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~7'6, 7~9 l\~3G(W Ne\N Mexico 0:>(?. \ DAILY Thursday, February 17f 1972 Lower ~~nalties Possible · House Debates Echols Bill Today A bill lowering the penalty of The bUl would also require dangerous drugs," Hilligoss stated. possession of marijuana has registration 'Of any manufacturer "Our office supports this bill received a "do pass" of any prescription drug with the 100 per cent," Short said, ''It recommendation from the House State Board of Pharmacy before covers some areas that were not Judiciary Committee Tuesday. the product can be sent to New covered before and it plugs some The full House is scheduled to Mexico. loopholes ~hat were not plugged debate the bill today, It :requires :records be kept in before," The Controlled Substance Act, such a marme.r that if the drug . Williams and Caton both said which would change New should pass into the hands of an they oppose the bill's penalties for Mexico's laws concerning drugs, illegal user that action could be marijuana possession. "I'm very lowers the possession of marijuana easily detected, apprehensive, from the standpoint to a misdemeanor punishable by a 'l'he bill would also replace of penalties, for New Mexico to fine of $25 to ·$oU. A penalty o£ ptc::;;.;mt state laws thut were made be the guinea pig. I think our $50 to $100 fine and a mandatory ·obsolete by a new federal present penalties are just fine. seven-day jail sentence is for more Controlled Substances Act last There's a helluva lot of cases made than one ounce but less than year. .. from the use of information eight, Having over eight ounces Testifying in support of the bill gotten out of these young people carries a penalty of $100 to were Bob Brito, chah:man of the under the threat of a few days in $1000 and 30 day& to one year Board of Pharmacy, Ernest jail." imprisonment. Williams, Las Cruces district . Conformity of Penalties 1 The bill passed the Iiouse last attorney, Jim Short and Byron ' We oppose the penalty week. Caton, assistant district attorneys provisions as set out," Caton "It was our decision that from Albuquerque and stated. "I think it's very m~~ljuana obviously was in a Farmington, respectively. Jack important to retain the second different category than heroin and Hilligoss, executive director of the offense potential in the present hard narcotics," Sen. Odis Echols, Pharmaceutical Assn. also testified law, the bill's sponsor, stated. in favor of the bill. Saying he wasn't surq about the Not Much H lowered penalties, Rep, Turner Full Support 'Echols, the chief sponsor, said1 Branch (R-Bern,) said he hoped "The tendency of high school or "The Board of Pharmacy does there would be more statewide college students to try heroin lend its full support to the bill.'' confor.mtty of penalties. "We have tends to be diminishing11 and that Brit'cr- said. ur would ask you to too many people sneaking and the effects of abuse of marijuana not let the marijuana penalties peeking for marijuana, and not were equal to liquor* section make you lose sight of the too many looking at the heroin He stated that amphetamines real problem. This bill gives New problem1" he stated. would be the biggest problem in Mexico .for the first time absolute Proposals to raise the marijuana the 1970's and that the act could control over prescription drugs. n possession penalties, however, counter the problem. "Our opinion is the bill will were turned down. One proposal The Interim Committee on focus more attention on. the would have nearly doubled the Drug Abuse worked on the bill for possession, sale or use of the morE> penalties. Probably more than -·:UJcd ·-$20--... - idea the ASUNM Senate Magazine ofASUNMforSemester Sen. Jerry Buckner as Finance Wednesday outlined .. a milliotl to support and train represents the whole student body II, 1972. Committee chairman. coordinated $1.5 billion attack on personnel to work on is a myth. "We only represent The biU to pay $562.46 to Buckner resigned as Finance the burgeoning drug problem in rehabilitation of addicts. ourselves," she said at the Senate Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity at the Committee chairman because of this country." His program, McGovern said, meeting last night. • University of Illinois to settle a the time element involved with his 0 ffering a program he said also would allow preparation and Chavez spoke in response to a claim against ASUNM Film office of President Pro Tem. would be possible with tax dissemination of "att Pntire ranl!e letter in the Daily Lobo CommitteewaspassedbySenate. A question of having a reforms and his alte!:native of educational materials to be commenting that the Senate Committees referendum vote on the Spring defense budget, McGovern said designed especially for secondary should represent the majority Senate voted to accept Kathryn ballot to decide whether the now Ameti~atls "deserve better than to and elementary schools., rather than the minority of Kornegay, Gilda Tuoni and mandatory athletic fee should be bear vague expressions of concern Current efforts to deal with the students, and that the four William Hirsh for the Publications optional, stay the same, or be and vague promises to improve drug problem have not been very senators who walked out on the Board, Speakers Committee, and abolished was :referred to the the situation.'~ successful," McGovern said. Senate meeting concerning the Reg ist:ration Committee Steering Committee for Among his suggestions was one u 0 espite more rigorous . law Black Berets' deaths two weeks respectively. Charles Maldonado consideration, The faculty to make marijuana subject to the enforcement, the traffic in illicit agowereimmature. wtis accepted as Cultural suggested abolishment of that fee same regulations imposed on drugs has not declined, the She said the senators do not Committee chairman. at their meeting last Tuesday. alcohol. represent the entire .student body number of addicts has tlOt McGovern said i£ elected he declined and the amount and type because "the entire student body would spend $550 million for doesn't elect us." of crimes associated with incr~;msed drug law enforcement, addiction support have not Ain't No Way Jaramillo Resigns Post $500 mj)iion for better treatment declined/' he said. "All have risen Chavez further stated that and rehabilitation of drug addicts, dramatically." "what we {Chicanos) do, .we do for us; what the Greeks do they do for them. You can't get out of In ISRAD Support Group your skin.H She said it is also a myth that H ar o 1 d Bailey, associate said. blacks are represented in Senate. director of the Child Development · "The polarization has gotten to "'l'here ain;t no way a white support systems, a division of the point I couldn't deal with it,'' can talk for me, and no way I ca:n ISRAD, has been named acting he said. repr('c;;ent a black. Whether that's director, succeeding James Jaramillo was appointed racist or not, you have to decide. •• Jaramillo who resigned Tuesday. director of the agency by former When asked if she was going to The announcement was made ISRAD director Jack Campbell. leave meetings every time a piece Wednesday afternoon by George He replaced Paula Pa~:ks, who was of legislation wasn't to her liking, Springer, vice president for the subject of much of the Chavez answered, "I can go along research and acting director of ernploye criticism in October. with parliamentary procedure, but ISRAD. In his letter of resignation to I can still make choices as an Jaramillo, Frank Steiner* Springer and Blumenfeld, ISRAD individual." director of media production~ associate director, Jaramillo said: Senate President Jack O'Guinn child developmetlt, and David "Programmatically things were suggested that informal caucuses Bachelor, coordinator of going extremely well, rE!Iations be held to discuss controversial evaluation and resear<:h had been with UCCI (United Child Care issues before they reach the the subject of a demonstration Inc.) were very healthy, but the Senate floor. This met agreement Tuesday which called for their events and incidents leading up to from the senators. removal from office. the October incident began to In other action, Senate voted to Harold Martinez, director of crop up again and the factitmalism give the Uhuru Sasa Oance Troupe the San Ignaeio Child Care Center, undermined any good that was $17 42.00 to attend tlie Black and organizer of the going on." Merit Academy Conference on demonstration demanded the "l find it impossible to wotk Feb. 25 and 26, 1972, in Gary, three men to show publicly what and gi'V'e directions under these Ind. Sam Johnson represented the they had accomplished. circumstances. u dancing group at the Senate Jaramillo, whose resignation The October incident referred meeting and said "We'll not just was effective as of Tuesday night to by Jaramillo was critieisrn of be representing the school, but sa!d, "The polarization was so some of the admitlistrators of the the state as well." intense that I didn*t feet, that as Child Development program by Only three or four groups are an administrator, I could some employes. This came shortly selected nationwide to attend the administrate with all the paranoia before the University gave conference. This is the first time a and distrust. operatiort of the Child Photo by Jill Boland group has been invited frorn New "1 was hired in December Development Day Care Centets to Frartk Larrabee, formerly of Mexico. 24 UNM students will knowing I was a cornprornise UCCI, a community corporation Seigling and Larrabee singitlg duo attend. figure, and I've been trying to under contract with the State Coffee House will perform at the tJNM Coffee Thunderbird compromise the situation but Health and Social Services House is located in room 129 of Senate also allocated $1704.45 guess 1 haven't been able to/' he Department. • tlie Union. II II New IVIexica DAILY LOBO Conserve paper-give this paper to a friend editorial • Report Must be Complete lEx Cathedra The faculty's decision to send the annual revised tally of departmental income. report of the Athletic Council back for more Secondly, the refusal of the faculty to $y Tim Hunter complete information, (for example, how accept the incomplete report should much the Booster's Club kicks in) is an demonstrate to the Council that the faculty Recently I was given a leaflet printed by a women's excellent move for two reasons. would back any attempt by the Council to liberation group. The tone of the piece was angry and shrill, First, it acknowledges that the Booster's wield the limited powers it commands. though some of the arguments made sense. Club support should be considered part of We understand the Council's chairman, The burden of the leaflet was that women had to organize the athletic department budget. All private J.E. Martinez, was taken to task Tuesday. themselves into some sort of organization to protect their gifts to the University must show up in the We hope he did not take it as an affront, but rights, It was alleged that women were "exploited" by the budget under ''private gifts and rather a backhand way of demonstrating "male ruling. class" and were consequently left to do the endowments." So should gifts to the athletic support for a good, hard look at the crummy jobs in the economy. Also, it was claimed that department. Also, the value of any non-cash financial and policy workings of UNM's women "have a right to control their own bodies," meaning considerations should be included in the athletic empire. that women ought to be allowed to .abort their children if they wish. The final claim, and the major one from a conservative Past NMMI Mess Officer Reconsider Concert Decision point of view, was that women are unprotected by society with respect to prostitution and 'white · slav~ry'. We hope the UNM vice presidents were Favoring everyday recreational activities Trade Cooks Up Dorm Goodies acting in ignorance of the possible over infrequently- scheduled concerts Now if one dispenses with the claim of a "right" to murder ramifications when they voted yesterday to doesn't make sense. Intramural basketball the innocent, and leaves the allocation of jobs to the market· By SAM DUBOIS food service director) at New games involving 40 or 50 students can be R.• Glenn Armstrong, the Mexico Military Institute in deny the use of Johnson Gym March 10 for economy (where it will be, anyhow), the conservative must Acting Food Service Director Roswell, N.M. the scheduled Mark-Almond concert. rescheduled; concerts attended by 5000 plus be on the side of those who would stamp out the trade in (director of the dormitory He came to New Mexico from The precedent they have set could mark students cannot. human flesh, now under the control of gangsters. But, in cafeterias) has come quite a Massachusetts, where he'd lived all the beginning of the end for popular music The Daily Lobo understands that the order to wipe out organized crime we need, well, tough cops, distance in his travels to UNM, his life. He had been working in private catering, and "was looking concerts at UNM, and, therefore, for the event named as conflicting with the concert, tough judges and law - and • order. and while at UNM. a high school basketball tournament, will Armstrong has been here since for a change at the time." Leaving tmtire city. No one on the right disagrees that organized crime has to 1964, when the period of his his catering, candy manufacturing, Popular Entertainment Committee (PEC) not require the use of Johnson Gym on be extinguished. Yet, it has been the liberals, and the others training and practice to work here ice cream production and has half a dozen fine concerts lined up for March 1'0. on the political left, who have said that criminal activity is began, in his words, "learning to restaurant, he came to Roswell. the coming months. If Johnson Gym is We strongly urge the vice presidents to the "price free men must pay for freedom." un-think my way, and to think Some Hokona diners may have reverse their decision and allow the concert, the supervisor's way," He calls noticed an occasional closed to PEC concerts the same policy This is the gunk philosophy which motivates our this an eKample of late director Massachusetts dish lately. would quickly follow for University Arena, thereby eliminating the impression they are "protectors" of "civil liberties" who believe that crime is H.E. Symmonds' foresight; there Armstrong has been in the trying to deprive a large portion of the and that would be the virtual end of some sort of expression protected by our Bill of Rights. In i was no lag or difficulty, he says, Naval Reserve for "around 29 student body of entertainment they enjoy when he assumed control of years" as a chief commissary man, concerts in Albuquerque. Civic Auditorium, consequence, it has been the left, and, inter alia, the !' seating only 5500, could not substitute for and enthusiastically support. Hokona in 1967. who runs mess. He is a master supporters of women's lib who have resisted the workings of After Chdstmas vacation 1970, chief, as high as you can go as an most large - drawing shows. legal process, who have interfered with police to protect when La Posada dining hall enlisted man, and "one of the few criminals. opened, Armstrong became people with the same job in the Society-destroying director there, He explained some Navy as in civilian work." 'ART DEPARTMENT- li INC To conservatives, there would seem every reason to justify of the confusion caused by the Changes Made MAKE A QUICK CHANGE TT.l.Lll, 'E ' i 'INSTEAD OF RICHARD NIXI' I.ME INC. mid-year opening: Mesa Vista, This situation is beneficial to FOR THIS WEEK'S COVEll. • • .' . AS MAN-OF-THE-YEAR • • I greater protection under law for women who are susceptible which now takes care of, among both jobs. Said Armstrong, "there to special forms of victimizing. But, never forget, the persons other thing&, baking and vegetable isn't once I haven't gone on a who will oppose protecting women will be the liberals, those pr~p~\rn.tha:i: ;r,a ·ltu ldtch,f:;n~, Qnd ~.... ., .,..,. .,.,!: .cr•>i~ th.. t I havt?n't who advocate a "free society" (for criminals), who tear down Hokona were the two cafeterias in picked up one or two good Ideas." operation during fall semester As director now o~ both justice and traditional wisdom and who maintain that 1970. Hokona and La Posada, everyone is equally capable of making his way in society. The Mass Dish Armstrong has to be in two places liberals have gotten us society - destroying legislation which In order to keep the cafeteria at the same time, at least until the has, actually, taken away special privileges from women. accounts and meal ti.ckets in phase end of this fiscal year. with the fiscal year, howE>ver, all "There'll be some changes Today, as laws protecting women are made into hash by those w1th Hokona tickets ate at made," said Armstrong, "small 'AND PLEASEI­ judges brain • washed at left-wing universities, where must the Mesa Vista and those with La changes; they'll be slow coming." DON'T MIX UP victimscturn? Are women to be forced into the dog- eat· dog Posada tickets ate at Hokona. To These changes include minor THE PICTURES!' economy, to compete as men? add to this confusion, was the revisions in menus and recipes, Are they to develop the ulcers, the well · known difficulty of explaining where including, perhaps, a bit more deliveries were to be made: for Massachusetts food. '~ callousness of men caught up in the productive process, to ~ example, a La Posada purchase Armstrong is married and has a dress in flannel suits, drink their martinis dry, and whore did not go to the unopened La family with "two children at around, limited only by the extent o~ their cruelty? Posada, but to Hokona. home right now," living in . Compensation . _ Before coming to UNM in Albuquerque. --· 19$4, Armstrong spent six and ~ ··------··----···"~-·-·· No reasonable person wishes to see the degradation of one half years as Mess Officer (i.e. women or to endure the amazons now swaggering into the professions, the trades, and even, the baseball diamond. But what has women's lib to offer, by way of compensation, for Recreation Favored the new equality? Isn't it just blind-hatred, the phoney Over Entertainment s:TER