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Newsletter has little impact
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
University Daily Kansan, August 31, 1984
Despite the sometimes volatile issues surrounding downtown redevelopment, a monthly downtown newsletter financed by the city seems to have had little impact, City officials Nancy Shonzt said this week.
"Nothing seems to be happening as a result of all this information," Shontz said. "I don't know if this is all a useless effort or not."
The city started publishing the newsletter, Downtown, in June. City officials, who approved publication of the newsletter in May, said then that the public needed more information about downtown redevelopment than was generally available.
HOWEVER, SHONTZ SAID that publication of the newsletter had not increased retailers' interest in locating in a proposed downtown mall.
Residents also have not shown more or less disapproval of the downtown redevelopment plans than the newsletter's publication, she said.
The project, to be developed by the Town Center Venture Corp., would be between Sixth and Seventh streets and from the alley east of Massachusetts Street to Vermont Street.
sets street to Vernon Hall,
Nancy Humbert, chairman of the
Downtown Improvement Committee's public information sub
'Nothing seems to be happening as a result of all this information. I don't know if this is all a useless effort or not.'
—Nancy Shontz, city commissioner
committee, said the lack of public response was a promising sign.
"It's been surprisingly quiet," she said. "I think that's probably healthy. They've not been shocked by anything that in it."
JUNE'S ISSUE OF THE newsletter dealt with downtown development from a historical perspective. The July edition focused
on the downtown mall. August's issue featured how Manhattan had redeveloped its downtown.
Villippe "At least they're aware of what's happening," Hambleton said.
The city-supported newsletter is not without critics.
"I basically support the idea of an advocacy newsletter," Miller said. "Let's extend it to other people."
Tim Miller, a KU lecturer in religious studies and publisher of a local newsletter called Plumber's Friend, said that it was unfair that Lawrence neighborhood associations were prevented from expressing their views. It was able to promote downtown redevelopment through its newsletter.
DAVID LONGHURST, A city commissioner and member of the DIC's public information subcommittee, said the newsletter was helpful in providing "generic" information about downtown.
Longhurst said he had not detected much interest in the downtown project from the public since the time the newsletter started.
"Nobody's really complaining;
nobody's really enthusiastic," he
Newsman seeks to pass on skills
One veteran newsman thinks that by sharing his skills and experience, he can give to students what was given to him 50 years ago.
AFTER SERVING AS president of ABC News for 11 years, Lower has held visiting professorships at several universities, including Columbia University in New York City. He also served as interim dean at the University of Missouri School of Journalism during the 1982-83 academic year.
Lower, 71, has been producing, writing and editing news for 45 years. He said that the real reward in his job is to present you had puts out and succeeds."
Elmer W. Lower, KU's visiting professor in the William Alien White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said he wanted to feed his skills back into journalism by teaching students good writing.
Staff Reporter
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
said that although he had not returned permanently to the Midwest, he liked to come home to visit.
"It's where the real people live," he said.
Lower served as Paris bureau chief for Life magazine for four years, worked in the Far East for one year as a roving correspondent, and has held top positions at all three major television networks.
ALTHOUGH TRAVELING IS his hobby, Lower said that he usually gathered enough material on a trip for a story.
Increasing technology has made students today more aware of national and world events, Lower said. Faster distribution of information and shorter traveling times are responsible for that.
Lower said he had slowed his pace in the past 6% years. These days, he spends no more than six months each year in the classroom.
But Lower said that the greater awareness had not improved students' writing skills.
Lower still finds time to do assignments for ABC News. In November, he will cover the presidential election for the network.
After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1933. Lower served as a relief editor for the Republican-Times in Trenton, Mo.
in early November. The ambassadors start visiting their high schools as early as the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break, Bergquist-Lindeman said.
A Kansas City, Mo., native, Lower
Student Ambassador interviews to begin
Last year, the program enlisted 120 ambassadors, a large increase over the year before, she said. This is the third year of the program.
The University of Kansas Admissions Office is giving KU students an opportunity to become ambassadors.
life, said Diane Bergquist-
Lindeman, assistant director of
admissions and coordinator of the
program.
"But we don't try to push KU." Bergquist-Lindman said. "We want the ambassadors to talk about college in general. We don't want them to tell students, 'Don't go to K-State.'"
By the Kansan Staff
Beginning Tuesday, students interested in representing the University at their high schools will be able to pick up applications for the KU Student Ambassadors Program.
In the program, KU students return to their high schools as sources of information about college
Applicants are interviewed, and those selected to be ambassadors go through a four-hour training session
"We really don't know what to expect this year. I'm not sure if we're going to set a limit. We want to really expand this program." she said.
A KU ambassador must be a full-time student with at least a 2.5 grade point average.
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