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Audience Perception Of The Punch Newspaper Cartoons: A Study Of Caritas University
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Boss
Tweed, an American politician, unwittingly underscored the importance
of cartoons when he was quoted in ‗last laugh‘ (Campbel et al 2000:35),
to have said back in 1871 ―stop the damn pictures, I don‘t care for your
newspaper articles, my constituents can‘t read them, but they can‘t
help seeing them damn pictures‖, when cartoonist Thomas Nast published
satirical cartoons about his political activities. It can be said with
some measures of certainty that reading and understanding cartoons might
not be a problem in an academic community such as Caritas University
Amorji-Nike, Enugu among lecturers and students. Therefore, it becomes
pertinent at this point to do a profiling on the object of study.
Caritas University
Caritas
University is a private catholic university, the second of its kind in
the West African Sub- Region, after Madonna University Okija. By the
grace of God this is the second private university to be approved by the
Federal Government of Nigeria and officially opened in 2005.
Caritas
is the property of the Sisters of Jesus the Saviour, a religious
congregation of sisters founded by Very Rev. Fr. Prof. Emmanuel M. P.
Edeh Cssp.
Being a fast rising private catholic University,
enrolment in the university has now grown to over 3,052 students
presently in the University and a total academic staff of 206.
The
University comprises of four faculties. The faculties offer a total of
27 programmes in Engineering, Natural Sciences, Environmental Sciences,
and Management and Social Sciences.
Inspiration and Spirit of Foundation
Caritas
University was brought into being by the admirable efforts of the
afore-mentioned Very Rev. Fr. Prof. Emmanuel M.P. Edeh Cssp, of the Holy
Ghost Congregation, Nigeria Province.
Greatly distressed at the
miserable state of education and morals in Nigerian society especially
in schools, Fr. Edeh prayed and sought any laudable means of doing
something about it no matter how small. In this he sought to rescue some
of our wandering teeming youth population from further slide into
academic and moral decay. This desire was to find its concrete
realization in the establishment of many primary and secondary schools
and four tertiary institutions, the Osisatech Polytechnic Enugu,
Osisatech College of Education Enugu, Madonna University Okija, and
finally, the present Caritas University at Amorji-Nike Emene, Enugu
State.
In all these institutions Fr. Edeh sought to combine
provisions of holistic education at affordable cost to the benefit of
all both rich and poor, with sound moral formation or character building
without which any form of education can be turned into a formidable
instrument of destruction of the human person.
The University Motto
The
University Motto is ―Love for Education and Morals‖. This dictum is not
meant to be a mere paper proclamation of good intentions but a guiding
philosophy of its entire University life. Its practical implications are
to be built into the University academic, moral, spiritual,
socio-economic and political life. Every aspect of life in the
university must breathe this flavour.
The Ultimate Goal of Caritas University
To
give efficacy to its motto and its philosophy of education, Caritas
embraces not only sound education for professional skills and
competencies in various fields but also maintains strict discipline. By
discipline we mean the training of the mind, body, soul and spirit to
obedience and self-control. The students must not only be intellectually
and professionally prepared for different task and roles in the world,
they must also be morally equipped to face the world itself with all its
tensions, conflicts, challenges and contradictions. They must be
prepared well for healthy competitions in the labour market and come out
victorious. They must also be adequately prepared to face the
attractions of evil in all its forms and come out winners.
Before
undertaking an even more critical look at the roles cartoons play in a
democratic society which will be undertaken in chapter two, it is
necessary to examine the statement of the problem in focus.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Cartoons have more recently become a prominent feature in newspapers. An increasing number of publishers and editors have realised its relevance and are beginning to exploit its full potentials. Despite its usefulness and popularity which is assuming a viral dimension in many media houses, one wonders, as replete and common place as these cartoons are in newspapers, do they command the attention, let alone the readership of the reading audience? Hence, this researcher sought to know the pattern ... Continue reading---
