6—THE VOICE, March 4,1982
Paper Wins Suit
To Obtain Documents
CH-After winning their legal battle with the University of Arizona over the
release of internal investigation documents, two UA student newspaper staff
members are still waiting to hear if the University must also pay their $20,000 in
legal fees.
A Pima County Superior Court judge ruled that as a state agency, the UA ad
ministration couldn’t withhold transcripts from its probe of an athletic depar
tment slush fund. The University conducted the investigation last fall and issued a
report November 11 but refused to give the student newspaper, the Daily Wild
cat, copies of the investigating committee’s transcripts. Wildcat Editor Judy
Dun well and reporter Phillip Matier then sued to obtain those documents.
The transcripts and the hearing in which they were obtained, produced several
important new developments in the ongoing story of the athletic slush fund,
which was first revealed during the trial of former UA football coach Tony
Mason for misusing state money. The University failed to mention allegations of
a current slush fund in its official report, says Dunwell. The report also neglected
to mention that the former UA athletic director confirmed previous allegations
that current Athletic Director David Strack knew of the fund’s existence, she ad
ds.
“And the transcript showed that Fred Snowden, the basketball coach, was not
very cooperative in the investigation, and in fact, threatened to sue the commit
tee,” says Dunwell. Snowden has since announced he will resign as coach this
spring to take a UA athletic administration post.
After a University-requested delay, the hearing was held in mid-Decemer, when
the Wildcat had stopped publishing for the semester. To accommodate news
revealed in the hearing, the newspaper published a special four-page “Extra,”
using contributions from faculty and newspaper staff members to pay for prin
ting. We printed about 5,000 copies - our normal press run is 22,000 - and we
realized later we should have printed five times that many,” Dunwell says. “They
were all gone by 10:30 that morning and people came in all day begging for
copies.”
The students’ attorney, Brian Muldoon, has asked the court to order UA to
pay his legal fees, says Dunwell, and a decision is expected shortly. She is op
timistic the University will be forced to pay. “Otherwise, it will be a personal debt
for myself and the other reporter,” Dunwell says. “We had to sue as individuals
since the Wildcat itself is part of the University.”
New Opportunity
For Student Writers
CH-A new national magazine,
specifically aimed at “literate, in
telligent, high school students,” offers
publication possibilities for college
writers.
Highwire, published by National
Community Services Inc. (P.O. Box
948, Lowell, MA 01853), runs general
interest news pieces, features and
humorous articles aimed at 14 to 19
year-olds, says Editor Ed Miller. “We
saw a need for a national magazine for
students that addressed them as
mature, intelligent people, rather than
pimply-faced, immature kids,” says
Miller. “There just wasn’t a magazine
in that category.”
Highwire is about 70 percent
student-written, and includes a regular
feature. First Person Freshman, writ
ten by a college freshman about life at
his or her particular school. “Our
secondary goal is to provide an outlet
for student writers,” Miller says.
“It’s extremely difficult for young
writers to get published these days.”
Highwire was first published in May
of 1981 and has appeared twice since
then. The goal is to pubHsh four times
during the school year. It is currently
distributed through mail subscriptions,
some limited news-stand sales and
through fund-rasing subscription sales
by high school and college groups.
Highwire’s pubHsher, NCS, is a
national fund-raising company that
works with school organizations to
raise money primarily through
magazine subscription sales, says
Miller. Highwire currently has an ac
tual distribution of 80,000 to 100,000.
Exact paid circulation figures were not
available.
Student writers are encouraged to
submit query letters and obtain a sam
ple copy of the publication before
submitting articles. A sampling of the
editorial content of the most recent
issue includes stories on sexual equality
in high schools, the Guardian Angels,
schizophrenia, video games, a new per
forming arts high school in Chicago,
the Ku Klux Klan Youth Corps and its
recruiting efforts and pro and con per
spectives on working for the CIA.
FSU Planetarium
First Show
The FSU Planetarium held its first
public show this past weekend.
The production entitled, “Universe
Revealed,” was shown to a full house.
Individual and groups interested in
visiting the planetarium should contact
Dr. Valeria Fleming or Mr. Jan
Dabrowski at 486-1681 or 486-1650.
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