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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 2, 1968
Business'
social obligations viewed
A sparse turnout of about 25 students at the KU business school convocation Wednesday afternoon heard Curtis McClinton, KMBC-TV sports announcer and Kansas City Chiefs fullback, ask the business world to take more interest in giving Negroes the opportunity to get into business management.
McClinton, a 1962 KU graduate and Kansas City Negro leader, said business must give active support to recruiting Negroes for management positions and not the token support it has been giving.
Also speaking at the convocation in the Kansas Union Forum Room were Joseph Pichler, assistant professor of business administration at KU, and James K. Logan, who recently resigned as dean of the KU law school.
The three speakers formed their talks around the topic: "Social Responsibilities of the Business Community."
Pichler, who looked at the business world's responsibilities from the labor unions' side, said even though all national labor unions have strong civil rights clauses in their constitutions, there is still discrimination on a local level.
Pichler singled out the building trade unions, who up until this year, were still segregated. This year 18 building trade unions agreed to admit Negroes, he said, though there are still many who haven't.
Logan, though he admitted the law profession was perhaps the most segregated profession in America, said the nation is headed toward complete economic and social integration. He called for the education of America's underprivileged people.
"If we can find one Thomas Edison in each of the major Negro areas, the educational program will soon pay for itself," he said.
McClinton said the feeling among most Negroes in the nation's ghettos is not that they want to get out—the feeling is they want to change the environment in which they live.
"The income of the people in these areas is not enough to support good schools," McClinton said. "Businesses move out of the ghetto and the tax burden falls upon the people living there. Young Negroes need good education in order for them to be able
to see the opportunities available to them. They have to see that they can move up in society through better jobs."
McClinton is one of the co-founders of the newly formed National Bank in Kansas City. The bank, which has a $750,000 capital, consists of a predominately Negro board of directors.
"We have a tremendous need for mortgage bankers and accountants in our bank and we can't find enough qualified Negroes to fill the positions," McClinton said. He said there are not enough Negroes going through the nation's business schools. Currently, KU's business school does not have any Negro graduate students enrolled.
Logan said the KU law school does not have any Negroes in its three year law school sequence, but he said next year scholarships will be awarded to two Negro students "in order to help get Negroes into the school."
"The concept now is not Negroes waiting for all-white companies to open their doors to Negroes. There aren't enough qualified Negroes to take the jobs," McClinton said. "The concept is this-Negroes must be given the
opportunity to go to the nation's law and business schools so they can become motivated to go into the business world."
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Participants will be housed together in an air-conditioned resident hall where Polish and Russian will be spoken.
The fees include tuition, room and board. The cost for Kansas residents is $430 and $550 for nonresident undergraduates. The nonresident graduate student fee is $450.
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Intermediate Russian will be offered for nine hours of credit and intermediate Polish will be offered for 10 hours of credit. In addition, several courses in history, politics and literature of the Soviet Union and East Asia will be available as part of the program.
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A Russian and Polish language program, operated jointly with the University of Colorado, will be held here June 10 to Aug. 17.
Roundtable press seminar
The participants were: Ernest K. Lindley, special assistant to the Secretary of State and formerly with Newsweek magazine; Bosley Crowther, retired movie critic of The New York Times; Grover Cobb, chairman of the board of the National Association of Broadcasters; Ben Hibbs, former editor, Saturday Evening Post; Samuel Blackman, general news editor, Associated Press; Irving Dillard, retired editorial editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, now visiting professor, Princeton University; Richard Dodderidge, of the Bruce B. Brewer Co., Inc., Kansas City, Mo., and Stan Freberg, West Coast Advertising and satirist.
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"Competition is good but when reporters resort to unethical means to get a story when writing about their government, we had better reevaluate our system," he warned.
Faults, assets examined
Lindley charged that the so-called credibility gap in the government has been caused to some degree by competitive reporters who have been overly aggressive in attempts to get first releases on stories.
The faults and assets of the today's press on all levels were evaluated Tuesday night at the closing session of the seminar on "The Mass Media in a Free Society."
Whitley Austin, editor of the Salina Journal, moderated the discussion that was held following a banquet in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Austin eulogized White in a letter read aloud to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Concluding his remarks, Lindley said the press in the past two or three months had been giving negative publicity to the Vietnam War primarily because of insufficient information.
He pointed to Washington press conferences in which only minimal information that leads to the eventual publication of an unfounded story is released as an example.
Crowther said the biggest problem facing the press is pleasing the reader. He said the reader also gets from newspapers what he needs.
"It is up to reporters of the future to clear the void that apparently exists among newspapers today," he said. "It is obvious that better than half of the readers in America do not understand what is going on."
To provide more lucid understanding of the subject, Crowther advised local officials to plan a seminar involving the ordinary readers from the campus and off-campus situation. He believes this would assist in the understanding of the readers' desires and needs.
To Cobb excessive regulations on the press, especially the radio stations, create many unnecessary problems. He termed too many restrictions as "abhorrent."
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