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Kansan Camp News
Friday, July 26, 1963
Writers' Class Offers Variety
By Emery Goad
Sixteen full time journalism students spent their afternoons and sometimes part of their mornings engaged in classes such as radio and television operation. There were seven students in this class including some from other divisions of the camp. Work on the Summer Session Kansan was also on the afternoon agenda.
The radio and television classes met three afternoons each week, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Tuesday was the preparation day for newscasts, interviews, etc. Thursday was the production day, and on Monday the class had special instruction.
BRUCE LINTON was in charge of the class in the mechanical area. He was the director in charge of the productions. Gale Attikins was in charge of the make-up of copy and criticism of the productions.
The class consisted of seven students; Chris Peterson, Deanell Reece, and Bob Kroker, of the speech division; Robert Stevens, Tim Richardson, and Emery Goad, of the journalism class; and Jay O'Dell.
The first two weeks of the course were spent studying radio. Each student prepared, from wire copy and newspapers, a five minute news cast. The class also paired-up and worked out an interview which was given on radio KUOK.
THE CLASS ALSO studied the operation of the radio control board. They learned to operate such things as the turntables, microphones, tapes, and the radio portion of the radio.
The class spent the last four weeks of the session working in television. Each student also gave a five minute news cast and presented an interview. The class also developed a panel show and a quiz program.
In addition to these the students learned to operate the cameras, microphones, lighting, and the television control board which contained the switching, and the audio and video portions of the television. On each production the student would
hold from two to six positions, operating the equipment. All of the equipment used in the classes was the latest in the radio and the television fields.
ANOTHER OUTSIDE interest of the journalism classes was working on the Summer Session Kansan for the six-week period. The students composed about half of the staff of the Kansan. They worked under the direction of Linda Machin and Terry Murphy, Kansan editors.
Each of the students were assigned a "beat" or an area on campus to cover or get news stories, features, or articles of interest.
Also in the afternoons, the students read copy and edited material for the Kansan.
Besides writing stories for the Kansan some of the students aided Kansan advertising manager, Bob Brooks, in the advertising department. The students collected ads and worked on lay-outs. Those students who worked in the advertising department were Dan Austin, Kent Mairs, Jolan Cskukas, and Jacquie Glaser.
ANOTHER AREA of the Kansan in which some of the students worked was photography. Tim Richardson and Dan Austin took pictures for the newspaper as well as writing. The boys accompanied the various divisions of the camp on their field trips and took pictures for the Kansan.
Those students who were in the regular journalism classes and worked part time on the Kansan were Norma Perry, Kathy Vaughan, Barbara Easterwood, Robert Stevens, Joyce Grist, Patricia Lark, Tim Richardson, Jolan Csukas, Bethel Lawrence, Jacquie Glaser, Johanna Branson, Meredith Welker, Nancy Wolfe Dan Austin, Kent Mairs, Marcia Bruce, Susan Jones, Clint Richards and Emery Goad.
Several of the 1963 graduates in the journalism classes worked on special projects such as magazine articles, research papers, and work on the Tempo, the camp yearbook.
Journalism Tours Cover Newspapers and Police
By Dan Austin
Beginning July 16, the young journalists of the camp locked up their typewriters and started a series of tours to the great newspapers of the area.
First on the agenda was a trip to Topeka, Kansas to view the new Capital-Journal building. The three-million dollar building, owned by Oscar J. Stauffer, was completed in May of this year.
A MAJOR part of the tour was led by Richard Clarkson, nationally known photographer of the Capital-Journal. The young journalists were able to view the latest additions to the newspaper field; the two-million page-an-hour Goss press and the communication set-up between reporters and the city desk.
July 17, the journalism campers and a few guests left for Kansas City for an afternoon of tours and an evening at the Starlight Theater
The Kansas City Star building was the first stop. Here, the campers were able to see one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the Midwest. The Star, which is owned by the employees, has an average circulation of nearly 390,000.
DURING A 24-hour period, six editions of the Star, the evening paper, and seven editions of the Times, the morning paper, roll off the presses.
Next stop was the Kansas City, Missouri, police station. Here, the journalism campers, led by instructor John Knowles, were able to see how the city police station is operated. Tours were made of the crime lab, the ballistics lab, the police photography bureau, the detective division and the city jail. The
campers were shown the "tank" and other cells holding persons waiting to be brought to trial. Before they left, the campers had the experience of going through the Kansas City version of the "line-up."
THE DAY WAS ended with a trip to the Starlight Theater to see A Hirt play his "golden horn" in the musical production of "Carnival."
Afterwards, the bus stopped in Swope Park for a picnic dinner.
The 19 students of the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp have published an eight page supplement to the July 23 issue of the Summer Session Kansan. This issue is the last before the campers leave. The entire issue was written and edited by the campers.
Journalism Division Publishes Supplement
Named to act as over-all editors for the supplement were Kathy Vaughan and Clint Richards, news editors; and Dan Austin, picture editor. The editors were responsible for the lay-out, headline writing, copy editing and the assignment of stories for the supplement. The editors were appointed by Terry Murphy, senior journalism student, who was managing editor of the Kansan and who supervised the reporting activities of the journalism campers.
As a part of their work as reporters on the Kansan the journalism campers were assigned a division of the camp which they regularly covered as a news beat. Each journalism camper wrote a major feature story for the supplement in addition to various other stories about their respective divisions.
DEADLINES TO BE MET—Editors Kathy Vaughan and Clint Richards gather information to put the camp supplement on the presses. Proof reading copy in the background are Susan
Journalism Students Active In Numerous Outside Classes
Jones, Norma Perry, Emery Goad and Barbara Easterwood. Kansan staff writer and editor, Linda Machin looks on ready to give advice.
Of the eight divisions in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, journalism is the most recently established.
Although this was its first year, journalism offered the students a very active and valuable program.
THE SCHEDULE included: lecture and news writing, editing lab, creative and special writing, and high school newspaper lab.
Time in the afternoons was devoted to working on the Summer Session Kansan and some of the students participated in the radio and television workshops.
The lab exercises involved writing stories from notes taken by professional newsmen as they covered news events.
School Papers Need Editorials Same as Others
Prof. Pickett stressed that high school papers should have an editorial page, which will give the students a chance to express their opinions on certain subjects.
High school newspapers should be no different in most respects from other newspapers. Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, believes.
All happenings at the school; good or bad, should be reported, he said, and even though certain matters may make a high school look bad, they may need looking into before the situation gets worse.
ANSWERING the question of what most high school students lack, Prof. Pickett said that mainly they lack the background and preparation for understanding of issues both in the school and in affairs at large. To correct this, they should have better teachers, more stress on history and government and more training in English and better writing techniques, he said.
THE SCHOOL paper should concentrate on school news mainly and interviews with teachers and students to make the paper more personal for the reader, he believes.
"Although the high school paper doesn't come out as often, and therefore is written in a slightly different manner, an effort must be made to include some timely stories," he said.
"The PURPOSE of this is to teach the student how notes are taken and what details must be emphasized," said John Knowles, journalism director. "The correct spelling of names must also be checked and other errors that have been made corrected."
The editing lab, taught by Calder Pickett, professor of journalism, was a class in which students learned how to function as editors. Stories that had been made too long were cut down and misspelled words corrected.
"The creative and special writing class," said Knowles, "was one of special interest according to some of the students." Students described tours of such buildings as the Museum of Natural History, Watson Library and the Art Museum.
EACH WEDNESDAY was devoted to working on a mock high school newspaper known as the Jaycamper. Every week, the job of editor and reporters rotated so that each person had a chance to be editor-in-chief.
This paper was composed of fictitious stories about certain events that were to have taken place at school. It was never printed but the steps of production were learned in this way.
Friday, guest speakers spoke to the students. Each man was a
Summer Camp News
This is the first annual edition of the Kansas Camp News written and edited by students of the Journalism Division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
EDITORS
Kathy Vaughan and Clint Richards ... News Editors
Dan Austin ... Photograph Editor
Tim Richardson ... Photograph Editor
REPORTERS
Joyce Grist ... High School Vocal
                  Music Division
Norma Perry ... High School
                  Instrumental Music Division
Jacquie Glaser ... Junior High School
                  Vocal Music Division
Bethel Lawrence ... Junior High School
                  Instrumental Music Division
Pat Lark ... Art Division
Barbara Easterwood ... Ballet Division
Kathy Vaughan ... Theater Division
Clint Richards ... Speech Division
Emery Goad ... Engineering Division
Robert Stevens ... Science Division
Jolan Caukas ... Journalism Division
Dan Austin and
Kent Mairs ... Boys' Dorm
Marcia Bruce and
Susan Jones ... Girls' Dorm
Tim Richardson ... Recreation
teacher of journalism, a newspaper writer, or a newspaper editor or publisher.
THE FIRST OF the five speakers was John Conrad, publisher and owner of the Kiowa County Signal who is also chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Kansas House of Representatives.
Ron Kull, reporter on the Topeka Capital-Journal, told about some of the things that happened to him during his reporting. He told of the heated discussions committees go into and of his interviews with men receiving the death penalty.
Conrad Downing, a teacher of journalism at Ottawa High School, gave a few ideas on what a journalism class could do besides put out a paper. He suggested a record of the school's biggest events and books containing information about the football or basketball team and pictures of games.
ELMER BETH. University of Kansas professor of journalism, talked about the difference between libel and slander. He explained the five main crimes and the different things people may be taken to court for.
The last speaker was James Dykes, professor of journalism, the adviser of the KANSAN. He explained the different techniques of advertising.
Wednesday afternoons were not used to work on the KANSAN but instead films were shown on reporting, editing or some other phase of journalism.
THE TOURS TAKEN by the class were not limited to the museums on the campus but also included Kansas City and Topeka.
The tour of the Kansas City Star, and the police headquarters was topped off with a picnic that night and a trip to the Starlight Theater to see "Carnival."
Two other trips were to the Topeka Daily Capital, July 17, and to the Lawrence Journal-World.
TWO MORE EVENTS must not be left out for they are important to the reporters. A picnic for Saturday, July 20, was planned for the class. It was held at Potter Lake picnic area. Monday, July 22, the last camp meeting was held, and there was an awards program for the entire camp. Among the journalism students, two were chosen to receive the most outstanding reporter award and the other to receive the "outstanding feature writer" award.