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University Daily Kansas Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1962
A Changing Profession
There have been many changes in American journalism in the 50 years since the University Daily Kansan became a daily publication. They have deeply affected the way news is reported and how it is presented to the reader.
The basic reason behind most of the changes is rooted in the journalist's changing concept of his responsibility to the public.
FIFTY YEARS AGO. the good journalist considered his primary function to be a strictly objective presentation of the news. His purpose was to present only the cold, hard facts of an event to the reader.
This objective approach as the ideal has faded. It has faded because, like many other things, it has proved inadequate for the needs of modern society.The new breed of journalist is the interpretative reporter who digs into the background of the event to learn its causes and its significance.
The reasons for his rise are many. The world has become increasingly complex and the reader is no longer able to decide on the basis of his own background the causes and significance of many events.
THE RISE OF the interpretative reporter was hastened by the need for some method that could be used effectively to counter the tactic of the big lie and the half truth that have become so common in the world today. The Communist bloc is the outstanding most flagrant user of these methods. But men like the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy also used them to inflict great damage
on innocent people in the United States. The use of background material to explain the history of a man like McCarthy and the event or person he is dealing with is vital to neutralize the effects his statements might have, and it is because of this that the interpretative reporter's role gained in importance.
Coupled with the rise of interpretative reporting has been the development of numerous columnists who attempt to clarify and explain the news. Some of them work for great metropolitan newspapers like the New York Times and some are syndicated writers.
OTHER CHANGES have come to the journalism profession. The hectic pace of modern life put a premium on the citizen's time. The news media responded with tightly written stories that push the significance and main facts of an event into the first few paragraphs of the story.
The Daily Kansan itself has changed. It has changed in much the same way that journalism itself has been changing over the years. It has also grown larger and enlarged its scope to include any subject that comes within the scope of its readers' interests.
This process of development and change is a continuing one, both for American journalism in general and the Kansan in particular. The end is not in sight, and it never has been. The future will undoubtedly continue to bring new concepts and methods in journalism under the pressing needs of the coming decades, and the Kansan will always attempt to meet those needs.
—William H. Mullins
Many Famous Newsmen Served on the Kansan
By Burton W. Marvin Dean, the School of Journalism
Dean, the School of Journalism In the last half century something of the University Daily Kansan has "rubbed off" on numerous men and women who have risen to top rungs in Kansas and American journalism.
Among these alumni on the national scene have been Ben Hibbs, who recently retired from a successful career as editor of The Saturday Evening Post; Chet Shaw, for many years editor of Newsweek magazine; Haymond Clapper, an immortal among Washington correspondents who was killed in a plane crash on the Pacific front during World War II; Louis LaCoss, the first editor of the Kansan after it became a daily in 1912 and now retired as Pulizer-prize winning editorial editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Doris Fleeson, internationally-famous Washington correspondent; Richard Harkness and Bill Downs, renowned commentators for NBC and CBS respectively; James E. Bell, bureau chief for Time magazine at Hong Kong; Joy M. Miller, women's editor of Associated Press; and Earl Johnson, general news manager of United Press International.
MEN WHO PRECEDED the day of the University Daily Kansan as journalism students at the University of Kansas but who contributed to the tradition undergirding the Kansan include Roy A. Roberts, president of The Kansas City Star; the late Marvin Creager, editor of The Milwaukee Journal and as such a principal creator of one of America's greatest newspapers; and Oscar S. Stauffer, publisher of the Stauffer Newspapers in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
A roll call of present-day Kansas publishers would be liberally sprinkled with Kansan alumni such as Clyde M. Reed, Jr., Parsons Sun; Herbert A. Meyer, Jr., Independence Reporter; Ralph Hemenway, Minneapolis Messenger; Charles Sturtevant, Cimarron Jacksonian; John D. Montgomery; Junction City Union; Dolph Simons, Lawrence Journal-World; Chelland Cole, St. John News; Sam Shade, Sedan Times-Tar; Max Moxley, Sterling Bulletin; R. E. Robinson, St. Mary's Star; Harry Valentine, Clay Center Dispatch; Drew McLaughlin, Jr., Miami
County Republican; George Clasen,
Florence Bulletin; John J.
Conard, Kiowa County Signal;
Larry Funk, Oakley Graphic; Leon
Sanders, Manhattan Mercury;
Richard L. Hale, St. Francis Herald;
and John P. Clarke, Jetmore
Republican.
In the management end of publications there are such men as Frederick W. Giesel, business manager of The Post and Times-Star, Cincinnati, Ohio; Eugene T. Lowther, retired after many years as general manager of The Emporia Gazette; Milton L. Peek, advertising manager of The Ladies Home Journal; Robert B. Hill, manager of the field marketing division of The Farm Journal; and Lester Suhier, vice president and subscription manager of Look magazine.
AMONG THE NEWS executives, most of them graduates in recent years, are Joseph V. Knack, city editor, The Toledo Ohio (Blade) Paul V. Miner, managing editor, The Kansas City Star; Jay Simon, sports editor, The Oklahoma City Oklahan; Charles G. Pearson, Sunday editor, Topека Capital and Journal; Paul R. Conrad, editor, Great Bend Tribune; Bill Mayer, managing editor, Lawrence Jour-
on the Kansan are such persons as Harold E. Addington, chief editorial writer, Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal; Clarke M. Thomas, Oklahoma City Oklahanom; James W. Scott, Kansas City Star; and Alan Jones, Wichita Eagle.
Reporters of considerable stature include J. Murray Davis, special writer for the New York World Telegram; Charles R. Roos, The Denver Post; Allan W. Cromley, Washington correspondent for Oklahoma City Oklahoman; James L. Robinson, chief of the state capital bureau for Detroit Free Press; Herbort Cooper Rollow, sports staff, Chicago Tribune; Richard H. Boyce, Washington correspondent for The Houston (Texas) Press; Joseph A. Lastelic, Washington correspondent for The Kansas City Star; Joseph A. Taylor, prizewinning Latin American correspondent for United Press International; John R. Corporon of WDSU-TV, New Orleans, one of the first Washington correspondents for a television station; Kenneth Coy, KCMO-TV, Kansas City, Mo.; John Herrington, WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Mo.; and Allen Dale Smith, news director of KMBC radio station in Kansas City.
nal-World; Fred Brooks and Ralph Coldren, day and night managing editors, Hutchinson News; and John McMillion, managing editor, Clovis (N.M.) News-Journal.
Earl J. Johnson
Carrying on as editorial writers after early experience in this field
UNIVERSITY DAILY K
ALUMNI OF THE Kansan who made good in advertising include Burt E. Cochran, vice-president of McCann-Erickson agency in Los Angeles; James L. Barrick, national advertising manager, Kansas City Star; Morris H. Straight, director of advertising, Spencer Chemical Company, Kansas City; Tom Jones, advertising manager, Cushman Motors, Lincoln, Neb.; Bill Beck, advertising manager, Henry's Store, Wichita; Louis Sciortino, advertising manager, Fort Scott Tribune; Donivan Waldron, national sales manager, KAKE-TV, Wichita; James E. Lowther, advertising manager, The Emporia Gazette; James W. Murray, advertising supervisor, Spencer Chemical Company, Kansas City, Mo.; Gerald L. Mosley, account executive, Potts-Woodbury agency, Kansas City, Mo.; Ron Phillips, with N. W. Ayer and Sons agency, Philadelphia; and Bob Trump, account executive, Foote, Cone and Belding, Chicago.
The public relations field is well represented by such men as Paul Fisher, public relations director of United Aircraft Corp., Hartford,
THIS CORNING EVENT
CASTS SOME SHADOW
(Continued on page 4)
VOLUME IX
Crael Truth Must Be Told
If It Does Cause
Heart-Burns
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUEDAY APTERNOON, JANI ART 10:15:28
BRAMINATION SCHEDULE OUT
Undergraduate Design of Tervor to Begin Week From Saturday and End Friday Following.
It's ironic and that all that has been done to her is just work from a beautiful improved interior. But she still hasn't had anything about cleaning and shampooing and skincare, so she must be expected to marry.
dinner, birthday, and final
divorce! We will place of birth
January 17 if they begin, on April
25 if they begin, on February
31 if they begin, on Monday
February 19 if they begin.
more grazing and wagting of sheep
and cattle, and more breeding in
studies of the College. We
but after analysis the science that
we need to study will help lay
award a better future.
The schedule for examinations is out.
there is the list of events:
10-12 classes, Saturday morning,
Jan. 27.
EVERY 20
**Charles W.** (1846-1927) *The Adventures of Charles W.* *Everyday in the Life of Charles W.* *The Adventures of Charles W.* *The Adventures of Charles W.*
**Mary Ann J.** (1835-1918) *The Adventures of Mary Ann J.* *The Adventures of Mary Ann J.* *The Adventures of Mary Ann J.*
**William C.** (1851-1932) *The Adventures of William C.* *The Adventures of William C.* *The Adventures of William C.*
**The two stories of John F.** *The two stories of John F.* *The two stories of John F.* *The two stories of John F.*
**Tuesday's** *Tuesday's* *Tuesday's* *Tuesday's* *Tuesday's* *Tuesday's*
"They'll be stinked when they eat who 'ch.'
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
TO BE A FEATURE
0:00 classes, Monday morning,
10:30 classes, Tuesday morning,
Jan. 6th
0:00 classes, Tuesday afternoon,
Jan. 9th
11:15 classes, Wednesday morning,
12:30 classes, Wednesday afternoon,
12:45 classes, Thursday morning,
Feb. 7th
0:00 classes, Friday morning,
Three hour classes (and one hour
or Friday) will be examined
for the meeting from 1:30 to 1:45
before for the meeting from 1:30 to
1:45 before for the meeting from
1:30 to 1:45 before for the meeting
from
Laboratory sciences are also in use. The laboratory worksheets are the official guide to the first laboratory exercise or at last for the entire laboratory. A book on an hour a week is available at a local library.
FOR SAFETY, HAI TECH CO.
"And the drinking water" is the
matter of concern for Mr.
Prof. R. B. H. Boly, head of
the Chemistry department, this mo-
ture is toxic."
"BOIL DRINKING WATER FOR SAFETY," SAYS TOUNG
Daily Kansen Will Have a
First week: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in two days; commencement with first week.
Second week: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in two days; commencement with second week.
Third week: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in two days; commencement with third week.
If you have any questions, please contact the appropriate person.
A department of high school and
college tutoring is located at 1050
Kingston Avenue near northwest
of the city. The department is
majority of the high schools in
the city, the schools of which are
the vehicles enrolled by the University
ary Schools.
FREE and FREE bone classes, will be
held on Sunday, May 31 from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at the member's chosen
classroom for the semester.
The Dealer Union will go to
Berkshire Hathaway for a
between the benefits for
the dealer and the benefits
for the University informed
to have the University informed
to have the university great
guests.
Herbert S. Bailey, MS, Will Star Citric Acid Plant at Los Angeles, Cal.
The United States government is responsible for protecting the lives of American soldiers from harm and do away with the water in the battlefield at present. The U.S. government is in support of the improvement of water supply in Lima, Peru, and Las Ampelas. It must also stage a military operation to locate and destroy a first plant of the life in this region.
Angeles. Cal.
THE DUR
A film about a college graduate's life.
A film that gives good advice but harms it in the end.
A film in Wimshurst.
A film in Woodward.
Tuwai to Bukhari Adda.
C. U. Tenggong of the deposition of
the Kashmir Confederation will
will attend at the Technical
Convocation of the Kashmir
Confederation.
Eak, January 19. Dr. A. B.
Khalil, January 19. Dr. A. B.
of the power of the state.
SENIORS PETITION AGAINST FINALS
Want Faculty to Exempt al
"2" Students from
Spring Exams.
The Stations of the Coliseum are a set of seven stables designed for a maturation of exquisite specimens. The stables are located near the courtyard and they advertise their ability to store and preserve specimens before the term expires.
The potential adversary admits, "I will not allow the admirer of the china redressal to be allowed until the china redressal has been completed, before work will be done elsewhere a whistle will be granted for an admiring witness before the end of the month weeks before the end of the year. The admirer will have to do all his own research and be prepared to present himself before the admirer the answer is very likely to be do no harm."
This is the front page of the first issue of the Daily Kansan.
IN GOOD OLD TIMES
IT WENT BY RHYMES
Students Taught in Verse
erospirity.
"Treatbook of fifty years ago," the subject of a chapter held by his wife, the department of mathematics, and the department of geography. By George Van Winkle, Postmaster Geography. By George Van Winkle, published in KANSAS. The people asked the poetry teacher about a question about some words would touch about someone that particular person will thank for
(Those were the kind of crises we manfully struggled with back in the halcyon days of 1950.)
He Ate His Words
Bv Fred Brooks
In the long history of the University Daily Kansan, its fearless editorial writers have been threatened, cursed and maybe even horsewhipped, although the archives may not record the latter.
These are but occupational hazards all pundits worth their salt must face.
I learned as a sometime UDK editorial writer 12 years ago that the perils of pundity also include gastric disturbances, namely indigestion. The printed word, I can testify, literally is hard to swallow, with or without condiments.
MY STRANGE MENU was the result of a smart-alekey editorial which at the time I thought amusing. if not enlightening.
I thundered into print one afternoon with what was supposed to be an expose of a Kansas State basketball giant, one Clarence Brannum, whom Phog Allen affectionately called Grandpa.
In a way it was a vindictive piece provoked by the caterwauling of the skeptics at Manhattan insinuating dear old KU was fibbing about Clyde Lovellette's actual height. The Manhattanites thought Clyde was nine feet tall.
SO I CHALLENGED Kansas State to produce documents proving that Brannum was only 23 as listed in the publicity brochures,
I was convinced that Kansas State was concealing Brannum's true age. I had heard rumors that the big fellow, who indeed looked years older than his contemporaries, would be drawing social security shortly after graduation.
If it had stopped there, all would have been well.
But impulsively I added a postscript of sorts offering to eat my words if proved wrong. The offer, of course, was made rhetorically, but, alas, was taken literally.
I lost and had to go on with the ludicrous show in the enemy's camp.
I was led out onto the floor of Niehols gym, deposited in a chair and served editorial-under-glass. The piece de resistance, a tidy two-by-eight inch morsel, was cradled in a spotless glass cassere. I ate.
Fittingly, the spectacle was part and parcel of the K-State-KU basketball game, co-starring Clarence Brannum (age 23) and Clyde Lovellette (height, 6-9).
It was a bitter editorial to swallow.
(Mr. Brooks, Class of '59, is night editor of the Hutchinson News.)
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Tom Turner ... Managing Editor
Linda Swander, Fred Zimmerman, Assistant Managing Editors; Kelly Smith, City Editor; Bill Shieldon, Sports Editor; Barbara Howell, Society Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Ron Gallagher...Editorial Editor
Bill Mullins and Carrie Merryfield. Assistant Editorial Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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Tom Brown ... Business Manager
Don Gergick, Advertising Manager; Bonnie McCullough, Circulation Manager; David Weins, National Advertising Manager; Charles Martinache, Classified Advertising Manager; Hal Smith, Promotion Manager.
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