Page Eight 'U' keeps (Continued from Page 1) declares that "this sort of sec- retive note-taking should not take place without the kn.wt- edge and access of the student." ARNETT SAYS he believes that all parts of the record should be made available i.s the student, including tigh school counselor comments. "Being on adult, it would be benefi:ial to read my scholastic prsgress," he remarks. "If they can prove :here's 1o way the records can be used detrimentally, it wouldn't bother me, but I'm certainly nut con- vinced they couldn't ae used against you in some way," says Arnett. Judge counters, "I suppose the potential for abuse exists, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, May 22, 1974 records secret 'Flaming Creatures' uproar remembered even though such a chance is slim, but in actual pra:tice I don't feel the records have been abused in the past." LSA was the first school to move towards an open a';cess policy. All "backer cards" filed out since September 1972 in- clude a warning that the com- ments "m a y ultimately be available to the student." The School of Architecture and Design has also taken ten- tative steps towards an open access policy. "We have an ef- fect a system whereby most department counseling com- ments as well as some faculty comments are now available to students," says George Bayliss, chairman of the Art Depart- ment, "WE WOULD like to have a counseling file that is ultimately available to the student and that the students could put their responses in as well. "We'd especially like to have a file which does not c'atain material which was collected under confidence," says Dean Charles Morris, chairman of the LSA Administrative Board. "However, it will take at least a year before all the files can be open because much of the information that's already u the files is confidential," Morris explains. "If informanon is available to 150 counselors, I see no rea- son why it shouldn't be made available to the student." PUBLIC AUCTION of American and Victorian Furnishings FROM THE ESTATE OF GEORGE S. WAHR Thursday, May 23-11 A.M. Thursday, May 23-7 P.M. Friday, May 24-11 A.M. Saturday, May 25-11 A.M. Sunday, May 26-1 P.M. OVER 10,000 ITEMS TO BE SOLD including ANTIQUE JEWELRY ADMISSION BY PURCHASE OF CATALOG $4 WILL ADMIT TWO Sale Conducted by DuMouchelle Art Gallery (continued from Page S thus became a symbol that dis- turbed many people," Cohen said, speculating as to why the film received such a hostile re- ception in various parts of the community. THE CINEMA Guild board of directors knew it was going out on a limb in presenting Flam- ing Creatures as part of a ser- ies on the underground motion picture industry in the United States. But after a private screening session, the group de- cided the film had redeeming social qualities. "I've seen it and it's good," said Cinema Guild director El- len Frank at the time. "My definition of pornography is not dehumanization. This film is cold and sterile . . ." Frank, along with Cohen and two other students, was ar- rested several days after the movie was confiscated. THEIR TRIAL, however, dragged on for more than a. year, since it touched on the sensitive areas of censorship, obscenity, and academic free- dom - all difficult concepts to define especially in legal pro- ceedings. Cinema Guild finally had to drop the case and settle for what former Guild director Ed Weber yesterday characterized as "a backroom deal." The or- ganization, which the Univer- sity had refused to support in the case, just plain ran out of money after spending about $5,000 in lawyers' fees. In the settlement, one of the Guild directors on trial plead- ed guilty while charges against Frank, Cohen and the third de- fendant were dropped. Because the director found guilty was a minor at the time, the entire record was expunged. AS PART of the deal, Cinema Guild in turn dropped a $10,000 civil suit filed against the city and specifically Police Chief Walter Krasny and Stauden- meier in federal court. Still, the compromise pleas- ed no one, except perhaps the city, which "had become quite embarrassed by the whole af- fair," according to Guild mem- ber Hill Thompson. As a footnote to the Flaming Creatures incident, Weber re- called that the confiscated copy of the movie was not burned as is traditional in such instances but was instead shipped air mail to Washington D. C. THE FILM was subsequently used as ammunition by oppon- ents of former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas - then un- der consideration for appoint- ment to the High Court -- who had previously defended Flam- ing Creatures as not obscene, Weber said. Where that print of the film is now, nobody knows or par- ticularly cares. But for a movie that was never publicly shown here Flaming Creatures re- mains one of the better remem- bered and oft talked about pieces of cinematic workman- ship. Daily Official Bulletin WEDNEsDAY, MAY 22 Day Calendar wUOM: M. Rousculp of wosU in- terviews American harpsichordist, Igor Kipnis, 91. FM, 10 a.m. Anatomy: Arthur Johnson, "Im- muned Cens tIvoived in Tumor Cytotoxicity," 4804 Mad, Sci. II, 1:10 p.m. NEW WORLD FILM COOP: ChAILLISCIIlAUIJN INI A ccmedywritten and directed byvCharles Chaplin. Cc-starrina lawn Addans,0tlairJchnstcn and Michael Chaplin. leleased thrcuuh Classic Entertainment. Inc.