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University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1981
Page 11
Commissioners may star on cable TV
BY DALE WETZEL Staff reporter
Lawrence's new City Commission, fresh from the TV floodlights and cameras that heralded its inauguration last week, could be facing a steady camera every Tuesday night this summer.
Sunflower Calbevision, Lawrence's cable television company, tentatively is planning to conduct live broadcasts of the commission's weekly meetings. Being "sometime this summer," Randy Wanda will produce production director, said yesterday.
"We don't have anything finalized at this point, by any means" Mason said. "But we're definitely working on it, investigating the possibilities."
"I'm afraid to say when we'll start—it's all very tentative at this point. But if we're lacking some equipment, some writing that we'll need to broadcast live."
MASON SAID that Sunflower had conferred with city officials on the matter, and Assistant City Manager Mike Wildgen confirmed that the cable company had spoken with him "two or three times."
"We've been going over how they can get their cable into the building," Wilden said. "We don't have any problems with them doing it.
"I know they television the meetings in
"it could be surprised if a
lots of other cities did it."
Commissioner Tom Gleason, contacted yesterday, said he did not foresee any problems with televised meetings. Gleason, a local attorney, was also involved as an example of the unobtrusiveness that television was capable of.
"People might be conscious of the camera at first," Gleason said, "but after a few minutes, the novelty wears off and concentrate on the business athlet."
"It'll probably be the worst-rated show since 'Get Christie Love.'
Gleason also said he thought televised meetings would make it easier for the public to access information conducted business, a sentiment that Mayor Marcel Francisco shared.
"It would probably be good as an educational process," Francisco said. "More people will get to know how we do things."
Francisco, however, expressed concern at television's "one-way characteristics."
"I'm not a performer," she said.
"I'm not down there so people can watch what I do. It doesn't help me for the people to just hear what I say. I need input from them as well. I need them to talk to me.
meetings, or aren't able to for some other reason. But I hope people, despite television, take the time to come down and add some comments."
'I realize that some people don't have the time to come down to the
FRANCISCO SAID she also feared that potential meeting speakers would be intimidated by television's presence, echoed by Commissioner Nancy Shub.
"I don't think television is really necessary," Shontz said. "It might discourage members of the public from watching and expressing their viewpoints."
"There might be a few people, however, that want to grandstand.
Francisco said that she had been nervous when she first spoke before the commission years ago, and that he could be further intimidated by TV.
Television would probably encourage them."
"I don't consider myself a shy person, but I was unnerved when I first got up to speak," she said. "The commissioners sit up on that platform, you're out there by yourself, and I just got nervous.
"I hate to think what it would have been like if the meeting had been televised."
Meeting's videotape sponsor unknown
Tuesday's City Commission meeting featured another new wrinkle besides the free tea and coffee instituted at Mayor Marc Franco's request.
It was a videotape camera—and its operator, KU student Randy Corderman, wouldn't say who was sponsoring its operation, although he consented. Mr. Lawrence wasn't working for Sunflower. Cablevision, Lawrence's cable television firm.
"I hate to say anything about this right now," Corderman said of the project. "Tonight (Tuesday) was just a trial run."
Corderman said his employers wanted to "provide a more accurate record" of commission proceedings.
"They prefer to remain anonymous" Corderman, Roseburg, Ore., senior, said of his employers who contacted him and offered him a taxing tapi City Commission meetings.
wanted to see how taping the meetings worked out, how clear the picture is, what the audio levels are."
Corderman said he had looked at the tape yesterday, and the results were "pretty good."
"It's fairly good quality," he said. "The lighting's OK in there. The audio is pretty good except when people mumble around the audience, but overall, it's okay."
Corderman said he understood that the tapes would be made available for public viewing, but was unaware of any details. His tapes—120-minute Panasonic cassettes—were provided by his employers.
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"If it makes more people able to view what goes on at the commission meetings, that's all well and good," he said.
Corderman said he was happy to tape the meetings "because it's good experience."
Tom Gleason, one of the five city commissioners, said the videotaping hadn't bothered him at all.
"Wide-tapeing experience of any kind looks good on a resume," he said. "We're capturing that the people that hired me to tape every commission meeting."
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Museum Day events scheduled for Sunday
KU's five museums of natural history, the Spencer Museum of Art and the Tombaugh Observatory will celebrate International Museum Day Sunday with a series of special performances, tours, lectures and films.
The Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall will feature its main gallery exhibit, "Patterns for Living: African Arts from Kansas Collections." The exhibit will include works by Elliot Eliseoion called "Tribute to Africa" from 1:30 to 4 p.m. An African dance and percussion
All of the University's museums will open at 1:30 p.m. Sunday with special activities that will continue throughout the day. All are open to children.
Beginning at 1 p.m., the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall will exhibit Navajo weaving on the fifth floor. The Haskell Indian Junior College Navajo Club will give a dance performance on the museum lawn at 1:30 p.m. From 2:50 to 4:00 p.m., visitors will be depicting historical and contemporary Navajo life, will be shown in 2DVChe.
John Sweetze, associate professor of history, will discuss illustrations of French art in a French warfare by French artist Jean-Baptiste de a p. 198. White Gallery tour.
performance by KU African students will be at 2:30 p.m.
At the Spencer Museum of Art,
"Four Artists and the Map:
Image/Process/Diace/Place," a
display of map art, will be shown in
the Museum's Gallery on Friday.
Front: John Louis Forain" also will
be featured in the White Gallery.
George Byers, curator of the Snow Entomological Museum, will meet visitors between 1:30 and 4 p.m. in 301 Snow Hall. On display will be the museum's *2.8 million-specimen* collection from other exhibits also will be on display.
Also, in the Kress Gallery, James W. Merchant, a research specialist at the KU Space Technology Center, will discuss "Satellite Images of Earth" in an illustrated talk at 3:15 p.m.
At 3:45 p.m., "Moonwalk," a National Aeronautics and Space Administration film, will be shown in the Spencer Museum auditorium.
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