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Mondav. November 18, 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Local club tragedy needs closer scrutiny
Recent published reports in area newspapers have indicated that Douglas County Attorney David Berkowitz apparently is planning no action against the owner of the Sanctuary, the private club in which a University of Kansas student was killed last week. One can infer from the county attorney's remarks that the club indeed was operating after the 3 a.m. closing
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time despite the owner's insistence to the contrary.
The county attorney's reasoning is somewhat baffling. According to accounts he has said that everyone involved has suffered enough because of the incident. Perhaps.
However, if the club had been closed at the legal hour the possibility exists that the tragedy (2014) would have been less severe.
To carry the county attorney's reasoning one further, why not let drivers who have violated traffic laws drive?
accident resulting in death and injury to others
get free from紧急 mentally the driver has "suffered enough"
While speaking of the idiocy emanating from the county attorney's office, one simply can't overlook the flippancy with which Assistant County Attorney Doug Walker referred to the crime upon the two women involved in the incident.
Walker's remark regarding the attack cannot be justified. If Walker thinks there is humor involved in the death of one person and the brutal punishment upon others, he has no business holding his office.
As a servant of the people, Walker owes the payment for a fair measure of work for the money he is paid.
I urge the attorney general, with or without the county attorney's request, to appoint a special prosecutor to work on this case so the citizens of Ohio may see at least some measure of justice done.
Bruce Janssen Reporter
Police search for Donald Long, murder suspect, in Junction City
Readers knock Kansan. attorney for tastelessness
To the Editor:
The incredible tastelessness and insensitivity of the statement by Doug McGarry, attorney, which was quoted on page one of last Friday's Kansas are exceeded only by the flagrantly irresponsible journalism of the state in allowing it to appear in print.
appear in print.
"A little bit here, a little bit there" , when discussing
aggravated sodomy has a tone of jocularity about it that is totally inconsistent with the seriousness of the crime. The author used an article to newsworthy of the article. If necessary, the article simply could have said that aggravated sodomy occurred in addition to rape, resulting in a seemingly lightening incident when the incident wasn't appropriate.
If the statement was taken out
of context and not intended to convey the impression that it did, then an explanation should have been made. For instance, referred to Lawrence and 'there it should have been explained,
The statement as quoted indicates a casual attitude toward the crime by the county attorney's office. I hope that if the statement was a misquote or if it was taken out of context
the Kansan will print an explanation. On the other hand, if the assistant county attorney was indeed attempting to be cue, he could apologize for his crassness.
captive audience which is required to pay for the paper, but it also has somewhat of a monopoly on student opinion and news dissemination on campus. In view of those facts, it seems to me that the Kansan must enter the market than more newspapers, to absorb irresponsible and tasteless journalism.
Whatever the meaning and intent behind the quotation, the Kansan shouldn't have printed it without explanation. I firmly agree that the sentence but the Kansan is in a unique position. It not only has a
Lawrence law student
D. P. Troup
Rape victims shouldn't be named
The U.S. Supreme Court heard a case last week that asks that a Georgia law prohibiting the publication or broadcast of the names of rape victims be overturned.
The father of a rape-murder victim sued under the law a
television station that broadcast the girl's name. The station, owned by the Cox Broadcasting Co., didn't use the girl's name during court proceedings even though the case had attracted considerable public attention. The victim had been identified in the indictment, other public court documents, and the girl was court sessions during the trial.
The broadcasting company asked the Georgia Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional. The court upheld
the law, saying in its opinion that the victim's father had a "right to be left alone, free from custody," and that had previously occurred."
The lawyer for Cox Broadcasting told the court in his office that he was sympathized with the victim's family, but that the press had an absolute right to publish all news that wasn't libelous from the trial.
The Supreme Court's opinion is expected sometime next spring. It is surprising that the case has risen as high as the precedent indicates that the Georgia law will be overturned.
The Georgia court's basic statement on the right of privacy—"the right to be left alone when you're not in court," Judge Thomas Cooley's 1888 treatise on the law of torts defines privacy as the "right to sit at alone." But a judge who defends the right to privacy as "the right to
be let alone, the right of a person to be free from unwarranted publicity. The right of an individual to withhold himself from public scrutiny, if he so chooses."
Some people are forced by events, however, to give up a part of their right to privacy. These events arouse public interest and it becomes the responsibility of the news media to report them. These persons are often the most important participants in public events, and their lives are no longer privately their own.
Federal courts have
deemed newsmen's thinness in invasion of
privacy rights. The doctrine was
recognized in cases by Yerald-
lodge 1292.
"There are times, however, when one, whether willing or not, becomes an actor in an occurrence of public or general action. That is why he emerges from his seclusion and it is not an invasion of
privacy to publish an account of such occurrence."
The case of the Georgia rape murder is clearly one in which a private person unwillingly became an actor in a public occurrence. The Georgia law violates the freedom of the press guaranteed in the First Amendment. That freedom has given the accused the press may publish anything not libelous or posing a clear and present danger to the national security.
The question of publishing the names of rape victims is a question of human compassion, however, not a legal one. As was indicated last week in Kansan stories on the alleged rapes in connection with the Todd Forbock Killing, it is the Kankushi group to publish the names of the victims of sexual assaults.
The policy is the result of a decision based on good taste and compassion, not one legally enforced. Newspapers, gain!
always be counted on for good taste, as was exhibited in one newspaper's front page photograph of the rave victims leaving a Topeka hospital.
Good taste must nevertheless be the standard. To legislate what newspapers can print is a treat to the freedom of the press.
Richard Paxson Contributing Writer
To the Editor:
I realize that the University Daily Kansan probably was working under pressure to get an article out on the murder and robbery that occurred last Wednesday morning at the University of Texas. The integrity in handling some parts of the story in Thursday's issue.
My first question is about the headline on the front page article. Does the adjective "bizarre" apply here, or is it just an attention getter? The American Heritage Dictionary defines bizarre as strikingly unfamiliar or unfunfortunate as the incident was, is a killing during robbery all that bizarre?
Quite far into the article the Kansan does a little back-patting by stating that its policy is not to print the names of other candidates, but think that's great—a policy all papers should have.
But what about the quotation by Doug Walker, assistant county attorney, in the fifth paragraph? That sort of statement seems to indicate a flippant attitude in the man in
I would be interested in learning the editor's reasons why this quotation was included. I have never seen that there had been no mention of sodomy in the preceding paragraphs. Poor Response
charge of the case. Was it really necessary for the Kansas to print it? The quotation does not seem to fit into the continuity of history, but like the headline it is there for its sensational effect.
Bayamon, Puerto Rico junior
in front of members of the press. —Editor
Walker's comment about sodomy was published by the Kansan in an attempt to convey the apparent frivolity with which the county attorney's office was handling the case. The Kansan deeply regrets that Walker made the comment and that he refused to give any other information. Although the Kansan was horrified that a governmental official was acting as to about such a serious matter, it was the Kansan's duty to relate an accurate account of the way public officials were behaving
Beef efficient
To the Editor:
In the Nov. 12 article on the world food crisis Mary Cross, professor of human development, said we should stop it because its production is because an efficient method of protein use.
Perhaps Cross and many others have forgotten the original purpose of domestic livestock. Animals have the inherent ability to digest foods that cannot be ingested. People don't have to eat animals or digest grass, but cattle do, and can eat beef and drink milk.
Feedlots fatten cattle on grain, and that leads to inefficiency, as Cross said. But by raising grass-fatted cattle the beef industry is far from wasteful. Large amounts of land are not used for cultivation; they are too dry or illly too or trooed, or the soil doesn't have the right minerals in it. Jim Arnold
Ashland sophomore
Under the direction of David Ellender, assistant instructor in music history, and J. Burker
Medieval music charms all with lightness, simplicity of style
Anyone worried about the condition of fine arts on the University of Kansas campus can rest his doubts. The arts were alive, well and overflowing in the main gallery of the Museum of Art yesterday at the Musical Music museum presented an outstanding program of music of the Middle Ages.
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Clark, associate professor of music history, students and faculty of the School of Fine Arts gave an interesting and challenging course that did justice to a type of music that is too often overlooked.
An organum was the earliest form of polyphonic music and was based upon a Gregorian chant. This organum consisted of one sentence, translated "I have placed aid," sung in dificult Richard Wright, lecturer in journalism and station director of KANU, accompanied by Clark on the portative organ.
The show opened with an art exhibition of works by Adjutartor" by Leonin, a 12th century composer and choirman in the Cathedral of Nigra Dagua.
Several motets made up the second part of the program. A motet from 13th century, based upon a preconceived melody.
Toward the end of the 13th century there also were many soloists who were David Aber, Pittsburgh, p. senior, Nancy Atkins, Lawrence graduate topper, Sally Wright, Topeka freshman
The singers were accompanied by several instruments of the Middle Ages including recorders and saxophones. The instruments were displayed during the playing of several dance songs of the Middle Ages including the shawn, the preceder of the oboe and the resembles a lute with a bow.
Next were six songs composed by Guillaume de Maachut, possibly the most important composer of the 14th century. One of these, "Ma fin est mon commencement", is the work of Paul Paladeinpardone. Jim Needles, Olivette M., moi, played the lute and Nanc Engekel, Goff freshman, sang the text.
Among the dances were "Estampie No. 2" which was performed by Clark on the portative organ and "Kalaenda Maya" a dance with a text sung by a singer. Junction City sophomore.
Another song, "Duce dame jolle" featured Aber singing and playing an instrument resembling a tamourine. "Dix et sept, cinq" sung by Engelken is a love letter to music.
"The Shepherd's Play" by Rouen was the last piece on the program, a turgid drama that originated from an hour-
The response to the program is obviously better than any we have done so far, but were more people sitting on the floor and standing than sitting
long church service and later became part of the Christmas mass. it is based on Luke 7:20 and tells the story of the adoration of the Christ child by the apostles of students singing the parts of angels, midwives and shepherds.
It makes one wonder why Swartburch Inault wasn't used. Hopeably, the administration isn't trying to slight the music of
the Middle Ages simply because it doesn't have as large a following as romantic and classical music. The music presented by the Collegium Mozart is important as important and entertaining as the complexities of a Beethoven symphony.
Organum, dances and motets are an integral part of music history.
A true appreciation of music depends upon the understanding and preparation types of music, which is what the most popular.
-Kenn Louden
Entertainment Editor
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