PORTE: There's a separate question of the tape recorder.

HAUSLER: I think we can just let the reporter take notes.

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SHEPPARD: What difference does the tape recorder make?

WILSON: Frankly, I feel it's a rather important one, It's the difference, for example, between a press conference on the record and a press conference that's paraphrased.

PORTE: I think that's true. I, for example, would not authorize a tape recording to be used publicly of what you said and what I said. Do you agree?

WILSON: Just as the student has the privilege of denying us the right to release without his permission what is said here, except in the case when we are recording because the person has announced his intention to report in the CRIMSON what is said. I just don't see how we can continue with the present hearing.

PORTE: I don't think we can. I think we should reschedule the hearings.

HAUSLER: What if we asked these guys, if we can accept the idea of having a reporter-advisor, and they don't insist on the tape recorder, why can't we go ahead and continue?

WILSON: Do you think the tape recorder is essential? It's not proved essential to most other cases.

SHEPPARD: I think it's important to have a tape recorder. I think it relates in a let of ways to the reasons why most trials are held in public, why most trials aren't held in closed sessions.

WILSON: This isn't a trial, this isn't a criminal court. This is a disciplinary body of the University which is a free and private association, and it's trying to decide who among its members should be among its members. We don't follow the rules of a criminal court, we don't swear in witnesses, we don't exclude hearsay evidence, we don't exclude irrelevant matters...

SHEPPARD: I think the reason still remains that it's the protection of my rights to a fair hearing to have the matter available as evidence in case I think I haven't...

HAUSLER: If we make a tape and that tape is available and potentially a transcript is available on any disputed questions of fact, that would seem to solve that.

SHEPPARD: I'd have a lot more faith in the recording that I made.