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...Radcliffe undergraduates. the CRIMSON has two blacks on its 60 member board; the Independent has three out of about 60 board members and contributors; and the Lampoon, one of about 55-ratios little different from the years when Harvard had only one-tenth as many black students. At WHRB, there are roughly 10 blacks out of 100 members but there, as in other news media, fewer than 'half of the blacks are really active, their own thing, Lee Daniels...
...really began to feel it last spring during the takeover of University Hall." said Kenneth Bechis, former President of WHRB. "We really wanted a black reporter who could report if blacks seized a building and to give us a black viewpoint. But the one or two black reporters we had said flatly they wouldn't report on Afro...
That, I think, is the reason WHRB escaped the torrent of abuse that hit the CRIMSON and the professional newspapers last spring. Radio, by its nature, is perfectly adapted to presenting large amounts of undigested fact to the audience; a newspaper, just as naturally, has to condense and exercise some judgment. It's hard to fault a live broadcast of a Faculty meeting, but a news writer will have to choose one event as the most important-and instantly antagonize half his readers...
...OTHER HARVARD -WHRB, the radio station, always has a large crew, especially after their coverage last April, but no one listens. They talk to each other and try to sound like Edward R. Murrow on the scene with the bombs falling. The Harvard Independent has a rapid turnover of reporters, who are unexceptional. The Harvard Gazette, the administration paper, is represented by David Cudhea, who has long thin sideburns and was once arrested way back in the famous 1950's in the Pogo Riots even though he was a CRIMSON reporter. Large numbers of Yearbook people take pictures for their...
...Mass. Moratorium Committee has made available to radio stations an hourlong tape of King's 1967 speech against the war, as well as pamphlets of his other speeches and talks. WHRB has not yet decided whether it will use the tape...