TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, X966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIV r TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE Convict Editor of Court Contempt MSU: Protests, Riots, Inquiries 'RED ACTIVITY': A- " -1-1 -1 - CO N -1 - By CHARLES WILKINSON Miss Annette Buchanan, man- aging editor of the University of Oregon Daily Emerald, was con- victed of contempt of court last summer after she refused to name students she wrote about in a " story on marijuana users. She plans to appeal her conviction. On May 24 the Emerald publish- ed a story written by Miss Bucha- nan which quoted seven anony- mous students who described use a-i enjoyment of marijuana. The morning that the story ap- peared, District Attorney William Frye of Lane County asked Miss Buchanan to tell a grand jury in- vestigating use of narcotics who the students were. Journalistic Ethics Miss Buchanan refused to reveal the smokers' identity because she had promised the students she would not disclose their names and because she said it would be a breach of journalistic ethics to do so. After her refusal Frye got a court order from Oregon Circuit * Court Judge Edward Leavy direct- ing her to give the grand jurors the names. At the hearing on June 13 Miss Buchanan again refused to reveal the smokers' identities. Besides her promises to her sources of in- formation and her concept of journalistic ethics, she refused to give the names because she felt the scope of the grand jury inves- tigation would make it unneces- sary for her to reveal the informa- tion, because she thought her rights under the First and Four- teenth Amendments were threat- ened and because her attorney was not allowed at the hearing. Three others-another Emerald editor, a former editor and the former managing editor-were al- so subjoenaed to appear before the grand jury but were dismissed when they said they didn't know the names of the students quoted in the story. Miss Buchanan, however, was cited for contempt of court, con- viction of which in Oregon carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $300 fine. In her June 27 trial Miss Bu- chanan took the stand twice, each time reiterating that she con- sidered it an ethic of journalism not to disclose the names of con- fidential news sources she used in getting a story. Journalists Speak Professional journalists also tes- tified in her defense. "She should not respond to the order of the court," testified Ste- phen Still, managing editor of the Oakland, Calif., Tribune. He said any reporter who violated a con- fidence "would be drummed out of the business." Frye asked: "Do you think this tenet of your profession is a high- er rule than the law?" "In most instances, yes," said Still. Twelve states have laws grant- ing newsmen the right to keep their news sources confidential, but Oregon-like 37 other states- has no such law. In his closing argument Frye said that "it is contemptuous to violate an order of the court and contemptuous to refuse to answer questions. That is the only thing this case is all about." He stated that the grand jury needed Miss Buchanan's informa- tion; her attorney said it could be gained from other sources. "She is in a dilemma where she has no alternative," Johnson said. "It would be disrespect to this court for her to break her word and disclose the names." Miss Buchanan was found guilty, however, and was ordered by Judge Leavy to pay a $300 fine. Frye considered bringing her be- fore the grand jury again, but decided against the action when she still refused to divulge the names. Miss Buchanan and Johnson are now preparing to appeal the con- tempt decision to the Oregon Su- preme Court. By MICHAEL HEFFER The past four months have been full of news from Michigan State University. The major events, some of national interest, were * Anti-Viet Nam War demon- strators picketed a commencement address by Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and were involved in a shoving match with police; * MSU officials went before a committee in the Michigan House of Representatves to ex- plain MSU's relations with the government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; as reported in Ramparts magazine; ! A student magazine, The Paper, had its outhorization with- drawn, an action condemned by the American Civil L i b e r t i e s Union; ! A faculty committee recom- mended a broad series of changes in MSU rules to liberalize regula- tions, and n Tensions of final exams re- sulted in a series ,of student riots. Humphrey Address Humphrey's address on June 12 was picketed by 75 protestors, who later charged the Secret Service officers initiated a pushing melee with them. As the vice-president received an honorary degree, the protestors, chanting "No degrees for murder," marched out. Then the trouble began. Uni- versity student Gary Rothberger, '67, charged that someone wearing the three-colored pin of Secret Service officers guarding Hum- phrey, "put his foot in front of me, tripped me and then slugged me on the head." Rothberger later charged that although the East Lansing police knew who the man was, they re- fused to do anything. An MSU student involved in a similar in- cident that day said he would file charges against a police officer. Humphrey, in his speech, termed dissenters "a source of strength." MSU-CIA In another news item of na- tional prominence, MSU President parts magazine that claimed MSU' had given arms to and trained the secret police of the late Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam, while being used as a cover for the; Central Intelligence Agency. Hannah denied the charges and; said he himself had never been shown any conclusive evidence of the CIA men, only "suspicions. He also supported the training of Diem's police. However, Stanley Sheinbaum, co-author of the Ramparts article; and former campus coordinator of the MSU Viet Nam project, de- clared he had discussed the CIA men with Hannah several times. Many people had this summary of the affair: "No American professor, as a result of the MSU project, can go overseas today to the many coun- tries which are already suspicious of American motives without car- rying a much greater burden." The Paper MSU's reputation received an- other blow shortly thereafter when the university's publications board withdrew authorization from The Paper, a weekly magazine of refu- gees from the censored offices of the State News, MSU's student newspaper. At the same time, The Paper lost its printer when that indi- vidual decided to stop printing dr o to do with their printing diffi- culties. Freedom MSU has had a history of cen- sorship, strict rules and supervis- ion. However, campus liberals saw a gleam in the light of freedom in June when a faculty group issued a statement calling for sweeping revisions in MSU rules that would greatly liberalize academic free- dom. The suggestions, now under study, include: -a student-faculty committee on academic rights and responsi- bilities of students; -a restructuring of the State News to end censorship; -an office of Ombudsman to handle grievances, and -astudent-faculty judiciary. Action on the report, which must be taken by the faculty Aca- demic Council and the Board of Trustees, is expected some time this winter. However, the close of the winter term saw a series of incidents likely to dampen faculty enthusi- asm for freedom for students, as students were involved in several rock-throwing rampages. Letting off steam at the end of the term, over 2,000 students took part in the incidents, which started with food fights and ended in several arrests. John Hannah, and other officials Students on The Paper charged+ testified on the MSU Viet Nam they were being "blacklisted," as project. they had to go out of the state to A public outcry had arisen ear- find a printer. They also suspected lier because of an article in Ram- that MSU officials had something The University of California's Berkeley campus is "seething with Communist and homosexuel ac- tivity." according to the Burns report, which was released last May. This report. by the California State Senate Committee on Un- American Activities, charged that Communist-oriented students and non-students h a ve mad de the Berkeley campus the nationwide center for the anti-Viet Nam War movement. It also charged sexuality and sexual promiscuity are rampant, and blamed the administration of President Clark Kerr for letting all of this come about. Kerr Replies Kerr, on the other hand, termed the report distorted and inaccur- ate, claiming it contained half- truths and situations taken out of context. He also offered to ap- pear before the committee in an open hearing, saying he had not clusions drawn. The report, called the Burns Report after State Senator Hugh Burns, chairman of the commit- tee, mentioned with distaste such activities as campus dances with lewd themes and blatant promis- cuity, and the presentation of "dis- gusting, debasing spectacles." Also at Berkeley last summer, students solidly defeated a pro- posal to free student government from administrative control. Stu- dents voted to turn back a pro- posal to substitute an autonomous student government not respons- ible to the Academic Senate or the chancellor for the preseft Asso- been consulted on the accuracy of ciated Students organization and the facts presented or the con- its constitution. - Study Hits ieriieiey ntuaenus Illegal Chancellor Roger Heyns had said the proposed constitution would have been illegal if ac- cepted. Statewide university rules say a student government must be a branch of the administration. The proposed constitution was written by campus groups who felt it would remedy what they called "sandbox" student government. one without any real power. At Stanford University, David Harris, a "radical," was elected student body president. He said he would seek to make student gov- ernment autonomous in the typ- of move that failed at Berkeley. 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These they duplicated for sale, receiving amounts ranging from $4 to $50, although they asked as much as $150 for the material. OSU Executive Dean John T. Bonner estimated as much as $300 to $400 changed hands in the dealings. Faculty Told The day before the exam was to be given a studentreported to the mathematics department that the exam was out. He was able to describe enough problems to the faculty to convince them he had seen the test, so the department quickly changed the exam they * gave the students. Bonner said the incident had been confined "strictly to the mathematics department. It was a one-shot proposition." He said that in keeping with OSU policy; the names of students in- volved would not be released. The mathematics department actually trapped students involved by the manner in which they changed the test. Those who had access to the exam were easily identified by their answers, Bonner said, and they all admitted their guilt once questioned. 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