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For Schrader the ethics in question have nothing whatsoever to do with printing or not printing an article critical of a fellow Rotarian.

She had violated a closed meeting. She sneaked in at the back of the room. I left myself wide open to a lawsuit."

As a point of law under Arizona's open-meeting statutes, O'Halleran had every journalistic right to attend Dr. Walker's secret gathering. When Schrader discusses O'Halleran's ego, however, he begins to get at whatever it was that stuck in his craw. She's more creating the news than disseminating it. At one point in the lunch she said to me, `Maybe you don't know who I am.'

That's the wrong thing to say to your publisher. She became too immersed in her stories."

To Schrader, a worldly Midwesterner, the entire Yavapai Community College flap is a bit mysterious.

The faculty appears to be arguing for the sake of arguing. Some of the students think things are going fine. There are some rabble-rousers. It almost seems, `What's the fight about?' In all honesty, it's blown out of proportion."

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