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I'lie Ked and Black. Friday. February 17. I97H
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City planning depicted
By mike WRIGHT
I predict that within 20
years there will be a social
revolution, because it is illegal
to build housing for the poor.”
Laurence Gerckens, director of
the School of Architecture at
Ohio State University, said
Gerckens presented a slide
show and lecture depicting the
history of American city
planning on Wednesday and
Thursday. On solving the
problems of the poor and
intercity ghettos, Gerckens
continued, “The best way is to
lower the standards.” He said
the government disregards
health and safety planning,
resulting in the crumbling of
public housing within 10 years.
KNF.RGY IS going to play a
major role in future planning,
according to Gerckens He said
there will he a need for
decentralization of employ
ment to maximize fuel effi
ciency . Buildings will also
have to include more flexible
systems, such as a mulipur-
pose auditorium
Gerckens said President
Carter's energy program will
call lor conservation through
the development of practical
shapes for building and neigh
borhood construction. The
numerous glass buildings al
ready standing are extremely
wasteful, and “anyone who
huilds a ‘glass box’ today
would have to be a fool.”
Gerckens says. The typical
neighborhood with its winding
roads will also have to
be modified to accomodate the
best energy preservation
GFKCKKNS DID not just
talk about the present entirely.
He spent much of the lfecture
discussing early development
of the United States. The Ohio
State professor said, “people
presume that if you buy a
house it will have a bathroom
in it, but that is not necessarily
so.”
In fact, most of today’s
building codes did not begin
until the early 1900’s. Conse
quently, typhus spread ram
pantly during this time due to
poor sanitation conditions.
The automobile was undoubt
edly the greatest advancement
in urban planning develop
ment “It made planning
necessary because it was
impossible to expand without
working around the auto
mobile,” Gerckens said.
When people complain about
air pollution. Gerckens said he
reminds them the automobile
replaced the horse and the
horse caused a pollution of a
more vulgar type
ANOTIIKR STORY told by
Gerckens dealt with founding
of Washington, D.C. In the
beginning, our nation's capital
was only planned to include the
President’s house and one
government building. Prior to
building, the plan had been
expanded to include numerous
federal buildings and monu
ments. Gerckens related. “Be
lieve it or not. government was
built on a lot of corruption.”
Gerckens. the recipient of a
National Design Merit Award
for site planning, has served as
an urban planning consultant
to industry, development plan
ners and federal agencies
New satellite antenna to
expand WGTV programs
By ROBIN RINGER
As some of you may have
already noticed, the roof of the
Continuing Education Center
has a new addition. A 33-foot
Parabolic (dish shaped) Earth
Receiver Terminal was con
structed in four weeks and
placed atop the building on
Feb 9.
The five-ton antenna is part
of a $39.5 million public
television interconnection sys
tem largely funded by the
Corporation for Public Broad
casting.
The new WGTV antenna is
presently being connected to
Westar I, a Western Union
satellite which is in “syn-
chronis orbit over the equator
and is 22.500 miles up.” Dr
William Hale, station manager
for Channel 8, said.
On Feb. 1, 24 Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS)
stations activated their ter
minals and on April 1, WGTV.
along with 40 other stations,
will switch to the antenna.
Presently. Channel 8 is operat
ing on a 10-foot parabolic
antenna placed on top on the
Georgia Center in 1976 by the
National Aeronautic and Space
Administration.
By the first of June, every
PBS station in the United
States, including WGTV. will
operate from the satellite.
“There is no difference in
the quality of the signals we
will receive from the new
satellite: there is only a
difference in the satellite itself,
Hale said. “The new antenna
has four transponders on it
which will receive four simul
taneous programs at the same
time.
“This is not an uplink or
sender, but we do have
portable uplinks that are
available to us I expect to see
some uplinks brought to
Athens for commercial or
sports reasons in the near
future,” Hale said
Instead of introducing four
receiver will bring to WGTV
PBS service, a PBS distribu
tion schedule which is a
preview of upcoming pro
grams, a backup program for
the other two and a program
schedule selected by the
Managers Access Council of
PBS. Hale is a member of this
council
“We’ll be receiving vastly
more programs than we can
possibly show," Hale said. The
decision to switch to the
satellite was made for all PBS
stations by the Managers
Access Council because, "we
wanted to break away from
AT&T (American Telephone
and Telegraph) and have a
more reliable and cheaper
service," Hale added.
“There will be a little upkeep
with the new satellite and it
should last forever, unless a
meteor hits it and knocks it out
Of its orbit.' Halo said The
satellite has been in orbit
about three years already.
There is a backup satellite
on the launching pad just in
case anything happens. Hale
added.
Hale continued his explana
tion of the switch. "The council
decided to break away from
AT&T in phases. Phase one
started 18 months ago with the
structural engineering process.
A study was done to determine
if the building was all right for
the antenna
“Most of the antennas were
placed on the ground but there
was no space here free from
traffic that would be aestheti
cally pleasing to the environ
ment,” he said. After the
building was okayed by the
engineers, phase two began
with the actual design and
construction of the base for the
terminal Phase three was the
placing of the terminal on the
roof of the building
The $20,000 antenna was paid
for by two sources. A grant of
$15.ooo from the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting and $5.0G0
came Irom the Kresge Founda-
Hale called the switch to the
Westar satellite “evidence of
Channel 8 staying on the
threshold of late developing
technology. It is also a
commitment from the Univer
sity to continue to bring quality
public broadcasting to WGTV’s
2,800.000 viewers Channel 8 is
the largest public broadcasting
station in the world that is
university based.”
Stealing is illegal
By MATT PRICHARD
Campus editor
“Any reporter worth his
salt will steal,” a managing
editor of one newspaper
once said.
However. Roger Ann
Jones, managing editor of
The Macon News, says she
doesn’t necessarily agree
with what this editor told
her.
Jones, speaking before a
group of journalism stu
dents Thursday, said steal
ing would be called for only
in extreme cases and
reminded students stealing
is illegal.
“No license comes with
our jobs (as journalists) to
commit crimes and if you
were caught, it would be
embarassing for you and
your newspaper,” said
Jones, who received a
bachelor’s degree in jour
nalism at the University in
1972.
MOST INFORMATION
left unguarded is useless or
it would not be left exposed,
she said.
Jones emphasized investi
gative reporting. “This field
is considered a specialty,
but it shouldn’t be. Every
reporter on every beat
should try to discover what
he can’t get through his
regular sources," she said.
“If you’re covering city
hall, you should have a copy
of the budget and have the
newspaper accountant go
over it with you. If one
area, say travel expenses,
is high, there could be a
story in it,” Jones added.
Some reporting isn’t al
ways as exciting as Water
gate, but it can touch lives
more directly, according to
Jones. “If you do a piece
comparing the prices of
shoes, it can touch a lot of
lives,” she said
TIIK KEY word in
investigative reporting is
"fair,” Jones said She
noted it is often a shock for
people to see themselves in
print, and therefore, it is a
good idea to call everyone
involved in an investigative
story and tell them about
what you’ve written about
them before going to print
“We’re not here to
destroy lives, although that
can be a by-product of our
work.” she said.
If the reporter finds an
“honest John.” it’s also his
duty to tell the public,
according to Jones
Jones said a broad
education is very important
“When I was here I studied
weather in a geography
course. I always wondered
of what use that course
would be to me.
“However, one day I had
to cover a weather exhibit
at a museum and it was
comforting to know some of
the terms dealt with in the
exhibit,” she said.
GOOD JOURNALISTS
continue to take courses
after finding a job about
such things as urban
planning at local colleges,
Jones said.
She also advised students
to learn how to do any job
in the newsroom to feel
secure.
Job opportunities are
opening up for women, but
there are still only two
managing editors of major
newspapers that are
women, and the other one,
besides Jones, is in Califor
nia, she said.
Jones started with The
Macon Telegraph as a copy
editor and in 1975 she
became managing editor of
the News.
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Energy facts to debut
A newly-developed curricu
lum designed to teach energy
facts to real estate profession
als will be nationally preview
ed Feb. 19-23 at the University
Center for Continuing Educa
tion.
The curriculum, which was
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