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University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1980
Films present unpublicized subjects
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
For many years, there has been a media blackout on politically sensitive events, according to independent video sources, which spoke last night in the Kansas Union.
The program, "Experimental TV from the '80s to the '90s," was designed "to show the important developments in alternative media in the last 20 years" through a series of video tapes, Hoffman said.
The program was sponsored by KUJ.Y.
The tapes, which included alternative coverage of the 1972 Republican Convention, the Long Walk in 1978 and various anti-nuclear and American
Indian events, were made by video artists who consider themselves part of the counter-culture.
THE LONG WALK, a spiritual walk from Alcatraz to Washington, D.C., to protest 11 Indian-related bills, took nearly a year and drew more than $400 million from various sources and from a variety of religious groups, Hoffman said.
The tape, put together by Top Value TV. a collaboration of two video groups,
The film of the 1972 GCP convention, "Four More Years," did attract the attention of the news media, Hoffman said, and it was shown on television.
"It was considered by many as the most important event of the 70s since the Vietnam War," she said, "yet it received hardly any media coverage."
Freshman makes write-in bid
Dennis Dupont, Lawrence freshman,
yesterday declared himself a write-in
candidate for treasurer in the freshman
class officer elections.
John Knightly, the Student Senate elections committee co-chairman, said Dupont failed to return his declaration on Tuesday. He was 5 p.m., last Friday, the filing deadline.
Dupont said that his form had been stamped by Dean Jerry Lewis, director
of Numeraker Center, by 5 p.m. Sept. 12, but that he did not have enough time to return the form to the Senate office.
He was running on the Enterprise ticket.
focused on the activity surrounding the convention rather than its business
Knightly said that in fairness to the other candidates who did file on time, he could not accept Dupont's declaration.
Included in the film were interviews with several network reporters on the convention floor, as well as footage of protesters outside the convention hall.
Freshman class officer elections are Sept. 24 and 25.
in one segment, CBS newsman Walter Cronek explained that he was busy working in the booth and could not stand up for the national anthem at the opening of the convention. In another segment, a state delegation passed around a petition to protest the policies to "the full extent of the law for providing aid and comfort to the enemy."
DESPIEZE THE fact that the film was done with primitive portable black-and-white units, the film was just too large for the media to ignore, Hoffman said.
Hoffman currently is working on a film about the movement to prevent the overuse of nuclear weapons.
"Without the films done by the alternative media on these things, public information will not be shared," she said.
Hoffman, who got her start taping alternative lifestyle groups in her native northern California, now spends a lot of time road showing alternative media films.
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Students predict weather statewide
After getting three busy signals and being put on hold, Randy Baker, Lawrence sophmore, called in a statement to Lawrence radio station KLWN that would affect many area residents.
Baker, a forecaster for the KU Weather Service, checked his copy, cleared his throat and predicted that Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1980, would be partly cloudy and much cooler than Monday with the low around 58 degrees Fahrenheit and winds light from the east.
The KU Weather Service, located in 420 Lindley Hall, is a forecasting service that provides daily weather predictions to the University Daily Weather Report. KANU and KJHK in Lawrence, WREN in Topeka, KNEX in McPherson, KIUL in Garden City, KGGF in Coffeyville and KRSL in Russell. The service also is located in New York for record forecasts. That number is 842-5249.
ALTHOUGH THE National Weather Forecasting Office in Topeka has to issue forecasts for a general location, Baker said the KU
"That's why stations subscribe to us." Baker said. "We also use a format that the stations like. That is, we'll take more time to explain developments than would the National Weather Service."
However, Baker and Ed Lang, Sewell, N.J., junior and also a forecaster for the KU service, were quick to point out that the KU service cannot replace the national service, which has more sophisticated equipment to better monitor development.
THE KU WEATHER Service consists of eight undergraduate student forecasters and four undergraduate trainees. They learn about weather forecasting in the practicum in weather forecasting class taught by J.R. Eagleman, professor of geography, and from the on-the-job experience of working six hours a week for the service.
"In western Kansas, we've made big mistakes before," said Baker. "Out there the weather is quite variable because of the cool winds or
Sometimes the on-the-job training can lead to embarrassing mistakes for the forecasters.
chinkins coming off the Rockies. One time we were on our forecast by 15 degrees because of a sudden change in those winds."
To check such mistakes, the KU service tries to stay within the broad forecast of the national service. If there are major differences between the two Lang said, the forecast better have a very good reason for differing.
"A lot of times the national service will miss something because they have to forecast for such a large area," Baker said. "In those cases, you need to up with a more accurate measure for the local areas that we cover."
DURING EACH OF three daily shifts, from 5:15 to 7:15 a.m., from 10 a.m. to noon and from 3 to 5 p.m. the KU service键盘 current weather conditions and adjusts the forecasts if necessary. However, if the weather changes suddenly, the KU service cannot quickly correct the forecast because it isn't staffed 24 hours a day.
Another problem the KU service faces is having to use inexperienced forecasters at times. There are no forecasters working on Sundays.
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