1.1.11111111111111111IPPIMPsill Marquana Initiative drive slows; .41111111.1=1.1.1.1111 -,ru4 ver,Koir ntt 86,000 signatures still needed t LW, NT te VoSi"11! V By STEVE SMYTHE Centered in Los Angeles and San Fran- marijuana, fails to achieve a simple ma- Despite a lag in the drive to place the cisco, the project will feature numerous social jority at the polls. California Marijuana Initiative (CMI) on the events aimed at placing hundreds of thou- Ironically, a measure for decriminalizing November ballot, backers of the project con- sands of signatures on circulating petitions. marijuana may find its way on the same Owl tinue to express confidence that the measure But despite this last-minute explosion ballot with a proposal to restore capital will come to a vote. of energy, Ms. Eileen Janowitz, public affairs punishment. Whether the influence of the 'Literary art form' Organizers began circulating petitions in coordinator for the initiative's San Fran- 18 -year -old vote will be sufficient to offset early February to acquire the necessary cisco-based operation, is doubtful that the sig- the predictable adverse reaction of that ele- 326,000 signatures to bring the issue to a nature quota can be raised by May 1. ment favoring retention of capital punishment popular vote, but as the May 1 filing dead- "To get the required number of valid sig- remains to be seen. line approaches, CM! spokesmen estimate that natures we would probably need around half barely 140,000 non -validated signatures have a million people to sign," she estimates, "so The marijuana initiative is carefully been returned. our chances to make the first deadline are worded so as to attract a certain necessary Graffiti lives segment of those voters over 30 years of As yet, initiative supporters have not obviously not too good." By LA QUITA BALDOCK "Support free enterpriselegalize prostitu- resorted to waving the white flag of surrender. However, she assures that the project age. First of Two Parts tion," show how wide the variety really is. In an effort to generate late support for won't perish with the passing of the May 1 "We chose decriminalization rather than Do you want to take vpur mind away the program, John Sinclair, chairman of the deadline, explaining that an additional seven legalization because it has more chance of from all your arduous studies and still read Names of historical, famous and fictional Rainbow Peoples Party, favoring legalization weeks will be alloted to the group if this getting on the ballot than legalization does," something that's' political, philosophical, people are almost always a. part of every of marijuana, is embarking on a campus first campaign falls short of its goal. Dr. Aldrich explains. "And we insisted that humorous, contemporary, artisitic, sexual. graffiti grouping. tour today. Beginning May 2, Ms. Janowitz asserts, cultivation, possession, and transportation of even pornographic? Puns and plays on words abound in these: The six -day speaking crusade will en- supplementary petitions can be dispatched to marijuana be included because there must Sound impossible? It's not. Try graf- "King Tut had an overprotective mummy," compass state university campuses at Irvine, make up the difference between the 326,000 be some supply system, and rather than fiti. "Prince Rainier grows old With Grace," Los Angeles and Berkeley, as well as Stan- signatures required and the number obtained corporate industrial control of marijuana sale This creative literary artform isn't hard "William F. Buckley is a ham with wry" ford University, San Francisco State College before May I. The filing deadline for supple- along the alcohol model proposed by earlier "to study. The sources are plentiful. and "Tiny Tim is just another pretty face." and Grove Street Community College in mentary petitions would be June 19. initiatives, what we want is free, legal, It's the artists, themselves, who are hard Not all of these are the personally deroga- Oakland. Realistically, she indicates, the organiza- backyard marijuana." to find. Have you ever seen anyone writing tory type. "Andy Warhol throws tempera Accompanying Sinclair will be his East tion is circling June 19 as its target date. Attorney Bob Ashford, later elected state- even one graffito? tantrums" coupled with the additive "hanging German born wife Magdalene, an underground "If we can hold the organization together wide coordinator of CMI, proposed the inclu- Verbally they may be the silent majority, is too good for him," found written.across press photographer, founder and publisher of that long," Ms. Janowitz appraises, "we sion of a clause which permits the legis- but in graffiti a better term for the millions a poster advertising a museum showing his several pamplets and publications, and Dr. should make the supplementary deadline." lature to prohibit one from engaging in who write those private scrawls on public paintings, reflects graffitic artistic criticism. Michael Aldrich, holder of a Ph.D from Money and energy are the two essential dangerous activity, such as driving, while walls would be the secret majority. Desk tops are the college's most prolific Princeton and currently co-director of elements she identifies as keys to securing under the influence of marijuana. So, who writes graffiti? Seemingly every- source of graffiti outside the profuse supply AMORPHIA, a non-profit "Cannabis Coopera- a position for the initiative on the ballot. Thus "It is specifically designed," Dr. Aldrich body. People of all ages, cultures, ethnic of bathroom babbles. The latter seem to run tive." far, she explains, "lack of funds" has hind- affirms, "for parents who don't want their patterns, educational levels, and both sexes in either feast or famine spirts dependent Another measure to gain support for the ered the group's progress. kids to go to jail for pot, but are worried can't resist the urge to scratch or mark upon upon the cleaning schedule of the cvstodial initiative will begin Saturday with a CMI- Reserving a place on the November ballot, about stoned driving. these public "newspapers." staff. sponsored "California Marijuana Initiative however, represents only a hollow victory if "They can sign the initiative without Even the remotest corners and most un- Many of the garden-variety types have Week." the initiative, directed at "decriminalizing" fear." likely places contain the usual "Peter plus sociological significance simply because of Terry" gushy love lines. In most cases, who their peculiarity as in "Yinka loves Josie" cares except Peter, and possibly Terry? and "Paul loves Bob." Visitors to the Statue of Liberty have These exist side by side with philosophi- Wednesday, April 19, 1972 written or scratched their names, addresses, cal questions like "Is there life after death?" ages, loves, sexual preferences, telephone and "Is there life after birth?" and the plea numbers and political observations all over of a bored student who knows he cries in the Monument. vain, but writes anyway, "I hate this class." Ingenious campus writers have found the The continuing variety, where one person undersides of window sills to have more last- writes something, another adds to it, first ing duarbility than bathroom walls. The higher person returns or a third person adds more, and more inaccessible, the better. and so on is particularly prevalent on campus, Graffiti about colleges consist of such ma- possibly due to the Monday, Wednesday, Fri- terial as "College marriages are O.K.. if day and Tuesday, Thursday class schedules the colleges really love each other," "Col- and "floating" class seating arrangement of artan leges need federal aid: Send troops," and "captive geniuses." "Preserve wild life, throw a party." One continuing graffito changed basic con- Serving the San Jose State College Community Since 1934 But mention graffiti, and Most college stu- text from the prejudiced "God byes all dents automatically visualize bathroom walls Whites," with its additions of "and Blacks, covered with dirty drawings, four-letter and Yellows, and Browns, and etc."' words, and miscellaneous sexual suggestions. "God is deadNietzche," "Nietzche is This "tatrinalia," or water closet poetry, dead- -God," "Who cares? --Moses,' "Me -- is the most common form of graffiti. God" is a false -attribution example of the con - Goes before A.S. Council today "My mother made me a homosexual" with tinuing type. the added query of "If I get her the wool, Explanatory additions are common too, as will she make me one too?" was one of in "LSD. Better living through chemistry" the printable examples. or "Don't be a dropout, stay in school and Another one states a possible alternative learn to read and riot." to the pill, "More deviation, less population." Some graffiti are merely puns on words One finds lists of sexual graffitic material or "everyone wants to- be a comediantype Birth Control center considered involving heterosexual, homosexual, pervert- of 'thing like "Help a nun kick her habit," ed, inverted, converted, and I think, even up- or "Mary had a little lamb, support planned By EILEEN COLLA The funds asked for from Associated Students will cover expenses verted--whatever that is. parenthood," or 'Richard Burton has an Donna Fung, coordinator for SJS's Birth Control Center 4111 go beture for literature, contraceptives, and two work study positions. However, it won't be printed here. Find expensive Taylor." A.S. Council today at 3:30 to ask for $12,865 to fund a Birth Control Health services will carry most of the overhead and provide all your own. Half the thrill is in the discovery. of Some graffiti are so provocative that they Clinic. the equipment for the program said Miss Fung. It will provide the $10,000 Perhaps the largest amount of graffiti, have become titles of novels or plays.