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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The SAB granted recognition
to Le Mar Northwest, a group
supporting legalization of mari
juana. UO Rehabilitation Asso
ciation, a group supporting phy
sical and mental rehabilitation:
Law Students’ Wives. Wives of
Art and Architecture Students,
Alpine Folkdancers and Sigma
Alpha Mu fraternity.
The SAB also discussed use
of the EMU Fishbowl for “rap
ins.” The SAB passed no policy,
but. decided to suggest that rap
ins be held at the Free Speech
Platform outside after this, ex
cept in cases of bad weather.
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