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Show University To Host RMCPA Convention Don Underwood, former Life Magazine Senior Editor, Associated Press correspondent and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University Uni-versity of Utah will keynote the Rocky Mountain Collegiate" Press Association convention May 2 at the University. Harris R. Vincent, President of the RMCPA said that 250 students representing 69 schools from seven Western states are expected for the May 2-4 confab. Theme of the convention con-vention is "Struggles of the Campus Media." Students representing campus newspaper, yearbook, radio and television staffs from Montana, Idaho, Ida-ho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah will attend the convention. Every college, university uni-versity and junior college in the seven states will be represented. General topics to be discussed in clude : control of newspapers by editorial edi-torial staff, publication councils, student governments and faculty; the value of the yearbook in he present day college system; restrictions restric-tions on freedom of the press, and the task of the student paper. Vincent sees the RMCPA conference confer-ence as a "time for a real exchange of ideas and formats between individuals in-dividuals and the student media." The RMCPA agenda calls for an address by Utah Attorney General Phil L. Hansen, an awards banquet, the choice of the 1969 convention site and election of new officers. Awards on tap include: best cartoons, car-toons, won last year by the Utah Daily Chronicle's Bill Whittacker; newspaper photos ; yearbook; best feature and the outstanding paper. The latter honor goes to the paper which has best five consecutive issues. An interesting choice has already appeared on the horizon. Both Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University and the University Uni-versity of Utah yearbooks were judged nationally as "All-American" for 1967-68. A Rocky Mountain Mount-ain winner will have to be decided from the two. |
