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Show The Daily Utah WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989 Series addresses summer fires VOL. 98, NO. 65 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Jowmalosfts exaraime See page 10 mmecilDa's iroie civil- irigtnts ion - By Vic Garcia Chronicle staff writer , ; The positive effect of the media on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was the topic of discussion for - three nationally renowned journalists in the Union. Ballroom Tuesday. The media panel was the first event of the University of Utah's program" "From Dreams to Reality: , n Recognizing and Resisting Racism." The panel focused on the media coverage of the movement at the time and how it has progressed, or regressed, since the .1960s..'- - :. ' - . . Carrell Ray Jenkins Spoke first on the issue by reflecting on his early days as a newspaper journalist. Jenkins, a Pulitzer Prize winner, spoke of the journalistic norms of the 1950s and 1960s and said those norms were what first opened his eyes to the biases of newspaper reporting. "In 1951 I questioned the order of things," Jenkins said. "I was working for a white newspaper. . . . Stories having to do with blacks were not printed unless a black was arrested, and achievements by blacks were hardly covered at all ... despite the fact that of the population of the town was black." raui uuxe, moaeraior oi me res news program Washington Week in Review, viewed the situation at the time in quite the same fashion as Jenkins. He said the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration taking place on the U. campus, as well as on other campuses across the nation, seems to be the fashion of the day. Yet at the high point of movement, media treatment of civil rights was not so sympathetic. ''I erew un in a traditional Southern culture." Duke said. "I went to a segregated church, attended a segre-patfi-d nnllftPfi and T wnrkfid in a SRCTftPaffiH rmws nffinfi . o o o o . . . I never worked with a black in the newsroom until I started working at NBC where there was a black cameraman named Tommy." Though an article written at the time was meant to nrspnt Tnmmv in a nnsitivp lioTit TIiiVp said thp artirlp was essentially insulting to both blacks and whites. Even "out West where it's best," Sandra Haggerty, former print journalist and now assistant dean of communication at Ohio University, was exposed to instances N ; two-thir- 3 " JbtjNmri ds -- ' of racial inequality. Living in the Bay Area of California, Haggerty's experiences with racial prejudice were not as publicized as those taking place in the South. Yet, she asserted, they were no less debasing to the black community. . Chronicle photo by Guy E. Elder g Carrell Ray Jenkins, a Pulitzer reporter, questioned the media's bias in covering civil rights issues conference at a on the racism during University of Utah. "In California most people thought that the black the Civil Rights Movement. Jenkins was personally "Yet was a Southern problem," Haggerty said. problem acquainted with King and said he worked hand in in Oakland, where 60 percent of the population was hand with the activist leader, despite all the pressures there Oakland black no on were at the time which condemned a white journalist for the black, reporters ; Tribune. There were no blacks in any significant posi:0 doing so. : ' : " v "Wh en you diminish one man's freedom, you dimintions of power." ';;7'::y" ish every man's freedom. . . . We have a lot more to see Haggerty recalled that because of her exposure to the before of Southern racial conflicts through the mass atrocities it's over," Jenkins continued. Duke credited the success of the Civil Rights media, she gained a sense that she was not alone. She s on television. She watched the Movement to the media's exposure of racial injustices, watched the she and felt obligatsaid to political pressure and, most importantly, to the police dogs and the fire hoses "heroic struggle of the black people themselves." ed to get more involved in the movement. "Martin Luther King Jr. liberated not only blacks, but Martin Luther King Jr.'s influence on Haggerty forced He opened people's eyes to the her to pay more attention to the fight against racial people like myself. of And was Duke declared. one noted she blacks," specifically debasing injustice. thing of the is the great emancipator of "Martin the Luther of Jr. King King's great understanding press. power this century for whites as well as blacks," he said. Jenkins too cited King for increasing his interest in Prize-winnin- ". . - A sit-in- ... . Chairman's $300 stipend provokes ASUU By controversy Scott Stone Chronicle ASUU reporter recent controversy over whether the Homecoming chairman should be paid for his A work has sparked debate among ASUU members about President Mike Kaly's compensation policy. Kaly called a meeting Monday with Programs and Activities Chairwoman Sandi Terry and Finance Board Chairman Nathan Wilcox to discuss why Greg Davis, Homecoming chairman, : was paid $300 for his work. V a Davis received stipend Kaly is upset that because, he feels no ASUU members should be compensated for their work. He said he has maintained such an attitude throughout his entire . administration. However, Kaly, Vice President Grant Sperry and several other ASUU members accepted winter quarter tuition waivers. Kaly, Terry and Wilcox decided compensating the Homecoming chairman was legal by ASUU standards, but it was ethically wrong because it contradicted Kaly's policy. . see "ASUU" on page three Councjl, honors prof .for 'Fly's Eye' The project's first observatory was built in 1981. A second observatory, or "eye," was added in 1985 to give observers a "stereoscopic" view, or three-dimesional depth perception. "It's just like a person having two eyes," Loh By Christian Aggeler Chronicle staff writer n- A University of Utah physics professor was given the Institutional Council's Special Award Monday for his work on an immensely important project with an unlikely name. Eugene C. Loh was recognized tor his leadership in the "Fly's Eye" project located at Dugway, Utah. Loh has been working on from explained. Perhaps the most important discovery made by the observatories involves the detection ot particles hav- - ing energy i irmion times as energetic as those produced by the sun. Loh and his col- Chicago, Michigan, and all over have said they want to set up next to since 1975. " The idea for the project, the Fly's Eye, said Loh, a University of originated at Cornell as Utah physics professor. "People aspects of the project leagues are searching for what he called ' early as 1956, but Loh and his U. colleagues were the first group to successfully put the idea into v.- - v;; "V--: action. i '.,; In spite of its exotic title, the "Fly's Eye" is actually a straightforward approach to detecting cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere. Such rays are constantly entering the atmosphere and reacting with atoms there to produce "secondary particles." The "eye" is actually an array of 67 mirrors, each 62 - inches in diameter, designed to detect these secd nature of the ondary particles. The insect-lik- e . "eye" gave the project its name. The numerous mirrors are required to "scan" large parts of the entire sky to detect the appearance "of cosmulti-facete- ' mic rays. ; .,;';. ,.''.'-:"- . ; VV-- : " the "inconceivable" source of such particles. The project, which is funded the National Science Foundation, fully by four faculty members, five scientific staff employs members, and numerous students, both graduate and undergraduate. With continuing discoveries shaking the scientific world, though, Dugway will likely be visited by increasing numbers of scientists from ' around the country. "People from Chicago, Michigan, and all over have said they want to set up next to the Fly's Eye," Loh said, citing an extremely clear atmosphere as one of " Dugway's best attributes. ' ... Loh said visiting scientists tend to like the U. as well. "They have told me they're pleased with the food at the Union,". he said. Non-prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |
