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32 Media L. Notes 1 (2003-2004)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts32 and id is 1 raw text is: Media Law Notes Vol. 32, No. I Law Division, AEJMC Fall 2003 Accident claims incoming division head Michael Perkins, 45, dies while kayaking shortly after AEJMC convention By Herb Strentz Drake University Michael Perkins, who was to lead the Law Division during 2003-04, died in a boating accident scarcely two weeks after the AEJMC convention in Kansas City. Perkins, head of the communications department of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, was on a family vacation along the Salmon River in the Idaho wilderness when he was drowned Aug. 14 in a kayaking accident, He was 45. Perkins joined BYU in 1999 after serving 10 years as a faculty member in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He was associate dean for three of those years at Drake. In his 14 inside With plagiarism, why is key: 3 S.E. Colloquium heads to Tampa: 3 Task force to examine IRBs: 4 Legal bibliography: 6 Non-legal bibliography: 7 years in higher education, he was one of the rising leaders in AEJMC and was building a strong record of scholarship in law, in ethics and in the press of South America. Perkins had the rare quality of blending his characteristic optimism and enthusiasm with equal measures of integrity, substance and perspective. His service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints blended with his journalism interests in ethics and law, and his two-year church mission in Guatemala, beginning when he was 19, laid a foundation for his scholarship on South American journalism 15 to 20 years later. Karen Markin of the University of Rhode Island, who had worked with Perkins in the Law Division and who is By Penelope B. Summers, Ph.D. Northern Kentucky University Psunmners96@aol.com Summerspb@nku.edu We've hardly left Kansas City and it is already time to start planning for the Toronto convention next year. Law division sessions in Kansas City were well attended, with an average of 30 at each panel session, excluding the plagiarism mini-plenary, which drew more than 90 people. This kind of participation is a reflection of all the hard work you did putting together excellent panels, making contacts, and getting funding for speakers. The high caliber of research papers also drew a good response, and the scholar to scholar session in which the division participated played to a packed room. In the interests of continuity, Wat Hopkins has agreed to serve again as editor of Communication Law & Policy, and I have agreed to serve another year as scheduled to become division head next year, said, He was a pleasure to work with, and I was looking forward to another year of collaboration while he served as head of the division- ... Michael was generous, optimistic and responsible, and did a lot for the division. ... He also managed to keep a sense of humor and perspective about everything. We will miss him deeply. The Law Division will go on, but we will sorely miss his optimistic, collaborative style of leadership. Penny Summers ofNorthern Kentucky University, who preceded Perkins as division head and who agreed to serve an extra year in Perkins' place, said, Mike See Perkins, 5 Head otes division head. Karen Markin, Rhode Island, is vice head and Tony Fargo, UNLV, is media law clerk. A lot of issues will confront us this next year that will lend themselves to lively discussion at next year's convention, and they're already lining up in what could be classified as either entertainment or news, depending on the perspective. With the Federal Communications Commission Mass Media Bureau's September declaratory ruling that The Howard Stern Show is a bona fide news interview program, we may see a plethora of celebrity candidates promoting their elections through media vehicles not available to all candidates. See Summers, 8 The FCC further blurs the line between news and entertainment

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