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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 6, 1968
Student editor will appeal again
By Susan Brandmeyer Kansan Staff Reporter
Annette Buchanan Conard, the University of Oregon student editor convicted of contempt of court after refusing to reveal the names of seven student marijuana users she interviewed, intends to take her case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mrs. Conard announced her plans to appeal after the Oregon Supreme Court unanimously decided Jan. 22 to uphold her previous conviction in District Court.
The marijuana interview appeared in the May 24, 1966, edition of the University of Oregon Daily Emerald, of which she was managing editor. She was subpoenaed by Eugene, Ore., Dist. Atty. Willian Frye, but refused to reveal the names of the students to a grand jury, despite a court order that she do so. She then was cited for contempt of court and was fined $300.
'Withholding information'
The state maintains Mrs. Conard's refusal to reveal the names of her news sources is a withholding of necessary information for the investigation and prosecution of narcotics addicts.
She argues the constitutional provision for a free press gave her the right to withhold the identity of confidential news
Exams finished, student stays awake 95 hours
While most KU students were recovering from two weeks of final exams and sleepless nights, Donn A. Pearlman, Chicago, Ill., junior, was just beginning a 55-hour sleepless marathon.
Pearlman, broadcasting as Donn Mann for radio station WREN, Topeka, began the marathon as a publicity stunt for a sale at a Topeka discount furniture store. He started officially at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 31 and finished Sunday evening, Feb. 4.
"Unofficially, you'd have to add about six hours to that," he said. "I was up Wednesday morning at 10:00 to get ready for enrollment at 1:30."
Pearlman broadcast commercials every half hour. Actually he spent most of his time being chased away from lounge chairs by station representatives and store officials.
Living on soda pop and hot dogs for five days, Pearlman relied on nothing to stay awake other than frequent walks around the store. "They brought me some pills to keep me awake, but I didn't use them. Friends from WREN and KU dropped by to visit, and this helped to keep my morale up."
Now back at the University and attending classes, Pearlman suffered no ill effects from the 55-hour marathon. He was checked by a doctor and pronounced healthy, though his pulse rate and heart action were a "little sluggish."
Pearlman took part in another marathon in May, 1966. He helped keep Cole Walker, then a junior in Radio and TV, awake in connection with a KUOK promotion stunt.
Walker kept his vigil at the Information Booth for 77 hours, which at that time was claimed to be an unofficial collegiate record.
sources. Mrs. Conard believes national magazines use confidential news sources and are not prosecuted in Oregon.
"Oregon got along quite well all these years without specific statutes and apparently there were some unspoken and unwritten agreements that prosecutions wouldn't follow on the heels of stories using confidential sources," she said.
'No laws'
But the state supreme court decision says, "Nothing in the state or federal constitutions compels the courts, in the absence of statutes, to recognize such a privilege. Freedom of the press is a right which belongs to the public. It is not the private reserve of those who possess the implements of publishing."
KU will sponsor brine symposium
Research scientists from as far away as Australia, Israel and South Africa may be among the 150 participants at a two-day "Symposium on Geochemistry of Subsurface Brines" at KU Mar. 25-26.
Scientists from Canada, France Mexico, Scotland, New Zealand Switzerland, England and the United States also have said they plan to attend. Several are preparing papers to present to the conference.
Ernest E. Angino, section chief for geochemistry. State Geological Survey, and a co-chairman of the conference, said he expected as many as 20 papers may be presented.
The appearance of an Israeli geochemist, Y. K. Benton, remains tentative because his release by the Israeli army for the trip has not yet been secured.
Day of Prayer is Feb.18
The Universal World Day of Prayer for Students Sunday, Feb. 18 at 5:30 p.m., will bring all the churches on the campus together in a common worship service at the University Lutheran Church.
The program will consist of what Mr. Catt calls a "creative worship experience." By creative he means letting the students worship in whatever way "turns them on."
An example of this type of service is the one held during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 18-24. A special service for the students was held at Danforth Chapel with a rock band and slides. The slides were
This special service is a cooperative effort of the University Christian Movement (UCM), a part of an ecumenical movement on university campuses. The Rev. Jerry Catt, advisor to the American Baptist Student Center, and members of his student group are in charge of the program at KU.
flashed onto one screen from three different projectors at five-second intervals, and covered "everything from the peace movement to Viet Nam." A similar service is planned for Feb. 18.
Following the service will be a supper and dialogue groups will be formed later. This service, according to Mr. Catt, is to show there is no longer a conversational ecumenism, but an activist one.
Catt would like to see more of this type of service and he said most of his group really seemed to appreciate it.
The UCM is a new organization on campus and is a relatively new organization on all campuses. It was formed in 1966, and now has about 28 members. The major purpose, as stated in its Articles of Operation, is to serve as an ecumenical system through which the academic community and the Church are able to communicate with each other.
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