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Tuesday, September 23, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Students find work after loss of TV-30
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Although the loss of TV-30 decreased broadcast journalism students' opportunities for professional experience, some continue to practice their skills in the working world, the chairman of the School of Journalism's radio-television sequence said yesterday.
Five upper-level broadcast sales students are working as sales representatives for radio stations KLWN-AM and KLZR-FM, both located at 3035 lowa St., and for Sunflower Cablevision, 644 New Hampshire St. They are taking part in a program started this semester, said Max Utlser, the chairman.
In addition, about 15 broadcast news students in the advanced report
touring course are submitting broadcast reports to Sunflower.
Students receive academic credit for the outside work, Uttsler said.
TV-30, a low-power television station based in Lawrence, closed in May. The station, which was owned by Low Power Technology Inc. of Austin, Texas, gave broadcast journalism students the opportunity to work at a television station.
Utsler said the amount of control the school had over the programs with the radio and cable-TV stations was much less than working with TV-30.
The news staff at TV30, except for the news director, consisted of KU students. The school also helped TV30 officials select the news director.
"We were the news department," he said.
A few students also helped with sales at TV-30, Utsler said.
the school, he said, had been working to arrange programs for students with Sunflower and other local media for some time.
"The absence of TV-30 meant that a student would do a story, using his time and his source's time, and it would never see the light of day," he said.
The best option for the school would be a television equivalent of the Kansan, Utsler said, so students could have daily experience. But he said the current program was better than giving students no outside experience.
"No way can you re-create in a lab
activity the experience of being daily under deadline pressure." Utsler said. "In a time when the job market is so competitive, students need that extra advantage."
John Katich, assistant professor in radio-television and a former general manager of TV-30, said only five broadcast sales students were involved in the program this semester because they were the only students enrolled in the required fourth semester of the sales sequence. The fourth semester became a requirement this fall.
Katich said students working in the program needed to be qualified so they didn't lose potential income for local businesses.
Educators say curriculums boosted ACT
United Press International
NEW YORK — Educators yesterday said more demanding curriculums and a new student belief that it is the "in thing" to do well in school pushed un national scores on college admission tests.
School administrators and others applauded the 18.8 average score on the 1986 ACT test, the highest in a decade, and the SAT score maintaining last year's average - 475 on math and 431 on verbal.
"It's the 'in' thing today to do well in school, said George Hanford, president of the College Board.
He said youths with that spirit were responsible for the slightly better results on tests in the last several years.
"They are the beneficiaries of educational improvements under way at the state level since 1977." he said.
About the SAT scores that did not improve this time around, he said:
"My feeling is that you can't take any one year as a trend. You have to take four or five years back. The trend over four or five years is positive — up."
But there is something else. About 2.3 percent more students took the SAT in 1986 than in the previous year.
"If that hadn't been so, the 1986 score would have gained." Hanford said.
gamble. Then Adams said,
"When you add volume, scores tend to go down but the scores didn't this time. That is more support for saving the trend is up," he said.
Ralph Turlington, Florida's education commissioner, said, "There is no question that the scores this year indicate that academic performance of students is improving.
"I think they are taking more academic courses (such as math and science and foreign languages). It represents more serious attention to the academic program — by the schools, by the students."
Among the states, Florida tied with South Carolina for the biggest gain on the ACT. Both registered a hike of 11 points over their 1965 average.
"I think it is great news that the SAT scores didn't go down since 23,000 more students took it. That means if the same number had taken it as last
year, we could have had a point gain," said Scott Thomson, head of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
"My view is that we will have a gain next year. I think the trend line will continue up for both the SAT and the ACT."
"Performance on both tests reflects a tougher curriculum, higher standards in English and math."
Robert Bowers, Ohio's assistant superintendent of public instruction, said. "The trend to improved scores indicates clearly that there is greater concentration on the college prep curriculum now than there was in the 1960s and 1970s when scores were declining."
In 1960, when scores were plunging, he recalled, fewer students were taking college preparatory courses and many preferred mini-courses that were proliferating in the junior and high girls.
"Students were learning things in the mini courses that were not measured on the college admission tests." Bowers said of a plunge in SAT scores that began in 1964.
Carlin will not be defendant in school desegregation case
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A federal judge yesterday dismissed Gov. John Carlin as a defendant in the reopened Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education school desegregation case.
U. S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers granted a motion filed by Carlin's attorney, Carl Gallagher, Lawrence, to drop the governor from the lawsuit. The judge agreed that Carlin had no direct involvement in the case and was not a proper defendant.
remain. The case was reopened in 1979.
Plaintiffs contended that Topeka never fully integrated its schools after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine in education in 1954.
The plaintiffs allege that segregation actually has remained in Topeka schools, with heavy concentrations of black children attending public schools on the city's east side, while schools in the western and southern portions of the city are predominately white.
School officials said the distribution of black and white students was dictated by housing patterns.
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Phill Kline, the Republican candidate for the Kansas 2nd district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, yesterday announced a plan to help families save money for their children's education.
Kline is running against incumbent Rep Jim Slattery, a Democrat, who is seeking a third term.
By the year 2000, a college education may cost more than $60,000, and many middle-income families can't afford to pay that much. Kline said.
These "educational IRAs" would be similar to existing individual retirement accounts that permit workers to invest up to $2,000 a year tax-free, he said.
If elected to Congress, Kline said, he would introduce a bill to permit families to make tax-free contributions to savings accounts used for educational purposes. Neither the contribution nor the interest on it would be taxed.
Kline, 26, a KU law student, said the money would be considered taxable income if it were taken out of the account and used for anything other than education.
A family that invested $1,000 a year could earn more than $27,000 in 15 years and more than $45,000 after 20 years, based on an interest rate of 8 percent, Kline said.
"I think this type of program is needed," he said. "It would be a tremendous boost to families."
However, he said, a provision in the new tax-overhaul bill now in Congress would provide tax exemptions for certain companies while the tax plan was being phased in.
Kline said the program could cost $1.5 billion a year in lost taxes if 10 million families in the current 15-percent tax bracket contributed $1,000 a year to educational IRAS.
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