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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 5-4-1977 Montana Kaimin, May 4, 1977 Associated Students of the University of Montana Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of the University of Montana, "Montana Kaimin, May 4, 1977" (1977). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 6613. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/6613 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bill will not change pot law, Greely says By G. ROBERT CROTTY drug cases must be tried in district Montana Kaimln Reporter courts. It also'states that persons 21 years A proposed bill in the U.S. Senate old and under are automatically that would reduce penalties for the given a one year deferred sentence possession of marijuana will have no on their first offense. effect on Montana's pot laws, state Greely said that he favors the Atty. Gen. Mike Greely said reduction of penalties for posses yesterday. sion. The bill Greely referred to calls for He said that he favors penalties the consolidation of federal criminal more along the lines of a bill — laws into one streamlined code that drafted and approved by the Mon would eliminate inconsistencies and tana County Attorneys' Association obsolete provisions of the present — that would call for a 10 day jail federal code, and updates the sentence and a $100 fine for posses provisions to correspond with court sion. rulings. An assistant attorney general lob The bill would make possession of bied for the bill in the 1977 10 grams or less, about one-third of a Legislature, Greely said, but the bill lid, of marijuana no longer a federal was killed. offense. The bill also calls for a maximum Greely said he objected to a clause penalty of 30 days in jail and a $500 in the CAA's bill that called for a man fine for the possession of more than datory sentence of 10 days. 10 grams. The current federal code "I’d object toany law that calls for a calls for a 7 year jail term and a fine of mandatory sentence,” Greely added. up to $15,000. Robert Campbell, a Missoula lawyer, said in an interview last week Federal Cases Only that the reason the bill died in the last Greely said the proposed changes legislative session was the in the federal pot laws apply only to Republican party. Campbell, a cases involving federal prosecution. criminal lawyer and legal adviser to He said the only instances in which Montana’s chapter of the National the federal pot laws would take Organization for the Reform of Mari precedence are cases in which juana Laws, said the Republicans “federal agents are making arrests" were going to use possible passage in Montana. of the bill against Democratic He said that they would also be legislators in the next legislative used in cases that involve interstate election. transportation of marijuana, and The Republicans, “ in a possession of marijuana on federal desperation attempt,” want to use property. decriminalization as an issue against Montana law states that a person the Democrats in the next election, possessing marijuana can be he said. sentenced from one year to life in "That's when the nervous nine (the prison for any amount. difference in votes between passage and defeat) changed their minds. Possession ‘High Misdemeanor1 "Montana has the most Draconian marijuana laws in the entire world; LIQUOR ON SALE draws a crowd at the state liquor store on Spruce Avenue. The state stores are selling certain half The Montana criminal code calls where you can get a life sentence for gallons of liquor at cut rates to make room for the new 1.75 litre containers. (Montana Kaimin photo by Mark possession of pot a “high a single seedling. Sharfenaker.) misdemeanor” and provides thaf all "Hell, rape will only get you 20 years," he added. The bill has the support of both Moses discusses Johnson report party leaders in the Senate and was co-sponsored by Sen. John McClellan, D-Ark., and Sen. Edward Report spurs UM coach to hire lawyer Kennedy, D-Mass. It was partially drafted by and has the support of U.S. Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell. By BRYAN ABAS Although Moses and Brandenburg Brandenburg and Moses. ing with Moses and Brandenburg, Montana Kaimln Reporter will not confirm or deny it, UM But Moses, who confirmed that he but that Moses' busy schedule has Legal Counsel George Mitchell said was contacted by Mitchell last week, made that impossible. University of Montana head yesterday that Moses has told Mit told the Montana Kaimin yesterday Moses also represented former basketball coach Jim Brandenburg chell that he represents Branden that he has avoided meeting with UM UM head football coach Jack has apparently hired Billings lawyer burg and that UM officials have been officials because he believes they are Swarthout against charges in 1973 Charles (Timer) Moses to represent trying to meet with the two to discuss approaching the case from the that Swarthout and other members his interests in the circumstances the contents of an internal UM report wrong perspective. of the UM athletic department surrounding the recruiting and about the Johnson case. Moses said that he thinks UM misused federal work-study money. eligibility of UM basketball player should first determine whether the Swarthout and his co-defendants That report, which was completed Lee Johnson. NCAA allowed for due process in rul- were acquitted of those charges. in mid-March, is the product of a two- ing Johnson ineligible for The internal UM report on the month investigation by a UM com competition in intercollegiate Johnson case focuses on extension mittee, headed by John Dayries, Inside athletics for the next two years. credits earned by Johnson from health, physical education and Moses said a question also exists Denver Community College and the Energy programs...........................p. 3. recreation department chairman. about whether the new NCAA rules University of Santa Clara last Wilderness Institute ...\...................p. 4. According to UM President Richard were applied retroactively. summer, Dayries said. Johnson Dance Ensemble............................p. 6. Bowers, the report will be released “Where there was a declaration of needed those credits to be eligible to once UM officials have met with ineligibility by the NCAA, and where attend UM. the decision rested upon certain The way Johnson earned those rules and regulations, the question credits and the help he received from should be: Was there opportunity for the athletic department is the crux of Coors boycott urged anyone who might be affected to both UM's investigation and the come in and say, 'hey, let me explain NCAA investigation, according to this'?" Moses said. Dayries. by Democratic leader Instead of investigating these questions and deciding whether to Legal Questions Involved HELENA (AP) — The chairman of the Montana Democratic party urged appeal the NCAA ruling, Moses said Dayries said that some "sensitive support yesterday for a boycott of Coors beer, brewed by the Adolph Coors that UM officials appointed an legal questions" are involved in the Co. of Golden, Colo. internal UM committee which "inves contents of the report and the timing John Bartlett said he was calling on all “ moderate-thinking citizens to ex tigated one coach and one athlete." of its release, and that he supports amine the record of the Coors owners and decide whether the profit made what Bowers has done with the from the products we buy is being spent in a way we wish to support." Report Called Invalid report so far. This amounted to a "sudden Dayries said it would be Earlier, the Montana AFL-CIO called for a boycott of Coors beer because switch" and the resulting report "premature" and Moses said it would of a contract dispute between Coors and its union workers. “doesn't have validity," Moses said, be "unwise" to discuss the contents of the report yet. Bartlett said the Coors employes' grievances are "a simple matter of basic adding that the report "gives me a In addition to the NCAA rights, not a dispute over wages." He said even if the dispute had not surfaced bad taste in the mouth." ineligibility ruling against Johnson, this year, "a boycott of Coors products would still be a good idea." According to Dayries, his com mittee was charged with inves the Big Sky Athletic Conference Bartlett said Joseph Coors tried to have several incumbent congressmen tigating the Johnson case, including ordered UM to forfeit all the games in with whom he disagreed defeated in last year’s elections, including Rep. Max the validity and propriety of the which Johnson participated and Baucus. D-Mont. NCAA sanctions imposed on UM. ruled UM ineligible for post-season Mitchell said that UM is preparing play and revenues this past basket "Coors has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars during the 1970s to ball season. back right-wing organizations," Bartlett said. He said Coors gave $6,000 to a report to the NCAA Committee on All of the penalties were the result the John Birch Society and $18,000 to back Ronald Reagan against Gerald Infractions based on UM's inves MAY FLOWERS bloom in the mall of two violations of NCAA and Big Ford for the Republican presidential nomination last year.