Enrolment of first year students in journalism leaps up by 30% in 1979. Why?
"Possibly because the Information scandal has made journalism seem like a glamorous profession." At least this is the opinion of Journalism staff who compare the jump in numbers with a similar phenomenon at journalism schools in the United States after Watergate.
Of course, the increase may also be linked to the growing reputation of the Rhodes department, the only one of its kind at an English-language university in South Africa.
Bulletin, 1979 (2): 3
Exams
Do one yourself
It's June, 1977.
You have 2 hours to complete a Journalism III practical examination set by Peter Temple. This is the Peter Temple; South Africa-Australian journalist-academic-turned-crime writer.
In his mid-20s he came to Rhodes University and studied history and politics with the intention of becoming a historian but returned to newspapers and was soon recruited as a university lecturer in journalism.
Do you have it in you to try take his exam? Does it even make sense?
Final exams roll through, it is November 1977 and this time the examination is theoretical and the topic is Press & Society (Journalism III). You have three hours. As you do this exercise you may find it particularly interesting that this is a 'live' copy; meaning, scribbled on by the student who used it. This student is unknown. Was it you?
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SOURCE
School of Journalism and Media Studies, informal archive.