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Monday, February 5, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Four-year-old Mike Rowe doesn't think sitting little to watch for play tennis matches is his forte.
himself, but his mother keeps him a captive fan. The sunny weekend weather drew crowds to the tennis courts to play a friendly set. Mike is the son of Michael Rowe Sr. and his wife Sharon. Rowe is a sophomore from Bartlesville, Okla.
Journalism Profs Back Shield Bill
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
When the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee met Friday in an open hearing, lawmakers and professors were among several press and broadcasting spokesmen who testified in favor of a Senate bill that would shield them from revealing their sources of information.
Del Brinkman, associate professor of journalism and deputy regional director of Sigma Delta Chi, a national professional journalism fraternity, and David Dary, associate professor of broadcasting and president of the Topena Press Club, both said that the bill was necessary for bringing the vital flow of information in society.
THE BILL, introduced by Sen. Ted Saar Jr., R-Pittsburgh, would protect any person employed by the news media in the gathering or processing of information for his legal responsibility to disclose his sources to any governmental agency or branch.
The committee added the words "or processing" after Brinkman suggested that the working should also protect editors as well as newsmen.
At Brinkman's suggestion, the committee also agreed to consider deleting or rewriting the second section of the bill because it was uncleared. This section was intended to provide that once media representatives have invoked the protection
BRINKMAN SAID the national debate on the subject and the many jailings of newman across the country had aroused his legislators' interest in shield laws this year.
of the law in any situation, they could not later reveal those sources or any information about them.
"It's a popular issue now, and if it's ever going to pass, this is the year," he said.
Proponents of shield protection for newsmen argue that if the newsmen were not protected from revealing their sources many important ideas, movements and stories would never reach the public because potential sources would be afraid to divulge any controversial or incriminating information.
"Another of the ideas behind this is to keep newmen from doing the policeman's job," Brinkman said. "But it doesn't allow a newman from testing it he wants to."
BRINKMAN ANSWERED critics who claimed that newsmen would missuse the protection by admitting that some misuse would probably occur, but he argued that such was the price that a free society must pay the benefits that liberty of the press pushes.
"DO YOU NOT protect a newsman just because someone might misuse the protection, when protection leads to a free flow of information?" he asked.
Both Brinkman and Dary favor the Saar bill because it is an "absolute" protection,
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standing by at Tan Son Nht, ready to move anywhere in Indochina for the repatriation of POWs, including 562 American servicemen and soldiers in North and South Vietnam and Laos.
Representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong scheduled their third meeting for Monday to work out details of the prisoner exchanges.
Fighting across South Vietnam continued to ebb. The Saigon military command claimed 102 cease-fire violations during the 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m.
The organizers of Headquarters, Inc., a personal crisis and drug abuse center, are looking once more for volunteers to help break the organization is doing in Lawrence.
Calls made by people information or advice tripped recently, Rick Silber, director of Headquarters, said Thursday. Most of the people who call in for help are those from outside of Kansas or from local high schools, he said, but some of the calls are made by
adults from the community.
capacity. Volunteers are needed for clerical and office work, publicity, bookkeeping, referral updating and information collection.
Silber said that volunteers would work about 10 hours a week to help handle more than 1,200 calls received each month. The work can be divided into 2 shifts, he added.
Headquarters would be happy to find people to take care of any of these responsibilities, Silber said. Volunteers will be briefed on the program, he said, before startling staff.
He said that the organization also needed people with some background in chemistry to help in its drug analysis program. Other researchers have expressed interest in helping out in some other
Headquarters Requests Volunteers
WASHINGTON—The United States is moving too slowly in its efforts to cope with a developing energy crisis, the outgoing chairman of the congressional Joint Committee on Defense Production said Sunday. Rep. Wright Patman, D-Tex., expressed this conclusion in a statement accompanying the committee's 1972 report, which published National News reported that 49 of 56 civilian nuclear power plants under construction have slipped behind schedule an average of 14.3 months each.
BOSTON—Millions of trial documents are being gathered in the biggest action ever brought by the government against monopolies; the Justice Department's suit against the computer giant International Business Machines (IBM). The Nixon administration against IBM, filed on the last day of the late President Lyndon Johnson's term in office, would break IBM's computer operations into separate, competitive units.
WASHINGTON—Great Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath said Sunday that unilateral U.S. troop withdrawal from Europe might push some of America's allies toward the United States with the Soviet bloc. Britain wouldn't, "others might," Heath said on the NBC broadcast "Meet the Press." He refused to name any countries. Asked if the Comoros would threat to Western Europe, he said, "I have no doubt about that at all."
News Briefs By the Associated Press Energy Crisis
IBM Law Suit
BELFAST-British troops said Sunday that they killed six gunmen in a pitched battle in Belfast while rival terrorist armies mowed down almost a score of civilians in the streets. Two men, both believed to be dead when they shot at the dead militants and at least 15 other persons were wounded Saturday night and early Sunday in one of the bloodiest nights in Northern Ireland since sectarian feuding exploded $3\frac{1}{2}$ years ago.
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"Personally, I don't think this bill would create a problem." Brinkman said, because all three conditions would have to be present at the same time.
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"If anyone criticizes the Saar bill, they don't understand the First Amendment." Dary said. "We're trying to give newsmen something that they thought they had."
But Brinkman said that he opposed the House bill anyway because there was always the possibility that it might be too expensive to pass, so the bill was passed. He said that if the bill was passed in its present form it would be worse than no bill at all, because now there was no legalized way to force a newspaper to reveal such information. So much machinery could encourage its use.
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THE KANASA HOUSE Federal and State Affairs Committee's scheduled to conduct a bearing on a qualified shield law bill introduced by three representatives.
The House bill is similar to the Senate bill except that it allows a government representative to force a newsman to reveal information by appealing to the Kansas Supreme Court.
For the court to grant such a request, it would have to determine that there was cause to believe the newsman had information relevant to a specific crime, that the information could not be obtained by alternative means and that there was an
At the Friday hearing Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence and owner of KLWN radio station; Forrest Inks, spokesman for the Kansas Press Association; and Jesse Broadcasters Association for the Kansas Broadcasters Association, voice support for the Saar bill.
Brinkman said that no one at the hearing spoke against the bill.
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1973 SPRING ELECTION INFORMATION
On March 14 and 15, new Student Senators, Officers of the Classes of 1973,1974 and 1975 and a new President and Vice-President of the Student Body will be elected.
To become a candidate:
Candidates for PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT BODY must file a joint declaration of intention to seek such offices with the secretary or the elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by Wednesday, February 14.
In order to be eligible for either of these offices, the candidates must have either served on the Student Senate or must have their declaration supported by the signatures of at least 500 members of the Student Body. Declarations must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee for each candidate.
A candidate for the STUDENT SENATE must file a declaration of intention to seek such office as a representative from his respective school with the secretary or elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by Wednesday, February 21. This declaration must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee.
Candidates for CLASS OF-
FICERS must file a declaration of intention to seek such office with the secretary or elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by Wednesday, February 21. Each declaration must be supported by the signatures of at least 50 members of the appropriate class and must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee.
All Declarations may be picked up in the Student Senate Office, 105-B Union, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
All Declarations must be received by 5 p.m. on the deadline date.
For Further Information; Call 864-3710