Interview with a Drug Dealer out to Make a Ltttle Extra Cash 'The Less and Have Enough to Smoke
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], Sports ], Seret~dipity An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper The Hens may be and a National Pacemaker Love Seed jumps running, but into the heart of they're not gunning the Stone Balloon page BS page Bl FREE FRIDAY Athletic official 'African-American' favored • African-American. Andrea Woodard (AG SO) When asked who the most Edward Lofland (AS FR) does not care how people influential African Issues memo on Fifty-three said African-American is refer to her, "as long as American today was, Jesse the proper way to refer to they aren' t derogatory ." Jackson received 34 percent percent of Americans of African Vernese Edgh.ill, director of the vote. descent , for the Center for Black Dr. Martin Luther King apathy to staff blacks prefer but he said Culture, said s he has no Jr . and Loui s Farrakhan h e personal preference each received 9 percent of Athletic Direc tor M a ry Ann considers While only a slight the responses. A confidential Hitchens i s sued a the term. himself a majority of the total Aisha Clarke (AS SR) memorandufll to all salaried black man. population prefer African said she thinks the most memorandum athletics staff members BY PETER R HALL stressing " respons ib i li ty , Sralf Reporrer Veronica American, 67 percent of influential black leader in Rockett those between the ages of America wa s King because assails department. reliability and a ccountabili ty . The results from a (AS SO) 18 - 29 prefer African he was able to advance the "We can also move beyond a CNN/Time mag.azine poll BY !EFF PEARLMAN said she American. rights of minorities so far. 'not my job ' attitude," s he about how African Ediror in ch ief Edghill said the younger Louis Farrakhan is the wrote, " and begin to feels being · There's a list on page four Americans feel about c a I I e d generation prefers African leader of the Nation of cheerfully assist each o ther themselves, their race and of the university's student black is American because they feel Islam . One- third of those when co- workers are absen t athlete information guide that the strength of their m o r e a stronger need to identify surveyed felt Farrakhan is a due to vacation or illness." community in America, stresses sportsmanship, fair appropriate with, " a culture and a positive influence in the W h i I e were announced Monday. play and - perhaps most because heritage." community , while 45 Hitchens said According to the poll, a importantly - hard work. she calls Another aspect of the poll percent of those surveyed the slight majority, 53 percent, It is a list, however, that was concerned with the think Farrak:han believes memorandum feel that the proper way to quite possibly should be Caucasians, "white, not leadership of the African was supposed refer to their race is moved from the student guide European-Americans." American community. see CNN page A4 to be to one for employees. confidential, Last Friday Associate The Review was sent a copy , along with a not-so enthused Hazing incident condemned by fraternity 0 HITCHENS :~~~.n y mus incident is insane for Davis ' family and reporters and students at the paper." · "Please The death of a pledge at SMSU leads the fraternity." Davis, a junior, was a staff writer for accept my challenge to do "In no way, shape or form do we The Capaha Arrow, SMSU's student something with these to a local chapter's anger, remorse. condone hazing of any kind, it ' s a newspaper. memo's . " the note read . "I stereotype we don't deserve" McSeed said. "Hazing is not only banned by SMSU think it i s unusual that the BY IAN NELSON blunt trauma to the head from being "It's a shame that the fraternity name had policies, but by national organizations Athletics 'Program' gets these Sralf Reporrer physically beaten, said Sgt. Carl Kennison to be brought out in this way ." such as the National PanHellenic Council and not the whole college of The 14th arrest was made Tuesday in of the Cape Girardeau police department. Ann Hayes, news bureau director for and the national charter of Kappa Alpha 'PEAR . ' Could there be two connection with a hazing incident that left Fourteen members of the Kappa Alpha SMSU, said the fraternity was dismissed Psi," said Art Wallhausen, assistant to the sets of values? I must remain a 25-year-old Southeast Missouri State Psi fraternity chapter at SMSU have been "immediately and permanently" from president of SMSU, in a press release. anonymous . You can see why." University (SMSU) journalism student charged with hazing and seven of them campus last Friday "Michael was a talented writer with a Hitchens responded to the beaten to death, Cape Girardeau, Mo. with involuntary manslaughter following Since the incident, a task force has been promising future," Wallhausen said, "and note by saying she is not in Police said. the death of Davis Feb. 8, Kennison said. formed to abolish hazing, Hayes said. we are outraged at the possibility that his charge of the entire College of An autopsy report listed the cause of Delaware Kappa Alpha Psi brother "There' s a certain sadness and gloom on death may have resulted from hazing Physical Education, Athletics Larry McSeed (AS JR) said, "The [SMSU] SMSU student Michael Davis' death as campus," she said, "Especially with see FRATERNITY page A3 see HITCHENS page A6 UD's million Interview with a drug dealer out to make a ltttle extra cash 'The less and have enough to smoke. "Once you start moving suspzczous you more than a quarter pound dollar you're pretty much doing it for look, the less the money." Abraham saved up enough anybody's going profits to start buying pounds, secret which cost him anywhere from to be suspicious.' $1,400 to $1 ,900. The university BY IIMMY P. MILLER Now, with eight regular Ciry New< Ediror customers, he brings in $300 to thrives off "I basically started dealing $600 a week in profit - or weed because I needed money about $18,000 to $25,000 a parking fees. to pay for school." year. About two years ago BY WILLIAM V IAEGER Abraham decided he wanted a THE DEALER'S LIFESTYLE Sraff Reporter college education, but his Abraham smirks when asked Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt parents were not financially about the fear of being caught. not steal; thou shalt not park in the able to help with the cost. "I'm aware of the fact that it student center parking lot without a "I didn't want to take out is illegal and that I have to be gold sticker; and thou shalt never, $10,000 a year in loans and not very careful, but I try to think ever park in a fire lane. have a job to pay for them The first two commandments when I get out," he says. come from the god of Abraham, the Abraham, not his real name, THE latter two come from the slightly is a jeans and white T-shirt FORBIDDEN less divine, but s~ill powerful wearing college student who Traffic Division of Public Safety. chose an unconventional way FRUIT The university issued more than to pay for school. The First in a 42,000 parking citations for the He got into the "business" fiscal year beginning July 1, 1992. from constantly being around clean and try not to get overly These tickets generated a friends who smoke marijuana. paranoid." revenue of more than $488,000 for "It was just always around If caught, Abraham could the university, according to me. I had access to it. face up to $10,000 in fines and University Police reports. "I started selling quarter imprisonment of 10 years for The most common parking ounces and stuff and slowly possession of marijuana with offense was lacking a valid permit. worked my way up." intent to deliver. The penalties University Police issued more Abraham started selling could be even stricter if he than 16,000 tickets for quarter ounces for about $50. were caught selling in a drug unauthorized parking alone, Since then he has come a long free school zone or selling to a accounting for more than 38 way, working up to $200 minor. percent of the tickets written. ounces and eventually $500 "If you try not to think like a The next most common offense quarter-pounds of marijuana. drug dealer, you won't be one." was for meter violations, which "A quarter pound separates a THE REVlEW /Walter M. Eberz Instead Abraham says he accounted for 30 percent of the dealer from a dealer," he says. Abraham started selling quarter ounces for about $50. Today he makes around $20,000 a year. "It tickets issued. "The quarter pound guy is just see INTERVIEW page A4 was just always around me," he said. 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