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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1979
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From left to right, Ray Mariotti of the Austin American-
Statesman, Edwin D. Hunter of the Houston Post, and
Thomas J. Simmons of The Dallas Morning News.
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Battalion Reporter
Newspapers are suffering from a
redibility crisis that has lowered
e trust of their readers, the editor
of the Houston Post said at Texas
A&M University Wednesday night.
That and other issues concerning
le role of today’s newpapers were
discussed in a program presented by
ditical Forum, “Freedom of the
ess — The Fourth Estate’ Wed-
sday night.
Edwin Hunter, the Post’s editor,
id that mass media, like other
ell-established institutions like the
government, the church and the
ilitary, were subject to periodic at-
iclcs by the public.
But Hunter said that the news
papers’ main concerns was to get the
story right, not necessarily first.
Thomas Simmons, executive
editor of the Dallas Morning News,
agreed that newspapers are commit
ted to getting the information right.
He said most errors are a result of
incorrect information from sources,
not mistakes by reporters. “Even a
good reporter is no more credible
than his source,’’ Simmons said.
Closely related to the lack of cre
dibility is the charge that news
papers provide only shallow cover
age of news events that mislead the
public.
Ray Mariotti, editor of the Austin
American-Statesman, said he be
lieved it was possible for newspaper
coverage to go too much detail. “It’s
a matter of balancing what the
people should read with what they
will read. We give them in-depth
detail like a scientific journal and no
one will read it. ”
Hunter agreed that the quality of
newspaper writing was generally
very good and said that vast im-
provments had been made in the
last 30 years.
The question of how much control
should be exercised by the govern
ment over the release of information
brought a unanimous condemnation
of prior restraints by the editors.
Simmons said that a newspaper
must always have the right to decide
what material to print even though
it is still subject to reprisals after
wards. “Anytime you have a censor
from on high telling you what you
can print you are seeing the end of
free press.”
Simmons pointed out that in
times of national crisis such as
World War II, the press demon
strated the responsibilty of volun
tary censorship that was almost 100
percent effective, without govern
ment control.
Mariotti agreed that if the gov
ernment had the freedom to use
prior restraint more often there
would soon be “rubber stamp se
crets. ”
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By MERIT EDWARDS
Battalion Staff
Half of parking area 40, east of
uncan Intramural Field, is now
pen to freshman and sophomore
students. It’s inconvenient — far
way from almost everything. But it
oes have empty parking spaces.
Lot 40 lot was previously re-
tricted to female and upperclass
dale dorm students, and day stu-
lents.
University Police traffic director
homas Parsons said the lot was not
i)eing fully utilized, so the back half
)f the lot was opened Friday to
;reen permit holders. Green per-
uits are issued to male students
vith less than 60 hours.
“We opened the lot to green
)ermits since students haven’t been
lling it, he said. “We may open it
p further if there are still empty
spaces.” He said there were still
about 100 empty spaces at noon
Wednesday.
The front half of the lot is desig
nated for red permit holders. Red
permits are issued to female dorm
students and on-campus males with
60 hours or more. Parsons said the
lot has been designated for red
permits since Sept. 1.
Parsons said the lot’s minimal use
is due to its distance from class
rooms 1 and the fact that many stu
dents don’t know they can park
there.
Parking area 40 does not have any
small car sections. Parsons said the
small car restrictions are working
well in some of the other lots.
“We may try to open small car
areas in some staff lots,” Parsons
said. “We ll see if we can get some
cooperation there.”
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Brazos County spring deluge, the
College Station City Council may be
ble to tell you.
The council may soon have a
lood-plain survey map drawn of the
ocal area to help residents prepare
br potential floods.
In a Wednesday afternoon work
shop session, the council decided
the current flood-plain map for the
rea is outdated.
Members concluded, however,
hat a new map could be outdated
fter a year of construction and
natural erosion due to weather.
Area residents can obtain flood
insurance for their property, but
few do so. City Engineer Elrey Ash
said.
The insurance rate is subsidized
based on the person’s location on
the flood plain, causing the need for
an accurate flood-plain map.
The matter is considered to be a
priority because the construction on
the Texas Instruments (TI) tract on
Highway 30 is nearly completed,
and 3,000 in-coming TI employees
will cause a housing demand in that
area.
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