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Welcome to UO's online dorms How, can I top st year's costume? University of Oregon Law School presents 6th Annual Duck Dash & Walk (formerly the Foster Run & Walk) What: 5K Run, Walk & Wheelchair to benefit the Tom Foster Memorial Scholarship Fund When: Homecoming Weekend - October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m. W herd Start: Hayward Field, University of Oregon Campus Finish: University of Oregon School of Law Pri/es: Awards for the first male, female and masters winners; ribbons to 3-deep age division winners. Random pri/.e drawings! To Register: www.goodrace.com, or register in person at Run Pro (525 High St, Eugene) or The Step Beyond (3365 E Amazon, Eugene). Questions? Cali (541) 346-3970. 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Today, the School of Journalism and Communication and the School of Law will recognize the 40th anniversary of the decision, as well as its impact on the media, with a conference titled “New York Times v. Sullivan: Forty Years Af ter.” The conference runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Knight Law Center and is free for students and fac ulty and $20 for community members. The history behind New York Times v. Sullivan begins with a full page advertisement run in the New York Times, which alleged that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s arrest in Mont gomery, Ala., was part of a plot to de ter King’s campaign from encouraging blacks to vote and to integrate segre gated public facilities. Because the ad vertisement contained factual errors, Montgomery’s city commissioner, L.B. Sullivan, filed a suit for libel and won $500,000, claiming that he had been defamed by the advertisement. The case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. The legal question raised was whether public officials had to prove that they were personally harmed by publications they allege to be libelous. In the end, the case was over turned, and it was determined that for a public official or a public figure to claim libel, they had to prove that the allegedly libelous material was created with actu al malice, that is, intent to harm. “The good news is that it provides protection for journalists,” said SOJC Dean Timothy Gleason. “The bad news is that it allows judges and juries to intrude into newsrooms, and that has a poten tially chilling ef fect.” Gleason will participate in a panel dis cussion explor ing how the de cision has affected news rooms. Appel late Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of Nashville, Tenn., will deliv er the keynote address, titled “Government Has Not Ended Controls on Free Speech,” at the conference. Mer ritt, who is one NEW YORK TIMES V. SULLIVAN (1964) Argued: January 6,1964 Decided: March 9,1964 Chief Justice: Earl Warren Question Presented: Was Alabama’s libel law, which did not require Montgomery City Commissioner L.B. Sullivan to prove that a New York Times advertisement personally harmed him, in violation of the First Amendment? Conclusion: The First Amendment protects the publi cation of all statements, even false ones, unless the statements are made with malice - that is, with the intent to harm the person that the statement concerns, or if the statements published are knowingly false or in reckless disre gard of their truth or falsity. Source: oyez.org oi 13 experts chosen to help rebuild Iraq’s judicial system, has publicly criticized the Coalition Provisional Authority for its issuing of gag orders. Other participants include Oregon ian Editor Sandra Mims Rowe, Wash ington Post Associate Editor and Columnist David Ignatius, LA Times Deputy General Counsel and Vice Pres ident Karlene Goller and Register Guard Managing Editor Dave Baker. Political Science Associate Professor Julie Novkov, who will moderate a panel discussion, explained the signifi cance of the case today. “Basically, if the press is not protect ed ... then it’s difficult for the media to act as independent sources of informa tion and verifiers of information given to us by the government,” she said. Law Professor Garrett Epps said me decision, even 4U years after the fact, re mains extremely relevant to modern journalists. “This is not legal histo ry. New York Times v. Sullivan is the daily stock and trade of every work ing journalist,” he said. Epps himself benefited from the protections af forded by the Sullivan de cision. When he started a paper in Richmond, Va., he said he encountered abrasive public officials that made his job difficult. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. wrote the majority opinion for the case, and his words re main nearly immortalized. “Thus, we consider this case against the back ground of a profound na tional commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be unin hibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp at tacks on government and public offi cials,” he said. moriahbalingit@ daily emerald. com IN BRIEF Ralph Nader to tout "Crashing the Party" Independent presidential candi date Ralph Nader will make a cam paign stop in Eugene on Sunday to promote himself as a viable alterna tive to presidential front-runners George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry. Although Nader will not appear on the Oregon state ballot this Novem ber, he is still eligible as a write-in candidate. On Sept. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Nader’s ap peal of a controversial Sept. 22 Ore gon Supreme Court ruling that pre vented him from appearing on the state ballot. In September, the state court had ruled that Secretary of State Bill Brad bury was within the law when he in validated about 3,000 of the nearly 18,000 signatures Nader supporters had gathered, leaving them just shy of the 15,306 needed to assure him a spot on the ballot. The speech will begin at 8 p.m. and will be held at the McDonald Theatre Downtown, located at 1010 Willamette St. A $10 donation for general admission and a $5 donation for students is suggested. The speech will be followed by a book signing for Nader’s new book, “Crashing the Party.” — Parker Howell Virtual Office Systems .,ef SufPlies &?<ro<rt>«ir ’ Accessones • $?**(? tfP ,eP&S* Motherboards. 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