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News Opinion "MftJ Signature Sports 1 Students Football mania S' Cheerleaders Steppin' out 1 helping strikes 1 pS ppBM spark cross-country i students again 1 school spirit style I seepage 2 Jj se ep age 4 1889 yEARS" seepage 6 seepage 9 Celebrating the Weber State College Centennial Monday, Oct. 17, 198a Vol. 49, No 10 Wolfpack whimpers away from Weber By Chris Barrett impressive clutch drive that Price wanted to try to get in Staff Reporter resulted in a touchdown and field goal range during the The heavens opened Saturday night, tied the game at 31-31. Coach (see GAME on page 9) Registration drive wins By Scott Summerill Managing Editor Weber State College made a better than expected showing in the voter registration drive last week tallying nearly 1400 students registering to participate in the November election. ASWSC President Stephanie Jessen said the two booths sponsored by ASWSC, one in the Union Building and another in the Stewart Library, registered about 1000 students.

"There were a lot of Freshmen," Jessen said. The amount of Freshmen registering compared to other students isn't surprising considering the large number of non-traditional students at WSC, according to Jessen. Many non-trads were already registered from previous years. "We were just really pleased," she said. "Now well just keep on them to vote." Jeff Johnson, WSC Republicans chairman, said his group registered about 400 students.

"We were trying to get people registered wherever we were," he said. "I think we had a really good turn out." The totals reached at WSC include an earlier drive that registered less than 100 students. Arts and Humanities senator Heather Forsgren said the previous drive, which was held during the Spring quarter, did well considering the time of year. "We thought that was good since it was Spring quarter and there were no elections." Jessen said the Utah Student Association reported a total of about 14,000 students registered throughout the state during the week-long drive. allowing Weber State to defeat the University of Nevada-Reno in Wildcat Stadium.

The game, which turned out to be joyful celebration for Weber State, ended on a fifty-seven yard "Hail Mary" pass from quarterback Jeff Carlson to flanker Todd Beightol. This all happened with no time remaining on the clock. "I rolled out left to buy some time and saw that Todd was running even with the defensive back. I tossed it and it felt nice," said Carlson, concerning the pass. Weber State started the game with a thirty-two yard, Greg Patterson field goal in the first quarter to make the score 3-0.

Nevada-Reno added ten points to the scoreboard to give them a 10-3 lead. Fine Unga scored a WSC touchdown with forty-nine seconds left in the second quarter to tie the game at 10-10. Weber State came out in the third quarter and added two touchdowns to give them a 24-17 lead. Following two UN-R touchdowns in the fourth quarter and one WSC touchdown the score was 31-24 with five minutes and 34 seconds to play. "We just wanted to stay close enough to where they had to have the clutch drive," said Weber State coach Mike Price.

Nevada-Reno came through with the drive they needed. They were able to take the ball on their 35 yard line with 5:34 on the clock and score. Quarterback Jim Zaccheo took an 18 yard run to the right to get the ball across the goal line. T'4 Nevada-Reno had just had an I (The Signpost Photo: Robeen Gillem) Weber pumps up the volume, as KWCR dials in album-oriented rock format strength from its current 1 00 watt level to 3000 watts, a power level recently approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This goal, however, may take slightly longer to realize.

According to Mohr, the new transmitter, which will replace the one currently in the UB, may well be located atop Promontory Tower and will cost $30,000 $40,000. "We're just starting our efforts," Mohr said. "We composed a letter that we will be presenting to prominent people in the community to ask for donations." (see KWCR on page 2) By Peter Avion Asst. News Editor Face it, radio audiences can be fickle, resulting in chameleon-like radio stations. Here are some examples: KFMY in Provo recently became KZOL, adopting an oldies format; KDAB changed its easy-listening format, becoming Utah's first jazznew age station; and KJQ also switched from easy-listening, reviving the popular modern music format.

So there was ample precedent for this fall's switch at KWCR. As the result of a listeners survey conducted last spring, KWCR (FM 88.1) adopted a new on-air format. The station; which once had a multi-format, ranging from heavy metal to jazzjis now playing album-oriented rock (AOR), to the relief of some, and the dismay of others. "I like it," said disk jockey Chris Harrison. "You can't please everybody.

Most of the students seem to like it." "The new format is a little bit worse, because I listen to radical music," said Mike Howard, WSC student. Howard admits the station "is one of the pre-sets in my car," but wishes KWCR would play more heavy metal. "It's as good as any format in the state," he said. The survey revealed quite a bit to KWCR personnel. "A lot of people didn't know Weber even had a radio station," said Program Director Kathleen Mohr, of the survey.

"Rock was the predominant listening choice. Easy listening came in next. Modern music was not popular," she said, explaining the category was listed on the survey as "new Heavy metal was equally as unpopular, according to Mohr. "The listeners for heavy metal were 14 and 15 year olds," she said. With one hurdle out of the way, that of changing and stabilizing the station's format, the staff has another goal in sight boosting the signal.