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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 27, 1968
Speakers set for mass media April 28-30
Ben Bagdikian, Stan Freberg and Bill D. Moyers head the list of speakers who will give their views on "The Role of the Mass Media in a Free Society" during the April 28-30 mass media seminar.
The seminar, honoring the centennial birthday of William Allen White, late editor of the Emporia Gazette, is sponsored by the William Allen White Foundation and the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Major speakers for the seminar are: Ben Bagdikian, press critic, will speak at 8 p.m., April 28, in the Kansas Union Ballroom; Stan Freberg, advertising executive and satirist, will speak at 9 a.m. April 29, in Hoch Auditorium; Bill D. Moyers, former press secretary to President Johnson and now publisher of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., will speak at 2:30 p.m. April 29, in Hoch Auditorium; Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist and former director of the United State Information Agency, will speak at 8 p.m. April 29, in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall; Theodore Koop, vice-president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington, D.C., will speak at 10:30 a.m. April 30, in Hoch; and Bosley Crowther, film critic for the New York Times, will speak at 2:30 p.m. April 30, in the University Theatre. A seminar dinner and roundtable discussion by the major speakers and critic commentators will be held at 6 p.m. April 30, in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
In addition to the major speakers, leaders from the nation's press will serve as critic-commentators for each of the sessions. They will include: Ben Hibbs, retired editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now contributing editor for Reader's Digest; Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post; Norman Isaacs, executive editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Ernest K. Lindley, special assistant to the secretary of state and former chief of Newsweek's Washington bureau; Paul Miller, president of Gannett Newspapers and president of the Associated Press; Samuel Blackman, general news editor of the Associated Press; Hodding Carter, editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss.; Russell Lynes, former managing editor and now a contributing editor for Harper's magazine; and Irving Dilliard, former editorial editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
All the lectures and the seminar dinner will be open to the public.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Lecture, 3. 30 p.m. "Dias Gomes and Brazil's Developing Social Theatre" Oscar Fernandz. University of Iowa. Experimental Theatre.
Computation Center Lecture. 3:30 p.m. "Modeling of Gas Reservoirs." D. Chail, Weinaug. Illustrated. 306 Summerfield.
Daiog Dovitions. 7 p.m. University Lutheran Church.
Carillon Recital. 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Senior Recital. 8 p.m. Carol Wilcox, soprano. Swarthout Recital Hall.
Festival of the Arts. 8 p.m. Henry Geldzahler. Hoof Auditorium.
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"Payment as Promised."
Seminar on Probation and Parole.
Award to Room, Kansas Union.
Also Friday.
Faculty Recital. 8 p.m. Robert
Simon, obist. Swarthwout Recital
Hall
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"Payment as Promised."
Festival of the Arts. 8 p.m. Al Capp.
Hoch Auditorium.
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