Miami Hurricane, March 27, 1973

              Alcohol Calk'd (»realost Sozial Hazard
National Drug Abuse Program Called Inefj
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Commission Urges Overall Drug (.ontrol Agency
By CHUCK GOMEZ
AmocI«)« editor
Alcohol js the nation’s leading drug problem, the federal drug commission annoanced Thursday.
Surprisingly, heroin was listed second and marijuana ran far back.
Efforts hy the government to discourage drug use are disorganized, the panel said, and based on public misconceptions.
In fact the government may be making matters worse instead of better, the panel reported.
It called for a new federal anti-drug agency with sweeping powers and a limited life span. The panel also said the public, including doctors, educators, communicators, distillers, brewers, clergy and parents, have a right to do more than government if drug problems are to lessen.
The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse released the findings after spending some $1 mdlion on drug research and visiting 36 nations in a two-year investigation for Congress and President Nixon.
The commission further reported that:
•	Overuse of legal barbiturates and sedatives is America's leading drug problem. Housewives were shown to use more sedatives than other groups. Doctors should restrain prescriptions of "downers”.
•	Persons who are arrested for posession of heroin should be given treatment or counseling and jail fines provided they refuse or drop out.
•	Most present drug-information is factually wrong and shouldn’t be distributed. Much of that material dealt with false information about the harms of marijuana.
Here are the major recommendations of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse:
•	CREATE a new federal anti-drug agency to take over practically all anti-drug law enforcement, treatment and prevention. Limit its life to five years unless Congress extends it. Establish similar agencies in each state.
•	TRANSFORMING present system of punishing users to treating them. Allow treatment or counseling as an alternative to jail for simple heroin possession.
•	IMPROVE federal and state law enforce--ient through better training, better coordina-
ion, better strategies and special precautions against police corruption.
•	ESTABLISH statewide treatment pro-
Teachers and educators should consider a ban of classroom discussion on drugs, which — if reported falsely — could cause interest in drug use.
Last year the commission, made up of a largely conservative panel appointed by the President, found marijuana to be
grams paid for in large part by the federal government.
•	HALT distributing present drug information material, much of which is inaccurate. Look over future material for accuracy.
•	CONSIDER a freeze on classroom drug instruction which the commission says may stimulate youthful interest in drugs.
•	FILTER prescriptions that lead to an overuse of legal barbituates.
•	TONE down advertising of non-prescription mood-altering drugs.
Commission media should ask whether their advertising, anti-drug announcements, entertainment programs and news coverage of drugs are promoting youthful interest in drugs, the commission also said.
virtually harmless to the casual user.
The announcement — which critics say President Nixon will reject — reaffirmed that belief and held that criminal penalties be ended for smoking marijuana or possessing small quantities of it.
In both reports the commission was quick to point out that society shouldn’t prohibit drugs just because they injure the user.
If that happened, the panel said, prohibition of alcohol and tobacco should also follow.
Individuals should be free to choose whether or not to use a drug, the panel recommended.
"The most serious concern in contemporary America should attach to the use of alcohol and heroin.
“Moderate social concern should attach to the use of amphetamines, barbiturates, hallucinogens, methaqualone and cocaine,’’ the commission said.
"The use of marijuana and so called minor tranquilizers appears to require relatively minimum social concern at this time.”
The panel termed alcohol "the most serious drug problem in this country today.” It is associated with automobile accidents, suicides and job absenteeism.
Heroin, the commission said, was a serious problem because it is largely habit forming and leads to theft and prostitution as a means of paying for the expensive drug.
Criticizing the government, the panel said, “A large , federal bureaucracy has emerged (which) turns short-term programs into never ending projects.”
The panel asked for a new anti-drug agency that would absorb present law enforcement treatment. It asked that such an agency be dissolved every five years in order to prevent bureaucratic self-perpetuation.
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Hurricane Photo Bv SUE ANN MILLER
Son Of Famous Anthropological Team At l M
... describes parent’s expeditions
Leakey’s Outlines Past Discoveries
By JOHN CUDDIHY
Hurricane Reporter
Last Friday Richard Leakey, son of anthropologists, Louis and Mary Leakey,
spoke to a full house in the L.C. building.
Leakey’s parents made discoveries in East Africa which
place man’s origins perhaps two million years ago. This discovery along with many others have made the Leakeys world famous in the study of pre-history.
Richard Leakey has been acclaimed in the field of anthropology and is now working in his own right. Leakey, director of the Na-
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UM Fights Fires With Sprinklers
By DAVID TEPPS
Of The Hurricane Staff
Spurred by the fire insurance recommendations, the University will install additional emergency sprinkler systems in high-risk buildings at UM at a cost of $100,-000.
Total expense for the fire control equipment will be recouped through lower insurance rates within live ye*rs, thereby saving the UnWersity money while providing greater protection, according to UM insurance
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coordinator Orville Briscoe.
Briscoe explained that the recommendations by UM’s insurers were only routine, and that the University’s insurance is in no danger.
"Sprinkler systems are not prevalent in certain areas, thus rates are higher,” Briscoe said. “This is a matter of simple economics, while we also gain better protection against loss.”
Areas slated for installa-
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Greeks At GM
“Come see what today's fraternity is like,” John Lisk said, newly elected president of the Interfraternity Council as he leaned back in his chair smoking a cigar
Lisk, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha, plans no major changes during his administration but prefers to continue the efforts of past presidents to make the fraternity system more of an integral part of life at UM.
He plans to appoint a Social and a Rush Committee. Brad Lumis has already been appointed chairman of the proposed Rush committee.
As expected Lisk is an avid fraternity man and urgys all UM men to investigate the Greek system.
/“I believe that a man can /ind a personality similar to /his own somewhere within • the fraternities on campus if / he is only broadminded / enough to look.”
Environment Stressing Consumer Responsibility In Recycling Of Paper
By JOHN CUDDIHY
Hurricane Reporter
“Environment has made more progress this year than in any other year since the group was formed four years
Lennon
By SCHUYLER PUUFORD
Ant. Newt Editor
John Lennon, former Beatle, has been given 60 days to leave the United States voluntarily or risk being deported as an "undesirable alien.”
Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife, was also found deportable, but federal immigration judge Ira Fieldsteel granted Yoko's application to stay in this country as a permanent resident alien.
Lennon is being deported, because of a 1968 conviction in England for possession of hashish, which makes him (Lennon) inadmissable to this country as a permanent resident alien under U.S. law.
The denial of Lennon’s application leaves Yoko in a dilemma. Her only child, eight-year-old Kyoko, is the reason Yoko and John are pleading their case to stay in America. But Anthony Cox, Yoko’s first husband and father to Kyoko, does not want to release the child even though Yoko has been granted custody of her.
When their visas expired Feb. 29, 1972, Mrs. Lennon said, “If we are deported, it is synonymous to our losing the child. That is why we are so desperate about it.”
Leonard Wildes, attorney for the Lennon’s said, “They're not going to separate. My own impression from their statement is that they're staying and they’re going to see it through.”
A spokesman quoted the couple after the deportation decision as saying, "Having just celebrated our fourth anniversary, we are not prepared to sleep in separate beds. Peace and love from John and Yoko.”
ago,” Ed Frankel, president of Environment said.
Frankel and the thirty five members of Environment have been recycling glass, paper, and aluminum. Along with this they have also done research on the pollution in Lake Oseola, circulated antipollution flyers, and have set an anti-litter campaign.
The recycling center, a fenced-in complex, adjacent to the health center annex, is a collection point for reusable materials destined for recirculation. The recycling center will accept clean throwaway bottles or other similar containers sorted by colors, metal containers with or without labels, aluminum cans with rounded bottoms, clean foil items, and newspapers tied up in small bundles.
Frankel states that “we (Environment) have designed the recycling center for the convenience of the people to make it as pleasant as possible. It is also set up so that the members operating the center may obtain the highest degree of efficiency.”
One of the main concerns of the group is the decreasing price for recycled paper. The consumers are not using enough of this paper and Frankel felt that the everyday consumer is partially responsible for this decline in the paper market.
He said. “For recycling to succeed it is not only important to collect materials, but also the consumer must make use of these recycled articles.”
Frankel suggests that when shopping in supermarkets, people should be aware of materials that have been recycled, such as meat trays, egg crates and fruit containers. If these stores are presently using plastic materials instead of recycled ones, suggest to the store manager to use the recycled articles.
The bookstore is now selling a theme paper which uses at least thirty five percent reused paper and is of the same quality. Environment also plans to publish a notebook of the same recycled material which will he available to the students at a lower cost.
In the future, Environment plans to continue its efforts to expand its recycling program. Other programs are in the process of being completed.
Environment hopes that
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Refund System Initiated Hy Company To Reimburse Students
,., gelfirig money bark is still a hassla
UM Vending Machines Devour Student Funds
By JIM HOLLANDER
Hurricane Reporter
Lost money in the vending machines lately?
If you have, you probably noticed a sign on the machine informing you to go to the bookstore for a refund.
Once there, you’re directed to the cosmetics eliminate department where you’re handed an envelope to fill out
The salesperson then tells you that a representative of the vending company is supposed to come every week to place the refunds in the envelopes.
David Bird and Maria Sarasua were told that February 22. They are still waiting for the man with the money to show up.
When David Bird was contacted for comment, he had this to say, "It’s not that much money. It’s the principle of the thing. I also think that it is ridiculous to have exact change machines on campus.”
Mafia,t Sarasua was
unavailable for comment.
Another student said, “This is just another example of how students are ripped off here at dear old Sun Tan U. If students don’t start demanding their rights it will only get worse.”
One irate coed asked, “Does anything work at this school?
”1 can't think of anything.”
Irene Davis, a bookstore employee, says that she has not seen a man from the vending company lately. She also said that refunds used to
be given directly to the students as the company would reimburse the store.
The Canteen company later initiated the envelope
system.
Interestingly enough, the vending machines in the bookstore, as well as all cigarette machines on campus are handled by a different company, John Saxon and Son. No problem has been encountered with their refunds.
Another triumph for bureaucracy?

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Parking Problems
During the spring break, the fire hydrants on Merrick Drive, Walsh and Dickinson will be painted and other necessary warnings of "no parking” near these hydrants will he instituted. Parking will not be permitted for a distance of fifty feet from the corners of these streets. The Coral Gables Police Department will enforce the temporary parking restrictions.