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Show Pts Four Christopher smarl Looking for a 'reasonably' free press? Ask ASUU Blackmail and tampering with the First Amendment were not mentioned by Salt Lake City's press in covering ASUU's damning of the Chronicle in a recent University Institutional Council meeting. Funding for the Chronicle comes through the annuai ASUU budget. This year, when the editor for the student paper asked student officers for an increase in funding, she was told that certain conditions should be met first: ASUU should get special rates in advertising, no further homosexual or prostitution stories should appear and the Chronicle should increase coverage of ASUU events. When the "student leaders" were told by editor Holly Mullen-Gree- n that they could not dictate content and no special rates would be given, they decried the paper as disgusting before the Institutional Council and the local press. The council must approve the ASUU budget. The annual ASUU budget is about $450,000 this year. The Chronicle will get $25,000 or 41 cents per quarter from each student. When Chronicle editors tried to explain to ASUU officers Kevin Pearson and John Rees that they were interrupting freedom of expression guaranteed under the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, a preliminary agreement was reached. That agreement was to try to rruE Chronicle funding direct and outside of governmental (ASUU) control. However. Chronicle editors were ambushed by Pearson and Rees in the June council meeting. ASUU presented a e letter denouncing the Chronicle with copies of articles on Anita Bryant and New York prostitutes. No mention was made of separate funding for the Chronicle. The attack publicly rebuked the Chronicle and kept the subject of direct funding from coming up. The council and student government retained partial control of the press. two-pag- well-planne- d mm m$ iTOu in .hM letter to the council. Pearson and Rees said that as student representatives they are disgusted and no longer wish to tolerate the paper as representing them. They go on to say that the First Amendment should be protected within a reasonable interpretation. A free press is exactly that free. Nothing less. The Institutional Council. Publications Council and the but they won't faculty cry for a better student newspaper, two the last years of double increase Chronicle funding. For same the allocation. received digit inflation the Chronicle has This year the Chronicle could only afford four senior of was reporters at 511 a day. This lack forpersonnel staff a try few working typewriters ing to compounded by IBM the Selectncs with this put out a daily paper. Contrast across the hall at ASUU. used by "student representatives" What do students have to show for the $425,000 the Chronicle doesn't get? The Chronicle is a student paper supported by student funds. University administration has never tried to intervene with the free flow of information from the Chronicle even though they receive complaints about offensive content from the community at large. That freedom is slowly being eroded by community and faculty members who cringe at the words free press. The Publications Council, the Chronicle publisher, recently moved to hire a full time advertising-busines- s manager for of is council That Chronicle. the comprised community members, faculty, ana students. Their decision was based on improving the Chronicle by boosting ad revenues in conjunction with the efficiency of a professional. Perhaps it will soon be necessary to hire a professional editorial staff. jp r It sets down to what you want to do and what you have to do. Take the free Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics lesson and you can do it handle all the work college demands and still have time to enjoy college life. You can dramatically increase your reading speed today and that's just the start. Think of the time, the freedom you'd have to do the things you want to do. For twenty years the ones who get ahead I have used Reading Dynamics. It's the way to read for today s active world fast, smooth, efficient. Don't get left behind because there was too much to read. Take the free Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics lesson today. You can dramatically increase your reading speed and learn about advanced study techniques in that one free lesson. Make the college life the good life. With Reading Dynamics you can do it. CALL FOR A RESERVATION. FREE INTRODUCTORY LESSON EVELYN WOOD READING DYNAMICS INSTITUTE 320 SOUTH 3RD EAST Used and new textbooks for all summer courses. school and workshop ART ENGINEERING SCHOOL SUPPLIES o Vaiirs54y 966-237- 1 EVELYN WOOD READING DYNAMICS 200 University St. |