Tuesday, January 20. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Committee combats campus clutter
Advertisements in Kansan prompt recycling proposal
By Marc Sheforgen
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate's University Affairs Committee wants to clean up campus by making the Kansan's glossy insert advertisements easier to recycle.
Last week, the committee elected Erin Carlson, student senator and University Affairs committee member, to head a subcommittee that will work with the Kansan's advertising department to look for ways to prevent the advertisements from being littered across campus.
Carlson said that she understood
that the Kansan needed the advertisements to produce the daily paper but that something needed to be done about the paper's inserts, which readers seem to immediately discard.
"We want to work with both sides of the issue," Carlson said. "We want to work with the environmentalists, and we want to work with the Kansan to understand their business needs."
Carlson said she planned to propose putting recycling bins near the Kansan's distribution boxes so that readers not interested in the ads could properly recycle the ads instead of dropping the ads on the ground.
Nicole Lauderdale, McPherson sophomore and national sales manager for the Kansan, said a recycling program should be initiated.
"I think that would be wonderful. We need recycling for a lot of things. Why not recycle?" Lauderdale said.
"We want to work with the environmentalists, and we want to work with the Kansan to understand their business needs."
Erin
Erin Carlson student senator
Rob Flynn, student senator and subcommittee member, said that when he picked up his copy of the Kansan, he took out the glossy inserts first. Flynn said the advertisements blew across campus and were an eavesdrobe.
Flynn said this issue had long been a concern of many students and that
it was time for the students' representatives to take action.
"I think student opinion is that Student Senate is out of touch. Maybe this is an issue that will hit home with some students," he said.
Flynn, a journalism major, said he understood advertising and its necessity.
The subcommittee, to be composed of student senators, environmentalists and Kansan staff members, will meet for the first time this week.
"It's a business like anything, but if the students feel that it's a pollutant, it needs to be taken into account," Flynn said.
Carlson stressed that the subcommittee planned to work with the Kansan's advertising staff to better understand the paper's needs before trying to pass a resolution through Senate.
"We do not want to hurt our student newspaper," she said.
Alumnus wins KU journalism award
National citation honors Bill Kurtis
By Melissa Ngo
mngo@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Bill Kurtis, University of Kansas alumnus, will receive the 1998 William Allen White Foundation's national citation.
Kurtis will speak at the awards ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 6 in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The topic of Kurtis' speech has not been announced. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
and history.
The award has been given annually since 1950, and it is given in honor of the late publisher of the Emporia Gazette, William Allen White. also a University alumnus.
Kurtis, an Independence native and 1962 KU journalism graduate, is best known for creating a new form of documentaries in 1985.
While working in Chicago, Kurtis expanded the traditional long news reports into areas such as science
Calder Pickett, professor emeritus of journalism who taught Kurtis at the University, said Kurtis showed promise while he was a KU student.
Kurtis; Will accept the William Allen White citation.
"I saw a foretaste of what he was going to be later," Pickett said. "He was
Kurtis began his journalism career at KANU-FM, the University's public broadcasting station. In the late 1960s, he worked at WIRW-TV in Tonkea.
extremely good in news writing classes and always showed promise."
It was at WIBW that Kurtis got his big break, said Jerry Holley, who was general manager of WIBW-radio while Kurtis worked there.
"At that time, news was a double department, so Bill worked for both the radio and news sides," Holley said.
Kurtis' break came in 1966 when a tornado hit Topeka. His broadcast was shown to a national audience on CBS news.
"He was seen by the president of CBS news and invited to go to Chicago to work for the network," Holley said.
"His wife was on the Washburn campus when it (the tornado) hit, and the vacuum almost sucked her up the elevator shaft." Holley said.
Holley said that the tornado meant a lot to Kurtis because of how personal its effects were.
Kurtis went to Chicago, where he worked with Walter Jacobson at a CBS affiliate.
In 1975, Kurtis covered the Vietnam War as the first local foreign correspondent, bringing international issues and the effects of the issues home to Chicago. He also covered the sectarian war in Northern Ireland and environmental tragedies such as the plight of the black rhinoceros in Kenya and Tanzania.
For more than three years, beginning in 1982, Kurtis anchored the CBS Morning News and produced documentaries for CBS Reports.
"I saw a foretaste of what he was going to be later. He was extremely good in news writing classes and always showed promise."
Calder Pickett
professor emeritus of journalism
Kurtis continues to produce documentaries but is now at the Arts and Entertainment network.
He is the host and producer of three documentary series for the station. The series are The New Explorers with Bill Kurtis, American Justice and Investigative Reports.
Kurtis has won numerous other awards including the 1995 Excellence in Journalism Award from the Chicago Chapter of the International Press Center and more than 20 Emmys from the Chicago Chapter of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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