University Daliv Kansan / Tuesday, September 20, 1968
Campus/Area
Fowler Jones, producer of the Audio-Reader Network, prepares a tape for broadcast in a studio north of KJHK.
Audio-Reader: Ads to best-sellers
By Jay A. Cohen
Kansan staff writer
The only time most people hear a newspaper is when it trumps against the front door.
But for those with the right equipment, the New York Times, The New York Times and the Larned Tiller, and Tolier, among others, are voices on the ground.
The voices are those of volunteer broadcasters who read books, magazines, and grocery ads as well as newspapers for the Kansas State University circuit radio service for print-handicapped people in Kansas.
David Andrews, director of the network, said that any person who was unable to read normal printed
matter, for any reason except illiteracy, was eligible to receive the service.
The service, at 1120 W. 111th St,
provides news, interviews with
legislators and informational
announcements of interest to
elderly or visually-impaired Kansans.
A weekly cooking show is
well as an adult magazine
hour, at night on weekends.
A special radio receiver is necessary in order to hear the service. Audio-Reader loans the receivers, which cost about $80, to people who quality. There is no charge, but a fee applies. The Communication Commission regulations require that Audio-Reader maintain ownership of the
In the Lawrence area, the service is transmitted as part of the KANU signal. Four other public radio stations in Kansas broadcast the service, which is also available through several cable television networks. The television in Lawrence does not carry the service. Andrews said.
Andrews said eight full-time and several part-time workers operate the service. About 150 people are volunteer readers, including KU students, of whom receive food from the community, people from the Lawrence area.
receivers.
from small town weeklies to the Art and Leisure section of the New York Times to Forum magazine.
"It takes practice," said Jean Van Lew, who has been a volunteer for the last five years.
AudioReader received about $230,000 this year from the state through the University and about $30,000 from private donations. Private gifts also are paying for a new building that AudioReader owns. Andrews said about $70,000 was needed to complete payments.
Van Lew has read everything
Andrew said that books on tape were available from the Topela Public Library but that it usually took longer to distribution before they were released.
"We read current best-sellers and periodicals so that our listeners can discuss them with their friends just like anyone else."
Campaign '88
2 groups compete to sponsor national presidential debates
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Whether animosity exists between the two groups scheduling the 1988 presidential debates is not clear.
But one thing's for sure: The groups are keeping their distance.
The League of Women Voters, which has sponsored the presidential debates for the last three elections, now finds itself competing with the Commission on Presidential Debates in participation and network time.
The Commission has set up a presidential debate on Sept. 25 at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. It also has a vice-presidential debate planned for Oct. 14 at Omaha Theater in Omaha, Neb.
The League's presidential debate will be in Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on either Oct. 13 or 14, and the college version schedule for the world Series.
All three debates will be televised on the major networks.
"it's not so much animosity as frustration," said Helen Fluker, membership chairman for the Lawrence-Douglas County League. "The League had done the presidential debates for a number of elec- tions but last year the chairman of the political parties decided to do them.
"they sent out invitations and 'round down dates when the League agreed' with the Commission." The Commission confused the whole arrangement for the candidates and candidates.
A League spokesman from the national headquarters would not acknowledge that hostilities existed between the two groups.
"There's no tension," said Kara
Ash, special assistant with the
debate team in Washington,
D.C., headquarters.
"We're just different groups with
the same goals."
McColm said the League's goal was to educate voters, while the Commission's goal was to promote the candidates.
Diana Prentice, who serves on the Commission's 40-member Advisory Board and is a KU instructor in music, taught at UNC, dispatched Lea's League reasoning.
The League's argument is that our goal is to get a candidate elected. But we're bringing both candidates together in a debate. How is
together in a debate. How is that getting one candidate elected?
Diana Prentice
Association of Fresno State Debates Advisory Board and KU instructor in communication studies
The Commission is a non-profit, bipartisan organization consisting of the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic committees and eight elected officials.
"Our sole purpose is the debates; the League's is not. We don't take stands on issues; they do."
It was formed in the spring of 1987 in response to two independent student organizations and from the candidates might exist if both political parties were involved in the election.
Prentice said that the Commission asked the League to take part in the Commission but that the League ant-joint to partisan organization.
In July 187, the two party chair-
in asked all declared nominees
from the first election and
on their calendars for three presi-
dential debates and one vice-presidential
Meanwhile, the League was planning its own schedule of four debates.
The tension between the two groups heightened when the League's campaign to the two presidential candidates promoting the League's
Election history in the making
Prentice, a League member, said she dropped her membership in January because of the issue.
Prentice said the campaign involved letters to the media and the candidates, but McColum said there was no directive write such letters.
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
Conference panel to focus on presidential campaigns
Historians, a political scientist and a media representative compose a panel that will compare this year's presidential election with those of the
The history department is sponsoring the discussion titled "The 1980 Presidential Election in Historical Context" on Wednesday at the Adams Centerumn.
The panel will open the 10th Mid-America Conference on History, which will continue from Satur-
day until the conference is open to the public.
W. Stiff Robinson, coordinator of conference, expects 100 to 280 students from abroad to scholars from around the country. He said local interest would be high.
"The presidential election is a lively, timely subject," said Robinson, professor of history. "Each chairman on the panel has studied
presidential election at different times. They will comment on the election from differing viewpoints."
Allan Gileri, panel member and associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, viewed the views of the other panel members because of the uncertain conditions.
"This is tough than any election to can remember because it is so volcanic." But when it seems to be determined by shortterm forces "such as the images and videos," the process becomes tough.
Donald McCoy, University distinguished professor of history, is coordinating the discussion and will act as moderator for the panel. He has written biographies of Calvin Coadley and Al Landen and is the chair of the committee for the Presidential Series of the University Press of Kansas.
Each panel member will speak for 10 minutes. Then the panel will discuss the issue among themselves
before fielding questions from the audience, McCoy said.
Cigler, who is the author of the book "Interest Group Politics" and is a frequent panelist on political behavior.
■ Dennis Farney, who graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree in political science. Based in Kansas City, Mo., he is affiliated with the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal and political conventions this summer.
James Giglio, professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University, was the author of American politics and is working on a biography of John F. Kennedy for the New York Times.
- Martin Fauselowski, professor of history at the State University of New York and co-founder of Herbert Hover's biography in the Presidential Series of the University Press.
K-State students told to pack it up
Ry Craig Welch
Kansan staff writer
Through rain or shine, some Kansas State University students think Wildcat basketball games definitely are worth waiting for.
But students won't have to wait in the weather nearly as long as they were planning because of action taken by K-State.
Students first picked their tents and dragged out our sleeping bags on Sept. 12, more than one month after they made the ticket sales are supposed to begin.
"We were fully prepared to go all 31 days if that's what it would have taken," said Kent Shank, KState junior and one of the first
Each place in line represents 20 tickets. Shank said, so he and his brother found 38 of their friends who were willing to take the tickets for the Tickle Sales Committee, a student group, required two people to be in the
During a meeting on Sept. 13, K-State officials and members of student senate decided to alter their ticket policy.
"It doesn't look good to have students living in the cold and the rain for five months," said Dong State Senate Chairman.
Folk also said that the administration and faculty feared that students would have started skipping classes.
A task force had been assigned by student government to look into the problem of not being able to spring. Falk said. People had complained about the fairness of districting and that students had been excluded.
"That was when we decided to begin the sales on October 14, where I was working," Folk said. "But we really didn't think they would come out five weeks."
After a day of camping, stu-
tent at all times
"It's a domino affect," he said. "Once one group starts, 50 more will join them."
dents' positions in line were recorded by the committee. By doing this, Folk said, administrators thought they could prevent people from camping out in far soil at campgrounds. Students students at getting tickets.
Shank estimated that more than 40 tents were set up by the time they were asked to leave at noon, Sept. 16.
Students will return to camping in front of the field house when a purple flag is raised above Anderson Hall. On that unannounced date, students will have until 9 p.m. to reclaim their positions. Students must drop out before be will be added to the list in the order of their arrival.
Carol Adolph, K-State Athletic Ticket Manager, said she was not convinced that the new policy would help much.
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