talked with Mr. Flannery about what was going on down there and Bob 

 indicated that he had had no telephone calls. He didn't even know this 

 was going on, but I want to use this as an example of some of the 

 problems that can be created and I think, in some cases, necessarily. 

 I think that some of these things can't be avoided. What has really 

 been going on in northern Utah is after that news release was put out 

 by USD Information Services--and I don't know whether all of you 

 understand how most universities operate--they have their own news 

 service. At the Herald Journal in Logan, we depend on that news 

 service very, very much and we have a ot of respect for the people 

 who work there. They have credibility with us. We very seldom, for 

 example, have to rewrite their news releases and incidentially , Bill, 

 ever now and again you have to rewrite people's news releases. 

 Everybody doesn't write them as well as you do. What the real problem 

 here is, a problem of image for a university. And that's a thorny 

 situation. I'd like to talk about it for just a minute here. 



The College of Natural Resources is where Dr. Shanks has been 

 teaching for several years. The news release is literally pregnant with 

 all kinds of great phrases. "Masked by patriotic fervor and fueled by 

 hysteria and paranoia, is the way Dr. Bernard Shanks describes the 

 Sagebrush Rebellion." That's Dr. Shanks point of view on the 

 Sagebrush Rebellion, and as such, it's perfectly valid. What happened 

 is that the news releases appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune and The 

 Desert News, a day ahead of the Herald Journal. The Utah Farm 

 Bureau people in Salt Lake apparently came unglued. They fell right 

 off the wall and after rebounding from the wall, they went to Logan. 

 They contacted the department head at the USU at the College of 

 Agriculture. The didn't even make the connection between Dr. Shanks 

 and the College of Natural Resources. Okay. What's happened as a 

 result of all this is that the administraion at USU has decided at this 

 point that all news releases written by USU Information Services on the 

 Sagebrush Rebellion--and I guess they decided to toss in the MX missile 

 issue, which is something else we're a little concerned with in 



