The Highacres Collegian
Television auction tops $lOOO mark
The Hazleton Campus Video
(HCV) television organization
auction held in mid-October
raised just over $lOOO for im
provement of studio facilities.
"We are very pliased with the
results," said Joe Krushinsky,
HCV president.
The auction was the first major
project of the year and the first
live production in the club's
history. The campus television
station's regular weekly pro
gramming is pre-recorded on
video tape.
"We were all pretty nervous
about going live because over 85
percent of our crew had no live
television experience," said
"We were quite pleased with the size of our
viewing audience, especially since we were
competing with Network Season Premiers."
Krtishhisky, "but in the heat of donate items for bid on the auc
the moment everyone seemed to tion, club members had to pick up
perform well." the items, record their receipt,
The hoits for the three night divide them into 9 groups of equal
Organizations to join forces
me Highacres Collegian and
the Hazleton Campus Video are
currently reorganizing their
staffs to participate in a
cooperative news production ef
fort.
"Both news staffs are slightly
smaller than they should be,"
said Jerry Trently, Executive
Editor for the Collegian. "By
combining our forces we think we
can provide more complete
coverage of news through both
media and possibly generate new
interest and attract additional
staff members."
While the organizations have
worked only on a limited basis
thus far, the results have been
pleasing to many.
"The operation of staffs is much
simpler on a cooperative rather
than competitive basis," said
Lori Emerich, HCV Feature
Director and Collegian Feature
Editor. "Once we realized that
both HCV and the paper shared
the same goal of serving
students, combining operations
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auction included Jerry Trently,
Joanne Gursick, Chris McNab,
John Lewis, and Joe Krushinsky
along with club advisor Barry
Jais. Special guest hosts for the
event were Miss Pocono Kelly
Yale and WQEQ's Jim Dino.
Over two months of planning
and publicity preceded the fund
raiser.
"A mailing of 400 letters to local
businesses explaining the auction
was only. the first step," said
Chris McNab, HCV publicity
manager, "We had to follow it up
with 400 initial phone calls for
responses and about 250 second
round calls."
After businesses agreed to
was the logical next step."
Leaders of the two organiza
tions say that ultimately their
goal is to establish a centralized
news center from which news
brought in by any reporter, stu
dent, faculty or staff member can
be distributed through the paper
and HCV television. HCV Ex
"This idea of a com
bined effort in report
ing news will surely
have a positive effect
on the efficiency of
the participating or•
ganizations."
ecutive Producer Joe Krushinsky
authored and submitted a mini
grant proposal on behalf of both
clubs for money to equip a
newsroom.
"What we asked for is funding
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value for each hour of the auc
tion, and brief the hosts on the
description, value, and contribu
tion of each item:
Barry Jais, HCV advisor, said
that he and his club were sur
prised at the number of viewers
that were attracted by the auc
tion.
first week of network season
premiers during prime time,"
said Jais, "but apparently
enough people found the auction
interesting enough to tune us in."
Since the HCV currently has no
live television facility, the auc
tion had to be aired from the
Heights-Terrace Elementary
Complex which is equipped with
a live hook-up.
"All of the people at the
Hazleton school district and the
Service Electric Cable Company
were kind and cooperative
through the whole process," said
Krushinsky.
HCV airs the News View 13,
Sports View 13, and People,
Places and Things programs
each Tuesday evening on Service
for basic office equipment,
reference texts specialized in
journalistic practice for print and
television, and an open session
with professional television and
print journalists so that our
reporters can ask questions on
real life situations in a working
newsroom," said Krushinsky.
Among the personalities con
tacted as possible speakers are
Jay Kristophe r of WNEP 16 and
Dean Phillips of WBRE 28.
Krushinsky said that should
everything work out as hoped, the
two would sit on a panel of jour
nalists to answer questions of
members of HCV and The
Highacres Collegian as well as
any student, faculty member, or
resident of the community.
"We feel that a great deal of
useful information can come out
of a program of this nature," said
Krushinsky. "Of course HCV
would video tape the event for
reference,by news staffs of future
years."
Electric Dial 13. Two new shows, special, a studio-audience par-
Community Forum and The Out- ticipation panel discussion "On
doors, are scheduled to premier Death and Dying," and a 24 hour
at the beginning of winter term. live telethon for a local charity in
Specials currently in the planning early spring.
stages are a 90 minute Christmas
Campus students to speak
at state journalism convention
Members of the Hazleton Cam
pus Video (HCV) . television
organization will travel to Lan
caster to address high school
journalists at a statewide conven
tion this afternoon.
Joe Krushinsky and Barry Jais,
HCV president and advisor
respectively, have been asked by
the Pennsylvania Scholastic
Press Association (PSPA) to
speak at their annual convention
on the subject of student. televi
sion production.
"We are quite pleased and
honored with the invitation and
will work to represent the HCV
and the Hazleton Campus well,"
said Krushinsky. .
Krushinsky, 197940 recipient of
the PSPA's prestigious Keystone
and first place awards for high
school writing, has attended past
conventions and says that the
PSPA offers a good program.
"The convention provides
students on a high school level
with the opportunity to see other
high school papers and television
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clubs' publications, as well as
with workshops, conducted by
college and professional
organizations, to give them a
broad view of the field and ideas
for self improvement."
HCV will be the only college
television organization par
ticipating in the convention. The
remainder of the broadcast jour
nalism workshops will be con
ducted by two commercial televi
sion stations and two professional
radio stations.
"We are a little nervous about
working next to the pros," said
J ais, "but we feel that our
presentation will involve more
material that students can relate
to and look on as realistic goals
for their own organizations than
the commercial organizations
can offer."
The main points of this after
noon's presentation will be, "How
to make do with what you have,"
and "Student television with a
professional look".