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University Lecture focuses on censorship Bob Evans quit editorship after brush with coercion By Pat Malach time-ala Reporter Robert Kvans. .1 newspaper editor in Northeast Oregon spoke at the Pniversitv Thurs day about the issues of i ensor ship and coercion within the field of journalism “When (I was) called up to do this I thought. ‘What, me. come down here and speak to vou about m\ experience?' he cause it's not like I'm anything great, special or have a unique story to tell, it's |ust that I got thrown into a situation and I re spondee! in a c ertain wav and that became the story." Kvans said Kvans is currently the pub lisher and editor of The Joseph Eagle He resigned from his po sition as editor of the Wallowa County Chieftain after Ins edi torial writing responsibilities were taken away by the pub lisher. The publisher of the1 Chief tain asked Kvans to remove <1 store and editorial from the pa per about a pro-timber industry group that had misused a 1 nun tv hulk mailing rate to send a politic al letter Kvans refused and the pub lisher left the1 dec ision up to hi lli lle said licit up until that time the publisher had shown no interest in controlling the editorial content or direc tion ot the paper The next Monday Kvans was c ailed into the publisher's ol tiro 1 went hue k there and asked him it he was going to call me on the 1 arpet tor what I had written Kvans said He said I'm not 1 ailing vou on the 1 ar pet .' He completely avoided it and went into (saying) that what he had dec ided was that the paper had been missing the deadline for the last c ouple of weeks He said he dec ided that he had been out of journalism * MJNDCRUUfD * GREAT fOR PARTIES AND BIRTHDAYS 54*vinrn all games work F,,MtU WITHNICKELS GAMES ADMISSION M SO \1 STH STREET PUBLIC MARIET EUGENE >113 14*4 long enough .Hid he wasn't burnt out anymore and as of that week he was relieving me of m\ editorial page duties lie said he was taking over the edi tonal page because it was one ol the pages that was usualh late " Kvans said he later learned that the countv judge that had been mentioned in the editorial and storv because she had in llueiiced a postal ( lerk to allow the hulk rate use and hei ause sht“ had told Kvans that "II I went to hat on this it would have adverse effects on the pa per." phoned the publisher and asked him to ' i he< k oul' Kv ans' editorials Kvans said he turned in his letter of resignation that same day K.iiIut than moving on to ,m other job in .1 different area, 1a ,111s, with the help of .1 hank loan, started /'he losrph k<l,ult\ a weekly paper with a i.ircula turn of 1 JIM) 1a ans said there has been some pressure from the timber industry to nominee advertis ei s to hove ott his paper 1 le said one of his advertisers had been approached and told that people were "disappointed'' that the business had adver tised with him loans said he feels airing controversies is healthy lor a community He said it you open up the debates and "let the people have at it" you are going to have the best dei ision 1 started doing that and It made some people on main street mad because it chal lenged their position, hvans said Correction In Thursday's 1st Als col umn. il was mistakenly re ported that the Recreation and Intramurals game ot the week would he shown to day Mso Thursday William Moore's commentary should have read. 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