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NEW ...MEXICO---------------,------------------------ 0 VOL. 85 NO. 115 Thursday, March l2, 1981 Budget Passes Fast Less KUNM Funds Tbe ASUNM Senate passed a ASUNM and KUNM, Bond said quarter·million•dollar budget in. ten the KUNM charter is part of the minutes Wednesday following ASUNM constitution and would reminescence by Senate President have to be amended. Pete Pierotti of long meetings on the budget in previous years. Equipment at KUNM, although bought with funds appropriated by Pierotti quoted from the Daily ASUNM, would remain the Lobo from 1978 onward, reviewing proJjerty of KUNM 1 Bond said. how the current system of In other business, Senator Judy budgeting has brought passage of Nakamura reported for the lobby the budget from a process that left committee that the House _organizcd_student _groups _irate._t(l -Appropriations- and-- Finance­ one in which the budget is readied committee has tabled the bill to by the Budget Inquiry Board and have a referendum on the question then passed by the Senate. of creating a student position on the Amendments made to the budget Board of Regents and then referred included one to withdraw $45,000 the bill back to sub-committee. in funding from KUNM as a line Nakamura explained that this item for 1981-82 due to the possible was tantamount to killing the bill, transfer of the station to control by which is unlikely to get to a vote of the university. the full Houseduring the remainder KUNM acting station manager of the session. Barton Bond reported that the Radio Board decided at its last Also, the ASUNM Senate voted to use ballots similar to computer· meeting to recommend that control processable test forms in the and. financial respoilSibility for coming election. Elections Com­ KUNM be taken over by the missioner Glen Dobbs explained university. that the computer form ballots Bond said that accreditation of would be ea5y to use, fast and courses could be arranged to make accurate to count "but not cheap.'' use of the. facilities of KUNM. He The Elections Commission also stressed that input from the presented a report recommending students, sen~te, facqlty and ad­ several violations of the elections ministration is desired on the code be punishable by voiding the handling of I<.UNM. Senator and violator's candidacy. Radio Board member Cliff Rallins Over an hour of discussion of moved that a sub.co:mm.itn:e be :set Appropriations Bill 37, which will up as l}. liason between the Radio fund the election, followed. After a Board and the university. reduction to cover the change from Asked if changes would be tW<:> to one-day eJections, the bill necessitated in the relationship of passed. Divided Panel Debates Fred Graham, of CBS 11ews. speaks to a receptive crowd Tuesday while a television camera captures Catneras in Courtroom the newsman on tape. (Photo by Aron Rael) Should still photography, Two famous criminal trials in the television and radio coverage be 20th century lead to restrictions permitted in the courtroom of' a· imposed upon the electronic media. criminal trial? .Violent Crime Control The ftrst was the kidnapping of This is the question four infant Charles A. Lindbergh Jr•• professionals in law and journalism son of the famed trans-Atlantic considered in a 90-minute law pilot, on March l, .1932. The in· ~Unlikely' for Reagan school panel discussion aitendei:l by fant's body was found May 12 of neatly l()() persons Wednesday. that year and, in a cOtlttoversial CBS News law correspondent trial marked by sensational news Marc L. Mervis investigation or violent crimes. but laws, f\mding levels and allocation coverage, Bruno R. Hauptmann lack the sophisticated techniques ofresources to attack the problem.) Fred P. Graham was joined by CBS reporter said was convicted of the murder and A News necessary to successfully resolve ln light of the upstltge of violettt three New Mexicans .in a discussion .kidnapping. Tuesday the :Department of Justice them. crime, the Reagan administration highUghted by disagreement over faces serious obstades in its effort (A .Justice . Department must confront three major interpretation . of the first The Fourth of July slaying of to combat a continued surge of spokesman said Wednesday the problems at the federal· levei; Amendment as it applies to elec­ Marilyn Sheppard in her Bay violent crime across thec()ttntry. LEAA is now being phased out au Graham said. It must come to terms tronic ntedi.a coverage ill the Village, Ohio borne in 1954 led to Law correspondent Pted P. result of initiatives taken by the with iltegal immigration, establish a courtroom. the trhd. of her husband, Dr. Graham told 400 people at a Carter administralion .in 1979. No reasonably effective drug policy Sarnue1 H. Sheppard, ofi a charge Woodward Had lectt.tre that it is funds for the LEAA were ap· In addition· to Graham; other and restrain an epidemic of hall· tnemb~rs of the panel included of first~degree mmder. This time unlikely the Reagan administration propriated for Piscat Year 1981. and dguns in the country. Albuquerque attorrtey lial F. television cameras in the courtroom can. bring violent . crime under fiO request was made for Fiscal ''The drug ptoblem adds Simmons, a representative of the preCipitated sensational.coverage of eontrol because of the widespread Year 1982 in the Reagan budget tremendously to our crime New Mexico Press Assodation; the trial. Sheppard appealed his availability of handguns and drugs. submitted to Congressl<'eb. 18. problem. 1 wish them (federal drug Tony Hillerman, UNM professor conviction on grounds that he did Graham said the Reagan attack Joe .Krovisky said the LEAA officials) wen in doing something of journalism and assistant to not r<Jceive afairtrial. on violent crime is a return to the operates ott. a three-year funding that helps because we need it in the UNM President William E. Davis Nixon approach to law and order at cycle and now. maintains a worst way," Graham said. artd Santa Pe attorney John Today, with electroruc cameras the federal level that ptoved un­ Washington, n.c., work force only While he said he is not a gun· Catron. that o)lerate with available light, successrul as crime continued to to make certain $1 butiott in control advocate, he did say Ofie televisiofl coverage of trials is much soar in spite of increased funding to remaining funds are spent cannot live in Washington, n.c., Much discussion centered on the less obtrusive, , drliliam said. He the Law Enforcement Assistance correctly. He said the LEAA is New York City or other Eastern taitllfications of Chandler vs. said he believes teleVision coverage Admirtistratiott (LEAA). likely to fade from existence cities without · beiflg concerned Florida, a: Supreme. Court dedsion from the courtroom wilt increase as ln contrast to the Reagan effort, sometime in 1982 or 1983. about the large nuniber pf' han· rendered last January that upheld a result o£ the Chandier decision, the Carter administratlort placed AttorneY General William dguns in. circulation. · by reason ofstates; tights a 'Florida higher priority on the eradication of French Smith has called for a task The 49;.year-old eotrespondent Supreme Court decision to allow Hinerman and Catron disagree white-collar and organized crime; force on violent crime to examine said, ~<'foo marty handguns are still photography; radio and with draharn and Simtnofts. They Graham said. what can he done under existiflg available to kids.'' He added that television covc:rage of judicial said they believe camera coverage in He said local police departments laws aud resources and what guns arc prevalent among high proceedings subject to approval of the courtroom is disruptive to the have primary jurisdiction in the changes r.:at1 be made irt federal 'cdntinued on page 7 a presiding Judge. judicial process. Page2, New Mexico Daily Lobo, March 12, 1981 Page 3, New Mexico Daily Lobo, March 12, 1981 F_,.._,.._,.._,.......e;-_,.._,.._,.._,.._,.._,.._,.....,...................................... .,.. ............. _,.. ...... _,..__. ...... ..,._,. ................................................... ...o- ............"1 J:IRI Pllflv(DICAL~OFESSIONS CLUB~ WOrld N•e WS by United Press International Campus Briefs § . § § § § § through April29 from 6:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. meeting § Psoriasis patients § t invites the public to an ~ Canada Ytelds Support for U.S. Juniper To Discuss Parents on Wednesdays. Both sessions will be held in the 8 8 Women's Center. Registration deadline is March 20. t! Ea$tern Approach to Medicine Seminar ·1 of his speech was aime(l <lt Fidel 8 d d £ d d 8 ..- OTTAWA- President Reugan, Alexanaer Haig, at a joint ne Communicating With Parents is the title of a The workshop is limited to UNMstudents, staff and · § nee ·. e . .Or rug Stu y • § ~·-;; ,...~. calling for a fraternal s land against Castro's Cuba and the Kremlin. conference with Canadian E t · ws . · M' . ernal discussion scheduled for Thursday at 7:.30 p.m. in faculty. 8 g "On this side of the Atlantic, we Aff x -;;.