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JRL. CLASS PROJECT
Weekly newscast given
By MERYL NASH
and CAROLE LITTLE
Each week this quarter an estimated 150
thousand cable-TV viewers in Georgia will
tune in to a 15-minute news program with a
conventional format: a summary of the
week’s news (state to international), with
sports and stock market commentaries and
filmed reports. What distinguishes the
program is its staff — the 16 students in the
University’s Journalism 461 class who
report, write, edit announce — and are
recognized in the closing credits.
“This is probably the first time any
journalism school has utilized state cablevi-
sion companies on this scale to air
newscasts or originate any programming,”
said assistant professor of journalism Ray
mond Martin, the instructor who conceived
of student-produced newscasts last winter.
The students, most of them broadcast
news majors, produce two weekly radio
programs in addition to the TV newscast.
One is "This Week,’’ a 15-minute program
with a format similar to that of the TV
newscast which is aired by the campus
radio station WUOG. The other is "Athens in
Review,” a ten-minute local news summary
for WGAU.
To create the three weekly programs, the
students meet for three-hour periods Mon
day through Friday and devote many
additional hours to extracurricular research
and reporting assignments. The course is
probably "one of the most time-consuming”
taught at UGA, according to Martin.
Explaining that the advanced broadcast
ing news class has been doing 15-minute
news summaries for two years, Martin said,
"It got to the point where I felt the quality
of the newscast was so good that the
students needed proper exposure to let
Georgians know what their capabilities
were.”
"It occurred to me that there might be
some cable-TV stations in Georgia capable
of originating broadcasting material” by
playing tapes over videotape recorders on
their own local channels, he continued, "I
contacted most of the cable stations that
were originating and got very good re
sponse.”
Martin would have liked his class to
produce a daily half-hour newscast for
Athens cable TV, but the local cable
company is incapable of originating materi
al.
The seven TV newscasts which students
produce this quarter will be aired about four
times weekly by Cox Cablevision in Atlanta,
Cox-Macon Cablevision, Dekalb Cablevision,
Mercer Communications in Ashburn, Ga..
and in South Carolina just north of Augusta.
"We’re emphatic in giving credit for the
programs to the University’s School of
Journalism students,” Martin said. "It’s an
excellent public relations mechanism for the
University.”
The newscasts include three 60-second
public service announcements for organiza
tions like the Navy, the Heart Fund and the
Georgia Lung Society.
Martin explained that film sequences for
the newscasts are supplied by David
Patterson’s advanced projects class.
All art work and most of the photography
is provided by the Instructional Resources
Center (IRC). Some of the visuals are the
work of photojournalism students.
"The TV newscast is a tough show to
produce,” Martin said. "The longest we
allow any story to go is one minute. It’s
excellent training for writers to take a
complex story and condense it into a
30-second report.”
The weekly radio summary of local news
for WGAU may be “even more difficult than
the TV program,” Martin continued
While the responsibility for the TV
program is delegated to class members
each week on a rotating basis, the entire
class works on the "Athens in Review”
radio program.
Students cover local events and conduct
interviews with portable tape recorders.
Excerpts from the taped material provide
the show with its “actualities,” the broad
cast media equivalent of direct quotation.
“The show entails a tremendous amount
of reporting and editing” and the students
work under pressure. Martin said. "The
pressure is part of the value of the class.”
When they complete the course, Martin
said he thinks the students will be prepared
to step into any commercial radio or
television newsroom as a productive repor
ter and newscaster. "They’ll be an asset to
any news staff,” he said.
JRL. 461 is offered only once.a year to
advanced broadcast news majors. Because
those currently enrolled are graduating,
there will be no advanced news class to
continue the series of radio and TV
newscasts in the fall
Martin acknowledged, however.that there
may be a way to stagger groups of
advanced students so that the course can be
offered year-round.
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of this northern Indiana town
Tuesday, injuring a number of
persons, none critically.
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President discussed
Hunt's hush money
seriously hurt.
First reports said at least
two ears and one locomotive
overturned and were on their
sides, the sheriff's office said.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Pre
sident Nixon discussed paying
hush money to Watergate con
spirator E. Howard Hunt, and
demanded of Dean, "would you
agree that that’s the prime
thing that you damn well
better get done?” a transcript
of the critical White House
meeting showed Tuesday.
The transcript also indicated
that when the President said
"no, it is wrong, that’s for
sure" to Dean, it was in
reference to the political feasi
bility of clemency for Water
gate defendants, and not in
respect to hush money, as
Nixon has said previously
Throughout the almost two
hour meeting with Dean and
H R. Haldeman on March 21,
1973, Nixon never rejected the
proposal to buy Hunt's silence,
the edited transcript showed.
The proposal to give Hunt
clemency was rejected by Ni
xon because it would be politi
cally unworkable.
During the meeting. Dean
told Nixon for the first time of
the full extent of the Watergate
cover-up, and of Hunt's de
mands for money to keep
silent.
"You have no choice but to
come up with the $120,000...
right?" Nixon asked Dean to
ward the end of the meeting.
“That's right," replied Dean,
who was fired one month later
as Nixon's special counsel.
“...get it,” Nixon said. The
first part of this reply, identi
fied in the transcript as an
"expletive" was deleted in the
edited White House transcript
"Would you agree that that’s
the prime thing that you damn
well better get that done’’"
Nixon said.
"Obviously he ought to be
given some signal anyway,"
Dean replied.
The question of clemency
was raised by Dean separate
from the discussion of money.
"Politically, it’s impossible
for you to do it," Dean said.
"That’s right!" Nixon re
plied.
“I am not sure that you will
ever be able to deliver on the
clemency. It may be just too
hot,” Dean said
“You can't do it politically
until after the ’74 elections,
that’s for sure," Nixon replied
Dean then cautioned that
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volve the President "further"
in the Watergate scandal, and
"in a way you should not be
involved in this."
"No — it is wrong, that’s for
sure," Nixon replied
Earlier in the meeting. Dean
told Nixon it would cost $1
million or more to buy the
silence of the Watergate defen
dants.
"We could get that." Nixon
replied. "You could get a
million dollars. You could get
it in cash. I know where it
could be gotten."
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The TKEs took first place in
fraternity competition at this
year s UGA-Red Cross Blood
Drive with the donation of 69
pints, the highest total ever
donated by an organization.
Sigma Kappa led sororities
in donations with MellVips-
comb leading dorms and the
Arnold Air Society leading
organizations.
Second place in fraternities
was taken by ACACIA with
Delta Chi in third place. Pi
Beta Phi took second place in
sororities and Kappa Alpha
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