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Vol. 2 No.3 Mar. I !>. 1977 Department o f Journ.U~m Welter n Kentucky Universi t y
New prof Jack Corn says he wants to 'make waves' at WKU By Megan Thomas Western's newest faculty member in the thei r community, to ask questions, to Department of Journalism intends to make people see what they OI"dinaril y "make waves." Jack Corn, instructor of wouldn't see." journalism, sai d he will usc his 28 YC
Sponsored by SPJ -SDX Media experts provide advice for job seekers Wes tern Kentucky University professio nals fro m a variety of . 'to Western and its students for Bowling Green Busi ness h os t ed a one-day fie lds. see king summer internships Co ll ege, Inc., di scussed the int e r n s h i p·e m p 10 y men t Prof. James l. Hi ghl and, a nd permanent jobs upon pre parati on of a resu me and semi nar March 2 fo r students SP j -S DX cam pu s c hapter graduation. " cover letter. in journa lism, pho tojourn advi ser , sai d what the Each person selected as a - Glen Basti n, ne ws director al is m, a d ve rti si ng, public ' organiza tion was tryi ng to do speaker or panelist was invited for WHAS radio in Louisville, relations and broadcast ing. was present a program to make be cause he or she was an and Bil l Wal ters, ge neral Western 's Chapter of the students a little more familiar expert in some field of med ia ma nager of WIEL radio in Society o f Professional with the procedUre fo r getting employment or was a person in El izabethtown , discusse d J ournalists- Sigma Delta Chi a job. a hiring position in a media employment opportunities in ( S PJ -S DX) s ponso red the In addition, Hi ghland said, organization, Hi ghl and sa id. radio . seminar in cooperation with "We wanted to bri ng our S peakers for the program - Mi ke Ke tteri ng, news the Department of Journalism. studen ts in contact with media included: di rector for WSM television in Th e sem inar feature d pro fe SS ionals and ho pefully - Mr s. Barbara Ashdo wn , Nashvil1 e, Tenn., tal ked about individual presentations and deve lop a l Department of Local Courier-Journal. master's degree for a position opinion_ Government Commissioner In his presentation, Graves on the local sc hool board over Graves said, "Newspapers are Ralph Ed Graves said those said he was "as biased as a candidate who was a sports going to that (analysis and responsible for wri ting anyone else when it comes to personality with an eighth interpretative stories) more and editorials for the ma~s media party affi liation." grade edu cation. more . I think they ought to be "should have the decency to But if those who write The candidate with the lesser labeled more clearly. I think understand what they are editorials for newspapers, radio education won the election, they mislead the public." writing about." and television stations are to be worked hard and did an I n her presentation, Miss Graves, also the publisher of fair, t h ey "need to excellent job, Graves sai d_ As a Earley ca ll ed television a two Western K entucky understand" what they are result, he said he wrote a " naked medium" and sai d newspapers, was one of three writing about "beyond their second editorial praising the television editorials are good persons who participated in a own biases." man for his efforts. because they give viewers an panel di scussion during a Graves called Lo uisvi lle The com missioner said there opportunity to "listen" and to di nner mee ting of The Society news paper publis her Barry is not and should not be "interact. " of Professional Journalists-Sig Bingham Jr. a man "with many objectivity in editorials which "Viewers call up and threaten ma Delta Chi. axes to grind" and he added arc designed to influence_ your life," she said. " It is hard Other panelists were Sandra Bingham "grinds them wei!." At the same time he attacked to be brave when your face is Earley, editorial director for Graves cited as an example of the concept of news stories up there_" WHAS-TV in l ouisville and fairness two editorials he wrote labeled analysis or Miss Earley said one of the Hu gh Haynie, e d itorial in one of his papers. The first interpreta ti o n wh ich arc problems with televisi o n cartoonist for the Louisvi lle supported a candidate with a nothing more than the writer's edi torials is length. Those at her station are limited to 60 seconds_ She said that because of the amount of time that can be devoted to an editorial there are some subjects- like court reorganization- thaI are too difficult for television. It is important that television editorials ·'talk about what is real ly important to you as a viewer," sla te and local issues as opposed to naliuual and international issues, she said. As an editorial cartoonist, Hay nie objected to Gra\'es' suggestion that Courier- Journ;!1 publisher Bingham exercised a heavy hand on edit orial co ntent. H e said he frequently produces can oons with whi ch hi s publisher di sagrees and added that those in the Talking it up editorial writi ng section of the paper arc often divided on WHAS ediloria l director Sandra Ea rly discusses TV editorials altne SOX Ouislmas banquel al Ramada Inn. td, 10 controversial issues. righl ale Ilugh Ilaynie. Ralph Ed Graves. Debbie Gibson. Miss Ea rly and Pal Ho hrllll'l _ Ha y nie sai d th at as a cartoonist what he tries to do is "take a th ought- a basic subject - depict opinion anti InApril draw a box around it." At the same lime, he sa id, in ove rsi mplification "there is strength and a helluva Herald will host KIPA spring convention weakness. One picture in 60 seconds won 't do it. Unlike cartoonists, editorial writers The Kentucky Intercollegiate the stat e arc expected to John Scigenthaler, publisher are not boxed in_" Press Association will be the attend. of the Nashvil le Tennesscan~ Ha ynie added that guests of the College Heights Friday sessions wi ll be in will speak at the banquet, edi tor ia lists "dwell in a Herald during the association's Downing University Center. A which begins at 6: 30 p_m. negative medium" and for that spring convention at Western banquet Friday evening and a In dividual and newspaper reason it is difficult, if not Apri l 15- 16. business and awards luncheon awards, ju dged by the Chicago impossible, to "draw a cartoon Between 125 and 150 persons Saturday wil! be at the Red Tri bune, will be presented at that says something nice about from co llege newspapers across Ca rpet In n. the 11 a.m. awards luncheon. someone. " J -1 5-77 Tilt! Fllur/II h:rtu/(' J Debbie Gibson, who served as president of government. Western's SPj-SDX chapter last semester, is Miss Gibson described the intership as " the working as a state government intern this perfect match" for her double major in semestcr for the Kentucky Educational photojournalism and government. Telcvision network. This is the second in ternship she has Debbie Gibson M iss Gibson was one of 15 stu dents received while a student at Western. Last statewide selected for the Kentucky summer she was a news and photojournalism government administra tive internship intern with the Park City Dail y News in program. Bowling Green. named to serve While most of the interns are working with Mi ss Gibson has also served as state agencies in Frankfort, Miss Gibson is photographer for the Talisman, the serving as a staff writer and photographer for university'S yearbook. as state intern KET's magazine in Lexington. The government administrative internship Two nights a wee k, she meets with other program is open to all college stu dents in interns in Frankfort for seminars on state their junior or senior years. The minimum government and agencies, and fo r her class grade point average required is 2.6, and the work and magazine assignments, she is deadline for the summedall internship is receiving 18 hours college credit in March 25. The bottom line: Basic reporting is lunchanged' of the workings of the ENG with experience. understandable because, if we system at WTVF, Channel 5. "We don't hire anybody don't, the audience will turn us The tape pointed out some of without a minimum of two off. " the problems the stati on years' experience. It sounds Broadcasters should be able experienced when the cruel, but we arc not a teaching to communicate with the equipment was new and the organization. people at home. Goodman said Bil l Goodman immediate advantages of such a An average starting salary for he was not an advocate of system. someone with two years "happy talk" on a news The ENG syste m has not experience is between $12,000 program but he is an advocate By jan Hepp changed basic reporting , and $15,000," Goodman said. of making the product Goodman said. "We still have Goodman described the attractive. "The bottom line is this: to go out and get tne news and competition between WTVF "We don't have enough time basic reporting has not changed give it to the folks each night. and WSM -TV in Nas hvill e as to present the news," and will never change," said It lakes hard work, enthusiasm "phenome nal. " Goodman said . "As the ratings go up, more commercials are Bill Goodman, assistant news and energy." " I hope we weren't as director for station WTVF in Goodman, who has ~orked at so ld and we get even less childish as WAVE and WHAS time." Nas hvi lle, Tenn. WTVF for seven years, said arc now in their promos," Goodman, a Western leaving t he classroom and Goodman said he thinks the Goodman said , referring to two idea of an hour long newscast graduate, spoke to students entering the newsroom is "a Louisville stations who arc is wonderful bu t proposed 45 and instructors at a Society of shock ." installing ENG systems. Professional journalists-Sigma He reminisced about his days minutes of local news and 45 . Goodm an admitted that news as a mass communications minutes of network news as a Delta Chi (S Pj -SDX) meeting . on Nashville te levision is student at Western and praised solution to the time problem. at Downing University Center. "sensational" but added "there the laboratory facil ities now Goodman said that the He said that electronic news arc degrees of that." gathering (ENG) systems have available. "You've really got a definition of news changes done a great deal to broaden lot to be proud of here." The ENG system did not almost every day because news the broadcast industry. Goodman advised students to affect WTVF's ratings during is not only what occurs each "We have the ability to get experience at a small the fi rst year it was installed, day but how it affects the broadcast live, which means we station because "you get to do Goodman said. He noted that community .. ca n cover the late· breaking it all." WTVF did "very well" during Goodman gave an example in story," Goodman said. "Since Watergate, journal ism the last rating period. a story about David Brinkley in Although installing an ENG is the 'in ' subject and the job WTVF employs a broadcast wh ic h Brinkley said he would system is expensive, Goodman market is flooded," Goodman consultant "mainly for like to add "who cares" to the pointed out that the tape used said . audience analysis," Goodman five W's of reporting. "We have is cheaper than that used in He added that ChannelS, and sai d . "The co n sultants tried to stan using that standard systems. other stati o ns in the mid-sized recommend that we make our philosophy in our newsroom," Goodman showed a videotape market, are looking fo r people product attractive and Goodman said . ·1 Ti,,' FUllr11! b tu/!' J-15-77 Judy Herald editor doesn't fit old mold Picture if you will the image the work m()(e even ly over the of a tough clgar-s moking editor enlarged staff an d to give screaming at his charges about students experience in more deadlines. Now tear the picture facets of newspaper work," "po Wildman said. " The system has Judy Wildman docsn't fi t the worked well so far." mold of an editor. But despite The new editor doesn't have her quiet, soft-spoken any sweeping changes in mind. appearance, she is getting the "The idea is to work together job done. to put out good issues of the Since the se nior journalism Herald, to try to represent the and French m ajor fr o m student views and to learn Powhatan, Va. , assumed t he from the process," she sa id. top position on the Herald in And for he r own plans Ja nuary , t hings have been Wildman said, " 1f 1 could find running smoothly. And that is a wa y to combine my two in spite of the size to which the major st udies in one job, that staff has grown. would be ideal. I ( not, my " The reason for the high study of the French lan guage number of editorial positions will always help me indirectly Judy Wildman or I'owhatan, Va .. the nc",' editor of the College BeighlS this semester is to di stribute in my wri ting and editing." lIerald. iJ ca lled sort spol.:en by her fcllow staff memlx'lS who say she also "poun ds a mean typewri ter:' Profs, students $5(X) given for journalism scholarships to attend regional The Col l ege H eig h t s Jo hn McDougal , general secretary-treasurer and member SDX convention F ound a t ion at Western manager of The Glasgow Daily of the board of the College Prof. James L. Highland and Kentucky Universi t y has Times, on behalf of Donrey Heights Foundation, and David 1 1 journalism students will received an award in the Media, made the presentation B. Wh itaker, head of the represent Western Kent ucky amount of $500 from the March 3 to Western Kentucky department of journalism and Un iversit y at the rc~i U ll a l D onal d W. Re y nold s Universi ty 's President Dero G. direc t o r of univers it y convention of The Society of Fo undation of Fori Smith, Downing. publications. Professional Journali sts- Sigma Ark. The College H e ight s Delta Chi April 1-2 in Chicago, The award is being given to Present fo r the award also Foundation at Western is a II I. the university to provide added were Carroll Knicel y, publisher non· profit student aid agency Students who will attend the support to the scholarship of The Glasgow Daily Ti mes which serves to provide the conference, foc using on the program in journalism which and a member of the Board of me-ln s to deservi ng students relationshi p between the press has been estab li shed by the Rege nts at Western, Mi ss enrolled in the Universi ty to and the courts, include Pal College Heights Foundation. Georgia Bates, executive receive financial assistance. Hohman, Neil Budde, Kat hy Wh il$on, Edna Duggins, Tom Beesley, Jim Grove, Greg Kuhl, Jo Nell Bennett, Mary Pace, Jill McSweeney and Terry Jones. The highli ghl of t he conve n tion will be t he prese ntat ion of awards to student journalists in a variety of writing fiel ds. Western 's journalism students ha ve more than 50 entries in the competition. Highland said that while We stern always docs well in the n ewspaper writing and pho tojournal ism sections or the compet ition, this is the first year students have entered the magazine and broadcast news divisions. John McDougal. Glasgow Daily Times ge neral manage r, prescnl5 a iKC hobrship check to WKU I'resident Oero "Based on past performancc, Downing. Left to right are Miss C.oorgia Bates, College Heigh l5 Foundation e ~ec utive secretary·treasurcr. McDouga l, we could do quite well in Downing, Cl lToll Knicely. Glugow Daily Times publisher, and David B. Whit aker, hea d of the depatlment of magazinc and broadcast news journalism. 100," Highland said. J-15-77 The Fuur/II /:.J'ta/I' 5 Greg Stotelmyer He swaps Coke cup for microphone By Robin Meredith Greg Stotelmyer has come a lo ng way After co mp leti ng hi s airshift and " Football games arc more difficul t to call from the da ys when he used a Coke cup altending classes, Stotclm yer begins his than basketball games," Stotelmye r said, and his imagination to "call" a basketball news-gathering rounds at 2 p.m. " but the commercial experience of game in Winchester, lnd. He begins at the police station and the working with Bud was good for me." Stot elmye r , a junior mass firehouse, then he goes to city hall and the The ideal sit uation 10 years from now, communications major and a newscaster court house. Stolelmyer then re turns to Stotelmyer said, wo uld be " to be totally for WBGN radio, does the play·by-play for the radio station to write his news script. into sports, either radi o or TV, doing either local high sc hool and Western's junior The young reporter says he sees his future the play- by- play for a college team or being varsity basketball games. in sports more than in news reporting. sports director for a station with a good Stotelmyer recalled he was five or six "This job also had the stipu lation that I sports program." years ol d when his parents took him to his might get to do the sports in the fall, and I "If I stay here (at WBGN), then I'll have first basketball game. wanted that," Stotelmyer said. "I learned two so lid years of experience behind me " I used to keep score and sort of mutter alot while working with Bud Tyler during when I gradu ate. I will also have built up under my breath to myse lf during the football season, doing things like kee ping good contacts that can help me when I gel ga me," Stotelmyer sai d. "When I was the stats, and getting a few interviews." out," he added . older, a friend and I would go to the top of the bleachers and use empty Coke cups to announce the game." StotcJmyer said he convinced his parents to buy a tape recorder so he could tape his broad casts of television games. After moving to Connersville, Ind. , while in the seventh grade, Stotelmyer played basketball two years. During his junior year, he began to "call" basketball games for cable TV. A faculty member at Connersville High Greg Stotelmyer i1 adding to the encouraged Siotelmyer to attend Western. depth of his broadcast education "One of my teachers was a graduate of by doing pla y- by·play for hig.h Weste rn's mass communicat ion s 5c hool and Weste rn's junior department and he told me how good it vars.i ty basketball ga m~ was, so I decided to come here when I graduated from Connersville," Stotelmyer sai d. He worked for the cam pu s ra d io station, WKYU, and beca me news director before joining WBGN as a re porter last summer. "WBGN's progra m director, Tim Engl and, called me and o ffered the 5·9 a ,m. shift, and I took it," StotcJmyer recalled. He al so docs a 3: 55 p.m. newscast. As s o c iated Press ( AP) At KPA meeting , Pres ident Keith Fuller sa id characterized as o ne of public what ails the na ti on today is relations double talk. " the responsibi lity of the Publishers hear AP chief Fuller said the nation has American press, and he called gotten to the point where upon edi tors to "dust off" rel igion is no longer relevant, the ir editorial voices and put effort you will weld readers to " When I was a boy, I had and patriotism is a thing of them to work. you that you haven't had almost childlike faith in things scorn. Fuller, who also serves as before." American. Now a lot of us arc He called upon editors to use AP's general manager, spoke 10 Fuller said that in 1946 a pprehensive and confused," their editorial vo ices to member s of the Kentucky Americans could go anywhere he said. regenerate a "feeling of old " Press Association (KPA) during in the world with relative Fulle r said there arc no a nd to "get back to Ihe the organizations' 108th winter safe ty, but since that time, si mpli stic answers or Madison basics." convention in Louisv ille. "our w o rld - yours and Avenue phrases to explain F uller's s'pcech hi ghlighted Fuller to ld KPA members mine - has been shrink ing." wha t has happened to the the three·day KP A convention. they must be willing to upset Today, three quarters of the nallon. We stern was represented at the the equilibrium and stand up earth's surface is no longer frcc Peo pl e have "exercised in meeting b y Pro fs. Jim for what the y believe is to Americans, the said, and this self-flagell atio n and do ubt to Ausenbaugh and James l . "right. " is sad in a way because it has the po int of almost being Hi ghland and three students, " T he re s ult s will be had a major impact on the hystC'r ical," he said, "and the Neil Budde, Greg Kuhl and astounding," he said. "In this American people. pa s t d eca de can be Tom Eblen. 6 Tilt? FVlIrlil Estale j-/5- 77 Corn adding his experience Seminar Con t inued f rom page I they need to know." and the students judge the best getting my message across." Continued from paSl' I Corn said he tries to teach photograph. While teaching full-time this television. students about the pressures of "I have them judge each semester, Corn also is enrolled -Carroll Knicely, publisher working for a newspaper. other's work because they need in six hours of class work. of the Glasgow Daily Times, "Students here aren't aware to learn that photogrJ.phs "That's one reason I wantcd and Ron Jenkins, editor of the of the great amount of communicate ideas," he said. to teach. I wanted to come Henderson Gleaner and pressure. When I worked for "People see photographs and if back to school myself. I believe Jou rnal , discussed how to the Tennessean, it would be a th ey aren't communicating, a person should constantly obtain a newspaper job. rare morning I didn't get two then you've wasted your renew himself, to take an -Mrs. Pat Porter, president of or three calls before breakfast. time." introspective look . And I'm the Louisville Advertising Club, A professional works seven "At first people didn't like finding that being a student talked about employment in days a week, 24 hours a day." the idea, but they accept it helps me to be a better advertising. Corn said he is trying to teach later. You learn about your teacher." -Robert H. Roach, public his students to be competent. work by comparin g it to Corn said he chose to teach at re lations manager for Brown "You would never hear a others. You can sec what is Wes tern because he thought and Williamson Tobacco Co. in professional say he couldn't get wrong with yours an d what is Western had a commitment to Louisville, talked about the assignment. If you can't get righl." excellence. positions available in public the exact assignment, bring in Corn sai d he still enters "Western has a commitment relations. something." contests for the same reason. to get a good photojournalism Hi ghland said Western's One method Corn uses in his "I don't need to prove to program going," he said, "since journalism program has been basic p hotography class to anyone that I'm a good they were willing to accept me fortunate in the past in that it teach competence is a contest photographer. But I want to on my experience and has had relatively few problems each week. Students line up keep competitive and reputation, I was willing to placing it graduates. their work in front of the class com temporary. I want to keep accept them." But S Pj -SOX and the journalism department wanted to continue that tradition by PRSSA completes plans making prospective employers WKU may get aware of the type of training for spring caucus at WKU Western students arc receiving. NPPA chapter The seminar gave students Plans for the Public Relations had to reschedule all the some idea of what employers Western Kentucky University Student Society of America facilities. But Lon Slaughter arc looking for in the way of student photographers have (PRSSA) East Central District and Dec Gibson were very summer interns and permanent made application for a chapter Spring Caucus have been helpful in rearranging the employees. of the National Pr ess finalized . schedule. In fac t the University Photograp he rs Association The caucus, to be hosted by has been great in helping us to (N PPA ), a national the Western chapter of PRSSA, conduct this caucus, " he said. organization of photojournal will be held April 1 and 2. Over This is the Western chapter's ists. 100 public relations students first experience in planning and Jim Burton, a junior from Indiana, Oh io, and organizing an event of this photojournalism major from Michigan are expected to scale. Caucus chairman Michael Madisonville and president of attend . Thomas said the experience has the new organization, said that During the two·day event, been a valuable one. while the formation of a students will attend a banquet, "We're doing things fo r this campus NPPA chapter has been conduct district business, and caucus that professional people planned since early last fall, attend seminars featuring do "II the time. We're having \0 Western only recently came up different aspects of public usc the things taught in the with the 10 members required relations. Included in the public relations curriculum to form a chapter. seminars will Qe special now instead of waiting until we Burton added that he thought two-hour television workshops become professionals. I c.ln't the quality of the conducted by Fred McCoy. think of a better experience for photojournalism program will Brian Collins, Western's students," said Thomas. increase at a faster ra te because PRSSA chapter president, said of the service offered by all plans have been finalized The Fourth Estate NP PA. and that the students have had · The Fourth E.tate i. publisbed "It will let us see what the few problems making quartr rly by the Weotern Kentucky University chapter of The Sodety best photographers are doing arrangements. of Professional Journalists. Si!(ma so we can compare our work," "Everything has been running Delta Chi in cooperation with the very smoothly. We did run into Office of Univer.ity Publications Burton said. and t he Department of Journalism. As part of its professional a problem when we had to program, the Western chapter change the caucus date from Poblications Committee Chairman ..•...... Terry Jones wi ll edit the region four March 25 and 26 to April 1 Members. . . . . Neil Budde newsletler, The Viewfinder, and 2," said Collins. Tom Eblen Collins said the date was Pat Hohman Non-Profit which is d ist ribute d to Robin Meredith associa tion members in changed to accommodate the Audrey Post Organizotion Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and nort hern schools. He said their Megan Thomas U.S. Postage Kathy Whitson Michigan. The newsletter will spring breaks were scheduled Bulk Rate Photography ...... /Ilike [)o""cll Permit 398 include news and pi ctures by during the week of March 25. Edna DU~lIins nesi,n ...... Terry Jones Bowling Green, Ky . 42101 member photographers in the "When we found out about Faculty Adviser .. James L. Hil;thl.and region . the spring break problem, we Chapter PTu ident .... Pat Hohman