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January 11, 1985/The Maroon Tiger/Page 2 Collegiate Press Freedom At A Glance Editor's Note: This week, The Maroon Tiger wins another award for being the Nation’s number one collegiate press in term of press freedom. In this issue we will highlight some editorial materials dealing with the subject. •The Michigan State U. student government will publish its own quarterly student newspaper supplement covering Associated Students and student group news. ASMSU is hiring a graduate student editor. The State News advertising staff will handle layout and production work. ASMSU felt the student paper could do a better job of publishing and distributing the supplement than it could do alone. •The Cornell U. student newspaper refused to run an ad for a book which claims the Holocaust never happened and has been accused of censorship by the book's distributor, Cobra Press. The Cornell Daily Sun turned down the ad as a violation of its policy against sexist and racist advertising. The Book, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century was written by controversial Northwestern U. engineering professor Arthur Butz. •The U. of Notre Dame student newspaper is maintaining its right to endorse campus can didates despite opposition from the student senate. Senators threatened to fine the endorsed candidates, but The Observer said it would continue to make endorsements, even if the can didates themselves opposed them. Editors said the paper’s staff covers campus issues yearround and is in a unique position to evaluate candidates. •Student evaluations of U. of Texas-Austin professors will be published in a student newspaper supplement, giving all students access to the infor mation. The evaluations, which include only those valuntarily released by faculty members, have been available only in limited supply. The Students' Association and the Senior Cabinet are co-sponsoring the publication, with a financial contribution from the Texas Student Publications Board. •Western Kentucky U. graduate student Sherrie Kelley probably wasn’t the first to read of her impending engagement. Kelley’s boyfriend, Bart Dahmer, decided to “do something original’’ and propose to Kelley in a student newspaper ad. So there, on page seven of the Western Herald, next to the Godfather Pizza promotion, was Dahmer’s proposal. Figuring one of her friends might see it first and tell Kelley about it, Dahmer raced to her apartment the morning the paper came out to show it to her himself. He then presented her with a diamond ring. Kelley accepted the proposal, and said she didn’t mind Dahmer’s public forum — although both students came in for a lot of kidding from classmates and even professors. But, she told the Herald, “I would have killed him if I’d read it in public.” Herald editors say it’s the paper’s first ad proposal. But maybe the trend will catch on. A major battle over student press rights is shaping up at Louisiana State U., where the editor of the student newspaper, the Daily Reveille is suing the school over an administration ban on pregnancy-related advertising. The LSU administration has indicateu it may withdraw the restrictions, pending approval by the Board of Supervisors. Dane Strother, editor of the Daily Reveille says that may not end the controversy. He plans to push for total student control of both editorial and advertising content of the newspaper. The ad restrictions, which state that no university publications may run pregnancy-related ads, were imposed earlier this fall after both pro-life and abortion clinic ads were pulled from the student telephone directory by LSU administrators. In announ cing the ban, the administration said it wants to provide student! with the best advice and health care possible by encouraging students to first consult the Student Health Service, not an off-campus clinic or organiza tion, said Chancellor lames Wharton. But from the Reveille’s point of view, the ban is simply a violation of free press rights, says Strother, who filed the suit in federal district court with back ing from the American Civil Liberties Union. “I respect the administration's point of view, and I think they respect mine,” he says. "I’ve done everything I can not to make this a student- administration war — we haven't even written any editorials on the subject. But I don’t think the administration has the right to tell us what we can and can't print. A central issue in the court case is trying to decide who is legally publisher of the Reveille. Like the student radio station and yearbook, it comes under a Student Media Board. But the $2 per-student semester fee which supports the media doesn’t reach the Reveille’s conffers, Strother claims. “The Reveille is so prosperous that we not only don’t use fee money, but we also subsidize the radio station and the yearbook,” he says. While the administration states that LSU’s Board of Supervisors serves as publisher, Strother believes students themselves have that authority. He’s gotten backing from the national Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists, and from major newspapers nationwide, along with the ACLU support. Now that the administration has backed off the ad ban, however, Strother hopes to avoid going to court. "I want to be able to persuade the Board of Supervisors that to have a really good paper, the students must have control," he says. “I don’t know how far I can get with that.” •Two editors of the Seattle Pacific U. student newspaper resigned after the student government threatened to cut the newspaper’s funding for allegedly slanting political coverage. Opinion Editor Julie Schuster and Photography Editor Mike Rees quit their newspaper posts after Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Ouelette agreed to publish an apology for an issue of The Falcon that ran editorials and letters against President Reagan, and a feature on a campus liberal activist. Leaders of the Associated Students (ASSP) felt the issue presented imbalanced coverage and wasn't geared to the school's conservative student body. ASSP President Dave Mcl ntyre said the issue violated The Falcon’s publishingguidelineswhich deal with such things as obscene and blasphemous material, and balanced coverage. McIntyre says the ASSP Senate was par ticularly angered by the editorial, in which students sell ing “Fritzbuster” T-shirts were termed “Morons.'' The Senate sent Ouellette a letter charging the paper with violating its guidelines for fair coverage and libel. Ouellette subsequently met with McIntyre and agreed to print an apology, rather than face possible funding cuts. Schuster stepped down in hopes her departure would end the ASSP's displeasure with The Falcon. But both she and Ouelette told the U. of Washington student newspaper that The Falcon continues in contant threat of losing funding, because it isn’t always the public relations organ the ASSP wants. Schuster also told the Washington Daily that she’ll launch a new features-opinions publication called The Alter native as an independent source of campus information. •The Brown U. student newspaper found many of the students listed in a political ad as Reagan-Bush backers weren’t actually Republican voters at all. After one of the students listed complained she had only sought further information about the Reagan ticket, the Brown Daily Herald called a random sample of 10 students listed in thead and found only four actually sup ported the GOP. The student Reagan-Bush organization which compiled the ad took responsibility for the error, say ing some lists got confused. *A Stanford U. student editorial staff. It will cost the independently funded paper newspaper reporter spent a practice session with the Car dinal football team, probably becoming Stanford’s first 5’3” female player. Marilyn Wann wrote about the experience in her Stanford Daily column, ad mitting she looked pretty foolish in the gear, and spent some of practice playing catch with the ball boy. But when walking back to the gym to change, Wann did fool a few observers, who asked if she played for the women's football team. •The U. of California-Berkeley student newspaper banned Playboy ads from its pages, saying the magazine is sexist. The ad ban was imposed by a 25-11 vote of the Daily Californian about $3,500 in ads for 1984-85. •A network of 40 college radio stations provided up-to-the- minute coverage of national and regional elections, focusing on how the November results affected the education com munity. The Election Night College Network, conceived by Mark Gronich, a State U. of New York-Albany graduate student, linked the college stations so they could provide each other with first-hand information of Congressional and statewide races. •The Vale U. humor magazine, which bills itself as the oldest college humor publication, is changing its formate to include arts/entertainment writing and a glossy magazine look. The Yale Record took the fall 1984 semester off from publishing to raise funds for the finalize the changes. It’s hoped the new look will return the Record to its past days of prosperity and end current financial woes. •The U. of Oklahoma Police Department agreed to make more information about campus incidents available to the student newspaper, the Oklahoma Daily. After meeting with newspaper and Publications Board representatives, the OUPD agreed not to withhold the names of victims and the ac cused, except in instances whre they are protected by state law. The Publication Board is also studying other requests by the Daily staff, to determine what information is needed from OUPD. •The Boston U. student newspaper dropped a daily comic strip and issued an apology for its contents after the cartoonist depicted President Reagan being shot in the head. 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