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THE VOL. LXVI NO. i2 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 197 4 Sophomore Cindy Toma smiles N majestically after her coronation as 1975 Homecoming Queen at Saturday G night's game. First runner-up Karen Ca Moore and second runner-up Carolyn w, 40 eek of Homeot*atii O'bS f. 4F Registration p an gains momentum By DUNCAN MANSFIELD Gamecock Staff Writer A tentative plan for computer-assisted registration for the 1976 fall semester will be sent to a presidential academic ad visory committee for approval Thursday, according to Luke Gunter, registration director, The registration proposal was approved by the USC faculty registration committee two weeks ago after an "off and on" three-year study made by the office of administrative services, records and registration, according to Jack Cooper, computer center director. Student class schedules, under the proposed system, will be coordinated by computer from pre-registration statistics. When a student pre-registers he is, in effect, finished with all registration and will not be required to go through the Coliseum registration process. Students will receive approved class schedules and tuition bills during the summer for the fall semester. Fee payments can be paid in advance or when students arrive back on cam pus. ID's can be validated at the student's convenience, Gunter said. "ASSUMING ALL goes as planned, the computer-assisted system will be -less expensive (than the present Coliseum system)," said Nicholas P. Mitchell, vice president for ad ministrative services. Gunter estimated the new registration would have a total implementation cost of $30,000 to $50,000 for the first semester it is used. The system cost per semester would be considerably less "over a long-range period," Gunter said. The computer-assisted program being considered by USC was developed at the University of Tennessee in 1969, Gunter said. The Tennessee plan is being used by at least 10 other schools, Cooper said. . Please See REGISTRATION, Page 16 WUSC files for FM frequency By JOYCE WATSON Gamecock Staff Writer WUSC formally applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a FM frequency Friday. According to Student Activities Dean Robert E. Alexander, an engineering report was approved and a request was submitted to the FCC for a FM frequency. Alexander said that all necessary procedures for the request have been completed in "great detail" at USC, and it is left to the FCC for final approval. A R EPLY from the FCC is expected within 60 days. If the FCC grants a FM frequency to WUSC, it will be January or February before they can begin FM production according to Ed Turner, station manager. Approximately $6,000 was spent on equipment to prepare WUSC for FM production, Turner said. However, he added that WUSC already had some of the necessary equipment. TURNER SAID he believed WUSC most probably would receive a FM frequency, but that it would be at least four months before they could begin production. WUSC's search for a FM frequency began In February when the Student Board of Publications and Communications recommended to USC President William H. Patterson that the station be allowed to request a FM channel. Patterson approved the search in March. When asked why the FCC request has taken so long to materialize, Purner said, "it usually takes this long fr. these k.inds.eqt.".