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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday. July 27,1965
Post Editor Stresses Need for Specialties
Bv Mike Shearer
Dan Partner Sr., military and space affairs editor for the Denver Post, sees a trend toward specialties in the newspaper field.
Partner spoke to 20 journalism campers in Flint Hall last Thursday. He discussed his career in journalism and the importance of journalism in a free society.
Delighted with his present position on the Denver Post, Partner reviewed for the campers his earlier years in journalism as being demonstrative of the background necessary in journalism.
AFTER BEING graduated from Kansas State University, Partner worked for the Manhattan Mercury as a sports writer.
"The pay was only $35 a week, but I think that was where I got my best experience," Partner said.
Sports writing is good experience for any journalist, according to Partner, and it is an excellent field to start in.
Partner cited as one of the tragedies of journalism the number of persons on every newspaper staff who should not be working on a newspaper.
"YOU SHOULD join the profession because you are good in journalism and not because you see glamor or easiness in it or because of your inability to do anything else." Partner said.
"Some people see a prestige in 'the power of the press' that is not there. Some people think of reporting as free passes to the games and theatre or meeting celebrities. They don't see the hard work."
Partner went from the Mercury to the Kansas City Star, where he worked as a sports writer before and after serving in the Navy. From the Star he went to the Denver Post, where he started as a sports writer and became sports editor.
DESCRIBING HIS first experience on the news staff, Partner recalled the shock which he had experienced at the time. He had been sent to cover a collision and stuck his head in the wreckage and saw a sight which caused him to turn away ill.
He did not get the story but he learned a lot from the experience which Partner said he would never forget.
Discussing weak points of newspapers, Partner said most interviews as being boring because they are not newsworthy. He said most newspapers should use more discretion in the selection of interviews.
"IT'S IMPORTANT that each writer think his story is the most important, whether it be front page or an obituary," he said.
After such jobs as picture editor, rewrite man, assistant news editor, and news editor, Partner was elevated to his present position.
Partner talked about the trend toward specialism in reporting and compared it to that of the medical profession. The Denver Post has specialists in politics, area police, water, education, the court, and many other areas.
Specializing in military and space affairs has taken Partner to such places as New Zealand, Australia, South America, and Europe. Partner has been over the North Pole in a B-52 bomber and under Antarctica.
RECALLING HIS days in South Viet Nam, Partner said it was a "dirty, frustrating experience." He was there when the war had just begun and says that since it is worse now he has no desire to return.
"Nearly every major newspaper has written lengthy articles on the Viet Nam situation and each has come to the same conclusion as both President Johnson and McNamara. There can be no conclusion," Partner said in emphasizing the frustration of the Viet Nam situation.
W. Laird Dean Award Is Made
The first W. Laird Dean scholarship in the School of Business will be held by Melvin C. O'Connor of Wichita, who will be a senior in accounting.
The scholarship is provided by friends of the late W. Laird Dean, former president and chairman of the board of the Merchants National Bank of Topeka and a KU alumnus. Criteria are academic record and need, and preference is given Kansas with interests in finance and banking.
O'Connor has all "A" grades in business administration and economics courses and an overall A-minus record for three years at KU.
O'Connor plans to enter the field of tax accounting after graduation.
tax account Administration of the W. Laird Dean scholarship fund is by William M. Mills Jr. and Stephen M. Hall of the Merchants National Bank and Mrs. W. Laird Dean, all of Topeka.
Their opinions of some necessary rules for dress and action mirror those of the regular KU students. Cartoons depict everyday occurrences in residence hall life, as well as satirizing the various departments of the camp.
Still another shows a counselor talking to a camper and saying, "Till
the musician or the scientist is not certain.
ANOTHER PREDICAMENT illustrates a repair man shouting "man on seventh floor" as the girls in the lobby, scantily clad and recuperating from the heat and heavy schedule of the day, run for cover.
One shows a girl in a towel with hair dripping wet, obviously just emerged from the shower. The intercom in her room has called her and is blaring forth with, "You have a caller in the lobby . . ."
High school artists attending the Music and Art Camp reflect a sophisticated humor in cartoons.
Many of the cartoons center on costumes seen at the recent Sadie Hawkins dance, and others on an earlier art camp field trip to the Kansas City Swope Park Zoo where the animals seem to have turned the tables on the sketchers. One shows a beatnik artist behind the bars with the label "art camper" and another has the monkeys throwing their stock of peanuts out at the campers.
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University Theatre
Cartoons Show Talent of Campers
The cartoons are only one section of the display of art camp work, however. The remainder shows serious ability in fashion illustration, architecture and interior design, portraits, landscapes, and still life. Much of the architecture is of KU campus buildings, especially the soon-to-be-razed Fraser Hall and of nature life in the Museum of Natural History.
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trade my white shoes for your skate board."
The counselors, most of them KU summer students and many of them former campers, come in for their share of being objects of satire. One cartoon is a sheet-robed group of campers approaching a counselor's door with a dead chicken and other instruments of pranksters.
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Strictly in the camp vein, cartoons by the youthful artists include a science camper laden with a biology, physiology, and physics book. At the bottom is a Playboy magazine, proving that the campers aren't all of academic seriousness.
INGENIOUSNESS IS displayed in a depiction of the uses of the curving coils of the tuba—this time used as a still with the mouthpiece dripping liquid into the open mouth of a reclining boy. Whether this satirizes
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