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- 6 - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WITHDRAWS WOUY APPLICATION The Federal Communications Commission, at the request of Columbia University*s president, Dwight Eisenhower, vacated the University 1 s construction permit for WCUV-EH early in July, The action, taken "without predjudice" hy the ECO temporarily closed the file on Columbians construction permit for W3UV-EH on channel 210, held hy the school since 1946, ~~ Eisenhower, in requesting the withdrawal, thanked the ECO for having held the matter in abeyance and expressed the hope the University would be able to proceed with the matter in the future. He explained that "owing to internal difficulties," the University had not been able to proceed with the contemplated development" and that he could not forsee "any immediate possibility” of proceeding with WCUV-EM. Meanwhile the University has established a radio bureau with Erik Barnouw, formerly assistant manager of NB0*s script division, and presently in charge of Columbia U, 1 s radio courses, which are offered in conjunction with NBC studio facilities . The University operates under a Badio Committee of which Ur, Hassell Potter (formerly N-A-B-B Hegion I director) is chairman, from the Institute of Arts and Sciences. Columbia*s new radio bureau has just completed a platter series with the U»S. Office of Public Health which will be used, beginning in September, in a nationwide anti-V.J). campaign. KALTEKBOHN SCHOLARSHIP AT UNIVERSITY Of WlSOOflsIl. . Announcement of the H.V, Kaltenborn radio scholarship for the school year (19^8-49) at the University of Wisconsin was made this month by Professor H. L. Ewbank, department of speech. on an income from a $ 15,000 trust fund set up by HBC^s leading news commentator, the fund was established to assist deserving students in the pursuit and training of some phase of radio broadcasting with particular emphasis on news presentation and news analysis'll Any student or entering student of junior standing or above at the University of Wisconsin is eligible for the scholarship. Selection is made by university regents on recommendation of the school*s president after conaitation with~the University radio committee. Training facilities are furnished by H-A-E-B stations WHA and WHA-EM. Pinal date for filing applications is August 20. MIDWEST EDUCATOR SAY SCHQ0L300M TV IN DISTANT FUTURE Experts attending a five-day audio-visual aids workshop at the University of Iowa feel it will be many years before television plays an important teaching role in the nation*s schoolrooms. The 35 staff and guest lecturers at the July 26-30 event agreed that television may replace radio but it won*t be an overnight process. Dr. E. L. Whan, commercial radio survey expert from Kansas reported his figures indicate y/o of U.S, children listen to radio in the public schools. Other speakers pointed up use of school transcription libraries as fulfilling many aspects of school broadcasting with exception of element of immediacy. Conference was joint presentation of College of Education and Extension Division at the State University of Iowa, _j