Serling opens symposium
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Rod Serling, noted author and originator of the television series the "Twilight Zone," spoke on subjects ranging from the Vietnam war to the mass media in the keynote address of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Symposium at the University of Missouri at Kansas City before an audience of approximately 800 Wednesday night.
The topic of his speech was "Relevance in the Media."
Serling said the United States should wind up the Vietnam war tomorrow and should bring the troops home the next day.
He said there were men in jails
in South Vietnam simply because they ran against the present government in the elections.
"This is the kind of freedom we are fighting for?" he questioned. He also said the fact that men died for a cause did not make the cause just.
"If you add one more death to a bad cause it is nothing more than premeditated murder," he said.
"If we showed more combat film, if we could better understand the pain of war, then men who are big with their mouths (for war) would take a dim view of anyone going up a hill with an M-16 in their hands," he said.
"We must communicate more. The bullet seems to be the present day method of political conquest," he said.
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Policy questioned
present law covering alcoholic consumption on state property if liquor by the drink was approved.
"It would reflect that a majority of the citizens of the state, today, have a different attitude toward the consumption of alcohol from the one they had just a few short years ago," he said.
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In view of the upcoming Kansas referendum on liquor by the drink, Chalmers was asked if he could forsee possible changes in
Serling said the President must not be allowed to speak without the validity of his statements being questioned.
"Whenever it's documented that the majority of citizens has changed its attitude, it makes other changes at least easier, if not more likely," he said.
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In his speech he said films such as "Easy Rider" related to our time but often these films lacked
artistic qualities. He named "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Graduate" as films which not only related to our time but also were artistically well made.
He said that sex should be brought out of the shadows, Violence, he said, is more destructive to children than is sex.
"You start by locking up a few magazines," he said, "and you may end by silencing a nation."
be censored. He said the question was where does censorship end.
There is not much, Serling said, he could think of that should
He said that the salvation for our country lay in the college campuses.
"Their dedication, their care will pull us through," he said.
Harambee not obscene
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John Spearman, Lawrence sophomore and president of the BSU, said the ruling showed that "the people (the printing service employees) had no right to impose middle class standards on a black newspaper."
Spearman said the printers' walkout was "a racist reaction; the liable issue was just a cover-up."
When asked what the BSU would do if the printers walked
"America has been a repressive society," he said, "and the printing service employees were reacting to the paper's advocacy of freeing the people by whatever means necessary."
out again, Spearman said, "We will force the University to fire them."
William T. Smith Jr.n director of the printing service, said if the BSU brings in another properly signed order and if the money had been incumbered he would follow whatever orders were given him by Dean of Student Affairs William Balfour, but he said he did not know what the employees at the printing service would do.
J. Richard Foth, Assistant Attorney General, said the new
There is no law, he said, that would judge this issue obscene. He said that for any publication the University could not tell the printers to do something if they could be held liable for it.
Kansas criminal code which will go into effect July 1, 1970, will make some difference in the responsibility of the printers for libelous content.
When asked why Frizzell did not hand down the decision by the 2 p.m. Monday deadline set by the BSU, Foth said neither the BSU, the chancellor nor anyone else was in a position to demand a decision. Foth said it was a matter of priorities, then he pointed to a stack of papers related to pressing decisions in other areas.
Foth said it was his personal opinion that the University should not act as a censor. The students, he said, should assume adult responsibility for adult action.