Freshman legislator’s opinions
heard at Rubicon luncheon
“I have learned that there is
one thing lower than a Marine
recruit,” state representative
Wayne Whitehead (R-Dist. 39)
said Friday, ‘‘it is a freshman
legislator in the minority party.”
Whitehead is serving his first
term in the state House of
Representatives.
Speaking at the Rubicon lun
cheon, the Republican legislator
explained why his name appears
as a sponsor of a bill that he does
not support. Whitehead’s name is
on the bill that would declassify
and decriminalize (in effect,
legalize) the use and sale of
marijuana.
He said that he had agreed to
co-sponsor the bill with Sen. Eld
Fadeley (D-Eugene) when
Fadeley had explained that the
bill would send the question of
whether marijuana is a narcotic
to the State Board of Pharmacy
for a decision. However, the bill
that he signed did not c mi tain
what he understood it would.
Whitehead would like to see his
name taken off the bill, but said
that he doesn’t expect it will be.
He also doesn’t expect that the
bill will be passed during the
current session of the legislature
“It won’t get out of committee,”
the freshman legislator
predicted.
One of the reasons he signed
the bill. Whitehead said, is that he
doesn’t have time to read all the
bills in detail that come across
his desk. He said that he just
reads the summary until the bill
is presented to him in its final
form.
Other topics touched on during
the luncheon meeting included:
— Revenue sharing. “We
realize that there is less money
coming in from the federal
government,’’ Whitehead said.
He called for local governments
to “pick up the slack" and added
that “a lot of programs are just
make work deals” that should be
eliminated
— Lowering the state drinking
age to 18. “I think that H is in
trouble." Whitehead said and
cited the so-called “Michigan
study” as the reason. The
Michigan study is a report done
in that state when they lowered
the drinking age that showed an
80 per cent increase in alcohol
related traffic fatalities as a
result of that action.
— The governor’s tax plan.
Whitehead said he agrees with
Bob Davis, an aide to Gov. Tom
McCall, that 100 per cent
financing of kindergartens may
drag the bill down to defeat. He
hopes that the 50 per cent funding
figure will remain in the
legislation.
— Campaign spending
legislation. Whitehead said that
he expects some sort of campaign
spending legislation to pass
during the current legislative
sission. He said that he expects
that the final law will call fen* a 25
cent per voter limit, or roughly
$10,000 campaign expenditures
for a Senate district and $5,000 for
a House district.
— Press coverage of the
legislature. “You are getting the
nuts and bolts,” he said and that
the reporting is “factual, ac
curate, correct and quite good.”
However, he charged that
mistakes made by the
Democratic majority are not
being reported as thoroughly as
mistakes were reported when the
Republicans were in control of
the legislature.
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On Campus
Land classification session tonight
The University Survival Center and the Sierra Club are spon
soring a session Monday to facilitate public involvement in decisions
about land classifications in the Willamette National Forest. The
session will be from 7:30 to 10 p.m., in Harris Hall. Forest Service
planning maps and evaluation forms will be available, as will resource
persons to explain the material.
Comments and evaluations by hikers and backpackers about
areas familiar to them are being sought, according to Gayle Landt of
the UO Survival Center.
Free Van Cliburn tickets available
A limited number of free student tickets for the Eugene
University Music Association concert, featuring Van Cliburn, will be
available at the EMU Main Desk, beginning Monday morning, at 9
p.m. Hie concert is scheduled for Monday, March 5, at 8 p.m. in
McArthur Court. The tickets are limited to one per student, and
student I.D. is required. Tickets for student spouses are also available
at $1 each.
Leather crafts at EMU this week
The Craftsmen’s Corner, a program sponsored by the EMU,
continues this week with Karl and Marie Smiley. The Smileys
specialize in leather crafts and will be demonstrating tooling leather
and weaving on a table and inkle looms.
The Smileys will set up a small booth in the EMU Fishbowl and
demonstrate, exhibit and sell their crafts today through Friday from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Population perspectives examined today
“Social Science Perspectives on Population” is the title of a
session tonight in a University series on ecology and the economy. Hie
free public discussion will be at 8 p.m. in Studio A of the University
Library.
Lecturers will include Eld Whitelaw, associate professor of
economics, Thomas Hovet, professor of political science, and Steven
Keele, associate professor of psychology
Like other sessions in the series, tonight’s will examine critically
the assumptions and conclusions made by the Pacific Northwest River
Basins Commission regarding papulation carrying capacity of the
Pacific Northwest. The series is sponsored by the University’s
Graduate School and Environmental Studies Center.
Lecturer to discuss ‘gender identity"
The public is invited to a free discussion of “Gender Identity: The
Development of Masculinity and Femininity” at 3:30 p.m. today in 180
PLC.
The lecturer will be Richard Green, associate professor of
psychiatry at UCLA and director of the Gender Identity Research and
Treatment Clinic of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the UCLA School
of Medicine. Green is also editor-in-chief of the journal “Archives of
Sexual Behavior". His talk is sponsored by the psychology depart
ment.
Computer animated films to be shown
A free hour long festival of computer animated films on chemistry
showing highlights of the work of twenty computer animators will be
shown at 7:30tonight in 177 Lawrence by Prof. Kent Wilson of the Dept,
of Chemistry of the Univeristy of California at San Diego. The musical
backgrounds for the films are by Moog Synthesizer.
The subjects of the films will range from molecular biology
through quantum mechanics. In addition, a film of the Protein Syn
thesis Dance as originally performed by 200 Stanford students, will be
shown. This is the same dance that was performed during the Festival
of the Arts. Free refreshments will be served. The films are being
presented by the Dept, of Chemistry as a part of the Kodak Seminar
series.
Council begins canned food drive
The Sophomore Class Council is sponsoring a food drive this
Saturday, March 3. Collected canned foods will be given to the
Salvation Army who will use it for emergency relief.
Students are urged by the Council to contribute canned foods.
Those interested in helping collect food can meet at McArthur Court at
10 a.m. on Saturday or call Jim Davis, Sophomore Class President at
687-0586.
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Legislative hearing on handicapped set
The first hearing on a package of bills that would remove many
existing architectural barriers for handicapped persons will be held at
8a.m. Tuesday in room 20 of the capitol.
The hearing is being held before the House Environment Com -
mittee, chaired by Hep. Nande Fadeiey (D-Eugene), chief sponsor of
the legislation, (see related story on page seven.)
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