Fifty per cent increase
J-School expanding
By JOHN HILL
The man who said that "the pen is mighter than the sword" had probably never been in a sword-fight.
But he could have got this attitude as a graduate from KU's William Allen White School of Journalism.
Journalism graduates fill only about one-tenth of the job notices received at the school, especially in the news-editorial sequence, according to Malcolm Applegate, journalism instructor and advisor to the University Daily Kansan (UDK).
THE JOURNALISM School is divided into three majors: newseditorial sequence, adversiting sequence and radio-television sequence, with a new amphasis available this fall in public relations.
The UDK provides the laboratory workshop for news and advertising students, and KUOK radio station for radio-television majors.
Service to the student, the University and the profession of journalism is provided in a variety of ways by the school.
A recent aid to journalism students was the remodeling of the library in Flint Hall.
"IT HAS BEEN tripled in size," said Warren K. Agee, dean of the school, "and now we can accommodate approximately 50 students."
The increase in size of the library was necessary because of the tremendous growth of the school, said Agee.
"We had a 50 per cent increase in enrollment last fall," he said. We now have 211 juniors, seniors and graduate students for the first time in history."
ADJOINING THE library is the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame Seminar Room.
"The room houses the photographs of the people named to the Hall of Fame," Agee said. "They must be deceased for at least
three years and be elected by people in the state who have been in the newspaper business for 25 years or longer."
The Hall of Fame was established by the William Allen White Foundation at a cost of about $6000, said Agee.
The William Allen White Foundation, presently made up of 75 trustees, was begun shortly after the death of William Allen White in 1944.
ITS PURPOSE, said Agee, is to perpetuate the memory of the famous Emporia editor, to encourage and promote journalism in general and assist the William Allen White School of Journalism in particular."
The foundation gives scholarships, prizes and awards to students.
"Currently, the chief project of the Foundation is to promote the centennial of Mr. White's birthday, which will be next year," he said.
A "SEMINAR on the Mass Media in a Free Society" is scheduled for April, 1968 to mark the centennial.
"We are sending out letters and framing the program now," Agee said. "We're aiming for the very top in communications and liberal arts leaders in the country."
Agee himself is a co-author of a journalism text book which has been adopted by about 200 American colleges with several foreign translations, and is the national vice-president for campus affairs for Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society for men.
IN ADDITION to these activities, the School of Journalism maintains a placement center for graduates, and coordinates "summer internships" for undergraduate who wish to gain practical experience on newspapers during the summer months.
Another continuing service of the Journalism School is the publication of the "Jayhawk Journalist", an eight-page newspaper
sent to alumni, friends and other people and organizations interested in the school of journalism.
A central focus of Journalism School activities, however, is the UDK.
BEGUN AS A DAILY in 1909, the UDK is produced today through the combined efforts of nine editors and twenty-one reporters.
The time spent on the paper by the UDK staff is often underestimated by other students, since the editors put in 25 to 30 hours a week, said Emery Goad, Junction City junior and UDK assistant managing editor.
This work is done—much of it at night until the UDK office closes around 12 p.m.-for one hour's credit, through a course for the executive staff called Newspaper Practice.
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Leach, education; William Max Lucas, architecture; Michael J. Maher, zoology.
Gary M. Maranell, sociology; Robert M. Mengel, zoology; Lynn Nelson, history; Don C. Richardson, education; Dale Rummer, electrical engineering; Richard Schira, drawing and painting; Richard L. Schowen, chemistry; Henry L. Snyder, history; Karl A. Stockhammer, entomology; M. Evelyn Swartz, education; Cecil L. Williams, education; Montrose M. Wolf, human development and family life; H. Glenn Wolfe, zoology; Jerome Yochim, comparative biochemistry and physiology.
To assistant professor: Robert O. Wright, drawing and painting.
To Librarian III: William L. Mitchell.
To Librarian II: R. C. Anderson.
A KU engineering professor will travel to Africa from March 20 to April 10 as part of a 10-man advisory committee for the University of East Africa.
John S. McNown, professor engineering mechanics and specialist in the area of engineering education in Africa, will represent the American Council on Education Overseas Liaison Committee in conferences with African university officials and government representatives to examine estimates of income and expense for future development.
THE EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE
presents
AN EVENING WITH DYLAN THOMAS
THE UNIVERSITY has three campuses, each of which will be visited by the committee: Nairobi, Kenya; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; and Kampala, Uganda. The three nations support the university.
The advisory committee will include three representatives from Great Britain and six from Africa.
Prof to make African trip
March 17,18,21,22,28,29,30,31
Tickets on Sale at the Box Office 317 Murphy Hall
McNown has been active in the technical education problems of the developing nations of Africa for several years.
BELMONT STUDS
Admission (KU Students): 75¢ Plus Certificate of Registration
LEXINGTON, Ky. —(UPI)— Three winners of the Belmont Stakes now are stallions at Leslie Combs' Spendthrift Farm. They are Nashua, Gallant Man and Jaipur.
Daily Kansan Thursday, March 16, 1967
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts generally fair weather tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight in the upper 20's, with southerly winds from 10 to 20 miles per hour. Precipitation probabilities less than 5 per cent tonight and tomorrow.
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