good equipment. It just needs to be repaired.” a

Science:

YES NO ABSTAIN JOHN MACDONALD (E) 167 713

DWIGHT THOMPSON (E) 154 15 16

Ombudsman: YES NO ABSTAIN SEAN MACINTOSH (E) 566 50 13

THE VOTER TURNOUT WAS 813 VOT- ERS OR 41.3%. WHICH IS UP FROM LAST YEAR OF APPROXIMATELY 30 TO 35%. 2

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