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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, September 11,1980
AN AMERICAN FLAG which had flown over the U.S. Capitol
Building was presented to Saint Joseph’s School in Macon by the
Knights of Columbus. The ceremony took place at the first Home
and School Association Meeting of the year on September 3. Shown
1. to r. are Father John Cuddy, pastor; Holst Beall, III; Sister Mary
Edward Cassidy, principal; Brian Cassidy; and Phil Powell, Grand
Knight. Accompanying the flag was a certificate which stated:
“This is to certify that the accompanying flag was flown over the
United States Capitol on July 28, 1980, at the request of the
Honorable Billy L. Evans, Member of Congress. This flag will be
presented to Saint Joseph Catholic School. (Signed) George M.
White, FAIA, Architect of the Capitol.”
■ATHENS PROFESSOR
Conscience Leads
To Jail Sentence
BY THEA JARVIS
THE GEORGIA BULLETIN
While students at the University
of Georgia are gearing up for classes
this week, one of their professors,
50-year-old James A. Dinnan, is
washing dishes in a prison kitchen.
Dinnan, sentenced to a
three-month term by a federal judge
for refusing to divulge his vote on the
promotion of a fellow faculty
member, has lost 38 pounds to the
heat of the Florida summer in the
Eglin Air Force Base jail near
Tallahassee.
“He washes dishes from 10 in the
morning until 5:30 at night,” says
Louise Dinnan, the professor’s wife
of 33 years who lives in Athens with
two of their five children.
“There’s nothing wrong with
washing dishes, and he certainly
needed to lose some weight, but he
could be out helping people doing
the job he was trained to do.”
Louise Dinnan makes the six-hour
drive to Tallahassee once a week to
see her husband, taking a tent and
some camping gear that she uses at a
campsite just three miles from the
minimum security prison where
Dinnan is held.
His midsummer move from the
Bibb County jail to Eglin cqme as a
surprise and a disappointment for the
whole family.
“I really don’t know why they
took him there,” says Mrs. Dinnan.
“What he had really hoped for was
the Atlanta Penitentiary. He had
been going out there to work with
the prisoners before his own
incarceration, and he thought he
could do some good with the men if
he were sent there.”
The Dinnans, who attend Mass at
the Catholic Center on the Athens
campus, began their ordeal when
faculty member Maija Blaubergs
charged the university with sex
discrimination after being denied
tenure and a promotion.
Dinnan, who teaches adult
education and reading at Georgia, sat
on the committee that ousted Ms.
Blaubergs with a 6-3 vote.
“The university encouraged secret
balloting for the sake of fairness,”
remembers Louise Dinnan. “The
committee followed official
guidelines when voting their
recommendation.”
“Jim has always said that the
courts have a right to evaluate the
guidelines and the proceedings to
determine if discrimination was
practiced, but his own vote as a
committee member remains private.”
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Interestingly enough, out of the
nine people who voted on the
Blaubergs issue, four have not
indicated the nature of their vote.
Only one of these four, Professor
Dinnan, refused to comply with a
court request to reveal his vote and
was held in contempt. The remaining
three committee members were not
asked how they voted.
Andrew Marshall, Ms. Blaubergs’
attorney, says, “We didn’t have the
time or the money to include every
person. We tried to get a
representative sampling of those who
had served on the tenure committee
for the last three years.”
Most recently, Professor Dinnan’s
contempt citation was deemed a civil
rather than a criminal charge by the
5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
New Orleans.
While this does not alter the
length of his prison term, it might
change the future status of his
contempt of court charge.
If, through appeal, it is
determined that the court acted
incorrectly in requesting the nature
of Dinnan’s vote, then he can be
exonerated.
“Although you can be held in
criminal contempt of an invalid
order,” says John Larkins, Dinnan’s
attorney in Athens, “you cannot be
held in civil contempt of an invalid
order. This is a point of considerable
importance.”
On the University of Georgia
campus, James Dinnan has had
substantial support. J. Ralph Beaird,
dean of the law school and Walter
Ray Phillips, associate dean, have
filed a “friend of the court” brief on
the professor’s behalf. There is
obvious concern for academic
freedom.
“You begin to wonder who’s
next,” says Dinnan’s second son,
Tom, a home builder and realtor who
lives in Athens.
“My father’s in jail for following
his conscience and exercising his
right to a secret ballot. They are
taking away one of the few rights we
have left. Does this mean that the
judicial system can inject itself into
corporate decision making? Or
religious privacy, like the
confessional? It’s a very serious
situation.”
Professor Dinnan is due for release
Oct. 1 His personal feelings were
summed up in a statement he made
to the campus newspaper: “I can’t
teach morals and ethics and not live
them.”
For Professor Dinnan and his
family, the living hasn’t been easy.
A Positive Approach To TV
BY T. FABRE
NEW YORK (NC) - In spite of
the actors’ strike which has delayed
the start of the regular series on the
networks, the new season at NBC
begins with an impressive 12-hour
adaptation of James Clavell’s
historical novel “Shogun,” airing
Monday, Sept. 15, at 8-11 p.m.,
Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 16-18, at
9-11 p.m. and Friday, Sept. 19, at
8-11 p.m.
The central character of Clavell’s
romantic adventure story set in
feudal Japan is Blackthorne (Richard
Chamberlain), a shipwrecked English
navigator who is as bewildered as the
viewer by the world of his Japanese
rescuers.
During the course of the first
episode, he is cared for by villagers,
imprisoned and brutalized by their
samurai overseer, is sent for by the
district’s most powerful warlord
(Toshiro Mifune), survives another
storm at sea only to be cast into a
prison of condemned men, with only
an occasional Jesuit missionary to
interpret the strange language and
even stranger customs of his captors.
Directed by Jerry London from
Eric Bercovici’s script, this well-acted
tale of how a 17th-century European
learns to live in an alien society
makes vivid and compelling viewing.
Produced in Japan on a lavish scale,
“Shogun” is worth seeing simply for
its authentic re-creation of a visually
rich but dangerously different epoch.
Part of the series’ appeal is in
learning about another culture,
especially one as complex as that of
medieval Japan, where a highly
refined civilization was undergirded
by the barbaric savagery of the
warrior code.
Be aware, however, that the
treatment of this historical period is
unusually realistic for television and
is inappropriate for younger
members of the family. The special
effects suggesting decapitation,
torture in a boiling vat, a samurai’s
suicide and the disgrace of being
urinated upon are brief but necessary
means of establishing the brutal
cruelty that was part of the era.
These several instances in the first
episode will be enough to discourage
viewers who prefer their
entertainment innocent of such
period detail. The 17th century
context is also in evidence in terms
of the religious bigotry separating
Catholic and Protestant, as natural
then as it is offensive today.
For those willing to take the
consequences of experiencing an
entirely different time and place,
however, “Shogun” is first-rate
historical entertainment as well as a
fascinating introduction to a foreign
land and its culture.
“THE WOMEN’S ROOM,”
ABC,SEPT.14
If you believe that it is a law of
nature for women to follow the lead
of men even off the dance floor, read
no further about a program called
“The Women’s Room,” airing
Sunday, Sept. 14, at 8-11 p.m. on
ABC.
In a less enlightened age one could
be amused by James Thurber’s
depiction of man’s losing struggle in
the unequal battle between the sexes
or smile at TV’s fiction that “Father
Knows Best.” That is not possible
today when gender roles are strictly
serious matters, the stuff of political
party platforms and theological
dispute.
Marilyn French’s 1977 novel,
“The Women’s Room,” was a
feminist tract that resonated with
outrage at women’s oppression in a
1950s male-oriented society. Carol
Sobieski’s adaptation under Glenn
Jordan’s direction, however, is
curiously flat and melodramatic,
slickly polished and always
predictable.
It has fine acting by Lee Remick,
Colleen Dewhurst, Patty Duke Astin
and Tovah Feldshuh, who strive to
give some emotional depth to
characters who are little more than
stick figures conforming to a thesis.
As sociology the production may
have some interest, but as drama it is
tedious and unconvincing.
As much as one can sympathize
with the program’s main theme of
women’s liberation from cultural
domination by men, one cannot
accept the rejection by its central
characters of traditional sexual
morality as being related to that
oppression. The issues it raises,
though vital for our time, are never
satisfactorily answered. Because of
its subject matter and treatment
“The Women’s Room” is off-limits
for the young and impressionable.
“RODEO GIRL,”
CBS, SEPT. 17
If samurai in Old Japan are not
your cup of tea, consider “Rodeo
Girl,” a TV movie about a feminist in
the New West, airing Wednesday,
Sept. 17, at 9-11 p.m. on CBS.
Katherine Ross stars as a woman
determined to win a rodeo
championship while she is pregnant
and acting against her husband’s
wishes. The point is that women are
not the fragile creatures that men
like to think they are and that they
have rights too.
If you can accept the fact that the
star is about as fragile as anyone you
are ever likely to see on a bucking
broncho and that she retains her
svelte figure throughout her
pregnancy, you probably will enjoy
this melodrama about a woman who
chooses to be both a champion
roughrider and a mother.
Acting honors go to Jacqueline
Brookes as a supportive mother and
pro-life feminist in a script by
Katharyn M. Powers. Veteran Jackie
Cooper directed with emphasis on,
the colorful action of women’s
professional rodeo riding that young
and old will find diverting.
TV PROGRAMS OF NOTE
Monday, Sept. 15, 8:30-9 a.m.
and-or 3-3:30 p.m. (PBS)
“Beansprouts.” Chinese-American
youngsters and their friends have
some fun in learning to appreciate
their differences and the values of an
ethnic heritage in a five-part series
shot in San Francisco’s Chinatown
(daily through Friday at the same
hours).
Monday, Sept. 15, 8-10:30 p.m.
(PBS) “Joan Robinson: One
Woman’s Story.” This repeat
broadcast of a powerful
warfare, focusing on the role played
by Dr. Leo Szilard in the creation of
the bomb.
TV FILM FARE
Monday, Sept. 15, 8 p.m. (CBS) --
“Foul Play” (1978) - Goldie Hawn
and Chevy Chase are teamed in this
comic melodrama about a feisty
librarian and a police detective who
foil a plot to assassinate the pope
during a visit to San Francisco.
Frequently very funny and
maintaining enough tension to be
enjoyable as a thriller too, the movie
is above-average entertainment. Some
THE CHURCH:
TV-MO VIES-ART
documentary about a woman’s battle
with cancer raises significant issues of
living with uncertainty, family
relations, pain relief and the patient’s
right to know about medical
procedures.
Saturday, Sept. 20, 1:30-2 p.m.
(CBS) “30 minutes.” The season
premiere of this news magazine for
young people features a report on a
teen-age recruitment drive by the Ku
Klux Klan and a profile on
17-year-old Karen Rogers, the
country’s leading female jockey.
Saturday, Sept. 20,10:11-30 p.m.
(PBS) “The Man Behind the Bomb.”
This documentary made for Japanese
television examines how Japan’s
isolationism and misunderstanding of
global events contributed to the
world’s only instance of atomic
rather crude and suggestive dialogue
and a rather casual attitude toward
premarital sex, however, make it
adult fare. (PG) A-III - Morally
unobjectionable for adults.
Monday, Sept. 15, 9 p.m. (CBS) -
“Chinatown” (1974) -- Jack
Nicholson plays a private eye trying
to unravel a murder and a civic
scandal in the Los Angeles of the
30s. Faye Dunaway is a mysterious,
frightened woman and Roman
Polanski is the director. A superior
entertainment but altogether adult in
theme. A-IV -- Morally
unobjectionable for adults, with
reservations.
(This column was written
through consensus of the staff of the
USCC Department of Communication's
Office for Film and Broadcasting.)
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
‘Dynamic Initiatives’ Toward Unity—
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relate to Christian ethics and
morality,” “wider extension of
joint pastoral care for partners
in mixed marriage,” fostering
“a pastoral priority for
ecemenism among Roman
Catholic diocesan and parish
advisory councils,” and “giving
special recognition to major
historical events in the life of
the other Christian churches.”
LIGHT IN DARKNESS - The American Bible
Society, already the world’s largest distributor of
Scriptures to the blind and visually handicapped,
has established the Helen Keller Centennial Fund
to increase its service to tne ounu. m 1979, ABS
distributed more than 5,500 18-volume braille
Bibles and more than 210,000 Scriptures on
records. (NC Photo)
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