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Show - U.,4 t Men's - rjy, B - ball Places Sixth fr r n n Prr 7 C. SBO Election Time Again , Vyr? J i : i ' School Pulls Plug On Radio Show After Students Read By Gail From Salinger Novel College Press Exchange - DE PERE, Wis. (CPX) A couple of students at St. Norbert College said they were kicked off the air after they read eight pages from The Catcher in the Rye during their weekly cam- pus radio show. Murray McGough and Christopher Danczyk, both students enrolled at the Roman Catholic school, said the director of campus security showed up in tire radio stations studios a little more than an hour into their March 4 broadcast, ordering them to sign off. The pair said the officer told them a college priest had complained about their use of two-hou- r, Knight-Ridde- r offensive language on the air and that school officials had instructed him to yank them off the air. School officials confirmed that someone was dispatched to the station after a caller complained that the broadcast -which could be heard only on campus - contained obscene language, but they insist they didn't pull the plug on the show, McGough and Danczyk said they read passages from J.D. Salinger's famous - and - novel because they wanted to try something new. To protest the schools actions, the two students devoted their next show to reading passages from the Bible. PHILADELPHIA (CPX) - A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania was found dead early Sunday after falling to his death at a fraternity house on campus, police said. School officials say it's clear that Michael Tobin, a 1994 university grad- examiner's report con- uate who was in town to celebrate an alumni reunion for members of Phi Gamma Delta, fell to his death. A medical firmed Monday that Tobin died from head and internal injuries believed to have been sustained when he tumbled accidentally down a flight of stairs leading to the basement. Though it will be weeks before the results of toxicolo Newspapers The 71st annual Academy Awards - dominated by "Shakespeare in Love" - was like a bad sonnet for ABC Sunday. Ratings for the snoozer, hosted by Whoopi "Color Me Naughty" Goldberg, were down 18 percent from last year. first-evThe Sunday Oscars had a 28.6 national rating and 46 percent audience share. (Each rating point equals 994,000 homes.) The '98 show, with Billy Crystal, delivered a 34.955 for ABC on a Monday night. According to Nielsen, the '99 Oscarcast averaged 45.6 million viewers in an average minute. In '98, it was 55.2 mil four-hour-pl- er lion. Still, Sunday's marathon d was the entertainment show this season, with 78 million Americans tuning in for six or more minutes. (By comparison, 74 million watched Monica Lewinsky discuss her love jones with Barbara Walters on March 3.) Spinning like a top, ABC says it's unfair to compare Sunday's show with the '98 event. Here's why: "Shakespeare," which won Best Picture and Best Actress (Gwyneth Palbust trow), was a next to '98's juggernaut, "Titanmost-watche- box-offi- ic." the highest-grossin- g Naturally, movie of all time led to d the Oscars of all time - 86 million, by ABCs count. A more accurate comparison, ABC says, would be with the '97 show. The big winner was "The English Patient," a film comparable to "Shakespeare," ABC says. (Maybe so. But going into Sunday's extravaganza, Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," a surprise 'blockbuster, looked like a lock for the top prize. So much for ABC's spin.) The '97 telecast had a 27.4 rating and 46 percent audience share, with 40 million viewers per average minute. By that yardstick, Sundays show was up four percent in rating and 14 percent in average viewership, ABC says. most-watche- See Related Story Page 8 sex-relat- gy tests are confirmed, a Students Sue Kentucky State Over Yearbook, Newspaper lawsuit. Both tire Tribune Media Services Penn Graduate Dies At Fraternity House College Press Exchange Shister CINCINNATI pre- liminary investigation suggests alcohol played a role in Tobin's death, said Ken Wildes, Penn's director of communications. "Friends of Michael's have told (university) officials and campus police that they and he had been drinking at several locations during the hours prior to Michael's death," Wilde said. Two former fraternity members found Tobin's body around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Campus police and university officials continued questioning fraternity members about the incident Monday, Wildes said. School officials also want to know if the fraternity violated any of the university's alcohol policies over the weekend. (CPX) - A federal appeals court is considering a claim by former Kentucky State students who say the university's administration censored student publications when it refused to distribute a student yearbook and interfered with the student newspaper. Attorneys for the students opened the hearings on March 18 by asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court's 1997 ruling in favor of the university. In that decision, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Hood rejected claims that tine university had violated students First Amendment rights. Hood ruled that the yearbook was a nonpublic forum unprotected by the First Amendment because its content did not amount to public speech. He also ruled that the students' claims concerning the campus newspaper were unfounded. November Former students Charles Kinkaid and Capril Coffer filed the accuse administration of trying to keep "negative news" out of The Thorobred News and of forbidding distribution of the 1992-9- 4 yearbook. Kinkaid has argued that he paid an $80 student fee that entitled him to a copy of the yearbook. Coffer, who worked on the student newspaper, was the yearbook's editor. University officials said they confiscated the yearbook because of its poor quality. Among their complaints were tire color of the book's cover and pictures that were ihtentionally mislabeled or not labeled at all. Attorneys for the students argue that future school officials might use such excuses to stop campus publications containing content the officials dislike. Students also fault school officials for failing to consult with a student publications board before confiscating the yearbooks. They also maintain tire university transferred the coordinator of student publications out of her job, against her will, after she said tire students had a right to determine the contents of the university's yearbook and newspaper. Tire students are supported by the Society of Professional Journalists, tire National Federation of Press Women, and other student press organizations. |