monday, October 29, 1979
daily nebraskan
P233 9
Organization, tenacity important
Photojournalists stress versatility
Kennedy support
to decline- Risser
By Bill Graf
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-The National Press
Photographers of America's "Flying Short Course"
stressed the need for news photographers ,who can do
more than take pictures.
'Like a basketball player, a photographer must learn to
move without the ball," said James Sugar of National
Geographic.
To be successful, a photographer must organize his
shooting schedule, as well as have enough time to think
out the situation and be good at problem solving," Sugar
said.
While shooting the series that won him the title of
Magazine Photographer of the Year, Sugar said he careful
ly organized his shooting schedule. If he had a problem
getting a shot he could go on to something else and return
to get the original shot later,
Time to shoot an assignment also is important, he said.
Once he was given the same assignment by an advertising
agency and National Geographic.
"The ad agency gave me two days and the Geographic
gave me three weeks. I was much happier with the photo
graphs I took for the National Geographic. It was the
same photographer, the same camera and the same assign
ment, the only difference was the amount of time I had."
His winning assignment, "America's Sunset Coast" was
a good exercise in problem solving.
"I wanted to get a shot from the top of the Golden
Gate Bridge, but at first the people in charge of the bridge
wouldn't let me climb to the top. After ten days, they
realized that I wouldn't go away until I got the. shot so I
finallly got what I had come for."
"You must focus your mind on the problem.and will
the picture to happen," he said.
Newspaper photographer of the year, Chris Johns of
the Topeka Capital-Journal, presented his sHdeshow, "The
Subject Speaks."
The slideshow consisted of shots of some of Johns'
subjects and tape recordings of their thoughts about the
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Photo by K. Haugstatter
Y. Horiba cleaned and repaired Nikon cameras as a
service offered by Nikon at the NPPA's Flying Short
Course in Minneapolis.
articles after they had appeared in the newspaper. Johns
wanted to see if his subjects thought they had been por
trayed accurately.
Most of the subjects' reactions were positive. However,
"some people don't want to see what they should see," he
said. "Some things should be seen, so as to make the
community a better place to live."
v By Kathy Stokebrand
Although Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., is
probably more popular with the public now than
President Carter, the Washington bureau chief of the
Des Moines Register and Tribune, said the wave of
popularity, probably will swing back to the presi
dent. James Risser, who fielded questions from Sigma
Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists
Thursday, said Democrats will get scared to remove
an incumbent as the election draws closer, A closer
look at Kennedy's legislative record might also de
crease his popularity, he said.
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, referring to
Congress as "an overgrown legislature," said it
would take a new reporter approximately one year
to get acquainted with Washington.
Adding that the Des Moines Register and Tribune
are, not widely read in Washington, Risser said, "In
Washington, it's like writing stories and sending
them into the blue." Risser writes mostly about
consumer and environmental aspects of agriculture.
Risser received one of his Pulitzer Prizes for un
covering corruption in the U.S. export grain indus
try. He found that the grain inspection agencies were
owned by the grain companies. These companies
were, among other things, exporting substandard
shipments.
The government was cooperative in his investiga
tion but he said he was required to go through much
paperwork, in the form of formal requests,for in
formation. ; -x' '
As a result of his investigation Congress passed a
law federalizing the grain inspection program, Risser
said. . , ' ;
Pershing rifle corps fires up
Members of the Pershing Rifles, a ROTC
organization with its national headquarters '
;a$ UNL, will meet today and Tuesday at
"the Lincoln Hilton.
The two-day conference will be attend
ed by 18 Pershing Rifle members from 13
geographical divisions in the country.
Members- will discuss organizational
changes, plan for an inter-group competi
tion, and set goals for next year.
The Pershing Rifles'are named for John
J, Pershing, who trained the American Ex
peditionary forces to fight ii World War I.
According to Kevin Born, national
commander for the Pershing Rifles, Persh
ing is a father figure for the group..
The Pershing Rifles is a military organi
zation, although its membership is 10 per
cent civilian, Born said. The organization
has nearly 3,000 members-most from the
Army, Navy, and Air Force, he added.
Born said in 1891, when Pershing came
to the University of Nebraska as a lieuten
ant, in charge of the campus military de
partment,. NU was "anti-militaristic." But
under the leadership, of Pershing, the cam
pus military forces were brought to a pro
fessional standarcLhe said. . . ,
Today's Pershing Rifles emphasize four
areas: drill with arms, tactics, riflery, and
leadership skills, Born said.
The drill work is in preparation for a
yearly competition between the organiza
tion's many branches. This year's competi
tion will be held in Tampa, Fla. with ex
pected attendance of 400 Pershing Rifle
members, Born said.
Tactics is "practical application" of
military skills, Born said.
"We go out on a weekend and play
army," he said.
The Pershing Rifles of UNL include
about 25 members, Born said, including
Born as national commander and a staff of
five who serve as national administrators.
Born said the Pershing Rifles have en
joyed many distinguished past members.
NU Regent Kermit Hansen, former Ne
braska governor Norbert Tiemann, and
President Harry Truman have been Persh
ing Rifle members, he said.
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