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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-17-1974 The BG News January 17, 1974 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News January 17, 1974" (1974). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2922. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2922 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. An Dew<ing Gfeon, Ohio Independent Thursday, January 17, 1974 Student Velum* 57/Numbtr SS Voice me BG news Sirica might forward tapes to grand jury WASHINGTON 1AP1 IS District When Deputy Press Secretary occasions whether he should remove Judge John J Sirica raised the Gerald L Warren was asked by a the microphones and wires and finally possibility yesterday that the case of reporter Did the President erase the at some point he got approval Sims the White House tape gap may be tape"'" he said "The answer to your also testified that on Oct 1 the Secret referred to a grand jury question is no " Service purchased the Cher 5000 tape I have to decide whether or not I'm recorder that the experts said was going to recommend to the special SIRICA MADE HIS comment in a probably used when the erasures were prosecutor that this case should be judicial argument with Charles Hhyno. made and that he took it to White submitted or whether the special the lawyer for President Nixon's House aide Stephen V Bull prosecutor should seriously consider secretary. Rose Mary Woods Bull had testified that he took the submitting it to the grand jury.' Sirica Woods earlier had said that she had recorder to Woods, who had asked said pushed the record-erase button on a for a transcribing device with a foot It was the first statement made in tape recorder while transcribing the pedal The pedal would enable her to court by the judge on what action he June 20 conversation transcribe without taking her hands might take in the matter She said she had her foot on a pedal from the typewriter to use the at the time but the experts said the controls "I WANT TO hear all the evidence, erasures must have been done by he said "That's the decision 1 have to pushing the hand control SIMS SAID HE delivered the make I'll make that decision in due The prosecution questioned Secret machine to Bull at I 15 p in course Service personnel yesterday about who Woods had testified that on that On Tuesday a panel ot experts said had custody of the tape recorders day she listened to the June 20 tape lor that there were at least five and 2'j hours and in the course of perhaps as many as nine instances of LOUIS SIMS, chief ol the technical transcribing it she discovered that she erasing and rerecording in the 18.5- service division of the Secret Service, had pushed the record button She said minute tape section that has been testified that he was unable to supply she went into the President's office at "obliterated documentary evidence on who had about 2 15 p in to inform him that she This peal of water Behind Cenklin Had seen wM be ready for ice skaters— The tape is ., recording made of a used the tape recorders at various had made a mistake Instant conversation between President Nixon times He said those records were The White House log lor that dale providino, the weather cooperate*. The University Monday filled the enclosure and his chief of staff H.H Haldeman destroyed each time i machine was showed that she met with Nixon at 2 08 near the basketball courts. (Newsphete by Carl Sold) on June 20. 1972 The erased portion returned to Secret Service custody p m ice rink apparently had contained talk about Sims testified that the microphones the break-in at the Democratic party in the President's Oval Office and his headquarters three days earlier. other offices remain in place but the wires that had connected them to THE WHITE HOUSE said recorders have been cut Flexibility key to new college "premature judgments' about the The tape system was dismantled last cause of the gap are altogether July 18 two days alter Alexander Editors Note: The following article is balances giving ihe departments a unwarrented Butterlield. testifying before the The popular culture department part of a communications college. the second in a two-part series on the chance lo maintain then identities MI "Further discussion would be Senate Watergate committee revealed favors a programatic college because "An organization is never able to prospect of a college of achieve broader interest!.' he said it would be "more economical, predict totally what it will do." said improper while this matter is in Its existence communications at the University. court." said a formal statement from The proposal has been endorsed by practical and most effective." Boyer Ihe speech depar lincul according to Dr Kay Browne, Because of rapid developments in the office ol White House counsel J SIMS SAID HE asked White House By Rose Hume Di Music s proposal and .i meeting Fred Buzhardt lawver J Kred Ku/hardl on several committee member and department the field of communications, Boyer Managing Editor with Provost Dr Kenneth Rothe, director emphasized the importance of prompted Dr Maurice Mandell. adaptability in a communications Cites energy waste Alter many long hours and committee member and professor ol DR. BROWNE SAID the department curriculum He added that discussions. the committee marketing, to develop anothei look no action on Dr Miesle's proposal communication forms are emerging so considering the establishment of a proposal bet MISC it was not an official act of the rapidly that it may be possible to train college of communications toda} will committee The late submission of Dr, students only how to adapt to the consider twi, proposals trailed bj DR MANDFLL'S PROPOSAL des Mandril's proposal, also an unoffir'n] changes as they occur Task force reports committee members cribeg a program college a college proposal, prevented departmental Dr Lee Miesle, chairman of the lacking departments and consisting oi action By Rick Bensman some investment required to correct. committee and professor ol speech program.^ which cross department Dr Browne said the department of Staff Reporter -Those presently not considered has submitted a proposal in an attempt lines coordinated bj a dean s office popular culture would like to be free wasteful but a low priority energy use to "get the committee oil dead He said a communications college as much as possible" to coordinate Man charged The Task Force on Energy if additional reductions become center " should be geared lo mass media, nol programs. He said he believes a Conservation has submitted an interim necessarj The proposal, written Irom the interpersonal confrontations proposal which is not .bureaucratic report stating that a substantial waste In the tirst area ideas agreed on by viewpoint of the speech department, Dr Mandell said through a program would be best since college structure on rape count of electrical energy exists on campus the task force included reduced calls for a program-faculty college It college. The students would have a can develop out of Ihe departments as The task force, composed ol three lighting at the stadium and parking would include lour departments of home." Faculty would be borrowed needed faculty members, two students and lots scheduling evening classes in speech, a department of journalism Irom other departments Dr Browne explained that about hall A 30-year-old Fostoria man was two administrators appointed by fOVhBT buildings, lowering thermos),ils and a popular culture department He said he believes a college Ihe courses offered by the popular arrested early yesterday in connection University President Holds A Moore six degrees in campus buildings and It also calls for a system by which structure would evolve from the culture department could be geared for with the rape of a University student Jr.. focused on evidence showing reducing speed of University vehicles professors from other departments programs a communications college and half Nov 17 energy is wasted, not on the question of to 50 miles per hour could join the college of The department ol Journalism could be for the College of Arts and Phillip Hampton was arrested in the whether an energy crisis exists IN THE SECOND area, installation communications to participate in a would come over the fastest." he said Sciences 200 block of E. Woosler Street by a city Representatives from the of timers to turn off outside lights at program where their talents are Structure would develop through trial "We could be more responsive to police officer. He also is considered a department of building and facilities. midnight and a study ol revisions needed and error." student need in a college of suspect in four other rapes since Campus Safety and Custodial Services necessary to equalize heat at a lower While not an official committee Dr Mandell said he has been a communications, said Dr. Browne, November, according to city police Lt. met with the task force last quarter to level in older buildings were approved document, it has been circulated proponent ol a communications college but that college would be less Donald Wilcox discuss energy conservation recom- Insufficient data was collected to among members of all the at the University for 20 years He said concerned with aesthetics than we'd Hampton was charged in Bowling mendations affecting their make recommendations on low departments involved as well as the he has suggested it to every University like to be " Green Municipal Court yesterday with departments priority energy uses.