Miami Hurricane, December 01, 1972

              Pot Legalization Sought
By BILL QUINN
Hurricane Reporter
The Washington Post reported that the Consumers Union, an independent, nonprofit organization known for its testing and rating of commercial products has advocated the complete legalization of marijuana.
“It is much too late to debate the issue," the organization said at the conclusion of a lengthy report on drug in the U.S. “Marijuana is here to stay, no conceiveablc law enforcement program can curb its’ availability."
The report proposed that all existing State and federal laws concerning marijuana be repealed and new ones enacted regulating the “cultivation, processing and orderly marketing" of the drug. This would be under the supervision of a national commission.
The recommendation puts the Consumers Union at the front of the drive to revise marijuana laws.
A presidential commission, the American Bar Association, and the American Medical Association have all agreed that the present marijuana laws are too stringent, but the reforms they propose would still classify it as an illegal drug.
A spokesman for the Ford Foundation-funded Drug Abuse Council said that the Consumer’s Union is the first national organization to urge full legalization.
“The report looks good, very thorough,” said Dr. Thomas Bryant, head of the council, “with a group of this kind, it is bound to upgrade the public discussion."
Forcing the addict into the life style of a criminal of the black market, says the Consumers Union, is what aggravates the drug problem both for the public and the users. Accordingly, the report recommends that all addicts be able to receive narcotics legally under a carefully planned program.
The organization also urges greater public notice of the dangers of drink. The promotion and advertising of alcohol should be prohibited, the report says warnings of the kind used on cigarette packages should be affixed to all labels.
The Consumers Union believes that much of the emphasis on drugs today is misplaced. The dangers of marijuana are over stressed, while the harmful effects of
alcohol are too often forgotten.
In urging the legalization of the drug, the Consumers Union proposes that it be classified and handled the same way as alcohol.
“We do not recommend the legalization because we believe the drug to be safe or harmless". “Our recommendation arises out of the conviction that an orderly system of legal distribution and licit use, will have notable advantages for both users and non-users over the present black market,” the report said.
“It will end the criminalization and alienation of young people, and the damage done to them by arrest, conviction and imprisonment for marijuana offenses," the report said.
As a first step towards re-
writing the laws, the Consumers Union proposes that everyone now serving prison terms for marijuana possession be freed and their records expunged.
Last February a Hurricane Poll revealed that 73% of the UM student body had tried marijuana at least once. The validity of the poll was questioned by Dr. William Butler, vice president of student affairs and Ray Bellamy, last year’s Student Body Government president.
“I wouldn’t want to rely on a Hurricane Poll,” Butler said in an interview with the Miami Herald.
Results of a second study two weeks later conducted by Dr. Carroll V. Truss, UM psychology professor, substantiated the Hurricane's Poll, disclosing a total of between 74-77% UM students had previously tried marijuana.
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Exercise
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As part of the University’s effort to get everyone physically fit, classes in the lively art of Slimnastics are being held in the Flamingo Ballroom of the Student Union. The program has been in existance for over a month and has attracted about thirty students, faculty members, and University employees who meet during their lunch hours and evening to exercise to music with special dances. Everyone is invited to participate in the program.
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SBG Supreme Court OK's Schwartz Again
By DEBBIE SAMUELSON
News Editor
The Student Body Government (SBG) Supreme Court, in its first session this se-
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mester, unanimously decided that the Student Rights Chairman is not a member of the cabinet and that Andy Schwartz, chairman of that committee, would be able to hold his position while being a member of the senate.
This was the second time Schwartz’s chairmanship was in question. He was recalled by the senate earlier this semester but was immediately reconfirmed.
Arguments for SBG were presented by Kevin Poeppel-man, speaker of the senate. Poeppelman said that under the new comstitution, no individual may hold more than one elected or appointed position.
Schwartz contended that the constitution had only partially been put into effect
and he cited that the position of SBG secretary has been eliminated under the new constitution but will not be phased out until April.
The court questioned Schwartz as to conflict of interest between the two positions and his capacity to devote sufficient time serving in both capacities.
Since the responsibilities of the Student Rights Chairman will be assigned to the Vice-President of SBG in April after the spring elections, this decision concerning Schwartz will not set a precedent for future Student Rights Chairmen.
In other decisions the court voted to recommend the ratification of the new SBG constitution by the entire undergraduate student body.
By CHUCK GOMEZ
Of Thu Hurriesnt Staff
Affirmative action is what Ted Nichols, a special assistant to Dr. Henry King Stanford, believes is needed to improve job opportunities for minorities and women on campus.
So much in fact that Nichols dubbed “Affirmative Action” as the name for the program he has steered for two years now. Through it, UM is involved in a federal program to rid the campus of job discrimination.
In part, the “Affirmative Action" plan calls for establishing a diverse staff and a “multi-ethnic faculty capable of providing for the excellence in the education of its students and of contributing to the enrichment of the global community.”
At UM Nichols and assistant Silvia Huber questioned 140 department chairmen who decide who gets hired or moved up the ladder among faculty members and administrators.
The government gives $30 million to the University through a grant. Any or all of it could be taken away at a moment’s notice if cases of rash discrimination sprang up.
The biggest thrust of the program so far has been easing the problem of job discrimination, especially among women, in top faculty and administration spots. However, in many areas Nichols’ reports show percentages not exactly in minorities favor.
Among some of the most dramatic deficiencies:
• The male-female faculty
Sign-Up
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Ibis, for the last time this year is offering students the opportunity to have their portraits in the yearbook.
All students from all classes are urged to sign-up at the Union Breezeway window this afternoon ’til 4:00 p.m. and this evening from 7:00-9:00.
Further information can be obtained at the Ibis office S229 of the Whitten Union.
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ratio is 84 per cent male to ¡6 per cent female.
•	Minorities account for only 10 per cent of the 354 administrators. Four per cent are black, 30 per cent women.
•	Of UM’s 13 deans, Dr. Gwendoline MacDonald, dean of the School of Nursing, is the only woman.
•	Only one of UM’s 75 department heads — Dr. Carolyn Garwood in Educational Psychology — is a female.
•	Of the 87 faculty women, only 16 per cent are professors, 40 per cent are associate professors and 21,
less than two per cent of the total faculty, are instructors.
Of course there have been inroads too. When UM vice-presidents last year saw some discrepancies in salaries among men and women performing the same job, changes were quick in coming.
Eighteen faculty women received adjustments in pay ranging from $400 to $2,000 and 29 women administrators received raises from $300 to $1,000 a year.
The minority composition at UM isn’t unlike many large universities across the nation. At the close of the '72
spring semester, there were 1,004 full time faculty members, 10 per cent of whom qualified as “minority groups” by federal standards. The breakdown includes blacks, orientals, American Indians, and persons with Spanish surnames.
At UM 15 fulltime faculty members are black; 25 are oriental, two are American Indians and 59 have Spanish surnames.
“Affirmative Action" has worked to equalize job opportunities for women through grievance committees, revamping the present nepotism regulation; and new maternity leave proce-
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Polls Open Soon ■For SBG Elections
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By HERB GREENBERG
Of Th« Ent#rUinm«nt Staff
Fall Student Body Government (SBG) elections will be held next Thursday and Friday December 7 and 8, from 9:00 to 4:00. in the lower lounge of the Student Union.
Students will cast their ballots for student senate races, Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) seats and a Florida Public Interest Research Group (FPIRG) referendum.
Senate races are divided
New Charter
Checks SEC
By Chuck Gomez
Of Thu Hurncunu Stuff
A revised Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) constitution that would put a damper on the role of chairman will come before Student Body Government (SBG) Senators next week.
Kevin Poeppelman, senate speaker, said that if passed, there would be a greater stress on the role of individual committee members rather than the delegation of power left solely with the chairman of SEC.
“Right now the role of chairman is the most powerful and authoritative of any student position, but I don't feel the role is being handled correctly," Poeppelman said.
Poeppleman added that provisions in the revised SEC Constitution would save students money in the long run.
Last year, Poeppleman said, SEC was spending close to $600 on unnecessary expenditures.
The new constitution would call for differences including:
•	Giving members of the committee an equal vote in deciding which concerts are to be booked
•	Making it mandatory
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for SEC members to be present when bookings are decided, and not just leave it to the Chairman's discretion.
•	Establishing a University set-up group to plan concerts at a fixed rate rather than pay students arbitrarily.
•	Expelling from the University any student found involved in any "financial irregularities”.
In a meeting last week with William Sheeder, SBG advisor, Dr. William Butler, vice-president for student affairs, and Kay Whitten, faculty advisor of SEC, it
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by residence areas: off campus, Mahoney-Pearson, 960 complex, 1968 complex, Eaton Hall and the apartment area. Students will only be able to vote for candidates representing their resident area.
In addition to resident areas, two freshman at-large senate seats and two sophomore at-large senate seats are open. Freshmen and sophomores will be able to vote for these seats, respectively.
Eight students are in contention for the two SEC seats.
There will be only one referendum question on this year’s ballot.
The Student Body Government (SBG) Senate approved Monday, a request from the Florida Public Interest Research Group (FPIRG) that a referendum question be included on the December 7 and 8 ballot, asking students to support a funding system for the UM chapter of FPIRG.
Students will be asked to vote "for” or “against" the referendum, which will ask students to tax themselves, $1.50 in order to set up FPIRG at UM.
FPIRG’s primary goal was to get the endorsement of 50% (4,400) full-time UM undergraduates, by December 6, through a petition drive. 3,000 signatures have already been collected.
FPIRG member Tom Bod-den said the referendum is being used, in addition to the petition drive because, "we interpreted the SBG Constitution to mean that we had to go by the referendum.”
If the turnout at the polls is less than the number of persons who signed the petitions, and the referendum is voted down, Bodden said: “We would continue the petition drive and seek direct ne-
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dures as well as promotion guidelines.
Dr. Henry King Stanford, in attempting to follow through with the program, has said the university must look for qualified women to fill top posts; such as Law School Dean and the Board of Trustees.
But perhaps the real progress has been in the actual hiring of women and minorities. Last year the goal was set by the academic departments to hire 17 minority faculty members. Twenty-nine received jobs.
Such figures suggest that progress, although encouraging on many fronts, is slow in coming. Feminist Roxcy Bolton made this point quite clear when she and a band of women marched into Dr. Stanford's office October 23 demanding that women receive fairer treatment in job and promotion opportunities at UM.
As Marjorie Abrams, assistant student personnel dean and a member of the UM Women’s Commission put it, "One can quarrel over her tactics, but Ms. Bolton served as a catalyst for much of the progress being made in women’s and minorities behalf.”
Pub’s
Elections
The Board of Student Publications will be holding elections for the positions of Hurricane Editor and Associate Editor, Truck Magazine Editor and Associate Editor and Business Manager of Student Publications. These positions are open to undergraduates only.
Applications are also being sought for the position of manager of the Student Publications Graphics Lab. Both graduates and undergraduates are eligible for this position.
Deadlines for filing are as follows: incumbents-Decem-ber 13 and non-incumbents-December 15. All applicants must contact George South-worth, senior adviser of student publications, to arrange for an appointment for screening.
Elections will be held on January 10, at 3:00 p.m. in room S-245 of the Whitten
Union.
Applications and further information may be obtained in room S-221 of the Whitten
Union.
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