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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 15. 1988
Bill would allow networks to discuss programming
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
It's called the Batman syndrome. Children watch their superheroes act violently in cartoons, then imitate them in play.
Nancy Gibbens, director of Lawrence Community Nursery School, received an article on the topic yesterday from a concerned parent.
"Kids aged 3 to 5 need an identity," she said. "If their role models for authority are violent, they tend to go around scandaling and hitting."
If legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan, becomes law, children could be watching violent carcasses and animals.
Gickman's bill, now in the House Judiciary Committee, would allow networks and cable companies to discuss ways to decrease violence in entertainment-oriented programs, especially shows children watch.
Under the bill, the industry would receive a three-year exemption from ant-trust law to negotiate only the necessary agreements. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, designed to
prevent monopolies, prohibits the networks from talking to each other about programming.
Aletha Huston, co-director of the KU Center for Research on the Influences of Television on Children and professor of human development, testified for the bill more than a year ago. She also is chairman of the P3-geological Association's task force on television and society.
"There was a lot of evidence that television violence led to aggressive behavior for children and sometimes the bill still seemed a good way to limit it."
However, Huston had reservations about what action the television industry would take as a result of the bill.
"I've researched television for 24 years, and I'm not optimistic about the future of the job," the bill probably won't by itself have a lot of effect, but it might be effective if the public or the Federal government pressured the industry to act."
The National Coalition on Television Violence recently ranked Home
box Office and USA Network as having the most violent programs. Those networks were followed by WGN, WSN, Showtime and Cinemax.
The coalition praised the Discovery Channel, PBS, the Disney Channel and Black Entertainment Television.
Swenson said that the bill was an encouragement, not a mandate, for the networks to work together on this issue.
Glickman the press secretary, Scott Swenson, said in a telephone interview yesterday that the networks could on their own to reduce traffic by 50 percent and act with more unify if they had permission to talk to one another.
"It’s not government coming in and saying, ‘You can’t do that,’” he said. “Rather it’s government saying you’re the problem. Figure out the solution.”
Swenson said that the incentive for the networks to act together against violent programs might be a fear of lowered ratings.
KU Democrats pursue voters
By David Stewart Kanegan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Although Democrates nationally are focusing on the environment, taxes and defense, the KU Democratz are focusing on student involvement.
The KU Democrats met at 7 p.m. yesterday in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Democrats spoke about the importance of the student vote at the University of Kansas.
Allan Long, county coordinator for the Dukaski campaign, said the number of students at KU could make a bie difference in the election.
"The clout they have is incredli
ble" he said.
Long said he needed the KU Democrats to determine the mood of the voters on campus.
The KU Democrats "need to be our eyes and ears on campus." he said.
The group plans not only to look and listen but also to take its message to the eyes and ears of KU students.
Douglas Johnston, president of the KU Democracia, said that the group would be putting up signs in the information booth in front of chairwoman Nathalie Republicans in October and trying to organize a campus rally.
Joe Orrick, treasurer of the KU Democrates, said the group also would start a campus newsletter.
"Hopefully, this will be our first resource to let people know what's on." Orrick said.
Kelly Jerjeman, who is in charge of voter registration for the group, said that the most important goal is to get students to vote.
Student voter turnout had been in light previous elections, Jerrigan said, but through a door-to-door voter registration he expected to increase the turnout.
"We need at least 1,000 people to vote in Allen Field House," Jernigan said.
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