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WTJU Program
Director Mike Leech reported
the incident Friday morning to
SAC Chairman D. Alan
Williams, Vice President for
Student Affairs. Mr. Williams
said later, "I told him that they
had the opportunity like any
other student in a case like this
against other students, to take
the matter to the Judiciary
Committee."

Mr. Bourdow said
yesterday, that WTJU is
considering filing a complaint
with the Judiciary
Committee against the three,
but any action is "up in the air
right now. We will decide
Tuesday or Wednesday
whether to make a formal
complaint or statement."

Mr. Carlisle dismissed
the implication of conspiracy
among the three as
"ludicrous, gossip column
material", and said he believed
there was no foundation for
charges.

Mr. Williams could not be
reached for comment.

Mr. Bourdow conjectured
that Mr. Williams may have
been looking through the files
to locate irregularities in the
station's records, a source of
possible violations of Federal
Communications Commission
(FCC) regulations governing
radio programming. Mr.
Carlisle said, however, that his
and Mr. White's appeals were
on constitutional grounds
rather than over violations of
FCC regulations. There have
been "much more flagrant
violations on the part of other
organizations," he added,
denying any attempt to single
out WTJU.

Mr. Carlisle said he had
only met Mr. Williams for the
second time Thursday night,
the first time being when Mr.
Williams appeared before the
SAC to offer testimony
against WTJU receiving
student funds.

"As to what he is doing
with Chris, I don't know," Mr.
Carlisle said. "The animosity is
great enough (between Mr.
White and Mr. Williams and
WTJU) that nothing would
surprise me," he added.

Mr. Leech also noted that
the station's master program
log, containing the week's
records, was taken from the
computer center in Gilmer
Hall and has been missing
since Friday afternoon.

Mr. White and Mr. Carlisle
both denied any knowledge of
the missing material. "I would
be very surprised if they were
stolen," Mr. Carlisle said. "I
would be very surprised if
they were stolen," Mr. Carlisle
said. "The fact that they are
missing is surprising in itself."

He added that any
implications of a conspiracy
against WTJU among the three
were an "exercise in paranoia
that I didn't know exists over
there."