Fools Afloat
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 20,1974
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by Mayo More Subpoena Results Expected
TOPEKA (AP)—A spokesman in the attorney general's office says that less than half the news media have responded to subpoenas asking information about advertising money received in the 1972 presidential election, but he expects most of them will do so.
Patrick Connolly, chief assistant attorney general for criminal matters, said yesterday there had been "great cooperation" from the media for about 75 subpoenas issued to cib. 6 by Atty. Gen. Vern Bunting and radio and television stations.
Miller asked what advertising for the campaign was accepted, who ordered it, who paid for it and how much it cost. He sought the figures for both Democratic Gov. Robert Decking and his Republican foe, Morris Kav.
Miller acknowledged he was trying to learn whether $30,000 allegedly paid to a
former Docking aide actually got into the governor's campaign.
A Shawnee County grand jury returned indictments Jan. 22 alleging a conspiracy to kick back money to Decking's campaign in the 2014 election. The University of Kansas Medical Center
Some Kansas Press Association members and the president of the Kansas Broadcasters Association have criticized issuance of the subpoena.
Miller had indicated he expected criticism. He tried to blunt some of it by having Karasaa Bureau of Investigation and the Sarasaa Bureau and return to pick up the information.
"Many of our members wonder whether it was necessary to cause the expenditure of funds to send the KBI agents across the state when most would have given the information to the other agencies G. "Ouck" Barnes, publisher of the Pratt Tribune and president of the KPA.
Barnes said KPA's legal counsel suggested Miller was fully within his rights.
Jerry Holley, president of the broadcasters association, said the subpoenas were 'uncalled for', because the information was readily available through the Federal Communications Commission files or each state's public files.
"It was a waste of the taxpayers' money to have the subpoenas typed up and have the agents serve them," Holley, an executive of WBW in Topeka, said. "We sort of feel it is obvious that we will benefit by a political candidate in an election year to garner news coverage."
Connolly said he had received no complaints and said those who had called about the orders sought only information on how to comply.
There is no deadline for compliance. The subpoenaes specify only a "reasonable fee."
Petition Asks That Erotic Films Be Shown
A petitionurging the reinstatement of "The Devil in Miss Jones" and "The Erotic Film Festival" will be presented to the Student Union Activities (SUA) Board at its meeting today. Alan Hurbut, Mission senior and a sponsor of the petition, said yesterday.
Although the petition calls for the re-statement of the films, those persons circulating the petition contend it is aimed at enabling the principle of academic freedom.
"It's not so much that we want to see the films reinstated," Mark Kaplan, Prairie Village sophomore, said, "but that we want to see the SUA Board try to represent the students rather than the chancellor and two state states."
However, Steve Warren, Hasting, Neb,
senior and SUA president, said it was an error to think the board was forced to act against its wishes.
"There was one overt error in that petition: the actions we took didn't represent our wishes," Warren said. "We wouldn't have given our wishes, we wouldn't have made them."
Warren said the decision made by the SUA could have been against the wishes of the dissenting minority, but that the actions of the SUA wished of a majority of the board members.
Both Kaplan and Hurub said they thought censorship of "The Erotic Film Festival" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" presented the greatest precedent in the academic community.
Kaplan said the next censorship activity at the University of Kansas could be aimed at a course, an instructor or a book. He said he regarded the censorship of the films as
an encroachment upon academic freedom.
Student response to the petition it has great among those who read it, Hurubil
"Of the people who read the petition, probably 90 per cent have signed."
But Kapaian said he had noticed a
student who never turned in the
students who didn't stop to read the paper.
"Eight out of 10 students," Kaplan said, "by the table and act as if it isn't here."
Hurlbut said that 1,500 people had signed the petition and that he thought that figure indicated that students had strong sentiments about reinstating the films. Especially, Hurlbut, in light of the Student Senate elections, which received greater publicity but generated only a slightly greater response.
Jim Milio, Himsdale, I., sophomore and SUA Board member, said he didn't know what effect the petition would have on the board.
Kaplan said he didn't think legal considerations had caused the SUA Board to cancel the films. By canceling the film, Kaplan said, the SUA yielded to the senators in an effort to prevent legislative cuts to the University budget.
If it has more signatures than there were votes in the Student Senate elections, it will be a vote in the governor's race.
He said "The Devil in Miss Jones" probably would not be shown at KU because it had been banned in Kansas City, Mo., for violating local obscenity standards.
"If it had become a legal matter, that would have been another story," Kaplan
The legal questions surrounding the films are still very much at issue, according to Koch.
Warren said that a legal action based on obscurity charges could have an adverse effect.
"Senators' squawking in one thing," he said. "The film being busted is another
Warren said it was possible for the SUA to reconsider its actions. But he said he didn't understand how the judge was acting.
Millo said it would look bad if the board reversed its decision now that the budget is up.
"All I can say is, I don't know what's going to happen."
"It would be like, okay, now we have the budget. Let's show it," he said.
Warren said that if support was great enough, a private group could show the students he noted that those students who were close to the petition were welcome to do just that.
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