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IC Sentinel adviser Niu Rosdahl filed a letter of grievance against NIC President Barry Schuler March 6. 3CCUS· ing Schuler of violating his lirs1 amendmenr rights. In his lcucr to the Facuhy Personnel Policies Committct. Rosdnhl accused Schuler of not renewing his contract for 1986-87 because "I did not con trol the Sentinel and (editor) Dan Breeden." Rosdahl was hired to teach journalism for the 198S-86 academic year while incumbent Tim Pilgrim took a year's leave of absence to pur~ue an additional degree. Pilgrim wrote a letter to Schuler on Feb. 22, requC$ling 10 return to NIC as an instructor of spe«h and/ or English. Rosdnhl also wrote a leucr asl.ing to remain as journalism instructor. English department chair Virginia Tinsley Johnson favorably cndor~ed both requests in a Feb. 24 letter to Schuler. Rosdahl's problems "ith Schuler began "''ilh nn editorial by Breeden in the Sept. IJ Sentinel, detailing the president's use of IC facilities for hi\ daughter's wedding-at some e..~pcnse 10 the college :ibove the S100 use fee he originally paid. Aroirding to Rosdahl, Schuler summoned him twice during the fall semester to dis· cuss his di,plcasure with the tenor of certain article, in the Sentinel. "I "'.U warned abour the 'lack of con· 1101 I had exh1b11cd with rhe lim 1~uc of 1he Sentinel,"' Rosdnhl said. "Presi· dem Schuler ulso indicated that both he a.ad the Board of Trustees feel 1h01 by naming me publuher of the Sentinel, I 11,ould oe able to then exm more control over the contents of the paper." Rosdahl s3id that he advised Schuler that a publisher may not lawfully control a public institution's student press (~t ··Grievonct" Pogc 2)