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The ~~ARCH1Vj.~ Fou rth Estaf1!'-' - k .- Vol. a No.1 FJII,1983 l'ubllaIMd by the Western Kentu,ky Unlyer~ty chapter of The Society of Profenionlol J ou rnlollJu, Slim", Deltl Chi 80,..lInl Green, Ky. 42101 Photojournalists document Mor~~ By JAN WI11IERSPOON MORGANTOWN - Back in­ side the former H and R Block building, behind. tax fonns and carpeting, behind the unassuming facade of U.S. tax bureaucracy, lurks paranoia. The pressure is waiting, hovering arOlmd students as they come into the empty bulldlng and begin a .....end of intense learning and work. Western's Sixth Annual PhototIraphy Workshop began here. Jack Com, workshop diJ"ec. tor, assembled the faculty, which included: -C. Thomas Hardin, chief photo editor and director of photography for The Courier­ -. Journal and The Louisv:ille Gary Halrlson, a Henderson senior, shoots his subject at Logansport grocery. Times. - Jay Dickman, 1983 - Michael Morse, Western formerly with the Dallas Prophoto of Nashville. Pulitzer Prize winner from the photojournalism program Times-Herald. ProfeSSionals, students and Dallas Times-Herald. chairman and photographer - David Perdew, photo others gathered in the rural - Larry Craig, editor and for the Park City Daily News. editor, Gannett Rochester Kentucky town Sept. 22-24 to publisher of The Green River - Rebecca Skeltoo, Dallas Newspapers. See S'I1JDENTS Republican. freelance photographer, - Andy Com, lab director, Page f, Columa 1 Ability more importa'nt than looks, Hays says A good appearance is the said. "It's part of the nature of tending the first fall lecture ing that I try hard, she said. " I "nature of the beast" for the beast. But it's not the most sponsored by The Society of think down the line for all the television personalities, but Important part." Professional Journalists, Bingham CQmpanies is Jour­ the co-anchor of Louisville's "Today, you can't be just Sigma Delta Chi that the nalism first. They have never Action 11 News believes good another pretty face." Louisville station just record­ said cut your hair or change reporting is more important. In the wake of the Cluistine ed a 46 percent share of the your clothes." Jackie Hays, a 26-year-old Craft case, where a woman market - the station's second In retrospect, she said she Parisi Tenn. native and co­ successfully sued the station highest in history_ wished she hadn't majored in anchor of the top.nted news that fared her when ratings U those ratings went down, broadcasting. She said U you program in the state, said sU pped, several questions she or her male co-anchor Jim know journalism, you can WldentAndlng the story and centered on Miss Hays' ap­ Mitchell might be fired. But learn to work in a studio. conveying it to an audience pearace. the summa cum laude MUlTay "IT I went back to college takes precedence over a " We're often criticized for graduate rests her future with now, I wouldn't major in TV or reporter's looks. being those pretty people on her reporting instead of her broadcasting - I'd major in " I'm not going to say TV, and it hurts." looks. See HAYS they're not lmporfant," she She told about:.) people at- "My security inside is know- Page It Column 1 Group discussion Michael Hayman, Courier-Journal photographer. talks with Western photojour­ nalism students after speaking Sept. 15. 41 journalists complete internships Forty-one journalism ma­ (Va.) Virginian Pilot. Muskoegan (Mich.) Chroni- wood Mall. jors took their education on Wilma Norton, Webster cle; Mary Ann Lyons, Susan Legler, Louisville the road this sununer to p~ senior, 'The Courier-Journal; Glasgow senior, The Nashville senior, Doe-Anderson Adver­ fessional organizations aCf0S9 Steve Paul, Newburg, Ind., Banner. tising Agency; Amy Lucas, the country. The list, accor­ junior, The Nashville Banner; Rick Musacchio, Louisville Bowling Green junior, Gish, ding to associate professo~ Tami Peerman, Evansville, junior, Kansas City (Mo.) Sherwood and Friends, Inc.; Bnd internship coordinator Ind., sophomore, Evansville Star; John Stewart, New Susan Mizanin, 81. Charles, James Ausenbaugh, follows: Sunday Courier-Press; Barry Hope, Pa., senior, Topeka Ill., sophomore, Needham, Rose, Bowling Green senior, (Kans.) Capital Journal; Alan News-edltorlal Harper and Steers, Inc.; The Paducah Sun. Warren, Owensboro jilnior, Laura Moss, Louisville Wanda Kay Ballard, Loretto Steve Thomas, Tom­ Owensboro Messenger­ sophomore, The Voice junior, The Louisville Times; pkinsville sophomore, Tom­ Inquirer. Newspapers. Michael Collins, Ermine pkinsville News; Karen Advertising Bobbie Jo Ramsey, Glasgow senior, The Tennessean; Whitaker, Lexington senior, Linda Batson, Newburg, junior, Wi!kin.!l Concepts, Inc.; Craig Dezern, Louisville The (Simi Valley, Calif.) Ind., junior, Media Mix, Inc. ; Mike Wolf, Louisville junior, The Grayson County Enterprise; Sharon Wright, Connie Cannan, Cloverport sophomore, Citizens Fidelity News-Gazette; Monica Dias, Elizabethtown graduate, senior, Container World, Inc.; Bank. Paducah senior, Jacksonville Owensboro Messenger­ Michelle Duke, Louisville Public relatiODl (Fla.) JournaL Inquirer. Pam Embry, New Albany, junior, Landmark Community Photojournalism Ind., sophomore, Western Newspapers; Joanie Evans, Melinda Jessup, Greenville Public Infonnation Office; Jim Battles, New Albany, Bowling Green senior, Green- senior, Opryland. Pat Hampton, Hendersonville, Ind., junior, Allentown (Pa.) Tenn., graduate, The Morning Call; Ron Bell, Rose to attend seminar Louisville Times; Mark Mandeville, La., senior, The Barry Rose, president of managing editor of the Heath, Cecilia graduate, The Courier-Journal; Todd Western's chapter of The Paducah Sun, where Rose Park City Daily News; Freda Buchanan, Iowa City, Iowa, Society of Professional Jour­ worked during the sununer. Herndon, Springfield, Tenn., senior, National Geographic; nalists, Sigma Delta Chi, will Panel discussions include senior, 1be Tennessean. Mike COllins, Lexington attend the 1983 American "How the American Media Mark Mathis, Owensboro senior, West Palm Beach Political Journalism Con­ Covers Central America," senior , Landmark Community (Fla.) Post-Times. ference in Washington, D.C., with Ernest!) Rivas-Gallont, Newspapers; Cyndi Mitchell, John Gaines, Des Moines, Oct. 28-'J0. ambassador of EI Salvador, Lexington graduate, The Iowa, senior, Boone (Iowa) Rose, a Bowling Green and "Covering Politics in Dallas (Texas ) Morning News-Republican; Mike Hea­ senior, applied for the con­ Washington. " Herald; Jamie Morton, Bowl­ ly, Iowa City, Iowa, fresJunan, ference in July with recom­ A $300 scholarship will rover ing Green junior, Green River San Jose (Calif.) Mercury mendations from Art K.aul and registration, lodging and Republican; Tommy Newton, News; Tony Kirves, Jim Highland, journalism pro­ registration fees for the three­ McQuady senior, Norfolk Evansville, Ind., junior, fessors, and Karl Harrison, day event. P,.. , At Indiana University Kaul attends Gannett teaching program Art Kaul, asslstant pro­ educators to take a granunar you have the National· En­ " One of the things I found fessor of jOumall.sm, was one quiz. Most of the 17 failed it, he quirer or The Weekly News of out was that I was doing some 01 17 journalbm instructon sald. the World'?" thing:I well," he sald. (rom across the country to at. "I was embarrassed," Kaul "He said, 'We don't sell that Kaul abo presented two tend the Gannett Teaching said. "I missed things that I'd garbage. Tty the grocery'," papers during the summer at Fellowship Program at In­ kick and scream if my Kaul said. the AEJMC national conven­ diana University in Bloom­ students missed. He used that story to begin tion at Oregon State Unversi­ ington. "IT you're going to set a his video tape. !y, Coovallis. He said the July 22-30 standard, you've got to know Everett Dennis, president of Kaul's paper, "'Ibe Soclal seminar was for young m-. what you're doing, This is fair the Association for Education Ecology of a Newspaper," in Journalism and Mass Com· was a synopsis of his doctoral structors with fewer than warning to students, that I'm three years of experience. working." municatlon and dean of the dissertation. Each teacher was also taped University of Oregon School of He also presented "Rattling "I think the rationale Wi! to get up and coming, promising during a mini-lecture and Journalism, reviewed Kaul's the Journalistic Cage: New tape. Journalism in Old people." critiqued. Kaul said he presented a coodensed version "I was lntr1(ued... because I Newsrooms," a paper written During the workshop, the 17 of his National Enquirer lee-­ always wanted to know what I by Jim Murphy, Kaul's ad­ instructors listened to some of ture explaining its popularity. looked like from another viser and friendat Southern D· the best Journalism educators But first, Kaul had to find a angle," Kaul said. linois University. Murphy died in the country. copy of the tabloid. The tape was later selected of cancer in the spring. an. tiling !Caw sald he He said he took an afternoon as one of {our tapes shown to !Caul will also be • panelbt learned was that professors off fnm the seminar and went the entire group as an exam­ and moderator, respectively, must coosLanUy upgrade their into Bloomington to look (or 8 ple of innovative teaching at two sessions of the knowledge of the language.