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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 19, 1963
Marvin Says Politics Hurt African Press
Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism thinks he knows how early developers of American journalism must have felt.
The dean was one of four newsmen who conducted summer workshops for journalists in Africa under the auspices of the African-American Institute and the U.S. State Department.
Africa, with its newly independent nations, is comparable to the United States and its press of the early 1790's. Dean Marvin said.
AT THAT time, when the United States had just gained her independence, the press was under the critical eye of government. Today the situation is the same in many parts of Africa, he said.
Dean Marvin, who two years ago lived for a year in Iran on a Fulbright grant, called the summer a "tremendously inspiring experience."
PARTICIPATING IN workshops at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, and Lagos, Nigeria, were 104 African journalists from 15 countries.
With Dean Marvin on the fourman team of Americans who conducted the sessions were John McCormally, editor of the Hutchinson News, Malvin Goode, United Nations correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company, and Dr Sydney Head, of the African-American Institute's office in Ethiopia.
The sessions were so intensive, Dean Marvin said, he didn't get a chance to become acquainted with the people of Africa.
BUT THROUGH 18 hours each day in the workshops, he learned that African journalists were hungry for knowledge.
The participating journalists wrote stories in one day's workshop to be criticized the first thing the next day by the American journalists.
"We decided there would be little time spent in the sessions discussing theory," Dean Marvin said. "We got right down to work, stressing our theme of 'competence'.
"Many of the African communications media stress politics quite heavily. We tried to stress the idea, 'Yes, political news and taking editorial positions is very important, but it's also very important for newspapers to develop a broad base.'
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"If nations do go to war," he said, "they may not want to use all the weapons at their disposal, but they may not have that choice to make. Nations go to war to win."
He also discounted the possibility that countries could maintain their independence through nonviolent means.
"PASSIVE RESISTANCE can be successful only if the opposition shares the same objective or is at least half-way convinced of that. If barbarism, armed with nuclear weapons, prevails, the Kingdom of Nonviolence is not of this world."
But Prof. Harris said criticism of pacifists for their opposition to the destructive forces of war is unjustified.
He defined courage as the willingness to make sacrifices for valuable ends, and said that advocacy of war is not courageous, because the result of nuclear war is annihilation.
"Opposition to nuclear war is not pacifism but true courage."
Prof. Harris will examine other aspects of war and peace in future lectures. Students of at least junior standing may receive two hours of credit each semester by enrolling in a seminar course connected with the lectures, which will meet at 9:30 am., Tuesday in 102 Strong Hall.
Beginning Oct. 3, the lectures will be delivered at 7:30 p.m., Thursdays instead of Wednesday in Dyche to avoid a conflict with the SUA Classical Film Series.
JESSE OWENS HELD EIGHT NCAA titles during a two-year track and field stretch at Ohio State in 1935-36. Owens' collegiate crowns included the 100-yard dash, 100-meter dash, 220-yard dash, 200-meter dash, 220-yard low hurdles (two years) and broad jump (two years).
ROOKIE OUTFIELDER AL FERRara of the Los Angeles Dodgers is an accomplished pianist, having appeared three times at Carnegie Hall.
DEAN MARVIN said most of the journalists came from countries where there was little, or only limited, freedom of the press. In some countries, the press is on trial; how long it will remain independent of government control is not certain.
"If we had gone into the workshop with a big discussion of freedom of the press, we would have spent two weeks arguing," Dean Marvin said. "They wanted to discuss freedom of the press and its role in society, but we put that toward the end of the two weeks at each of the workshops.
"One of the tremendous problems was communicating with these people. While all spoke English, it was a problem putting terms in their context.
"IN GENERAL our biggest problem was to teach them to take information they had, get the nugget of information out of all of the details and write a lead that told the core of the story.
"Most of them hadn't had a real discipline in writing, in building a bridge to readers.
Only the finishing touches remain to be put on the 6,500-seat addition to Memorial Stadium.
"We ran into very little bullheadness. The people came looking for something to learn. We found them very receptive."
Stadium Work Nearly Finished
According to A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, athletic director, the Martin K. Eby construction company met its September 1 completion deadline.
Lonbong said a scoreboard is scheduled to be installed later this week. Some walks and a parking lot west of the stadium are yet to be installed. Additional reseeding and residing also are yet to be completed before the construction crews leave.
Lonborg has ridden and found the new elevator to the press box to be working well, an indication of the speedy progress made on the stadium.
The addition brings the seating capacity of Memorial Stadium to 44,900. A new press box towers over the new section which is above the south bleachers. To date, no games are scheduled to be televised this season.
The stadium will be dedicated Sept. 28 when KU meets Syracuse here.
Cash or Confetti?
LOUGHBOROUGH, England—(UPI)—Father Oliver Wilson of the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart yesterday asked engaged couples to pay a cash deposit as a guarantee their friends will not throw confetti at the wedding.
He said the money will be used for cleaning up the confetti, which is normally used to toss at a wedded couple in Britain instead of rice.
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