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Show The Daily 'Jtnh Chronicle. Thursday, November 18. 1976 Page Six Law School dean's decision wrongE The decision by the University Law School administraton not to allow a public hearing on irregularities in the recent bar exam to be held m the Law Sonncl Moot Courtroom is sadly symbolic of the paranoid hypersensitive attitudes which entrench the hierarchy of the legal profession. Las! July's bar exam had an unusally high failure rate and has resulted in charges that scores were purposely changed by graders to limit the number oi attorneys in Utah. The Bar Association has the final say whether, if etter four years of law school and thousands cf dollars, a student can practice law in D Utah. The potential for improprieties when attorneys control the number cf new attorneys allowed io practice are enormous. Several students have gathered evidence which they claim proves manipulator) cf scores by the Bar Associate!. The U.S. Department cf Justce is monitoring developments in the bar exam controversy as part of a preliminary investigation T O into the I Hah Bar Associaton. The investigation was p rompted by Utah students' complaints. Associate Dean Bruce Zimmer said the Law School doesn't want to contnbute to publicity ol complaints about the bar exam while student appeals are pending. Zimmer said holding a forum on possible bar exam improprieties in the Law School, even R - though sponsored by the ChrorJde, might "give an aura cf law school sponsors hip " The proposed December 6 date for the forum is one week after the last appeal will be heard by the bar. The ChrcrJch promised to make it clear to local news media that we ere sponsoring the hearing, not the Law School. A fair informatve ainng of the bar exam controversy could benefit law students, students contemplating law and anyone interested in ccrrectng possible wrongs. The Law School administration has a respcnsibiLty to support such efforts towards the free flows cf ideas. It is the right of the people and the press to be informed about possible wrongs within major Amencan insttutons like the legal profession. The law deans have chosen to limit free speech in a publicly owned building in violation cf this basic right Another place to hold the forum can probably be found. We question the right of the Law School administraton to refuse to let a publicly owned bu.lding to be used to inform the public. At what point can one say 'This is wrong?' If students' grades were changed, it's wrong. If the Bar Associaton is manipulatng the free market for attorneys in Utah it's wrong. When the administraton of the Law School makes an arbitrary decision to limit the free flow of ideas, we say that's wrong torn tfHWS WSlC M OF 61RLS. He OF I A L Bcoze REMAPS I OTT mii) HOi) IH 6Q'U6 This our. to aw of pem. we OF fci tsm. wk wwww The Robert Walker in that movement and in another section, claiming that Happy Valley is no place for Readers' Editor in Chief this kind Karen Jerman Managing Editor Andrew Welch Associate Editor Leslie VanFrank Production Editor Rick Hall News Editor Mike Wright Layout Editor My ma Bagley Editorial Editor Rick Brough Kirk Johnson Editorial Assistants Brad Rock Sports Editor Viewpoint Kill, kill Editor Helen Lacko Entertainment Editor Joseph Brockmeyer Copy Editor Jeon In galls Assistant Copy Editor Sam Sanderson Photography Editor Molly Hannifin Monday Editor Scoff Payne. Mark Slain. Scott Nelson. Molly Fowler, Chn$ Dillon, John Barbara Barnes, Cindy Tingley, Diane Wood, Mary Corporon, Martha Wickelbout, AnaDaraban, Giro Fairclough, Mike Soreneon, Jim Smedley, Nadya Cbopyk, Curat Webb. 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Forward all subscription correspondence to: Subscription Manager, Dally Utah Chronicle, Union Building, Univertity of Utah. letters to the editor mutt be typed and doubletpaced on a 74 space line Letters of 200 words or lett will b given prionry. The Addrett letters to viewpoint. Chronicle hat typewritert available for your use. We reserve the right to edit for libel. propriety and space. good chance that they will cause someone's life to end, for reasons which most would consider inane. This circumstance might is a of artistic expresssion. Well, I say it is, and what's more. Salt Lake has a real need for more sensitve artistic portrayals of the whole human experience. . For your information, Olson, homosexuals comprise about ten percent of the human population...even in Happy Valley. Roberta Henderson Your editorial, "Don't Ask Me to Kill You," raises some be prevented if capital points that need explanation. punishment were allowed to Are we to believe that the sole run its course. We have such reason Gary Mark Gilmore is high respect for all human Hows and whys being put to death is because life, but is that respect to he wants die? My warranted toward someone Editor: understanding of Gilmore's who looks on the death of a As the "Flaming Feminist", case is that he has been human as being different Susanne, it seems far more sentenced to death because from that of, say, a fly, only in productive to me for you to of the murder of a Provo motel that it requires more effort to explain the hows rather than clerk. accomplish? belabor the whys of birth I quote your editorial "Do Hugh Garner, Jr. control. the people of Utah miss war We all applaud your liberal so much that they are now position. Now take advantage suddenly willing to execute a RDT-b-est of this article and run a three yet man in prison simply to four issue series on birth because he wants to die?" Editor: control methods. Your Re: The November 17 You miss the point If Gilmore statistics suggest there are had "begged (the state of review of RDT by Linda more people who agree with Utah) to shoot him," without Olson. than there are your position I have seen RDT perform at having murdered someone, people who know how to would the state have killed least ten times, but the refrain from the consequenhim to relieve "his...terrible performance I saw Friday ces of procreative acts. troubles?" night easily topped them all. C.W. Shepherd What we're talking about And then to read such an here is a convicted murderer insensitive, biased review as who has committed a crime Linda Olson wrote...I was Censor punishable by death, not "a shocked enough to be dnven man...on the street" who to the typewriter. She Editor: In rebuttal to Vince walked up to you and mentions the first piece as if too it to him." Sullivan's shoot is, long...well, being "begged you I ask you to cast aside your you have the attention span of editorial Chronicle, NovI ember 8) I would first like to anti-capitpunishment a two- - or work found the so for a and minute dynamic criticize his comparison of standpoint I did not that and fact that the there are meaningful pornography with murder, ponder members of Charles Man-son'- s notice any passage of time in rape, burglary and embezzlement. True, these crimes are family who have killed the moment's movement. As for Lynne Wimmer's not falsified (as Kirk Johnson and have said they will kill piece; it was glorious. I found inadvertantly implied, again, given the chance. Some of these people will the movement entitled 'Two Chronicle, October 22) because people will do them be eligible for parole in 1978. Women" particularly If, even at some time after exciting. Olson objects to the anyway. However there is a 1978 they are paroled, there homosexual feelings present vast difference between fists al three-year-ol- d. like crimes burglary and graphy. murder and so-calle- jfa Lastly Mr. Sullivan says d crimes like pornography, gambling and marijuana smoking. Unlike murder and burglary the latter "crimes" are victimless; no one suffers as a result of their commission except possibly the person who commits the violation. Mr. Sullivan also says that porno flicks have "blown sex all out of proportion" not so! The acts recorded on the porno film occur millions of times daily in private abodes around the world. Has "blown the game all out of proportion" because the players on TV. are bigger, faster and stronger than you and I? I don't think so. It's true that the average porno star can't project the necessary element of love on the screen. At least 99 percent of the pornos produced can be pro-footb- all classified as tasteless, emotionless junk. But if these people could act they'd possibly be nominated for an Oscar (i.e. Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris). Mr. Sullivan also implies that viewing pornographic material "can only serve to excite the same behavior once the show is over." As a veteran of one very explicit porno film I have to admit that it did absolutely nothing to alter the natural instincts that God tave me. Of all the persor.al acquaintences I knov who have seen skin flicks not one leads a perverted sex life and aa are respected members of the community. The fact that large cities like LA. and New York experience occurances of sex crimes can be attributed higher-than-avera- ge to sociological factors related with ' population' 'stee and density, not with porno -- that the American-styl- e society enables one locality to legislate against pornography while another may welcome it with open arms. However pornography is a victimless crime and thus represents a moral question rather than one of public safety. We should have learned from what happened during prohibition in the 1920's that morals can't be legislated. By 1930 we still had alcoholic beverages for sale, plus prohibition gave us organized crime as an added bonu3. I do not personally advocate pornography nor will I say that it is beneficial or detrimental to society. I respect Mr. Sullivan's views and fully agree that "my right to swing my fist ends where someone else's nose begins." However, I have a nose, too, and I'd hate to have it battered by the fist of censorship. A. Biff Baker Au Revoir Editor: Hooferdecker, Glade Baldwin. Obviously, you are confused. We shall proceed to enlighten you to the facts that you should be basing your opinion on. You see, we lived in Brussels, Belgium for two years (as students enjoying the culture, not as misaiwuaries ignoring it). We will, therefore, inform you of wheie you wtsie wiong in your evalutation of the two cultures (Belgian vs. Dutch). True, Holland has legalized prostitution, but Belgium has as Canal the same set-u- p Street Amsterdam. II you had ventured to. "the continued on page 7 |
