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Show Page 4 Tfie Tfiunderfurcf Thursday, Marc ft 1, 1984 1 & Mark Wade (left), has had the opportunity in SUSCs communication department to interview such luminaries as Martin Luther King III. Wade releases reins; but still seeks limelight Limelight has been a large part of Mark Wades life this year. If he gets his wish in life, it will continue to be a very large part. Wade serves in a variey of capacities on campus capacities that are rather Student body president, announcer on the student radio station, of SUSCs KGSU, and television program are posts that attract a lot of attention, and attention is what follows Wade, who holds all three positions simultaneously. Outgoing and active, Wade seems to radiate a zest for living. One can readily see his friendly smile and sparkling eyes as he travels through campus, on his way to various meetings or classes. Though school work and politics keep him on his toes, he finds the time to participate in activities and be with his friends. Wade said that he has found the position of student body president challenging, yet very rewarding. He said he feels good about the things the student government has accomplished, one of them being the changes in the constitution. That change in the ASSUSC constitution was among Wades foremost goals when elected a year ago. The change was effected through the executive council, the ASSUSC senate and the general student body via an election last month. The structure of student government was streamlined, and although not expressly in the same pattern that Wade initially foresaw, the measure upheld the spirit of Wades u lshes. Streamlined or not, the office of ASSUSC president exacts a toll, says high-profil- e. Wade. "Its like a full time job and consumes a lot of my time, he said. I have to carefully plan a daily schedule in order to get everything done. Among other stated concerns of Wades upon his election Feb. 23, 1983 was an interest in spirit and school pride. Now nearing the end of his term, he says he feels good about fulfilling that goal. I think weve got a lot of spirit now, he said. As a child, Wade lived in New Zealand where his father taught at the LDS college. For the eight years Wade lived there, he grew accustomed to a different cultural lifestyle than that of the United States. He said that when he moved back to this country, at the age of 13, he had some difficulty in adjusting. In New Zealand we wore uniforms to school and soccer and rugby were the main sports, he said, but when I moved back here, I had tc get used to a new dress style and the sport was football. Wade gained a love for soccer and wanted to make it a career. He said that when he was in high school he played on a soccer ream Soccer wasnt an official school sport so we werent recognized by the school as a team, he said, but we played other unofficial teams around and beat them. An injury ended the career dream for Wade, but through his efforts at SUSC, another seems to have arisen in his life. His experience as on SUSCs Color Country Weekend, he feels, is preparing him well to meet his goal of television becoming an newsman. Although Wade tapes the weekly show for St. Georges Channel 55, he spends much of his time on the radio. Beyond the fact that after leaving te Dixie College two years ago, he wanted to go to a small school so that he could gain a large range of experiences, Wade chose SUSC because of the radio station. I wanted to do a program that I could experiment with, he said, I wanted to try my own thing, within certain limits of course. Experiments on the morning program include Wades brand of unique wit. d Fantasy people, rubber traffic helicopters, trivia questions with occasional prizes, offbeat humor and, of course, plenty of music all characterize the Morning Show on KGSU which Wade shares with Ron Stott. The pair has proven quite popular and Wade says he enjoys inventing his own humor and that he has learned more with the freedom allowed at KGSU than he might have in a station with a more structured format. The relatively small communications program at SUSC also affords Wade a chance to learn a bit about all aspects of radio and television. From operating equipment to performing and from making news decisions to effecting troubleshooting duties, Wade gets a taste of the total radio and television operation. I have the equipment right in my office, and use it constantly, whereas in other schools Id never even get to touch or even see it very often, he laughed. Wade is a rather familiar sight wheeling around the colleges color cameras, and conducting interviews while serving as camera and sound man alike. Its that kind of varied experience that intrigues him. But its another aspect of his varied career at SUSC that tends to intrigue many others. What does he do when he has to interview himself as student body president? That situation does not occur, said Associate Professor of Communications Don Godfrey, who notes that Wade and the Color Country Weekend crew do not cover the campus, but rather southern Utah in general. Wades forays around campus are primarily for classes. band-powere- Still, hes been known to meet with potential conflicts in his dual capacities when hes presented with problems of freedom of the press in relation to the coverage of student government. For the most part, Wade has received passing grades in such situations. These and other situations are all adding to what Wade hopes will be a vast store of knowledge and experience in the world of telecommunications one that may one day allow him to own and operate his own television network. Before that dream may be realized, however, Wade hopes that his experience will take him back to New Zealand, where hed like to work as a correspondent for a majr television news outlet. And, perhaps Wade feels when those lights go on and hes presented with any one of the multitude of potential problems that face newspeople, the duality of his life at SUSC will be a constant reminder that the limelight always relative. is |