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Olderman, visiting ()regon to see his daughter, still Ireelanr es. writing features and drawing cartoons and illustra tions for newspapers around the country lie has written 10 books, among them The I’ro Quartrr l\.it k m iota,, which includes a r hapter on former Oregon ijuar tcrhar k and Nl I. hall-of-famer Norm Van Hror klin Students in Older man's eight week r lass wrote every thing from profiles to sports features to game coverage I he i lass interviewed and wrote stories about Oregon head foot t all i oat h Kit h Brooks, Fort land Trail Hlazers president Harry ( Hit knian and former (>r egun .inti Nan Francisco 4t)ers linehai ker Davi Wilcox Frofess ion a I sports writers also (mid v isits to Olderman s class The students wrote a tall umn on Kon Hellamv. hirnsel! a columnist lor the Fugene Keg/s Irr ('.min! Mv overlying theme was slated in my first lecture to them, that ail I really wanted them to do hv the end ol the eight week session was to he able to write a i ompetelit sports story he said I don't feel in teach people how to but you can guide them von writ These lire .1!! up port lass peo ple "Theoretically they should have the foundation for what constitutes a story, and I just wanted to expose them to what I consider good sportswriting and a philosophy of good sportswriting " Olderman's students, some of wh om h ad never h of o r e watched baseball, attended .1 Eugene Emeralds game and wrote their stones Oldertnan said the game coverage, with one or two exceptions, was not very good. "They were getting into unfa miliar territory." he said The students did much fs-tter, how ever. on their Kon Bellamy col umns 7 don 't feel you can teach people how to write, but you can guide them. ’ — Murray Olderman I told them to let themselves go, to personalize it," fie said Manx people approaching sportswriting come in with pre conceived ideas of how the sports stories should fie writ ten. the jargon of sports and all that I wanted to disabuse them of that notion. Sportswriting is like any other type of journalism Olderman read another pas sage from the Calico book to Ins i lass to underscore this point It's not at all necessary to have played games or to he an expert to be a successful sportswriter, providing that you 111 write and have imagina tion John hasten, a public rela tions student, said that al though the class was demand ing, he learned much about sportswriting and journalism in general, and was glad that Old ertnan was more an editor than a professor He treated your work as an ,-dilor." Easton said "Instead of 1 , iriei ting your paper he edited it It tightened up my writing a lot " I ed11 Ilnur (opy, the differ ence being that I toll them when 1 edit their copy.” Older man said 'When you work on a newspaper, they edit your i opy and send it through and you don't know why they made tin; changes I toll them why I made the changes ” Olderman insists that the main difference betwetui sportswriting and other types of journalism is the subject mat ter. and that sports reporters need to lie just as investigative and professional .is other jour nalists Olderman said he also emphasizes objectivity he noticed a mistake at the Brooks interview, when a student re ferred to the Oregon football team as "us hurl Nest void, journalism school associate dean, said the school was fortunate to have a sportswriter of Olderman's cali ber and experience to teach this summer, and added that he used Olderman cartoons for his own sports stories in the 1950s "You had people who either did sports or cartooning.” he said "I'm not aware that there were too many who did both When he draws a picture of an athlete it's almost like a photo graph." Although the world of sports has changed somewhat. 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