Vaughan speaks to journalism session
By JULIE THATCHER
Kansan Staff Writer
With characteristic wit, Bill Vaughan, associate editor of the Kansas City Star, reminisced about his profession Saturday.
Speaking before 500 Kansas high school students and instructors attending the 51st Annual High School Journalism Conference, he said his formal journalism education was minimal.
Vaughan said people should know the difference between a news story and an advertisement or a column and an editorial. "Journalists must show all issues are not black and white," he warned, "for this viewpoint leads to violence."
"It did teach me there was nothing else I could do or wanted to do," he said.
Vaughan said journalism has changed greatly from his early days. He compared changes in the profession to those made in football. "A 170 pound tackle was a giant in those days. Now the average for the line is 220 pounds. Just as football players are bigger, journalists are smarter."
In the future, he predicted, it will be journalism education's function to teach critical reading. "Journalism classes should be made compulsory, not to educate people as producers but as consumers."
Explaining how schools are moving toward these goals, he quipped, "Colleges aren't turning out journalists anymore; they're turning out communicologists. Journalists are obsolete and I
KU school gets funds
A $9,140 federal grant will fund a University of Kansas School of Social Welfare program designed to coordinate child health care service in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.
The one-year grant from the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, will be used as part of a government plan labeled Coordinated Community Child Care. KU is one of the first universities to get such a grant.
The project is under the direction of Dr. Arthur Katz, dean of the KU School of Social Welfare
Dean Katz said the primary purpose of the project will be "utilizing resources in the communities for child health care." He said there would also be an effort made to create new resources for child health care.
The program is an attempt to plan more effectively by bringing together people who are now involved in child health care. "We are trying to get away from the 'every man in business for himself' idea," Katz added.
Institutes and seminars will also be held in Kansas City as part of the program.
Designs, crafts exhibition opens here October 19
The 16th annual Kansas Designer-Craftsman exhibition will open Oct. 19 at the University of Kansas Museum of Art. Awards will be presented during a 2:30-4:30 reception that afternoon.
Paul J. Smith, director of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City, will be the judge. The KU Museum of Art and department of design are co-sponsors of the show.
Any resident or former resident of Kansas may submit as many as three works. Eligible for entry are works in ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, sculpture, weaving and textile design, furniture, wood and leather crafts, and glass and enamels.
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never even got to be one."
Vaughan defined journalism today in terms of the questions asked by junior high students doing a career study. Success Vaughan said, is the result of a "passion for truth." A prospective journalist should study "everything."
He said there is no simple way
to answer questions for a junior high student who will change his mind many times before choosing a profession. When a person finally decides on journalism, however, such considerations are insignificant because "for better or worse, he can do nothing else."
Lee F. Young, acting dean of the School of Journalism, greeted
the students and introduced Vaughan. He said the conference was "more than a habit we can't break or a tradition we won't break. We like being involved in journalism and we believe our self interest is served when we serve you."
The 16 areas included feature writing, sports coverage, finances, photography, special effects, themes and mimeograph production. Schools could submit last year's paper or yearbook for a critique.
attended special interest sessions dealing with newspaper and yearbook publication.
After the opening speech by Vaughan, students and advisers
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