European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday May 31, 1977 honorary degree for Hafey Alex Haley left author of the Best Selling Book roots awaits the presentation of an honorary degree Tram Hamilton College at Clinton . With him is one of his. Former students a Hamilton ebon Manga a native at Gambia woo now lives in Fullerton Calif. Associated press photo reactionary propaganda1 pair charge to cops violate Constitution Washington a Kojak Colu Boand most other television cops frequently trample on the Constitution and May be subtly persuading the Public that such con duct is acceptable from real life police offi cers two Law professors warn. Today even the most blatantly illegal and unconstitutional behaviour of police officers is glorified by an endless Stream of television police dramas wrote Stephen Arons and Ethan Katun in a study of to crime shows. What started off As merely fictional entertainment has now begun to have the political effect of softening up Public opinion and making it More accept ing of such police and Katsh Are professors of Legal studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. From the fall of 1974 to the Spring of 1976, they monitored to crime shows to determine How Legal and constitutional issues were treated. In is randomly selected prime Lime police programs televised during one week in March 1976. We found 43 separate scene sin which serious questions could be raised about the propriety of the police reported. The incidents included 21 Clear constitutional violations is cases of police brutality or harassment and seven cases in which there was no mention of a citizen constitutional rights. Police woman had the highest number of improprieties seven and swat was the Only one of the 15 episodes in which no improprieties were spotted. The lawyers said they found that to crime shows project an image that is alien to the Constitution. The facts would horrify the average judge if they were brought into court As real cases. Hardly a single viewing hour passes without an Ille Gal search or a confession obtained by coercion or the failure to provide Are not sought or issued and hardly any mention is made of notifying suspects of their right against self i Crimi they cited a Kojak episode in which doctor who owns a collection of toy soldiers has become a murder suspect. Kojak wants one of the soldiers to test for Evi Dence but he does t have a Case Strong enough to make an arrest or obtain search warrant. A Mon Kojak tells another detective. Ill do the talking and you swipe the Arons and Katsh said they found that to crime dramas rarely show that innocent citizens May be harmed by improper police conduct. Noting that the average citizen s Pri Mary exposure to police work May be through television the professors said the believe most viewers Don t recognize the constitutional violations portrayed on Tele vision. ". If crime show violations of the Constitution always turn out to be a Good thing then these to morality plays May amount to nothing More than reactionary they continued. For television the Challenge is How to give sane constitutional values Access to the to stateside 10,000 Roth College grads to be officers Washington / a about 10.000 col lege graduates will become military offi cers this summer marking the first increase in commissions through the re serve officer training corps since 1970. The numbers reflect an apparent Turna round in the enrolment two years ago after a steady eight year decline resulting from an ant military mood often markedly open hostility on Many of the nation s campuses in the Vietnam War. The recovery appears to be continuing judging by an 8 per cent Rise in enrolments this year to 81,544 men and women cadets at 356 colleges and services View the turnaround Asim portent because the College Roth pro Gram is a major source of Young officers particularly for the army. In recent years As never before the services Nave been drawing on College manpower for Youn officers. Student hits the silk and gathers sheepskin Caldwell Idaho a when the College of Idaho held us graduation Cere monies Peter Jay 1011 dropped in to pick up us diploma. Bat be chose to do it the hard Way. The 23-year-old Boise resident parachuted several thousand feet Down to the Campus just before the graduation rite started. It just seemed like the thing to do Hill said. "1 wanted to dazzle the after Landing on the Caldwell Campus Hill hurriedly rolled up his Parachute and ran to his parked car. There he donned leans. Jacket and Blue suede red striped boots to Wear with his graduation he received a Bachelor of science degree in chemistry. Minister wins reinstatement grand rapids Mich. Dpi Church leaders have reinstated a minister who was arrested on charges of soliciting a prostitute and publicly confessed to his congregation that he had sinned. The consistory of the Garfield Park reformed Church had placed the Rev. Robert Baston 30-Day suspension following his april 28 arrest by undercover Decoy policewomen in a vice raid that also put 22 other men behind bars. Airport intruder says god told him to do it Atlanta an Atlanta Man who said he was obeying god has been arrested for driving his car behind a taxiing Southern airways pcs at Hartsfield inter National Airport. God told me to drive out there police quoted 4s-year-old William Gilbert As saying after the incident. How he got on the taxiway is a mys Tery said Jack Gallo Southern s control manager. That s what puzzles to police Gilbert entered a restricted area of be Airport through a Gate which is supposed to have a Security of Fleer on duly at All times. Gilbert was booked for investigation of being in a restricted area without authorization. The incident occurred during the Early morning hours and did not hamper Airport operations. Foundation claims Bank employees stole from it t1 ,isc2 Al of camo"1 " has been sued for ii million by the Thomas a. Dooley foundation which claims that Bank employees stole contributions to the foundation the suit filed in Superior court said the Bank had agreed to collect the foundation Smail remove Cash and checks and credit the contributions to the foundation. ,setween.l88,and thu y681" the nation alleged Bank employees sits reputation the foundation said the amount of the loss was not known but that it exceeded $300,000. Vietnam vet Given Carnegie hero award beating on the doors and windows. She was hollering. This sounds crazy but what was going through my mind was a television Snow about a German general who used to take a oath Yery morning in 32-degree water,"1 figured if he could do it i could c inn " Decatur Ala. A somebody saved my life in Jim Rombo Kas who has been awarded the Carnegie hero fund award of $1,000 for bravery said. I guess in a Way. I kind of owed somebody last november he rescued a student nurse after her car skidded off an icy Road Way and plunged into the Tennessee saw her out there he said. She was Loo. I Coul do it. Rombokas jumped into the icy water Sand rescued Twila i West. Liberal author Bliven is dead at 88 Stanford. Calif. A Bruce Bliven author and former editor of the new Republic is dead at 88. He had been hospitalized for three weeks at Stanford medical Center suffer ing from Bones broken in a fall at his Home on the Stanford University Campus. He died there Friday night Bliven a major contributor to Maga Zines and author of numerous books was perhaps Best known for his annual Christ Mas letters to 500 friends full of his wry comments on the current scene and joke about old age his articles appeared in such top periodicals As the saturday evening Post ladies Home journal. Readers digest Harper s. Rebook and his books were the men who made the preview for Tomor the unfinished business of Sci ence the world changers and a 1970 biography. Five million words he was editor of the new Republic be tween 1923 and 1955. In i9s6 he became a lecturer in communications at Stanford Apost he held until retirement a few years ago. He was also a member of the Board of directors of the twentieth Century fund. He is survived by his widow the former Rose Emery the Rosie of his notes and letters. Jid by a son. Bruce jr., a staff member of Reader s digest. Bliven was born in emt Helsburg iowan july 27, 1889. He graduated two sum Ford in 1911 and while a student was employed As Campus correspondent for theold san Francisco bulletin. In h s f0Tck Liberal and a. A Wintem his 1970 biography. Five million words " now in my ninth decade. 1 can see that individual Success is of no importance compared to the Success of the nation Andor the whole human race. To achieve this we need More and Ever More knowledge of Man and his spinning Globe we removing in the right Dir on the formula is knowledge compassion and Little saving sense of
