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Friday, November 17, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Yule Stamps
Karen Bellows, Toptea junior, bought her stamps. Stamps Tuesday when the specimen was on sale.
College Station Post Office. The special issues commemorate Christmas 1972, which could be another year of an immense volume of holiday mail handled by the Postal Service urges everyone to mail Christmas cards and packages early.
Administration Misuse Of Media Criticized
By JEROME ESSLINGER
Kansas Staff Writer
MANHATTAN, Kan.,—Professional rapport between political leaders and newsmen is being undermined by "political propagandists" at the White House and other levels of government, Dan Father, House correspondent, said here Thursday.
Rather made his remarks as the guest speaker for the first of the Kansas State University 1972-73 AIF Landon Lecture Series.
A White House correspondent since 1964, Rather said that every White House administration had had members who tried to use the news media but that those in the Nixon administration were "better than most."
He named four current presidential advisers and aides who, he said, have restricted an open exchange of information between him and the newman—Herbert Klein, director of White House communications; John Ehrlichman, White House domestic affairs adviser; Patrick Buchanan, a special White House envoy; and Robert Rather described as "Nixon's right arm."
REPORTERS ARE saddened when paid political propagandists, many of them on the government payroll and paid with tax (their tax is not being collected by narrow partisan pursuers). "Rather said,
He said that journalists were partly responsible for the success of such men.
"We have too smog, too complacent about explaining to those we serve who we are, what we are and what we are trying to do. We have done a poor job of taking our case to the people and are suffering the consequences," he said.
As a result, some First Amendment rights have been limited and others are being threatened, he said, but objectivity and the goal and the ideal of good journalism.
"Nixon is not antipress, but there have been serious attacks by the White House to him."
Rather discounted what he said was a myth that news was slanted along lines of evidence.
"No one at CBS has ever told me to slant any story in any political direction or has asked or given the slightest sign of caring as a reporter's political views are," he said.
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"Some of that may be due to errors by reporters. We have made errors in judgment and in fact, but I like to think they were errors of the head, not of the heart." he said.
Rather said errors that were reported sometimes could be attributed to a lack of training.
"When was the last time a president or a secretary of defense admitted a serious misconduct?"
20th Century Reflects Spirit Of Earlier Era, Prof Says
The criticisms which early 19th century English romancelets leveled against the spirit of their times could be made almost any time, including today, William P. Albrecht, professor of English, said Thursday in the lecture of the 1972-73 Humanities Lecture Series.
Albrecht's scheduled topic was
Coleridge, with the Spirit and The
Arts; their Association.
"I changed the name so, at least, I could be relevant," he said.
Directories Cannot Be Hastened; Info, Computer, Printer Responsible
Telephone numbers scribbled on notebook covers and memorized addresses may continue to be the only student directories on campus for the first two months of each semester if Dennis Branstetter, director of the KU News Bureau, is correct in his predictions.
By MYLASTARR Kansan Staff Writer
"Official student directories will continue to be issued between the middle and the end of October," he said Thursday. "If there'a been a lot of them out, we haven't thought of it yet."
"The directories are considered to be late because they come out later than everyone wants them to. The earliest we've gotten them out in the past six years is mid-October. I doubt that there will ever be much faster service."
THE DELAY IN issuing directories is caused mainly by the time required to obtain the data from the book, Bransister said. Data for the lists of the University's administration and student organizations are usually received from the student and faculty information, he said.
"This year, we had the student information by the middle of September, but it was an interval of October before we received information of the administrative information," he said.
Bransister said that a form requesting director information was sent to each of the 50 departmental offices on campus during the summer. Immediately after fall enrollment, a form for final revision is sent to director. According to Bransster, it was the default of this final information which prevented prompt processing of the directories.
"PEOPLE IN these departments have other things to worry about at the beginning of a semester," he said, "and we have failed to find any way to eliminate this delay."
Branstier said that the tremendous amount of work done at the computation center after fall enrollment contributed to the problem.
Bransister said that he planned to talk with the director of the computation center about earlier processing of directory information for fall 1973.
Branstiser said that it normally took a month to receive the directories after the camera-ready copy has been sent to the printer.
"It balls to a matter of priority and manpower," he said. "Everyone wants a printout at the same time and you have to wait your turn."
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BRANSTITTER SAID that the News Bureau planned to change printers next fall because of the "poor quality printing job" done on the directories this year.
“There were a lot of defective copies this year,” he said. “Some pages were trimmed so that names were cut off and, in some cases, they were the sections of the directory were missing.”
'I even had a report that the administrative section in one directory was fledged.'
Plains Publications in Lubbock, Texas, has printed the KU student directories for the past two years, Brantister said. The University originally contracted with the company, he said, because it was one of the first companies to do directory printing.
"This was when the budget crunch was just starting, and they offered to print the directories free of charge," he said. "But we need it now where we can get better service."
THE LAST two directories have been completely financed by advertising solicited by representatives of Plains Publications, Branstetter said. Any deficit or profit incurred in printing the books belongs to them.
"If they could not sell enough advertising to pay printing costs, that was their problem," he said. "We send them the copy and give us the possibility to send us the printed directories."
This year, the University was responsible for the costs of computer time and the computing facilities.
directory, Bramster said, but these expenses were absorbed by the administrative department.
Branstätter explained that the administrative section was typeset locally because of mistakes made last year when tree was set by the printer.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE information is used extensively and it is important that it be handled in a careful way.
Prior to 1971, directories were printed by the KU Printing Service.
Both William Hazlitt, critic and essayist, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic and philosopher, found 19th century works lacking in humaneness, Albrecht said.
He said a humanist, like Coleridge or Heath, still studies the language not through but through the life of the people.
The failure of whites to see other peoples as full human beings, Albrecht said, created America's problem in race relations at home and in Vietnam.
Dick Wintermorte, executive secretary of the Alumni Association, has received the Distinguished Service Award for dedicated service to outstanding professional accomplishment.
Although Coleridge became a conservative and Hazlitt remained a radical, Albrecht said they both were similar in that they shared some of the same beliefs on expedition and not on moral principles.
Service Award Given to Alum
Winternote was the third person from KU to receive the award. The late Fred Ellsworth, former executive secretary of the Alumni Association, and Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association, also had received the award since it was first presented in 1964.
The honor is for District VI of the American Alumni Council (AAC) and the Mid-American District of the American College Public Relations Association. Wintermor received the award at ACA-CFRA conference in St. Louis Sunday.
"They found the Romantic period very unramanic," he said.
Each year the Humanities Lecture Series includes one lecture by a distinguished resident professor. Albrecht is a specialist in 19th century English literature.
At the University of Kansas, Albrecht has served as chairman of the department of English and as dean of the Graduate School prior to its reorganization. He is one of a select group of Americans to be elected to membership in the International Association of University Professors of English.
Use Kansan Classified
Lighten and brighten your special place with colorful kaleidoscopic candles that will flicker through the night. Give your wall a personality of its own with posters that speak to you down the hill, resting waterbed and enjoy the warm, personal experience you've created with props from Faces and Trees.
Faces & Trees warms the cold apartment
LUCUS McGEE'S
with candles, posters, and waterbeds.