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Show Your Campus PAGE A7 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 Plans move forward on Internet radio Sam Garfield Senior News Writer As Utah Valley State College jumps through the various hoops required to get a fully functional radio station, Mike Wisland and Michael Harper, media and communications professors, are coming up with a different kind of offering. Starting within the next few months, UVSC digital streaming radio will go online and become available to the general public, worldwide. Wisland's radio class will have an opportunity to get their feet wet in broadcasting as soon as the server is made public. The class will be handling all the content for the station, which will include independent and local artists, special interest segments and school news. Phil Gordon's Multimedia and Communications radio class will also be collaborating on content for the new station. "There's a gray area about how you pay royalties for streaming songs on-line," said Wisland. He plans on avoiding any potential legal problems by only playing content, which has been approved for broadcast by the copyright holder. The plan is to "avoid playing pop music" altogether and to make the station not only run locally, but filled with local content. In addition, the radio station will be capable of broadcasting live sports events and recitals. Michael Harper and his streaming radio class will be handling all of the hardware requirements for the radio station. He is currently working with the school to obtain a grant for high tech equipment, which will allow the station to stream 24 hours a day at a high quality bit rate. He also has plans to include the capability of providing on-demand audio and video content. "The station will support the newest technologies that are standards-based," said Harper. This means the station will use the brand new mpeg4 codec so that the audio will stream at the maximum quality that each listener's computer is capable of. By the end of next year. Harper even plans to have the station Dolby 5.1 compatible, which means 5-channel surround sound will be supported. The radio station "sounds like a good way to get local bands out in the open," said Wendy Gailey, a photography major. The station is up and running with a test play list now, and it will be released to the public as soon as it is fully capable and stable. Watch for more information in the College Times, or log on to www.netXnews.net. News Writer Last week the Center for the Study of Ethics planned to host a panel discussing the recent visit of Michael Moore. Though it had been announced weeks in advance, it was cancelled the day before the event even occurred. Dr. David R. Keller, the director for the Center of the Study of Ethics, stated that many of the panelists were concerned about addressin" a still controversial and "Diversity" cont'd from page A6 ondary thing to somebody else's welfare." . There is, however, a bright side to this. Even a little college experience benefits the students. "If a student drops out after only one year, without graduating, they make six to eight thousand dollars more," Andersen said. Gwen has been doing her job well. Since 2000, UVSC's ethnic student population has increased by 80 percent. Among these are about 800 Latinos, 250 Native Americans, 250 Polynesians and Asians, and 83 African Americans. The number of the ethnic students who come from other countries, however, has not done as well. With soaring tuition costs and immigration restrictions implemented following 9/11, there are about half the number of international students now that UVSC once had. With this explosive growth, the number of programs the Center sponsors has grown as well. The center hosts a myriad of projects and events that benefit ethnic students and the causes they are promoting; way to many to list in this article. One example, however, is the International Charity Concerts hosted by the Center that benefits the David Ssenjinja Children's Foundation for Uganda. Ssenjinja, a Ugandan UVSC student, started the foundation which provides for 250 Ugandan children. One of the Center's most popular events is the Polynesian Conference and Performance. Along with workshops and seminars discussing the value of higher education and Polynesian culture, the event culminates with a "Grand Luau" featuring a gourmet island menu and exotic Polynesian entertainment. One of their neve ;i programs is the Mullt < 'ultural Choir that is a eollnhoiitiion with the LDS Institute, "ll's rockiiT. We are ripping up the roof," Gwen said of the ensemble. While the programs sponsored by the Multi-Culuiral Center greatly assist UVSC's ethnic students, it is small in comparison to how much our multicultural students benefit the entire student body and community. Hopefully we will remember Tom Alice's words when he said, "We can release and actually use the enormous wisdom and power of diversity-instead of crushing it, isolating it, or soothing it into a gray tolerance." Light a fire this Valentine's Day. Moore panel postponed Preston Powell Multicultural Center helps ethnic students adjust to Utah culture heated topic. He said, 'The circumstances surrounding this event were extenuating, however; many panelists expressed discomfort with the climate on campus surrounding pending litigation, and the airing of the documentary," Keller said. 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