Thursday, April 8, 1971
University Daily Kansam
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Credibility Gap Widening Visiting Editor Says
By KATE MANSKE
Kansan Staff Writer
There is a tremendous credibility gap in journalism today, Kenneth McDonald, in residence at KU and editor of the Des Moines Review. At his interview Wednesday McDonald said that unless reporters strove for objectivity he would fail; the press would completely lose its信誉.
McDonald said there was not quite an argument centering on advocacy report authorism.
Kenneth McDonald
argument over the controversy , he said,
tends to obscure the issue.
There isn't such a thing as pure objectivity, McDonald said.
"The whole journalism process is a' process of selection," he said.
McDonald said that a journalist must make a decision about what runs in a paper. He must try to be fair and objective, he said, but "there is no entire situation in it's proper perspective." YOU CAN BE objective to the point of being sterile, McDonald said. It's a matter of digging out the situation to expose the wrong people and the more activist in that sense of the word, McDonald said, and he thinks it should be. McDonald said that the credibility gap in journalism was widening and that it increased the public's trust in President Spiro Agnew, McDonald said, increased the tendency of the public to not trust the press.
M. Donald said he did not agree with many of the newspapers' reactions to his speech, and he said the wrong things and criticized Agnew for speaking, he said. If that is what he thinks, he has said so much.
said, but the press should concentrate on the charges and the validity of the charges, and not that Agnew criticized the media.
I DO NOT SUPPOSE we can ever close the credibility gap completely. McDonald and his lawyers who wholly convinced. Those directly or emotionally involved in the news he said, have been wrong about it.
McDonald said that the news media could help establish credibility by pressuring the company to jointly account possible, focusing more sharply on the causes and problems and less on the stories.
The shield law proposed to protect the reporter's source of information is not a simple question. McDonald said, Certainly journalists are not allowed to protect his sources, McDonald said, but the problem is that journalism is different from professions, in that journalists are not licensed.
MCDONALD SAID journalism was an art form that required a production is changing so rapidly with the development of computers and electronic equipment that the format of the newspaper is changing.
At the time, the informational needs of the readers are changing, McDonald said. The newspaper, he said, is no longer the best source of news. He said radio and television now provided the first news for most people, but the newspapers were still concerned with imprinting a new face. His newspapers would not become obsolete because both visual and printed matter had places in communications, but they also emphasize more in-depth reporting.
McDONALD SAID people were surprised about the first racial riots and campus demonstrations, but if journalism had been doing all it could have, the people would have been prepared. However, the riots began with an under cover what was happening, he said.
McDonald was raised in rural Iowa and attended the University of Iowa where he studied journalism. He worked as a journalist for 10 years before graduation. After working in almost every department on the news side of the paper, he became editor. For nearly ten years he worked as editor and publisher of the Des Moines newspaper, written from the publishing job last year.
Clinics Offer Suicide Preventives
By PENNY NEDROW
Kansas Staff Writer
Between 15 and 25 University of Kansas students are known to attempt suicide each year, and the group is not known, Dr. Sydney Schroeder director of the Medical Health Institute, said in an interview Tuesday.
He said that only one or two of these attempts were successful, in the case of "potentially lethal," all were serious because they indicated a threat.
Most attempts, or "gestures," occur in late winter, according to Schroeder. And, an average of 20 students a year have to quit school because they require more time. The University facilities provide
WHERE CAN students go for help, regardless of the university they attend? Campus and University-affiliated facilities include the Mental Health Clinic, the Psychology Clinic, the Psychiatry Clinic, the Guidance Bureau, the
deans' offices and campus champlains. Other local sources include the Mental Health Center, private psychiatrists and psychologists. Head Quarters and the new 'BECAUSE' group
The Mental Health Clinic.
Counseling Available on Campus
located behind Watkins, handles the most disturbed cases because he is the only University hospital and is the only University hospital which offers short-term hospitalization and prescribes medicine
The clinic is staffed by Schroeder, who is a psychiatrist; a third-year resident psychiatrist at Meningerine's Clinic in Tooka;
three psychologists; two part-
time psychiatric social workers;
and a student social worker. It is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
monday through Friday and a
third day at other times for
emergencies.
"The Mental Health Clinic serves 700 to 800 students each year, or about one out of every 25
"THE MENTAL Health Clinic serves 700 to 800 students each year, or about one out of every 25 students. The clinic provides psychological test and a general information sheet, requiring the student to complete, must be filled out.
The first four visits to the clinic are free, and after that a $2 to $15 fee applies. The client may be charged for each hour of treatment. Most of the operating costs are paid through a prepaid bill.
students."
The Psychology Clinic, in 207 Fraser, is open to anyone in Kansas, at no charge, according to the program. It is the director and director of the clinical program. It offers psychodrama as well as individual and group therapy.
The clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
Students Grade Teachers
Starting April 15, the survey may be submitted to classes at the discretion of the instructor. Students are asked the questions prepared for the evaluation and seven optional questions that can be inserted by them.
"This has got to change if we are going to have a viable educational system. The Curriculum and Instruction Survey can be a tool of transaction or to enhance the ability more vocal involvement of students in their education." Emphy said.
THE SURVEY WILL EVALUATE teacher quality, clarity of communication, teacher and student interpersonal relation
Students are not com-
mitted. Demna Embry, Great Bend
senior and chairman of Student
Senate
course
on Wednesday
ships, and internal and external reasons for students taking the course. Emry said he said it was important that he perceived these categories as separate entities. They might rate a professor as a nice guy but would prefer someone else who said the next step was to compile the survey results for publication in a journal.
embryo said many people thought only instructors could evaluate instructors, but a survey given to students and teachers to evaluate instructors at the University of Washington at the University of Washington that almost identical ratings were given by the two groups.
THE CLINIC operates in three ways, according to Wright. The first function involves the "walk-in" procedure, in which that anyone who walks in and asks to see someone will be seen within 15 minutes. This meeting may resolve the problem, or it may not be done for future treatment or referral.
and on Saturday mornings. Clients receive treatment on the average of twice a week.
"Many problems may be best dealt with immediately and that may be all that's needed."
the fourth edition of the survey.
the fourth edition of the survey.
"I am confident that things will work out," she said, with pens and professors return the identification cards. If these two students have problems we have experienced in the past will be eliminated."
'Cablevision' Boost to KU
EMBRY SAID 964 classes were evaluated last fall, but 50 per cent of the professors did not turn in their work. Of the 8,800 students did not use
Embry said the Office of Academic Affairs had provided funds for the program and carried out the program and the Student Senate had contributed $48,000.
Thirty-five thousand quest ionailles have been printed for the spring survey, and it is possible that 2,000 to 5,000 of the courses offered by the University will be evaluated. Emily sna
Cable television will be an integral part of the University of Kansas and Lawrence communication system by next
Community Antenna
Television (CATV) is a method of broadcasting either network or broadcast from a directly to the set without the use of an antenna. Its most obvious advantage is that it transmits much better pictures and pulls in more data than an can normally be reached.
By DICK COWDEN
Kansas Staff Writer
"SUNFLOWER cablevision" is the proposed name of the company that owns the law firm Lawrence. It will be an independent law firm, and the corporate owner of the Journal-World and World Company Commercial Printing division.
Lawrence's cablevision system will enable the city and campus to originate its own programming. Eventually, students may move from classes in their own home. Local residents will view events of public interest at scheduled times. KU students and area teachers will prepare televised presentations for education and student teaching.
Local customers may have cablevision installed in their homes for a monthly charge plus an installation fee. at $7.50 plus an installation fee.
Dolph Simons Jr., president publisher of the World Company, met with KU staff members to
“Results of the survey will be completed early this summer, depending on the availability of the computers,” he added.
Snow Hall Group: Alcew B Cafeteria
Kansas Union, 11:30 a.m.
Latin American Students: Alcew C
Cafeteria. Union, 11:30 a.m.
Campus Bulletin
Microbiology; Curry Room, Union, noon
University Committee on Administration
Governers Room, Union, 3:30 p.m.
818 Riverside Blvd., Suite A209
Microbiology: Walking Room, Union, 6:30 p.m.
Microscopy: Walking Room, Union, 6:30 p.m.
SUA Poetry: Parlor A, Union, 4:30 p.m.
Education Advisor Committee: Oread Room,
Union, 6 p.m.
Miscellaneous Building, Union, 6:30
p.m.
Linguistics: Curry Room, Union, 6.30 p.m.
SIS Inter介会: Davison & Union, 6.30 p.m.
Linguistics: Curry room, Union, 6:30 p.m.
SUA Interviews: Parlor A, Union, 6:30
p.m.
N.E.N. Ticket to Europe: Foran Room.
1.nbth. 7 p.m.
Board of Class. Officers: International
Room. 7 n.bth.
A Board: Governor Room, Union, 6-12
p.m. Christian Science: Room 101, Union, 6-43
International Night Steering Committee:
Oread Room, Union, 7:30 p.m.
GIGA TMA: Parlor C. Union, 7 p.m.
Student Services Committee: Regionalist
Staff
Room, Union, 7:30 p.m.
Bakins Lecture: Big Eight Room, Union,
7:30 p.m.
ROADS Colony: 7 b.p.
Roads C. C. C. Union, 7 p.m.
Standard Services Committee, Regional队
"Our job is not to change people, but to take them as they are and help them see where they want to go."
Christian Science: Room 101, Union, 6:45
p.m. (A Flight to Europe: Forum Room)
Friday
Campus Crusade: Room 101, Union. 8 p.m.
International Night Rehearsal: Woodruff
Auditorium. 8:30 p.m.
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Christian Science: Room 101, Union, 6:45
High School Art Conference and Exhibit
Catholic Student Center; Woodruff
Auditorium, Union, 7:30 p.m.
Gallery, Cusin, in the午
Social Work Field Instructors. Jayhawk
Faculty Recital Series: Swarthout Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
Linguistics Colloquy: Pine Room; Union, 8
Rocky Mount, Kansas, Wichita State and K-State, Alvamar Hills, 10 a.m.
Hall, 8 p.m.
Linguistics Colloquy: Pine Room, Union, 8
p.m.
Popular Fiction: "In The Heat of the Night," Woody Woodford Auditorium, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Graduate Recital: Swarthout Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
Catholic Student Union: Woodruff
Auditorium, University, 4:30 p.m.
International Folk Dance Party: 173
Nobinson, 7 p.m.
discuss the future of cablevision in Lawrence Wednesday in Bailey Hall. Contrary to information reported in the Kansan Tuesday, the group was not a formal committee. Dale Seaman Dean of Education, was not told about the discussion as reported
"WE THINK cablevision will provide a good community
Simons explained that the University will be wired for service at the expense of the World Company.
"We'd like to give KU its own channel or channels, its own studio and cameras, but right now there isn't enough money to build the equipment we need to building our own color studio, where people can tape programs or broadcast live. By the time we're ready to begin operating, the studio will be拍摄 that can, in effect, be photographed at the wall anywhere in the city."
EMBRY SAID HE hopes ... embrry at the university of Kansas would follow the suggestion of some educational innovators for the instructor to take a week during the course to learn about the skills had been covered and the objectives for the remaining weeks
situation where anyone can watch local football games, speeches and so on," Simons said.
When cablevision starts broadcasting it will have one studio for taping and one for live programs. The studios will have two sets of monitors, black and white cameras will be available for remote broadcasts. There will be much room for expansion, according to Simons, but Lawrence will have two local studios as well. Start. Television sets equipped for CATV will be able to receive channels 2, 4, 5, 9, 13, 41, 50, 11 and 19 in addition to the new channels 8, 9, 13, 20 and many FM radio stations.
The Schools of Education and Journalism will be the first institution to offer training from the CATV system. Teachers trained to work in front of a camera will receive
endorsement the general purposes and goals of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey. Embry said he was the departmental chairman have requested that the results of the survey be made available for review. George Laughhead, Dodge City senator, acted as chairman of the survey when it began in August 1970, when other responsibilities made it impossible for him to continue with the survey. Dennis Emmis and Mike Bower.
IN THE LONG run, CATV could help promote commerce in Lawrence. There is the possibility that companies may manufacture and market tape and other equipment for delayed broadcasts.
classroom will have an advantage as educational methods improve in the future, because we now have access to the experience of having their broadcasts viewed daily by audiences before they graduate. Local specials and documentary materials may be prepared for both the public and entertainment, and the students' credit. CATV will also require the abilities of KU students to help operate the television. This will provide job opportunities for qualified students.
Senior class committee chairman were appointed Wednesday to class officers. Interviews were held Tuesday and Wednesday for class officers.
"We should not transfer our feelings about a drug community adjacent to a university to be involved in budget cuts." he told the House.
The senior class officers urged anyone interested in working on these committees to contact the chairmen.
Those in charge of committees are John A. Schwartz, senior project; Herk Russell, Hope award; Dennis Coryh, social; Mike Helbert, regalia; Mike Helbert, calendar; and Karen Koenzo, activities.
House Cuts $3 Million From Education Funds
TOPEKA (UP1)—The Kansas House of Representatives Wednesday passed a $412.5 million appropriation bill for $3 million with about $3 million cut from the state colleges and universities.
The bill passed on a vote of 106-11 after a debate which lasted most of the day in the lower chamber. Although it has passed the Senate, it is now expected to be passed to the mayor office amendment.
A move by Rep. Donn Everett, R-Manhattan, to restore the $3 million cut by the House Ways and Means Committee from higher education failed. The cuts on an unrecorded voice vote.
Everett was alluding to the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
Rep. Jack Euler, R-Wathena, who led the move in committee
Class Heads Are Appointed
which made the cut, said the cut was not made because of any vindictive feeling about campus trouble.
The Senate passed 13-4 a bill to authorize the Kansas Turnpike and Highway Fund of $230 million in bonds for the construction of two new toll roads.
"I think it's time for the universities and colleges to stand back and review their programs. I just run a better hospital," he said.
The House then approved similar 4.4 per cent cuts to state universities and colleges and University. a municipal university Funds for the Kansas Education Foundation were also cut a like percentage of the $12.5 million bill which contains money for about half the cost of tuition, the year, $235 million comes from the
The addition of midchannel stations would allow closed circuit broadcasts to be used for the use of the primary GATV channels.
A later attempt to restore all but about $768,000 of the $3 million was also defeated.
The roads would run from Hutchinson through Wichita southeast to the Oklahoma and from Kansas City to Galena.
The Kansas City-Galena toll road was amended that it passed the House. As a result, it probably will go into a conference com-
Groups of doctors, for example, could easily communicate with colleagues in Lawrence without having to meet in the same city. There is also the likelihood that KU could initiate collaboration held in one building on campus could be broadcast live to teachers and have a better use of classroom space.
A bill to issue up to $300 million in bonds to speed up construction of freeways in Kansas also is in a conference committee.
George Laughhead, Dodge City senior, acted as chairman of the evaluation committee until 1992 when he made responsibilities made it impossible for him to oversee time. Dennis Embry and Mike Bower, Shawnee special student, who is working with the program, have developed
"Ix going to be quite a project," Simons said. "We're going to have to build the studio, string the town for reception, buy the equipment, and train the staff." "Ix worth it to everyone involved."
The wiring, when written with existing telephone and power company poles, will be strung from the office building sections of Lawrence will receive service by September and the department will be receptive to CATV by January of 1972.
The Senate also killed a bill to allow Sunday sales of 3.2 beer in areas now prohibited. The vote was approved. A resolution also was adopted in the Senate asking the Congress to reconsider its action in not allowing Sunday sales of the SST. It has passed the House and now goes to the governor.
Bequest Given To University
A bequest of $40,000 from the
A fund of $1,500 will be established for the benefit of the Children's Rehabilitation Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Burrows supported generously during his lifetime.
The remaining $25,000 will establish the Raymond Barrows Fund, an unrestricted op-
tor for the benefit of the University.
A 1968 graduate of KU,
Barrows joined the staff of
the Kansas City Star immediately
after graduation.
First Moments of Time May Return in Quasars
Wright said.
With the discovery in March that quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) are at a distance of 10 billion light years comes the belief that we may be able to observe (in quasars) events that occur in the first few moments of the universe's existence.
Until March 15, 1971 the most distant object observed in the universe was a very faint galaxy (a star) that is 14 billion years. (One light year is the distance light travels in a year and it takes about one second, that is one light year equals six trillion miles.) But on that day quasars were discovered.
This discovery means that the radius of the observable universe is twice of what it was formerly believed to be. The most distant quasar observed so far is near 10 million light years.
According to Susan Weyckoff, astronomer in residence, this is significant not only because the radius of the observable universe has doubled, but also because the mass of the "soul" of the universe has doubled.
"We are able to observe events which occurred in the universe at an earlier time in its history than we are today. We light takes 10 billion years to reach us from the most distant quasar, we are observing the outermost portions of the universe, and it appeared 10 billion years ago.
"Since we now believe that the universe is approximately 10 billion years old, we may be able to tell when that took place in the first few
moments of the universe's existence,' she said.
At 8 p.m. Friday Miss Wykoff will lecture on quasars in Room 26. Lundy Hall. She will give an explanation of discovery in 1963, as well as attempt to intercept observations in light of what is now known. The discussion will be open to the public. This course provides opportunity for those attending to observe Jupiter, weather permitting, through KU's refracting telescope, under the guidance of a professor emeritus of astronomy.
KU Physicist Is Guest Prof With Sooners
Prof. Pelor M. Richards of the department of physics and engineering at Kansas, has been a visiting lecturer at Cannonton State College.
The second phase includes the appointments and regularly scheduled treatments.
He is visiting as part of a broad, nationwide program to stimulate interest in physics, sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics. He will teach at the university year and is supported by the National Science Foundation
Prof. Richards, who visited Wednesday and today, is giving lectures, holding informal meetings with students and faculty members with curriculum and research problems.
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"These run the whole gamut of human problems," Wright said, its mentioned problems with children learning, difficulty in dealing with others and oneself, identity crises, marriage difficulties and loneliness.
"OUR JOB is not to change people, but to take them as they are and help them see where they want to go." Wright said.
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The third phase involves community mental health programs in which the counselors serve as resources for teachers, other such persons, regarding problems they may encounter.
SUA to Offer Basic French For Beginners
A course in "basic, bonehead
work" will be offered a week
for anyone considering
travel through Europe this
summer but lacking knowledge
of English.
Ann Colbert, assistant
assistant of French and Halian,
within the Hotel, he explained,
would he to teach prospective travelers
who have little or no previous
exposure to English vocabulary enabling them to do
such relatively simple things as
arriving at hotel directions and
get hotel rooms.
The new SUA Flight-to-Europe
new lesson was described by the
Eurotourism Bureau of the SUA
SUA Board Member, Tuesday
at an "hour-long, one-week
course in the basic rudiments of
French." The class would be offered
from 1:30 p.m. to 5:28 p.m. Monday
to Friday in the Council Room of
the School of Tourism.
Boss also said no texts would be required, no previous knowledge of French would be necessary and a person could attend as few or as many sessions as they need. Course would be open to as many people as are interested and no charge would be made, he said.
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The clinic is staffed by five full-time and two part-time faculty, two graduate and one part-time social worker and five students in clinical psychology. The staff is divided into five administrative days for the crisis function.
THE MENTAL Health Center, located at 4th, and 6th floors, provides psychiatric care and psychologists offer professional counseling for serious problems. Hei- Ho Quarters Inc., located at 1011 Fifth Avenue in New York, a few students to aid 10 to 18-year-olds in need of help. It primarily handles drug and home problems.
The Guidance Bureau, aca-
cademic director, serves 900 students each year. The deans offices deal with academic difficulties but social and health problems. Campus chaplains also offer support.
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It provides a place for persons to live, if necessary, for a few days. It is operated on an open desk and help is available at any hour.
"BECAUSE," located in the Canterbury House at 1116 Louisiana, was begun in February to provide a place for students to talk to other students who want to listen. It is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every night or be reached by phone at 843-8202
As their sign reads:
"BECAUSE you're fed up,
lonely, hassled, upset, have a
problem, angry, unhappy, or
still hungry."
donuts and coffee and rap with us. We're to talk to anyone."
The function of the group,
composed entirely of student
volunteers, is to provide a confi-
dential place for students to talk
about their experiences in the
subject and for any reason,
and to provide a referral service.
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