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Kuralt listens to the little people
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
Marcelo Moreira was stacking chairs at the Kansas Union Ballroom after an award presentation.
Moriera had never heard of the man who had received the award, so he was a little surprised when she tried to shake the hands of the employees.
"He saw my T-shirt and asked me where I was from," said Moreira, Sao Paulo, Brazil, senior. "I said I'd lived in Brazil for 20 years, and then he said he had worked in Brazil and started speaking in Portuguese to me."
Charles Kurall is always thinking about the little people that he encounters in his personal life, as well as his professional one.
Kuralt was awarded the William Allen White Award for Journalistic
Merit medallion at a luncheon Friday. The award was presented on the 121st anniversary of White's birth.
Kurait said in his speech that journalists loved to talk loudly, but should listen more, especially to the little people.
"I'm persuaded that journalism would be better if we were more fine-tuned to the people in the country." Kurait said. "Listening is a virtue in our craft that is easily seen in our lives like to hear ourselves speak."
He said that from his wanderings he has felt that something was going on across the United States.
"Many Americans are quietly concerning themselves with undertakings, with whatever America, Kuralsaid said. "It's kind of a conspiracy of good people."
Kurait said that in his 33-year career as a reporter, he had noticed changes such as an increasing concern with the environment, the growing role of women in society and their fight for improvements, Ralph Nader's fight for changes and resulting new laws, and the liberating changes for blacks.
"Bush said in his inaugural address that a new breeze is blowing, but it's really an old breeze," Kurtall said. "I've felt that breeze on my cheek all these years. It feels good."
Kuralt is the 41st recipient of the foundation's award. He began his journalism career as the editor of the student-owned newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1967, Kurat began his "On the Road" series, for which he travels the back roads and small towns of the United States to get stories. He also hosts "CBS Sunday Morning," a 90-minute weekly program.
After graduating in 1955, he worked for the Charlotte News. In 1987, he became a writer for CHS and later became a correspondent.
Mike Kautsch, director of the William Allen White Foundation and dean of journalism, said that he was sure that White would have approved of Kuralt getting the award.
Mary Wallace, assistant dean of journalism, said she was pleased with the decision.
"He's been a hero to me all my working life," Wallace said.
Video makes debut at awards luncheon
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
At the William Allen White Day luncheon, a 13-minute video tape captured the words of John Bremner. The tape, "John Bremner: Guardian of the Newsroom," was narrated by Edward Edwin Newman and was produced by the Gannett Foundation.
"In back of it all is language.
This beautiful bastard language of ours. You have to be a master of this language."
A 30-minute tape has some of the same footage, but also includes an
editing test and other instructional material.
and cajoled them, terrified them and made them laugh," Newman said.
Bremner taught at the School of Journalism from 1969 until his retirement in 1985. He was named Oscar Stauffer Distinguished Professor of Journalism in 1977. He died in 1987.
hego in 1850.
In his narration, Newman said Bremner was a master communicator with his students.
The tapes feature moments in a 1966 seminar at Indiana University. During 1980-81 and 1983-84, Bremner conducted editing seminars, sponsored by the Gannett newspapers across the United States.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism, said that he was glad the videotapes had been able to preserve some of Bremner's ferocious devotion to the English language.
"He honed their skills in grammar, layout, caption and headlines, and he exhorted them to cultivate editorial virtues such as accuracy, consistency, vigilance and fairness. He roared at them
the John Bremner Memorial Fund, which supports journalism education at KU.
The VHS tapes are available for a $10 donation. Proceeds will go to
The Miami Republican of Paola, a twice-weekly,won for its stories on building codes.
Also at the awards luncheon, two Kansas newspapers were awarded the 1989 Burton W. Marvin Kansas News Enterprise Award.
The daily Wichita Eagle-Beacon won for its property tax changes story.
Students do field work at Med Center
The marvin award has been given annually since 1974 to recognize enterprise news reporting by Kansas journalists.
by Jennifer Corser Karen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three years ago, while the department of occupational therapy was moving from KU's main campus to the School of Allied Health in Kansas City, Kan., faculty members had to rush back and forth from Lawrence to teach classes.
Occupational therapy students, meanwhile, had to make plans to move to Kansas City to attend classes at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Furthermore, the curriculum for occupational therapy majors was changed.
Appreciate these inconveniences, the move to the Med Center has had a positive effect on the department, said James Cooney, dean of allied health.
"The reputation of the program has expanded considerably since it moved here," Coney said.
The occupational therapy department moved to the Med Center during the 1985-86 academic year
so that students would have more opportunities to work in clinics with clinicians in Kansas City. The department had not been a part of any school but had been a free department, O'Neill said.
"They waited the move took about two years because students were most finished with school did not have to move to Kansas City, Cooney said. Because of this, courses had to be taught in both locations.
Access to occupational therapy clinics is important to the education of students because they are able to do field work rather than just learning in the classroom, said Winnie Dunn, chairman of occupational therapy educations. Students are able to work closely with clinicians.
able to work easily "when we were in Lawrence this wasn't feasible because the clinicians had patients to see," she said.
Because students must work in a clinic all day for two weeks, they are not shocked by the nine months of full-time field work during their fifth year, Dunn said.
Deborah Heiskell, Dodge City junior, said she had done some field work last semester at an adolescent psychiatric clinic. At the clinic, she played volleyball with patients whose motor skills were affected by psychiatric problems.
Because occupational therapy students attend classes in Lawrence for the first two years, they occasionally have adjustment problems when changing to the Med Center, Heiskell said.
Heiskel said students especially had problems adjusting to a tougher grading scale.
adjusting to a teacher's position. Dunn said the Med Center had a more professional atmosphere than the main campus and did not offer typical college activities. To help students adjust, the department has created a course about group processes.
professional therapy is the largest department in the School of Allied Health. Conney said. Although the department receives about 200 applications each year, it only accepts 60, mainly because of a lack of space and supplies in classes such as human anatomy.
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