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In order to achieve their ambitious plans, many WCAR staff members ran for Student Legislature ( SL ).

In 1972, a running joke around campus was that the SL was made up of three parties, the liberals, the conservatives, and WCAR.

Through the shrewd use of political power, WCAR was allocated the funds necessary to move its studios and offices to the Frank Porter Graham Student Union in 1973.

UNC students Jim Srebro, Gary Rendsburg, Jim Bond, Bob Heymann, Randy Wolf, Monte Plott, and George Frye were all instrumental in the upgrading of facilities and doing the preliminary engineering work in order to be licensed as an FM station.

A student referendum was held to allocate the necessary funds to formally apply for and build an FM station.

Through the work of WCAR volunteers, the referendum passed.