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Monday, April 22, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fall class features on-line journalism
JOUR 657 will combine Internet and reporting
By David Teska Kansan staff writer
Carole Rich will finally get to teach her new class on-line journalism.
"I've been dying to teach this course for three years," said Rich, associate professor of journalism.
Starting next fall, the School of Journalism will offer JOUR 657, its first course in on-line journalism. Although the course is open to all students on campus, Rich said the course was aimed primarily at journalists. The curriculum will touch on how to use the Internet for reporting, how to write material for the Internet, and the ethics and
legal concerns of on-line publishing.
"It's a course on how to use online sources, especially the Internet, as a writing and reporting tool," she said.
Rich said the 20 students in the class also might work on the Kansan's on-line service, scheduled to go on line in the fall.
"They will, in a sense, be staffers for the on-line paper," she said.
What the class won't be, Rich said, is a technology class on the specifics of how the Internet works.
"This is not a class where people have to have technical knowledge," she said. "My students will know more than I."
Rich said she hadn't been able to teach this class before because Stauffer-Flint Hall didn't have access to the Internet. The school is
now installing the equipment needed to give Rich's students the access they will need.
"Right now, I drag my Reporting I students down to the Computer Center," she said.
Carrie Gabbard, St. Louis, Mo., senior, is a business communications major in the school. She said she enrolled in the class because the Internet was valuable as a research tool for advertisers.
"A lot of times, the Internet is used to do research on a product or a client you're doing a campaign on," she said.
Because the Internet and the World Wide Web are quickly becoming valuable in the classroom, the School of Education also teaches a similar class, C&I 400, Media and Microcomputers in the Classroom.
Dave Soper, Prairie Village gradu
ate student, said the computer section of the course was designed to introduce future teachers to computers and how they can use them in the classroom."
"It's a familiarization and an introduction to the World Wide Web, Usegroups and e-mail," he said. "We don't get into the nuts and bolts of how a computer works."
As a professional school, the School of Journalism needs to teach its students about how to use the Internet, Rich said. She also cited the explosive growth in on-line newspapers and magazines, called "ezines." At last count, there were 170 on-line newspapers and more than 800 ezines.
"It's not only essential, it's exciting," she said. "Not to use it will deprive students of a basic education."
Rally commemorates Lawrence man's death
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Former Kansas governor Joan Finney spoke of her respect and admiration for Native Americans at a rally at South Park Gazebo on Saturday afternoon.
"My great-grandmother was dying of spinal meningitis, and the doctors had given up on her," Finney said. "An Indian woman asked to care for the dying girl. She nursed her back to health and my great-grandmother lived into her eighties."
Finney and about 75 others gathered to commemorate the life of the late Gregg Sevier. Sevier was shot by Lawrence police in 1991 when they responded to a 911 call. Sevier's parents had called for help because Sevier was upset and had a knife. Police officers said Sevier lunged at them with a butcher knife. A rally in Sevier's honor has been
A rally in Sevier's honor has been held annually since then.
Lawrence attorney Lance Burr, who represented the Seviers in their wrongful-death suit against the city, also spoke during the rally, which was followed by a march to Haskell Indian Nations University.
Burr said no changes had been made in how Lawrence police deal with someone who is distraught or not thinking clearly.
"We don't know of any changes that have been made to date," Burr said. He said that changes were not required by the settlement.
However, Burr said police should discontinue the shoot-to-kill policy, establish a special department to deal with distraught people and how to disarm them, hire more Native-American and other minority officers, and provide cultural education to make police officers more aware of the lives, needs and concerns of the Native-American community.
Adam Blackwood, Lawrence resident and Haskell student, said that he was not satisfied with the city's response to the Sevier incident.
Blackwood said harassment of Native Americans still happened occasionally. He said he knew of a Native-American woman who was accused of being an alcoholic during a traffic stop.
"They stopped her for speeding and said she must have been drinking because she was Indian," Blackwood said.
ON CAMPUS
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. Call the center at 843-0357 for more information.
KU Study Abroad in French-speaking countries has an information session at 2:30 p.m. today at 4033 Wescoe Hall.
Linguistics Colloquy will sponsor Jane Hacking, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures, who will speak on Grammaticalization Theory and The Conditional Mood in Slavic at 3:30 p.m. today at 206 Blake Hall
The Law and Organizational Economics Center will sponsor The Pros and Cons of the Flat Tax: A Public Choice Perspective by James M. Buchanan at 4:40 p.m. today at 203 Green Hall.
at 5:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at 215 Robinson Center. Call Jon Sides at 832-1771 for more information.
KU Women's Rugby Football Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at Shenk Complex. Call Stacey Stringfellow at 749-3380 for more information.
KU Karate Club will practice
International Students Association will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
KU Meditation Club will have a group meditation at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Ravi Hirekatur at 832-8789 for more information.
KU Yoga Club has class at 7 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Adam Miller at 832-0399 or Paula Duke at 542-1930 for more information.
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ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member's blue parking permit was stolen Tuesday afternoon from a car in lot 90 behind Robinson Center, KU police reported. The permit was valued at $85.
A KU student's mountain bicycle was stolen April 15 from McCollum Hall, KU police reported. The bicycle was valued at $350.
A KU student's mountain bicycle was stolen between April 10 and 12 from the bicycle racks on the north side of Wesco Hall, KU police reported. The bicycle and lock were valued at $300.
A KU student reported a violation of the city noise ordinance Saturday night in the 1100 block of Mississippi Street, Lawrence police reported.
night and Saturday morning at Beta Theta Pti, 1425 Tennessee St., Lawrence police reported. Damage was estimated at $600
A KU student's VCR, oscillation fan and baseball cap were stolen Friday from the 1500 block of West 22nd Terrace, Lawrence police reported. The items were valued at $215
A double pane glass window was damaged between Friday
A KU graduate teaching assistant reported a violation of the city noise ordinance Thursday in the 900 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police reported.
A KU student reported a dog bite April 7 near the Kansas River levee near Eighth Street, Lawrence police reported.
A paperback book valued at $34.95 was stolen between April 8 and April 11 from the Spahr Engineering Library, KU police reported.
IN DEFENSE OF THE WILD
"The naturalist Aldo Leopold said there are those who can live without wild things and those who cannot. I am one of those who cannot. I'm a product of the Pleistocene epoch . . . I do not want to live in a world without jaguars and great blue whales and redwoods and rainforests, because this is my geological era, this is my family, this is my context. I only have meaning in situ, in the age I live in, in the late Pleistocene. I do not want to be the cause of a transition into a new era."
DAVE FOREMAN
Co-founder, EARTH FIRST! Chairman. THE WILDLANDS PROJECT
Author of: CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-WARRIOR ECODEFENSE & THE BIG OUTSIDE
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1996 8:00 P.M. KANSAS UNION BALLROOM FREE
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