Former CBS President Leads Panel Discussion
by Cindi Greenawalt
Does freedom of the press
extend to top secret government
documents given to a journalist by an
anonymous government-employed
source? Is the first amendment absolute?
Should executions be broadcast
on television?
When does the fourth
amendment stop protecting the rights of
people to secure their property from
unreasonable searches?
In "Celebrating the 200th
Anniversary of the Constitution of the
United States," Fred Friendly, the
Edward R. Morrow Professor Emeritus
of Broadcast Journalism at the Columbia
University Graduate School of
Journalism, was the first speaker in the
Susquehanna Valley Lyceum series
Friday, October 16, at Messiah College,
Grantham.
Friendly drilled eight panelists
for 90 minutes with questions of
constitutionality in three hypothetical
situations. One scenario closely
resembled the Bay of Pigs invasion of
1961. Friendly, former president of
CBS News, said CBS knew about the
invasion but chose not to run the story.
The New York Times, on the other
hand, chose to run a watered-down
version of the proposed invasion.
Afterward, President Kennedy said he
wished the Times would have run the
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invisible black, brown, and female faces
that are not getting the opportunity they
deserve."
ON INTERNATIONALISM
"Our cultural and linguistic
ignorance is a national shame, and to
completely blame our lack of success in
Japanese markets to Japanese insularity
is disingenuous. The Japanese have a
deep attraction to everything American.
Witness the reaction to the Michael
Jackson concert, tour, or for that matter,
the groups of Japanese tourists all over
this country.
"We need to rid ourselves of
some cultural baggage and start learning
Japanese instead of expecting orders for
goods to drop into our laps in perfect
English."
ON THE FUTURE:
"Some of our sharp young
MBA types are going to have to stop
thinking about maximizing the quarterly
profit sheet and think about improving
the product. Moreover, in some cases
our young (and not-so-young) wizards
are going to have to think about making
the product, period. We have perhaps one
manufacturer left in the U.S. of
completely domestically-produced color
television sets. I know the conventional
wisdom is to- say we shouldn't try to
compete in industries that are thought to
be the province of the Japanese and the
Pacific Rim producers, but do we really
want to abandon such a lucrative market
as color television sets? We need to
think hard-headedly about producing real
goods and services, and less about
whole story- it would have saved the
country a great embarassment.
The participants on the panel
Mr. Jeffrey T. Bluer, Esq., attorney and
Legal Brief reporter for WGAL•TV 8,
Lancaster, Pa.
Dr. Dean. C. Curry, chairman of the
Messiah College Department of History
and Political Science
Ms. Laura Forde, Messiah College Class
of 1989, and currently enrolled in the
pre-law curriculum
complicated mergers, leveraged buyouts,
coqx:wate raiding, and Japan-bashing."
ON WOMEN:
"Business - is the future of
America, and we cannot compete in the
future if we leave half of the team at
home changing diapers. It's now the
20th century, going on the 21st, and if
we still have 10th century stereotypes of
women as we go into the second
millenium, we garantee ourselves of a
second-rate nation, out of the action, and
as isolated as South Africa."
ON IMMIGRATION:
"Immigration is still helping
the growth of America and helping to
fuel our present prosperity. Apart from
the rank-and-file immigrants coming for
work, freedom and opportunity, we are
getting many of our top scientific
researchers from abroad. Currently
available statistics show that more than
42 percent of first-year graduate physics
students in the U.S. are non-Americans.
That is not the only department showing
such figures. Almost half the graduate
mathematics students are foreign born,
Roughly half of these students stay in
the U.S. after they acquire their doctorate
degree, following the path of the
refugees from Hitler's Germany such as
Albert Einstein."
ON EDUCATION:
"Learn h6w to learn. There has
been a trend in education to make higher
education a mere servant of the market
place. This is a short-sighted view and
damaging in the long run. For instance,
languages have been given short-shrift
The Honorable William Goodling,
Congressman from Pennsylvania's 19th.
District
Professor Christine H. Kellett, Professor
of Law at Dickinson School of Law
Mr. Peter Kelley, reporter from
Newhouse News Service whose
"Washington Watch" column appears
regularly in the Harrisburg Patriot News
Ms. Julia Kline, Messiah College Class
of 1989, currently enrolled in the pre-law
curriculum
for a long time now and that has been a
real disadvantage for American business
and politics.
"Ignorance is unprofitable. I
would recommend courses in science -
math, physics, biology, and chemistry.
Scientific literacy gives one the abilityto
think about facts, spot trends, to reduce a
situation to its very essentials, and make
an informed decision about results. A
business person who has the adequate
science and math can make a better
informed decision about the possibilities
of a long-term investment.
"Along with science, math,
language and business courses I would
not hesitate to recommend liberal arts
courses. They will make ones
understanding of the languages more
profound and deepen one's appreciation of
the miracle of the sciences."
IN CONCLUSION:
"Opportunity, immigration, and
freedom in America are still present;
they are not just issues for historians.
The present climate may be more
regulated than the raw opportunity of the
frontier days, but the complexity of the
modern economic world offers its own
set of challenges."
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Dr. Richard J. Morrison, attorney and
Assistant Professor of Business at
Messiah College
Friendly has lead classes for 20
years at Yale and Columbia through an
intensive course about decision-making
and the Bill of Rights, covering such
topics as libel, invasion of privacy,
protection of confidential sources, fair
trial/free press, grand jury secrecy,
professional ethics, temporary
restraining orders, and national security.
He, in conjunction with Martha J. H.
Elliott, is author of The Constitution
That Delicate Balance and the originating
force behind the media and society ,
seminars, which created the award
winning public television series, "The
Constitution: That Delicate Balance."
Friendly and his partner, Edward R.
Murrow, were responsible for
television's See It Now and CB S
Reports.
Other speakers scheduled in the
Susquehanna Valley Lyceum are
Zbigniew Brzezinski, expert in foreign
policy, November 13, 1987; Chaim
Potok, author of the best selling novel,
The Chosen, February 4,1988; and Carl
Rowan, syndicated columnist for the
Chicago Sun Times, April 8,1988.
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"We are attracting quality black
students," said Zerby. "We are hopeful
they will have a good experience while
at Capital College and become 'Happy
Alumni,' going back into their
communities and talking to their
friends."
The Penn State strategic plan
calls for and enrollment of 3,500
students by 1991. In implementing the
enrollment portion of the plan,
admissions targeted the number of
students needed per year to meet the
goal. At this time, according to Zerby
the 1989 goal is almost satisfied,
putting the college ahead of schedule.
With the increase of students at
Penn State Harrisburg, changes will
occur. "The university will have to
make a commitment by adding faculty
and resources as needed," said Zerby.
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