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...Mobster Mickey Cohen both graced one of last week's shows with filmed interviews, she on what thrills, he on forged wills. The zest of MetroNews comes from the ham and hard-boiled-egg match-up of extrovert Anchor Man Charles Rowe, 37, and Reporter-Inquisitor Charles Ashman, 40. A bionic-perfect baritone, Rowe is the ideal foil for Ashman, a sardonic "everyman" who shows up each night with yesterday's stubble. Operating in a seedy city-room set torn from The Front Page, they go about earning the sobriquet given them by miffed competitors: the "outhouse news...
...Glen Ashman Decatur...
...Instead, Ashman got a job teaching political science at California's University of the Pacific in 1968. He left five months later, apparently when the university discovered that he was a Florida parole violator. Undaunted, Ashman won a pardon and in 1969 began soliciting donations from San Francisco businessmen to launch what he called the American Public Affairs Foundation. It soon collapsed: the Better Business Bureau issued a warning that he was misrepresenting himself. Riverside University hired Ashman 16 months later...
...Family. Riverside President George Holgate's response to the expose was immediate: Ashman will not be fired. "Surely freedom of the press is no license to destroy," wrote Holgate in the school paper. He believes that "professors should feel confidence that once they join the university family, people will stand by them...
Despite Riverside University's confidence in him, Dean Ashman still has problems. Donations to the young institution have dropped off since the article appeared, and the law school is still seeking accreditation by state bar examiners. President Holgate is unconcerned. If the school does not make it this time, he says, there will always be a second chance. But whether the examiners will offer that chance, when the law dean is an ex-convict, is anybody's guess...