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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1969)
leMar seeking members, support for state lobby By JUDY CURTIS Of The Emerald LeMar, the University’s new ly founded organization dedicat ed to the project of legalizing marijuana, held its second meet ing Tuesday night in the EMU with approximately 20 people in attendance. Still in the process of organ izing, LeMar is seeking members and funds to get a state lobby going. Bob Caufield, vice president, informed the group that LeMar now has official recognition of the University, which means it can, among other things, hold dances and set up tables on the EMU Terrace. Steve Leppanen, LeMar’s or ganizer and president, opened the meeting by giving a brief history of marijuana. He reviewed the pot laws and gave arguments to counter charges that pot leads to “stronger drugs, like LSD.” Lep panen concluded by describing marijuana as “one of the most innocuous drugs around. All the facts of marijuana are in our favor,” he asserted. Presently, LeMar's principal aim is to try to educate the public to the facts and fallacies concerning marijuana. “The most important thing we can do is serve an educational function,” said Caufield. He urged members to inform then friends and parents about Le Mar’s activities and the pot laws. . Leppanen told the group that recently Senate Bill 213 was introduced by Ted Hallock of Portland to make the posses sion of marijuana for personal use a misdemeanor instead of a felony. LeMar is trying to get na tionally recognized and prestigi ous people to testify that mari juana does not have harmful effects. One name suggested was Sam Irwin, director of the psycho pharmacology department at tlie University Medical School. Leppanen said he has plans to visit other campuses through out the state with the hope of recruiting members and estab lishing LeMar chapters through out Oregon colleges. LeMar meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday in the EMU. Lredif union formed to aid Lane's poor A new credit union sponsor ed by the Urban Community Ac tion Center and Lane Human Resources has been formed to assist the low income people in Lane County. The Oregon Urban and Rural Federal Credit Union (OUR), will provide credit and financial help to the poor. Representing the ASUO at the Tuesday meeting was Marc Levy- The University will be in volved with OUR through Stu dent Community Projects. Phi Psi elects Small as fraternity president Peter Small was elected pres ident of the Oregon Alpha Chap ter of Phi Kappa Psi in its Jan. 29 elections. Other new officers include: James Eller, vice president; Doug Nelson, corresponding sec retary; Mark Holst, chapter sec retary; Frank Webb, historian: Steve Smith, messenger, and David Wilkie, chaplain and ser geant-at-arms. Photos by Matt McCormick RICHARD McKINNON, associate director of the University of Washington’s Center for Asian Arts, lectures on “Kanjincho," the Kabuki classic, prior to a showing of a film of the play. The Kabuki is a Japanese literary classic. The Wednesday night lecture was part of the University’s 1969 Festival of Arts. Oregon senators ask abolishment of draft PORTLAND iJP)—'The mili tary draft received attention from both of Oregon's senators Monday, in Oregon for a series of speaking engagements dur ing the Lincoln Day recess of Congress. Sen. Mark Hatfield said volun tary military forces for the United States were necessary to curtail the President’s “uni lateral capacity to involve us in war.” Sen. Robert Packwood, speak ing at a separate news confer ence, said he thought a volun teer army would work, but only at additional costs of from $5 to $7 billion annually. “I think as soon as the Viet nam war is settled. President Nixon will move quite strong ly on it,” Packwood said. Hatfield said a military draft cannot meet the three criteria of any military manpower pro curement system. He said the criteria are “to preserve the maximum amount of individual liberty and free dom from unjustified intrusion by the government; to be fair in its application so that every young man receives equal treat ment and no young man is re quired to make sacrifices that r are not demanded of his peers, and to provide the maximum na tional security with the great est efficiency and economy.” PSC's university status official Friday SALEM (d3*—Portland State College probably will become a university on Friday, its birth day and the birthday of the State of Oregon. The House Education Commit tee approved a Senate - passed bill to give the college univer sity status. The bill will reach Gov. Mc Call's desk so he can sign it Friday. ASUO Committees Building, grounds to discuss parking General parking rules and regulation policy will be dis cussed at the Building and Grounds Committee meeting to day at 2 p.m. Committee members will al so discuss visitor parking poli cies and violation problems and will review a request by the Emerald for two additional parking spaces. Criteria for the selection of architects for University build ing projects will be discussed. SAB Quickly passing a film policy and granting recognition to sev eral groups, the Student Ad ministrative Board adjourned a half hour after it came to order Tuesday. The film policy passed was suggested at the SAB meeting last week. The policy states that requests to schedule more than two films will be considered as a film series. It goes on to require that film series to be shown fall term must be requested by the fourth week of the term. Series to be shown other terms must be re quested before the last two weeks of the preceding term. 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