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Junior Class President Duane Bartsch's remark followed his presentation of plans for a community-wide carnival. Someone asked Bartsch what the role of the fraternities would be, and he responded "to bring booths," the Columbia Spectator reported...
...Bartsch told The Spectator, "Someone misunderstood that and said `booze?' and I said `Yeah, right'--it was very sarcastic--`sure, booze, crack and dirty needles...
Eventually, the chairman called for a forum to hear the complaints. A BSO member denounced Bartsch's comment as "racist and outrageous." Bartsch apologized to the BSO and agreed to write letters of apology that the group requested. GEORGETOWN...
...have one place left in the world where a man can speak freely and not fear retribution." Why should a man not be punished for murder? The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in encouraging the abrogation of individual responsibility: but the monstrous immorality of its stand in the Bartsch case demonstrates too well what effect official sanction of such abrogation can have...
Essential to Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and confessional secrecy. On purely practical grounds, they contend, the secret confession probably prevents far more crimes than it hides, by providing an emotional outlet for disturbed persons...