inside ... A Look At The Music Department Making A Musical.' OKLAHOMA! MUSIC UAB: What's Coming Up? Rock and Roll in Point: The State of the Art Pa e ~ November 5, 1981 view ointS ... mus lcc an reveal the nature of feelings with a detail and truth that language cannot approach. K Lang Susanne . er (] RRl~!.,!\ ~ . - Smoke 'em if You've Got 'em Pointer Staff 1981-82 The idea of smoking pot legally on Lives shoul~ not be ~ed for simple the American streets may still be a indulgence 1n a pervasive recreational F.dltor drug. Mike Hein mind-blower for legislators. But an eased pot law may not be too far­ In short, let's give penalties where Auodate F.dlton fetched. Rep. David Clarenbac~ (D­ penalties are due. News : Michael Daehn Madison) is sponsoring such a bill: A- Matthew Lewis 639 will not legalize possession and use Why hasn't pot already been Sports: Joe Vanden Plas ilecriminalized, if its use is so widely Emeritus: BobHam of marijuana, but it will prev~nt Graphics: Brian Rieselman recreational pot smokers from berng accepted and relatively safe? BecaUSe Copy: Lauren Cnare considered as criminals in the courts. the disproportionate penalties for pot Photography: Gary LeBoulon This bill, and other use have distorted the perspectives of RickMcNitt decriminalization attempts (e.g . A-325 those ignorant of the effects and Management Slaff and S-155 ), are worthy of support. popularity of the drug. But recent Business: Clndy~utton Marijuana use is not simply a fad from studies have shown that pot is probably Advertising: Tom Woodside the hippie generation; it is widespread, less dangerous than the two most BilJBerenz it is a part of our culture. Pot r~ popular American drugs, and its USe Connie Stein Offlce: Carlsie Hunter third in popularity amo~g Amen':811 cannot be correlated with lower recreational df'ugs, right behind grades, poor performances or Advisor: Dan Houlihan tobacco and alcohol, and it is here to impairments to "real life." stay despite the whims of misinformed The concept of pot being decrimi­ Coatribaton: Quine Adams, Mare Bergeron, lawmakers. nalized is not only endorsed by Kasandra Boaman, Fred Brennan, Julie Brinkmeier, Tom Burkman, Chris Celichowski, Pot smokers are not hopeless its many frequent users (recent Susan Falk, Steve Heiting, Mark Hoff, Shannon sociopaths. They are not criminals. statistics show that two-thirds of Houlihan, Kristi Huebschen, I.any Katerzynsl<e, They are doctors, lawyers, politicians, Wisconsin's high school students have Trish Koser, Kerry Leclmer, Cheryl Pawlik, Ann students, teachers. Still, our "experimented" with marijuana at Reinholdt, Steve Schunk, Cindy Schott, Tom Wadhew. antiquated criminal laws deem pot least once), but also many upstanding smokers to be in league with groups including the Wisconsin Council murderers, rapists and burglars. Tens on Criminal Justice, the State Medical of thousands of police man hours and Association, the State Council on millions of dollars in criminal justice Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the funds are spent annually on pot busts. Citizen's Advisory Council on 'The Pointer is a second class Society can ill afford such a waste; the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the publication (USPS-098240) published allocations could be put to much better Wisconsin Police Chief's Association, weekly on Thursday by the University use in curbing genuine anti-social acts. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the uw: and the League of Women Voters. System Board of Regents, 113 Commwiication Arts Center, Stevens Point, WI 54481. You Deserve A Meal Today_ POSTMASTER : Send address change to Pointer, 113 Communication Twenty-eight people are dying initiated. The nagging question in the Arts Center, Stevens Point, WI 54481. somewhere in this world every minute aftermath is whether these plans will Poilller is written and edited by the as a consequence of hunger. The total actually be acted out, or if they are Polnler staff, composed of UWSP number of people who have died in the simply being spit out for PR purposes. students, and they are solely resporwble for its editorial content and !a5t 5 years as a consequence of hunger The American public must help policy. IS grea~r than from all the murders, answer this question. It is the time to revolutions and wars durrng the. past tell our President Reagan that hunger 150 years. is a problem which affects "all of us," This killing must stop. Hunger must not just "those living out there in the be eradicated from this planet. This Third World." pOIINTEA proposition should not be a fantasy, as Taite the time today to write to your many are known to proclaim, for the elected representatives in Washington, means on how to eliminate hunger is D.C. The American public-we, the a1!eady at hand. What is lacking is the people-have the opportunity and the will to take the necessary actions. right to influence how and if the However, a .conference was staged this problem of hunger will be dealt with by past week rn Cancun, Mexico, where "our" government. leaders from 22 countries had the But there are some people who. will Letters lo the editor will be opportunity to _act upon the 1SSue of not write their elected representatives, accepted only If they are typewritten hunger, assumrng that these leaders nor do anything else Many of these and signed, and should not exceed a had the "will" to do it people "know for s~e" that hunger maximum of 250 words. Names will The Cancun Sunmut was a meeting cannot be dealt with. "Hunger is here be withheld from publication only If of 22 leaders fr_om throug_hout the to stay." ".If man could have ended a~riate reason is given. Pointer reserves the right to edit letters If :gdth represen~g countries from hunger, he would have done it long necessary and to refuse to print e rndustnalized North and the ago." Man also once "knew for sure" letters not suitable for publication. ~er;iop~ tuth. The meeting was that it was impossible to put a man on All correspondence should be ~e :I:n ° r 22 an~ 23 of this year. the moon; it was simple fact that it just addressed to Pointer, 113 a forum ;~:: f:;m1t was to provide could not be done. But it did happen. Commwiication Arts Center, UWSP, to the b · f ers could get down Man was able to land on the moon not Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481. O Written permission is required for ofworld~!e;r solving the problem because of any sudden technological the reprint of all materials The Cancun · Summit . breakthroughs. Man was able to do 11 presented in Pointer. opportunity for lead offered the because then-President John F. very distinct and div:~:ifrepr_esentmg Kennedy proclaimed that man could to come together and formied interests do _it. His words alon~ created an plans of action. Good inte~~te unified environment of workability. Man must will_n ot solve the problem ~r~lone believe before he can achieve. pos1tlvely-<1irected actions mustge~ Thomas R. Olson Pointer Page 3 Established 1981 Tlis w.t:r ·wBlllhtl Marmalade skies early In the week, MAIN STREET chance of newspaper taxis appearing on Week in Review shore later on. What's in a Name? When You Say Budweiser, Seems that you can't turn Influential backing of its own. around these days without It began with a strongly You've Said Enough hearing of a powerful comic supportive column by strip syndicate trying to bully syndicated columnist Mike " Quite frankly, I'm Cbiisen. "I believe the on. a poor college newspaper. Royko (of the Chicago Sun surprised at the attention company bas taken healthy, But Senator Cbilsen's The latest Instance of Times), and the Daley Planet that bas been drawn to my attractive football fans and crusade against alcohol "comic strip harassment" Is soon found itself the focus of comments ... rm a solid fan ' promoted' them in the abuse bas raised a new Issue: being played out at Richard national media attention. Its cl. the UW-Band, the Badgers context of drinking beer - its should rvbust football fans be J . Daley College, where the writers have now been and the university ltseH," beer." victimized by a company that student newspaper, formerly interviewed by Time reported Senator Walter John Cbllsen's remark on the sells brew via college called the Obstacle, changed Magazine, the Public Cbllsen recently, in response Senate floor concerning the • brouhaha? its name to the Daley Planet Broadcasting Service, and to· the media coverage of bis commercial use of the "Bud "I like the 'Bud song'," in 1979. ABC News. Layout Editor statements condemning song" Is not tbe first time the contends Cbllsen, "I don't The publication is now and Ad Manager Mary Jane Budweiser's use of the fabled song's use bas been like the commercial use of embroiled in a David vs. Lee says that she is Wisconsin Marching Band's questioned. UW-Madison what bas become a university Goliath battle against DC flabbergasted - and rendition of the "Bud Song" civil engineering students, tradition." Comics, Inc., which owns gratified - by all the public in their TV commercials. upon the discovery that tbe It seems quite apparent exclusive rights to the support. "Considering my interest resonance of the song's that Senator Cbllsen bas Superman· comic strip. As Already. a Milwaukee in controlling alcohol abuse, crescendo shook the upper never sat in sections L, M or you probably know, the attorney with an extensive perhaps it can be better levels of Camp Randall O during a Badger game. fictional Clark Kent ( alias copyright Jaw background understood why I believe I stadium, checked the Either that, or be considers Superman) works at a bas sent the paper· a list of need to speak out on the structure for signs of stress being drenched in Coke and fictional newspaper called previous cases which might company's use of the last year.