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The BG News Vol. 60 No. 128 Bowling• Green State University* August 10, 1977 Nvwiphoto by Gf«g SmMlod Brilliant lights flash, music blares, scared kids scream on the roller- The Wood County Fair in all its splendor and glory has hit Bowling Green coaster, waving their arms in defiance of the ever-present "For your own again. For further information and pictures of the fair and its visitors, protection, keep your arms inside" sign. seepage 4 . Competition fierce, but jobs exciting Wanted: Aggressive, skilled TV staffs By Deb Sperling Jankowski arranged his appointments through Tom LOOKING AT A list of past University broadcast Staff Reporter Brokaw, producer of NBC's Today Show, who spoke on graduates and where they found jobs in media, it appears campus two years ago. that combining technical knowledge with a business The key to success in network television? Have a Jankowski observed that network television staffs are background provides a lot of flexibility for placement in degree, be aggressive and be willing to be unemployed for predominately young. any television market. Many graduates were listed as six months to a year while job hunting. account executives at the local and network level. "That's not meant to be discouraging," says Laurence "AFTER GAINING skills in everything at a local level, J. Jankowski, assistant professor of the Radio-TV many network people begain in the mail room-just so Jankowski said he was encouraged after his visit by the sequence of the Department of Journalism, after his visit they can get in the network-and then move up. Most of the things the University's broadcast sequence is doing. to all three networks in New York City. "Television is a people I spoke with were young, competitive people. "More and more we're dealing with concepts rather very competitive, exciting field, and many people would "After producing one show the job competition eases," than just the technical aspects of radio and TV produc- like to work network TV; the stations can take their Jankowski said, "but the trick is to let you produce that tion," he said. choiee." one show." Work at the networks is also very specialized, A business background is important because producers JANKOWSKI WENT to New York to find out for himself Jankowski said. The technicians are rigidly unionized, have to worry about the cost of production-maybe even how network politics works and to see if University with every Job narrowly defined and fiercely protected. more than the aesthetics of a show. Producers who students could get jobs there. Jankowski cited such specialization as factors leading to Jankowski talked to advised that journalism, business "They don't offer internships because there are so network's high production costs-and the high pay for and even drama courses are the most desirable many skilled people willing to work for them," Jankowski those who work in it. preparation for work in network TV. said. "But jobs are available because our students are "With overtime," Jankowski jSaid, "I think one network qualified." video-tape editor said he made $60,000 a year. These AS AN EXAMPLE of how these subjects blend, He also found that many times it's a case of who you people-especially in news-are under a lot of pressure, but Jankowskioutlined a typical dilemma in producing one 30- know rather than what you know that can get you a job. that's still a lot of money." topg.5 today's views oil spills hazardous to oceans Editor's note: This is the first part of a three-part series Another, in late 1976, was the spill of 7.5 million gallons 3. Offshore oil productions (normal operations) - lOO.onn on the effects of Increased production and exploration of of oil from the I.iberian oil tanker "Argo Merchant" off metric tons per year; 4.8 per cent of total pollution. energy sources on the environment. James C. Crabtree, Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. 4. Refineries - 300,000 metric tones per year; 14.4 per the writer, wrote an editorial essay on the dangers of cent total pollution. SSTs In a previous Issue. FINALLY, THE NORTH Sea disaster, "Bravo-14." The 5. Rivers carrying automobile and industrial first blowout in Norway's Ekofisk oil fields, which sent 7 hydrocarbons - 450,000 metric tons per year; 21 per cent of Editorial comment by million gallons of oil into the North Sea in the first week total pollution. James C. Crabtree alone. How much oil was spilled into the North Sea by the These totals show that of the 1.6 billion metric tons of oil time they recapped the well is impossible to estimate. produced in 1969, two million metric tons were lost or The oil from the blowout covered several hundred square dumped in the ocean. If there were figures available from Have you ever wondered what happens to the oil that miles of the North Sea. more recent research, these totals would be dramatically flows into the ocean from accidental spills? In the last ten higher. years, we have seen four major marine pollution events. As large as these quantities of oil may seem, they are One was the 1967 "Torry Canyon" disaster off the coast only a very small portion of oil introduced into the oceans MARINE SCIENTISTS ESTIMATE that bacterial of Cornwall, England. When the huge tanker ran aground every year from all sources. In fact only 9.6 per cent of oxidation of these hydrocarbons (basically, this is when and broke apart, it released 100,000 metric tones of oil, the marine oil pollution can be attributed to accidental the oil is no longer considered a pollutant) can take as long endangering the entire coastline of Cornwall. spills from ships and nonships (i.e., offshore oil plat- as 50 years in some parts of the oceans. forms). These results are based on a 1969S.C.E.P. report This is staggering information when you think about it. ANOTHER WAS THE Santa Barbara accident, in 1969, that broke down the oil and oil-type polluting sources, Why do these types of statistics never reach the public that introduced 10,000 metric tons of crude oil from an giving each a percentage of the total marine oil pollution. when oil spills occur? Oil spills and other accidents, such offshore drilling that passed through a fault zone in the 1. Tankers in normal operations - 530,000 metric tons per as offshore well blowouts, are such a small percentage of ocean floor. Once the oil pool was tapped, oil under year' 25.4 pr cent of total pollution. marine pollution. This is an even smaller percentage of pressure escaped from the drill hole into the soft rock of 2. Other ships (bilge pumping) - 500,000 metric tons per over-all pollution caused by the all-consuming hunger of the fault zone and made its way to the ocean floor. year; 24 per cent of total pollution. our modern world for greater quantities of fossil fuels. Voices falcon I am aware that student hated politics and this is dropped from the presented in isolation letters are not published in one way I can comment on University. Why single out without an explanation as it feathers The BG News during the It." My question now is: Johnson and Gause? If you was in the issue. I feel this summer quarter and I am What does Johnson and have not been printing this can only be justified by THE OPEN EYE. For your viewing pleasure, there not requesting that this one Gause being kicked off the type of information (which ignorance on the Editorial are models of the new Student Recreational Facility i be published. This letter is football team have to do should be confidential) Editor's part. and College of Musical Arts on the 2nd floor, Union. being written to draw your with politics or any before, why start now with Personally I feel you The facilities are presently under construction next to attention to the pitiful way editorial appearing in the them? I can only justify (The BG News) owe both the health center on Ridge Street At a cost of $8.75 you (The BG News) chose July 27th issue? your reasoning because Mr. Johnson, Mr. Gause million, the College of Musical Arts will be completed to introduce your new It seems to me that your you are a prejudiced, and your readers an in the '79-'80 academic year. The Student Recreational editorial cartoonist, BUI (The BG News) timing as biased and narrow-minded apology. To Mr. Johnson Facility, to be completed Fall '78, will cost ap- Schabel. well as your taste is off. piece of so-called jour- and Mr. Gause for the proximately $8.5 million ... the wooden floor of It has been my un- First of all, I feel the news nalism.