University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1976 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 10-8-1976 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 080, No 35, 10/ 8/1976 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1976 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 080, No 35, 10/8/1976." 80, 35 (1976). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1976/108 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1976 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. By Ruth S.Intress ~time we have a guaranteed 25 Coston endorsing tire activities of against the · bill was Sen. Celia up again, and the next time it will Project Consejo received $2,321 students who will act as tutors. Any NORML in the decriminalization Knight. "I don't think the pass because there will be more of at the ASUNM Senate ty1eeting student who wants to tutor can •. of marijuana, The resolution states decriminalization of marijuana the Senators here to support it,'' Wednesday night, and a resolution The program is not limited just to facts about the cost to tax payers should be an issue for UNM. It will for the ASUNM Senate to endorse Chicano studies.'' for each arrest for possessing one only hurt our position with the Louis Tempkin, the coordinator the marijuana · decriminalization . Concerning the disturbance on ounce or less of marijuana, and lists legislature, and our lobbying ef­ 9f the Office of Research and. activities of NORML failed in a the Senate floor last week, ASUNM the states that have already passed forts for more money,'' she said. Consumer Affairs (ORCA), said,. voteof6-7-2. ''We will be conducting a survey in President Damon Tobias said, .Jaws to decriminalize marijuana Rupp said, "Worrying about the Consejo, which bas · made its the next two weeks to find out what "Most of the people here with users. legislature is relevant but by passing the students feel about main objective for the year be to Project Consejo last week were not Sen. David Rupp said, "You this resolution we are saying we are decriminalization of marijuana. We tutor students in the high schools, . members of Consejo. What don't have to be a user of concerned about teenagers who are will poll approximately was appropriated the $2,321 after a happened last week was part of a marijuana to support this getting criminal records from 250 students at 10 different locations." brief questioning period from the power struggle in Chicano studies." resolution. In light of the costs for smoking marijuana. They don't get Tempkin said he is conducting Senate. Causing a large controversy at arresting people for only one ounce criminal records for drinking which the survey on the request of Sens. Diane Naranjo, a former Wednesday's Senate meeting was a df marijuana, it should be passed." is just as illegal for them." Consejo coordinator said, "At t_his resolution written by Sen. George One of the strongest advocates Knight and Shriver. The results of ,•.• ~After nearly an hour of debate, a the poll will be presented at the next ·--- ., ... · .. -.... roll-call vote was taken which Senate meeting Wednesday, Oct. en(ied in a tie. The tie was broken 20. Wi\h a vote against the resolution by In other Senate action: Ne\N Mexico Vi~e President Dorothy Davidson. -IFC Panhellinic was funded Davidson said, "This resolution is $1150, gre~tly going to affect our image as -A · Censure Act was passed DAILY a Lfpiyersity to the legislature." which would deny a Senator from LO . A(fter Senate ajourned, Sen. voting if he or she missed three or Friday, October 8, 1976 "l!H!.,?N.i~p:;.~·10~~·~ tmRf\f(Y Ste~e Shriver, a supporter of the more Senate or committee \ · t.... t~,~~"''""'niu "' ·· ·· · • "'reso1ution said, "It will be brought meetings. ,! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~--~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiii!iii ... ".. ~. ...... -·•" .• ·No Longer Sole Supporter U. Cuts Quito Funds By Dolores Wood lot that the University needs," he center to all the New Mexican UNM' s administration has ·said. He said the Biology depar- universities. The proposal would decided that the University will no tment had asked for a new machine require the universities involved in longer be the sole provider of funds that .cost $55,000 but the ad- the center to pay an amount for the Andean Study and Research ministration had to refuse the proportional to the students Center in Quito;" Ecuador, said request tiecause the University did participating in the center. "We do UNM Provost Chester Travelstead. not have the money. not know yet, whether these Unless other New Mexican The departments at UNM resent universities will agree to this universities agree to help support being refused money when they proposal," he said. "If the other . the center, it wiH close, he said. know the University is sending universities do agree to the The budget for the center is $60,000 of the main ¢ampus' proposal, .the center will run next about $100,000, but the money the money to the Andean Center, he year, if they do not, the center will center takes in is only about said. close .... ) $30,000, he· ,said,. The center " "We just don'.t feel it is fair to "" "Eventually,' we· hope that the· receives about $20,000 in tuition, other campus departments to take credit hours that are taken at. the and about $11 ,000 from Northern money from the main campus center will be supported by the llliriois University (NIU) because departments 'and send the money to legislature, as they are not now," Chester Trat~elstead \(! .. :~ NIU sends some students there. Quito," he said. hesaid. 1; I i ,. The number· of students the 't, The Board of Educational BE F •11• A il University sends to the center has Financeagreedtolistthefundsfor unw1 ·lng to· pprove been declining while the funds the the center in a line item in .the I!i/ ;~· University sends it have stayed the· budget the board sends to th~ New ,.. ~; j same. "Even though the number Of (; UNM students has gone from about ·Mexicoitem, ifState if. approvedLegislature. byA linethe Gr· adu.at·· e N;urst·ng ·Program I. SO to about 27, the building costs legislature, would earmark funds and teacher costs remain about the directly to the ~enter. same," he said. "If the number of But because the other universities By Tim Higgins very carefully," she ~aid, "but we operating with an acting vice students had stayed at 40 or 45 at refused to commit their funds, the Despite its widespread support had hoped the need for this president and an acting dean, we least, we probably could have board dropped any mention of the from health organizations and program would be as obvious to didn't push as hard as we might funded the center a while longer.'' center from its budget. colleges across the state, UNM's everyone else as it is to nurses. We have. We were reluctant to move "The sixty thousand dollars Travelstead said he has proposed proposed graduate program in have a great many letters of support ahead with a new program without UNM sends to Quito could buy a a funding sy~tem outside for the nursing· has repeatedly failed to get from other schools across the state, some input from the people who necessary approval from the state's clinical agencies, hospitals and would eventually run the Board of Educational Finance directors of nursing.'' program." (BEF). Efforts to establish the Another factor which may have The effort to establish the program are now stalled for at least worked against the approval ofthe graduate program was begun in a year, until the BEF meets again. program is the recent inclusion of 1975 with funds grantedby theW. The ac'ting dean of UNM's •·nursing graduate studies in the Kellog Foundation, which also Coll~ge of Nursing, Marion·Fleck; Western Interstate CommissiQn on helped finance the development of said "I'm very disappointed that Higher Education (WICHE) UNM's School of Medicine. The circumstances both within UNM cooperative program. This enables grants from Kellog for the and with the BEF have prevented New Mexican students to attend development of the nursing full approval of the proposal as it participating out-of-state colleges program have totaled $30,600. This was presented to and approved by while paying only resident tuition. Continued on Page 6 the UNM faculty and regents. The. · The state of New Mexico pays the great need for a master's program difference between resident and in our state has been documented. non-resjdent tuition for these Jimmy Carter We find it particularly acute in students." relation to the lack of qualified . Fleck, however, said she didn't To Campaign faculty in the associate degree and think the WICHE program was the practical nursing programs in our answer to the state's nursing In Albuquerque· state. Many faculty do· not yet have education need. "The problem of a master's degree, and they're many of our nurses,'' she said, .-is Democratic presidential nominee anxiously looking toward UNM to the problem of women.....:.most of Jimmy Carter is scheduled to campai&.u ..Jn. ..A tbuquerque today ~~~~"""'~.--~~rw~~~~~~~~~~;~·Chaiieci~~~;~!~~~~e who want to take and will speak at a rally in Civic . Plaza downtown. ., I;:::.;;:;;. :;~;; .... .:=~~u:! ~mc:~u~ei~tn:u: ~1~· !~~ ::t. n;:;:~~:~~::.~~~~ Carter will arrive at Albuquerque health programs, said ''it would be and that some are able to work International Airport at 11 :30 a.m.