THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008
NEWS
3A
BROADCASTING
KJHK wins 11 awards at state competition
Winners include seven first-place pieces
BY LUKE MORRIS
Imorris@ku.edu
KJHK 90.7 FM has a few more plaques to add to its studio walls. The University's student-run radio station won 11 awards from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters, including seven first-place awards.
Tom Johnson, station general manager and adviser, said that the seven first-place awards were a record for the station.
"I'm really impressed with how much success students have had,
namely in news reporting," Johnson said. "They should be happy someone recognized their professional efforts."
Johnson said he wasn't surprised that the station fared well because the station submitted a heavy volume of nominations for awards.
Yelena Pavlik, KJHK news director and Plano, Texas, junior, said she was proud of the work the station's news staff put in, especially work done to put together "As Heard from the Hill," a new public affairs program.
"I'm really impressed with how much success students have had, namely in news reporting. They should be happy someone recognized their professional efforts."
Some of the first place awards KJHK won include best public affairs program for "As Heard from the Hill," best complete news feature for "Street Musicians of Lawrence" and best promotional event for "2007 Farm Fresh Sounds."
The Kansas Association of Broadcasters' Student Broadcast Awards are considered the state's highest accolade in student broadcasting. Award winners were invited to attend an awards ceremony on April 14 in Wichita.
"The show, being new last year, was a completely redesigned format. It took a lot of hard work and talent from everyone involved," Pavlik said. "It was a unique experience to have the kind of show we did with completely student-recorded and produced content."
TOM JOHNSON
KJHK general manager
Wh it Bones, Tulsa, Okla., senior, apparently caught onto the hang of radio journalism quick. Bones won best undergraduate documentary for his first ever story, "State of
the Arts - 3 pieces."
"I had no idea I'd be contending for an award, let alone winning it, especially since the series was my first experience with any journalism," Bones said.
Bones said that it was a great time to be at the University and Lawrence, amid all the recent accomplishments.
"Lawrence and KU are doing so well, winning everything from sports to radio to art." Bones said. "It's exciting to be part of a winning community."
Edited by Jared Duncan
kihk winners
1st Place Winners:
Best Public Affairs
Program
— "As Heard from the Hill"
- The KJHK News Staff
Best Complete News
Feature
— "Street Musicians of Law-
rence"- Sara Shannon
Best Undergraduate
Documentary
— "State of the Arts - 3 Pieces" - Whit Bones
Best Graduate Documentary — "Pakistan - 2 Pieces"
- Denzyl Janneker
— "Research Paper" - Vince
Meserko
Best Promotion Event
— "2007 Farm Fresh Sounds" - Elise Stawarz, Hannah Mott and Rachael Gray
Best Graduate Promotion Annoucement
— "All Things African"
- Badou Bousso
Honorable Mention:
Entertainment Program — "What A Morning" - Zach White and Joe Noh Enterprise New
Enterprise News Package
— "Todd Snider Interview"
-Vince Meserko
Promotion Event/Activities
Promotion Event/Activity — "Jazz in the Park" - Miles Whetsel Undergraduate Press
Undergraduate Promotion Announcement
— "Sunglasses Halloween Spot"- Nick Spacek
NATURAL DISASTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Suffolk resident Barbara Banker, right, hugs a neighbor as they wait to retrieve their pets at a police checkpoint in Suffolk, Va., Tuesday. Three tornadoes smashed houses, piled cars on each other and injured more than 200 people Monday.
Residents allowed to sift through tornado rubble
BY BOB LEWIS ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUFFOLK, Va. — Residents gathered at a school Wednesday, carrying black garbage bags and backpacks as they waited to be taken to their tornado-ravaged neighborhoods to gather necessities from their homes.
Several said they were upset that officials were allowing them only 10 minutes at their houses.
"I understand the need to make sure more people don't get hurt but it's still frustrating," John Catania said.
Worried state officials had said earlier they didn't know if residents would encounter new dangers including damaged power lines and natural gas mains.
Catania got his first look at his flattened house Wednesday, and said it "looked like somebody took a broom and swept the pad clean."
"These guys don't know what's under the debris, but that's the way it is in these situations. We like to do these things ourselves," state emergency management spokesman Bob Spieldenner said Tuesday.
Police listed condemned homes that homeowners wouldn't be allowed to go into Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the day after tornadoes struck the region, firefighters poked through mounds of rubble sometimes 6 to 8 feet high to make sure no one lay beneath them, and utility crews
worked around the clock to make sure electricity and gas lines presented no danger.
In disasters like these, Spieldenner said, the aftermath can bring as much danger as the storm itself.
"That's the way it was with Hurricane Isabel," in 2003, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesman said, referring to the last major natural calamity to hit Suffolk, a city of 80,000 west of Norfolk.
"There were more people injured in the cleanup after Isabel than in the storm itself. We had people die of carbon monoxide (from running generators indoors), falling off roofs, falling out of trees," he said.
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