GRINNELL COLLEGE SCARLET 8e BLACK THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER LXXVl Grinnell. Iowa. Friday. February 2i. 1%? No. l7, Five Plead ‘iloi Gui Tuesday, at 3:15 am. Chief Peters served subpoenaes on Henry Wilhelm and Krystyna Neuman. Kit Leder- was served a summons All were to appear in court Thursday morning concerning the disrebing incident. -V—-—-—————1 Radio Editorial Causes Controversy On Tuesday, February 11 over KDIC radio, Neil Fischer and Greg Schmidt gresenied one of their iii-weekly news ommentaries, in which they comment on various news events in a creative Way. Although humorous in intent, the show was potentially libelous to Henry Wil- helm whose role in the demonstration against Playboy magazine was an olyzed. According to Greg Schmidt, this par ticular show “was intended to be a hu- morous commentary on the exploitation oi protest resulting from the protest on the exploitation of sexuality." Upon hearing the editorial by Fischer and Schmidt, Mrs. Prescott, director 0! the iniormation service, requested a eopy of the full text, on Thursday, she sent the commentary, as “a point of in- formation only” it) the AP and UPI wire services, KGRN radio, the Des Moines Register, the Herald Register, and the Scarlet and Black, Mrs. Prescott stated that the editorial was a “potential tare at for outside news.” Thereiore she elt, it was desirable that the complete document be made available in order to be “protective of everybody con- ¢emed." She was afraid that an inex- perienced reporter would take isolated quotes out of their proper context. On Thursday, A? wire service contacted Henry Wilhelm, who had not heard the broadcast but read it in the copy sent y Mrs. Prescott to the S and B office. ilhelm denied charges that he had organized the protest against Playboy magazine. . The following paragraphs appeared in the Saturday Des Moines Register. "An editorial, written by Neil Fischer, a Denver, Colo. senior, was broadcast over radio station KDIC-FM, the college- ;w wned station, denouncing photographer enry Wilhelm of Grinnelir Wilhelm denied Fischer’ 5 charges. Wilhelm said that he was aware the protest was going to occur but said that he "was definitely not the organizer." On Friday, A1 Cloud, station manager of KDIC released a statement (tom the editorial board of KDIC station that the commentary read by Neil Fischer on February ll was Fischer’s personal CONTROVERSY— Continued Page 7, Column 4 ty' to Indecent Exposure 20 Subpoenaed, ll Testify at Hearing; Case to Go to District Court or Grand Jury By MICHAEL BRANDON Pleas of not guilty were entered in the Court of the Justice at the Peace yester< day for five GrinnBii students who face charges of indecent exposure stemming from the February 5 nude demonstra- tion against Playboy magazine. The pleas were entered for the defendants by Des Moines attorney Lawrence Le Tourneau at a preliminary hearing which was held in the Grinnell Police and Fire Department building betele Justice of the Peace Edwin Lincoln. The students being prosecuted by Poweshiek County Attorney Michael Enich are Catherine R. Leder, of Allen Park, Mich; Mary Malmlrn of Oklaho- ma Oil Fredricka A. Nelson, of Brook- lyn, 1a., James D. Rudolf, oi Elmhurst, lllinois; and Freda s. Tepier, of Brook- lyn, N.Y. All at the students are seniors except Miss Tepier, who is a freshman. At the outset of the hearing the de- fense waived its right to a preliminary hearing, thereby postponing testimony by the detendants until the case is tried, The case will now go before the Poweshiek County District Court in Montezuma. No date has been set for the trial. County Attorney Enich called a total Mrs, Low tails with other subpoenaed witnesses at the police station Thursday morning. They were called to ‘givn evidence regarding the Feb. 5 incident in Gates Lounge. Leggeii in 1966 Playboy Called ”Printed Aphrodisiac“ 011 October 5, 1966 after attending his first meeting of the ADM as president of Grinneil, Leggett made the following statement in reaction to a speech given at the meeting: "I can agree that it might be lnterest~ ing to bring Playboy into the classroom as a sociological document; maybe it is part of the liberal education of our slur dents. But somewhere toward the end of the class hour we ought to have ar- rived at the point of saying that Playboy is essentially a printed aphrodisiac for dirty old men and [or sleepless young men who will grow into dirty old men it they continue to think that women are so simple and sex so free and clear." “All this may seem far removed from student value systems and student un- rest but my point is that I think our job in undergraduate liberal arts colleges is to create an environment that will per- mit the development oi effective and re- sponsible value systems in our students, and that this belief ought to be the con- ditioning agent in out attitudes toward our various constituencies, oi which students, or course, an the chiei." of eleven witnesses to testiiy at the five hour hearing. Under Iowa law the prosecution may elect to call witnesses to testify despite a defense waiver of the right to a preliminary hearing, Sub. poenas issued by Justice of the Peace Lincoln were served on a total of twenty people at the request of the prosecution. Several of the subpoenas were Issued only hours before the witnesses were ordered to appear. Among those persons who testified at the hearing were Dean of Students Alice HELP Mary Malcolm is trying to compile a list of all those present at the Gates Hall demonstration. Please put your name in box 646 or call ext. 355 if you were there. it may be helpful in the defense. Low, and Assistant Deans Douglas Ensa minger and Susie Angenti. James Carr. an employee oi United Press Interna- tional in Des Moines, emerged from the court room after twenty minutes of testfying and remarked, “What a farce!" Grinnell Police Chief Bill Peters and Grinnell detective Larry Ray were the first two witnesses called by Enich. Photographers Henry Wilhelm and Krys- tyna Neuman were also called to testify before a noon recess. Grinnell students called to testify were S.G.A. President Tom Thomas, 5&1! Editor Susan Kaeser, and Jim Lew. Shortly after Chief Peters, the first witness, began his testimony, the coun- sel [or the defense made a motion that the courtroom be cleared 01 all specta. tors and newsmen. Justice of the Peace Lincoln granted the motion and newsmen were barred from the courtroom tor the remainder of the proceedings. The five defendants have retained Des Mollles attorney Dan Johnston as their counsel, but Le Tourneau, his part- ner, handled the defense yesterday be< cause Johnston had a speaking engage< ment in another state. Johnston is the Democrat who was defeated by Attorney General Richard Turner in the last 9130‘ tion. Asked whether he had produced enough evidence during the hearing to insure a conviction, County Attorney Enich said, “You always hope you have but you never know." Enich was aid in yesterday's prosecution by Assistant Attorney General Douglas Carlson and Robert Alvine of the Attorney General'l ofiice, At the close of the hearing the statd rested its case and a routine motion by detense that charges be dropped will denied. After the hearing Le Tourneau commented that the purpose of pro< ceeding with the hearing despite the de- tense waiver was to provide the prose: cution with "just more information" than it already had, Persons subpoenaed and summoned t] HEARING—- Conalnued on Page I. Column I