AG dream spellbinds youngsters
Frohnmayer examines democracy
By Andy Sorensen
Emerald Contributor
State Attorney General Dave
Frohnmayer's dream effectively
captured the attention of his
middle school audience.
Frohnmayer related the story
of a governor who banned all
rock music because some of the
songs attacked his government.
During the account of his
dream, two students, John and
Sally, taped the outlawed mu
sic from a neighboring state
and wrote down the lyrics.
The students distributed
copies of these lyrics at school
and organized students to wear
armbands to protest the ban.
Their efforts were crushed,
however, when the governor
heard about the protest and
sent the police in to stop them.
|ohn tried to make a break for
it but was shot in the leg and
hauled away: Sally ate copies
of the lyrics before her arrest;
the police pumped her stomach
to retrieve the evidence; the
school expelled all students
wearing armbands.
Sally went to trial and. to her
horror, the presiding judge was
the arresting officer, and it was
at this point that Frohnmayer
said he woke up.
His dream had turned into a
But he used this dream to il
lustrate to the 300 middle
school students, participating
in the Lane County Bar Associ
ation's commemoration of Law
Day U.S.A. that they needed to
realize the “things you do here
might be harder to do in other
countries."
Frohnmayer, whose topic
was "Access to )ustice: You
Can Change the Law,” was the
keynote speaker at a mock trial
held at Springfield High
School.
The trial featured a celebrity
panel of jurors, including Uni
versity men's basketball coach
Don Monson. KMTR-TV report
er Stacy Waters, and wheel
chair athlete Craig Blanchette,
a bronze medal winner in the
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other countries, Frohnmayer
said.
During a visit to Prague.
(Czechoslovak ia. Frohnmaver
said he and his wife were
shocked at seeing soldiers with
submachine guns stopping peo
ple "willy nilly. asking for pa
pers."
In (China, students are de
manding democratic rights, he
said
Frohnmayer said that in the
Soviet Union, photocopying
machines an* under look and
key and personal computers
cannot hr! officially sold. Both
measures, he said, prevent any
attempts to communicate with
groups of people — one of the
basic rights we enjoy.
“The sharing of ideas outside
of official channels is detrimen
tal to the totalitarian state." he
said
But could the dream Krohn
ntayer describe happen here;
Certainly not. he said.
"Students' rights don't end
at the schoolhouse door."
Frohnmayer said while analyz
ing his dream
Students can wear bla< k arm
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bands, thanks to Tinker vs.
Iowa, a decision that allowed
students to wear armbands in
protest of the Vietnam war In
addition, students' lin kers can
not Ih* kicked in. and the police
cannot lawfully pump a sus
pect's stomach for evidence, he
said.
The Governor could not leg
islate a law because of the sepa
ration of powers outlined in the
Constitution, adding that even
the legislature cannot pass a
law Imnning rock music be
cause it violates a person's free
dom of speech.
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