Monday, February 1, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Journalism forum to address impeachment trial coverage
By Yoshitaka Ebisawa Special to the Kansan
The 1999 winner of the William Allen White Foundation's national citation, Albert R. Hunt of The Wall Street Journal, will be a panelist Thursday at the University of Kansas discussing media coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial.
A journalism forum, "Responsible Reporting in Tabloid Times: Big Issues in News Coverage from Heartland to Beltway," will be held at 3:30 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Hunt, executive Washington editor for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, will receive the foun
dation award
Friday and
give the annual
William Allen
White Day
address at 1:30
p.m. in the
Kansas Union
Ballroom.
James Gentry, dean of the School of Journalism, said Hunt was a distinguished
journalist and had had an excellent career covering politics and government issues.
Hunt: Won William Allen White Foundation citation.
Other panelists at the forum
include Gerald F. Seib, deputy Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal; Dave Helling, and political reporter for WDAF-FOX 4; Emerson Lynn, publisher of The Iola Register; and Mark Zieman, editor of The Kansas City Star.
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, will moderate the discussion.
The panel will focus on how news organizations can make responsible decisions when their competition for increasingly fragmented information is the distinction between serious news and tabloid sensationalism.
Sponsors of the events are the William Allen White Foundation and the School of Journalism.
Special to the Kansan
When it comes to recruiting guest speakers for KU design students, Hallmark cares enough to send the very best.
By Katie Hollar
Design students are required to take four semesters of the symposium.
Since 1983, the greeting card company has partially financed the Hallmark Symposium. The symposium, which is offered each semester, features seven lectures by designers, illustrators, photographers and other professional artists.
"They'll have an opportunity to see how 28 design professionals interact with the marketplace," said Joe Zeller, professor of design and department chairman.
The lecture series starts today with a presentation by illustrator Chris Lensch.
Lectures bring design pros to KU
The symposium will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. every other Monday throughout the semester at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Hallmark recruits the lecturers and pays half the cost. The remaining costs are paid with various University funds.
The symposium was established by Thomas B. Allen and Lois Greene, professor of design. A committee of design faculty members selects the sneakers.
Zeller said that the three initiatives of the Hallmark Symposium were to inform and enrich the student experience, to allow students to make contact with a wide range of professionals and to increase the visibility of KU design programs.
Design faculty choose designers from corporate settings, independent houses, international companies and one-person operations. They strive to include a variety of styles.
"We try to go across the spectrum from very traditional to very avant garde," Zeller said.
The Hallmark Symposium has attracted many of the contemporary design stars. The series has had artists from firms such as Martha Stewart Living, CBS, Urban Outfitters and Rolling Stone and Playboy magazines.
In addition, every year the faculty invites one or two recent graduates to speak.
"When you get some fireball who was a KU student a few years ago, it contributes to making the career opportunities for students real," Zeller said.
"These are not little people," Zeller said. "These are the biggest names in the industry."
By presenting design students with real success stories, Hallmark Symposium dispels many of the "starving artist" myths.
Matt Wegeren, Wichita junior, said, "I get to see where I should be in the next five to 10 years."
Zeller said he viewed the Hallmark Symposium as an integral part of the design program.
"It puts the face of reality on being a designer," he said. "They get their first opportunity to identify with the community they're about to enter."
This semester's speakers include Lensch; Maria Grillo, graphic designer; Michael Tolson, founder and CEO of Thinking Skin; Rick Cusick, calligrapher; Clair Van Vlet, book artist; Laurie DeMartino, Studio D designer; and Gary Kelley, illustrator.
Classified Senate seeks salary reform
Special to the Kansan
SUNGLASSES BY BAUSCH & LOMB
four who retire.
About a dozen members of the KU Classified Senate went to the Capitol in Topeka Wednesday to push for salary and hiring reforms in state policies.
"All these decisions have to be made by the legislature," Hanson said. "This is usually our big push of the year."
By Nathan Willis
He said many state employees, about 106 on campus, had worked their way to the top of the pay scale. The only pay raises available to them were the annual cost-of-living adjustments.
He said these adjustments had no kept pace with the cost-of-living increases in recent years.
The Senate took an annual trip to Topeka to present its concerns to legislators.
Auchard said the annual increase of 0 to 1.5 percent had made it difficult to hire people.
Jerome Hanson, Classified Senate president, said that this year the group had three goals it would like legislators to address: increasing the cost-of-living adjustments in salary, instituting a new formula for computing overtime salaries and reversing the current policy of hiring three employees for every
Another pay issue the group in Topeka lobbied for was reversing a 1994 state law that no longer counted holidays as overtime pay, Auchard said.
The group also wanted to reverse a 1993 state law that mandated only three new state employees could be
Classified Senate represents about 1,600 classified employees on the KU campus, said Mike Auchard, chairman of the organization's legislative affairs committee.
hired for every four that retired,
Hanson said.
"These things, of course, are going to affect everyone," he said. "If we can't get enough personnel to do the work here, then that, in turn, affects professors and students."
Benito Berardo, classified senator, said the group was meeting with legislators individually to discuss its three proposals.
Hanson said he was fairly optimistic that the legislature would pursue some of the Classified Senate's goals.
A bill dealing with overtime pay already has been introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives, and he said bills that dealt with cost of living adjustments and reversing the hiring policy would be introduced in the legislative session.
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