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Summer Session Kansan Friday, June 17, 1966
"A Model Like This Would Be A Lot Safer"
A STICKY WICKET
Freedom of the press
As the "Poor Man's William Allen White" asserted in the most recent issue of this paper, the Summer Session Kansan is not a crusading effort. Yet there comes a time in every writer's life when something must be said, when something happens that deserves a remark. And this must be one of those times.
Last year at the University of Oregon, a 20-year-old editor wrote a story on the use of marijuana at OU. It was a well-written, definitive article and it gave rather explicit details—in fact, all the details except the names of the students she had interviewed.
And that seems to be her problem.
ANNETTE BUCHANAN, MANAGING editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald, was ordered by a circuit court recently to reveal the names of the five students she interviewed for the story.
Miss Buchanan refused to comply with the ruling, although the refusal to do so could bring a maximum penalty of six months and a $300 fine.
She maintained that if she revealed the names of the marijuana users to the Lane County grand jury it would be a betrayal of their trust as news sources.
The district attorney noted that Oregon law contains no shields for journalists, such as that which exists for the relationship between lawyers and their clients.
"JOURNALISTS WANT TO REVEAL confidential matter—but not the source," the attorney said, "while doctors and lawyers do not disclose any area of their relationship with their clients."
When the order was issued, Miss Buchanan's attorney said he would ask the state Supreme Court to intervene.
"I don't think this information can be available to a 20-year-old University of Oregon journalist and not also to the Eugene police," said attorney Arthur C. Johnson. He pointed out that police have been investigating the use of marijuana on the 10,000-student campus for some time.
ALL RIGHT, SO MAYBE I am being unjust. Maybe the authorities do have the right to know who is using marijuana on the campus, but if they have been investigating it themselves, why haven't they found out something already.
It seems that when one college co-ed can find out all there is to know about the use of marijuana on her college campus, she must give out the names of those who told her facts in confidence.
A journalist is in a unique situation. One must get the facts and yet not antagonize the sources. Perhaps journalism is not quite the same sort of profession as medicine or law, but freedom of the press should include the freedom to keep a secret if it is necessary to do so.
Barbara Phillips
The Bible again a target
Let us hope (piously?) that a ruling by a Superior Court judge in the state of Washington has stopped what could have become one of the most foolhardy ventures into censorship in recent history.
The judge ruled this week that academic study of the Bible as literature is not incompatible with the doctrine of separation of church and state. Two fundamentalist preachers had contended that studying the scriptures "as literature" was a contradiction of the constitutional prohibition against using public funds for religious instruction.
Or something like that. That's the wording of United Press International. The gentlemen seemed to be saying that there is only one way to read the Bible—as the word of God.
NOW THAT'S ONE WAY to read the Bible. For many people the only way. For others an important way. But there also are those scandalous souls who love the roll of the Old Testament language and the marvelous use of repetition in Ecclesiastes and the poetry of the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.
Or the stories themselves—exciting and entertaining literature, as Cecil B. DeMille long
ago found out, when he learned how to make an orgy both sinful and boxoffice.
We may presume that the chaps who were shocked by English 390, The Bible as Literature, as taught at the University of Washington, would accept "The Ten Commandments" and "Samson and Delilah." Moralistic, you know. But not an English professor showing how the Bible is one of the world's greatest glories in the use of the language.
THERE ARE THOSE of us who took The Bible as Literature (at KU or elsewhere) and grew to love the book for the words themselves. This writer had a shocking old professor (who could be found in the Sunday school classroom each week) who would treat, tongue in cheek, such matters as Joshua and the Walls of Jericho and Samson slaying all those Philistines (how many?) with the jawbone of an ass. Then he'd read some of those beautiful passages, and the myth and the illogic of it all somehow seemed unimportant. You felt that anyone who could write like that must have been inspired by something.
— The Kansan's Tramp Printer
'Romanoff and Juliet' to open season
The University Theatre will present Peter Ustinov's "Romanoff and Juliet" as its first play of the summer, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 9.
The play, written by the London-born actor and playwright in 1956, introduces the general and president of Ruritania, the tiniest country in Europe, so small, in fact, that two part-time soldiers (Sarah White and Mona Grimsley) comprise its entire army and police force.
Squeezed between two great
world powers, the president of this mythical country finds himself in the dual role as a Dan Cupid and as a diplomatic mediator when Juliet, the daughter of the American ambassador, Hooper Moulsworth, falls in love with the Russian ambassador's son, Igor Romanoff.
The general, portrayed by Kip Niven, valuing love above politics, encourages love and romance, and as mediator rushes back and forth between the embassies con-
The American diplomatic family, Hooper and Beulah Moulsworth and daughter, Juliet, are portrayed by Bob Bettcher, Moulsworth, Carol Burnett, Beulah, and Debbie Drum, Juliet.
fiding the secrets they already know about each other.
Cast as Vadim Romanoff, the Russian diplomat, is Richard Brady. The diplomat's wife, Evodokia, is played by Kay McNieve, and Igor Romanoff, their son, is portrayed by David Stoffer.
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Other characters are The Spy, Mike Stremel; the Archbishop of the Holy Unorthodox Church, Sean Griffin, and the Clock, whose figures, portrayed by Sally Thornhill and Jeri Walker, step out periodically to announce the time but never at the right time.
Onnalle Zimmerman, as Morfa, and John Morgan, as Freddie, complete the cast. "Romanoff and Juliet," directed by a graduate student from Minneapolis, Larry Soller, also will be presented on July 23 and 28 at 8 p.m.
D. 1946 HERBLOCK
THE WASHINGTON PARK
BOOK REVIEWS
By United Press International
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran (Houghton Mifflin, $10).
Lord Moran is a doctor whose one patient, Winston Churchill, kept him busy during the years of World War II and later.
The doctor accompanied Churchill on his historic trips to Washington, Casablanca, Moscow, Teheran, Quebec, Yalta and Potsdam, and was Sir Winston's confident in matters of state as well as health.
and the
Being a literary man as well as a medical man, the doctor kept a diary from which this book, subtitled "The Struggle for Survival, 1440-1965" was prepared. From it emerges a unique account of the great statesman and his physical and mental condition during a crucial period in world history.
There are some who think the doctor has told too much and possibly violated the usual privacy that exists between doctor and patient. Be that as it may, it is fascinating to read this frank and intimate record and commentary on the great events and people who whirled around Sir Winston in the '40s and to view him from an angle not available before.
This is a period of history which American readers are more likely to know through Shakespeare's plays—the two Richards and the seven Henrys—than from any other source. It is interesting to observe where the playwright clung fairly closely to fact and where he embroidered.
The battle is the climax of the story, but Rowse does not dwell on it at length. He covers the actual fighting with a sketch map and three pages of text, devoting the greater part of his book to the century that preceded it and the half century that followed.
"Bosworth Field" concerns the battle in which King Richard III was overthrown and slain, ending the Wars of the Roses and settling the Tudors on the English throne.
Bosworth Field, by A. L. Rowse (Doubleday, $5.95).
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On the subject of Richard III, which has aroused some recent interest, the author accepts the traditional version (also embraced by Shakespeare) which depicts the last of the Plantagenets as the calculating murderer of the young "Princes in the Tower."
"Bosworth Field" is an interesting account of a tragic and crucial period in English history—somewhat marred, unfortunately, by an over-abundance of quotations which often are barely intelligible to the modern reader.
HE DEALS IN SOME detail with English history from Richard II to Richard III, covering what a subtitle describes as the transition "from medieval to Tudor England," and touches more cursorily on the Tudor reigns which were to follow.
ROWSE DISMISSES latter-day apologists for Richard as "crackpots . . . who do not qualify to hold an opinion, much less express one."
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The Rosy Crucifixion, by Henry Miller (Grove Press, boxed set of three $14.95).
The fictionalized autobiography of Miller in three books entitled Sexus, Plexus and Nexus.
In his search for truth, love and meaning. Miller turns himself inside out, sparing no thought, feeling or experience real or imagined. He tilts against sham, modern society, sexual repression, morals and mores.
His mode of expression is not everybody's cup of tea, to say the least, and to many he is ribald, shocking and repellent, but he is always himself, like him or not, and his work is quite likely to find a secure niche in American literature.