THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008
NEWS
3A
TELEVISION
KUJH, students win awards
BY JESSICA WICKS jwicks@kansan.com
The University of Kansas television station, KUJH, won five first-place awards from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters this year.
It received awards for best complete newscast, station Web site and three enterprise news packages.
Dick Nelson, station manager, said that compared with previous years, the station did rather poorly. He said this was the least amount of awards that he remembered the station getting.
"Our individual winners may deserve more than the usual credit." Nelson said.
Sam Knowlton, Lawrence senior, who won first place for his enterprise story on biodiesel, credited Nelson and Rick Musser, journalism professor, for providing guidance along the way.
"It was a collaborative product," Knowlton said. "They are committed to doing the best they can to help turn out the best product."
He said the hardest part was having to reschedule.
"That was kind of tedious, but it really wasn't a difficult story," Knowlton said. "I tend to want to do my best at stuff like that. I was not doing it for KAB, I was doing it for us."
Alex Wiebel, Allen, Texas senior, who put together the Web portion of the video, said it took a lot of polish-
2008 KU winners of KAB awards
Undergraduate television
Complete Newcast, First Place:
KUJH-TV News, May 10, 2007,
Producer: Tracy Perlman
Station Web Site, First Place: tv.ku.edu, KUJH-TV staff
Enterprise News Package, First Place (tie): "Biodiesel," Sam Knowlinot, Stephen Peteritas, Jy Unruh, Alex Wiebel
Complete News Feature: Honorable Mention, "Lady Bugs," Lisa Allen
to make it worthy to submit, but he was proud of how it turned out.
Enterprise News Package, First Place: "Library Porn,"Uyanga Bazaa
Graduate television
Complete News Feature, First Place; "Animal Therapy," Heather Brummitt
He said what he was learning in the School of Journalism had helped him with his skills in new media as it evolved.
Complete News Feature, Second Place:"German Contest;" Christopher Brott
"It ites pretty good," Wielbel said. "It is a good way to end my career at KU."
Wigebel also won a KAB award for radio his freshman year.
Heather Brummitt, alum, firstplace winner of the complete news feature, said it was just the daily routine of excellence in the school that led to the awards.
"It was the repetition of having to go out every week and find a story."
Brummitt said. "Striving for something unique and different and going off campus to find story ideas."
She said that she did the video that won near the end of the semester when they kept cancelling classes. That made it difficult for her, but things fell into place, she said.
"It's an honor to have someone else recognize and compliment your work."
The University won first-place awards in nearly a third of the categories. Although Pittsburg State University had the most awards overall, Kansas still won best station.
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
CELEBRATION
Cinco de Mayo: under the influence Mexican roots of holiday get lost in U.S. celebration
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
Stansifer said the holiday wasn't necessarily focused on Mexican nationalism in the U.S., but that it represented a day to celebrate Mexican heritage and culture in the U.S. He said although most
Today thousands of Americans will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mexican food and drinks, such as Coronas, margaritas and enchiladas. What they may not know is that Cinco de Mayo didn't even originate in Mexico.
According to a paper published by the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture in 2007, Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated in California in 1863, one year after Mexican troops defeated the invading French at the Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo isn't even a federal holiday in Mexico. Banks and government offices remain open, and the holiday is widely only celebrated near the site of the battle in Puebla. Charles Stansifer, professor emeritus of history, taught Mexican history at the University of Kansas for about 20 years. He said Cinco de Mayo received more attention in the United States because celebrations, parades and events were widespread unlike in Mexico.
celebrations in Mexico centered on the Mexican Independence Day of September 16, the Battle of Puebla was just as significant, if not more so, during the fight for independence.
"If you compare the two events, Cinco de Mayo marked a greater step toward what I would call national independence and pride in being Mexican," Stansifer said.
escaped the attention of companies across the country.
"I think it's just a way for big companies to make money."
"I think it's just a way for big companies to make money," Gonzalez said.
DAVID GONZALEZ
Hispanic American Leadership
Organization president
Although the Hispanic AmericanLeadershipOrganization has sponsored Cinco de Mayo celebrations on campus in the past, David Gonzalez, Inglewood, Cali., junior, and HALO president, said the group didn't have any large-scale plans this year.
Members will be in front of Smith Hall this morning from 8 to 10 selling breakfast burritos to raise funds for the organization. Gonzalez said although the day was intended to commemorate a turning point in the battle for Mexican independence, many people used the day as an excuse to party, something that hasn't
Not to be left out, Lawrence businesses are poised to reap the rewards of today's festivities. Bars, restaurants and liquor stores are all preparing for additional business
as customers look to celebrate with Mexican beer, tequila and food.
Rick Pinne, weekend manager at Cork & Barrel Wine & Spirits, 2000 W 23rd St., said the store expected an increase in sales of Mexican beers such as Corona, Dos Equis and Tecate and tequila today as people prepare their own festivities.
Clerks at Ray's Liquor Warehouse, 1215 W 6th St., said sales in Mexican beer and tequila had already climbed above their average sales on Sunday, and the store expected even more sales today.
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
SOUTHEAST ASIA Cyclone kills more than 350 people in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar — A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people and destroyed thousands of homes, state-run media said Sunday. Some dissident groups worried that the military junta running Myanmar would be reluctant to ask for international help.
Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit at
a delicate time for the junta, less than a week ahead of a crucial referendum on a new constitution. Should the junta be seen as failing disaster victims, voters who already blame the regime for ruining the economy and squashing democracy could take out their frustrations at the ballot box.
Some in Yangon complained the 400,000-strong military was doing little to help victims after Saturday's storm.
"Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians?" said a trishaw driver who refused to be identified for fear of retribution. "They should come out in full force and help clean up the areas and restore electricity."
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been under military rule since 1962. Its government has been widely criticized for human rights abuses and suppression of
pro-democracy parties such as the one led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for almost 12 of the past 18 years.
Last September, at least 31 people were killed and thousands more were detained when the military cracked down on peaceful protests led by Buddhist monks and democracy advocates.
The Forum for Democracy in Burma and other dissident
groups outside of Myanmar urged the military junta Sunday to allow aid groups to operate freely in the wake of the cyclone — something it has been reluctant to do in the past.
It would be difficult for other countries to help unless they received a request from Myanmar's military rulers.
"International expertise in dealing with natural disasters is urgently required. The military
regime is ill-prepared to deal with the aftermath of the cyclone," said Naing Aung, secretary general of the Thailand-based forum.
At least 351 people were killed, including 162 who lived on Haing Gyi island off the country's southwest coast, military-run Myaddy television station reported. Many of the others died in the low-lying Irrawaddy delta.
Associated Press
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Pre-Physical Therapy Club
EVENT: general meeting
DATE: May 6th
LOCATION: Crimson and Blue Room, 2nd Floor Watkins Memorial Health Center