UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 13, 1995
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Award-winning journalist speaks
By Matt Hood
By Matt Hood
Kansan staff writer
Ellen Goodman says there are two things journalists don't do.
"We don't do windows, and we don't futures," she said.
Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Cancellor Del Shankel with Eilen Goodman, the recipient of the William Allen White National Citation for Journalistic Merit.
But this year's winner of the William Allen White Foundation's National Citation for Journalistic Merit did speak about the future of journalism by taking a look at its past.
During a speech Friday at the Kansas Union, Goodman, a syndicated columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe, examined how politics have become more personal and how journalists have made it happen.
Goodman said that 50 years ago, the public didn't know the private lives of politicians. During President
Kennedy's administration, there was a "gentleman's agreement" among journalists to keep Kennedy's sexual escapades out of the newspapers. Goodman said that at the time, she had wanted to know more about the character of politicians.
"It seemed to me that we couldn't exclude the personal from the political," Goodman said.
The increased influence of women in journalism helped break up "gentelman's agreements." she said.
Goodman said that the intensity of television media and the new rebellious nature of post-Watergate journalism added to the scrutiny of the lives of politicians.
"The pendulum has swung with a vengeance," she said.
events and presidential candidates have replaced policy issues, Goodman said.
Now, the alleged sex scandals of presi-
"Politics has become personal," she said. "Political reporting is more a matter of psychology and less a matter of policy."
But the pendulum may have swung too far toward the personal. Goodman derided the contentiousness of talk radio and talk television.
Goodman looked to the future and offered some guidelines for journalists.
She said that some information about the personal lives of politicians needed to be reported but that journalists must use restraint. Journalists also must make sure they put one-time scandals into the context of a person's life accomplishments.
"We have to encourage people to know more, not less, so we are not a bumper-sticker society," she said.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism and director of the William Allen White Foundation, said Goodman had been an obvious choice for the award.
"Her writing is widely appreciated because she deals clearly and provocatively with issues that matter to America," he said.
Mavis Allen Special to the Kansan
Event promotes education
Education opens the door to opportunity.
Education opens the door to opportunity. That was the message delivered to 31 Wyandotte County high school seniors at the second annual Black History Month celebration Friday at the Regents Center.
The importance of education was echoed by the program's keynote speaker Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs.
He urged the students to use their education to unlock the greatness within themselves.
The students were invited to the program as part of their participation in Educational Talent Search, an educational enrichment program that is jointly sponsored by KU and the U.S. Department of Education. The program is designed to encourage students to graduate from high school and to continue their education at the college level.
"The program makes you decide on goals," Griffin said.
Tashala Griffin, a senior at Alcott High School in Kansas City, Kan., has participated in the program since the ninth grade and will begin attending classes at KU next fall.
African-American History Month
Friday's program featured career and edu
cational workshops for the students. Panel discussions on journalism and athletics were presented by area celebrities, and workshops on Black history were presented by Chico Herbison, professor of African/African-American studies and director of the McNair Scholars Program, and KU students Sandia Leffler, Lawrence senior; Erika Harriford, Leavenworth senior and Shannon Ikerd, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
"Many people don't know that Black people were out there fighting to end slavery for themselves," Harriford said during her presentation on the Buffalo Soldiers. "Some of these men are still alive and living in Leavenworth. We owe it to ourselves to know these things."
Roy Williams, Kansas basketball coach, and Bud Stallworth, former KU basketball star, were speakers on the panel that discussed athletics. Kansas City Chiefs player Lindsay Knapp and a representative from the NCAA, Bob Minnix, also spoke on the panel.
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