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Horton talks on drug laws By JOSH MARQUIS Of the Emerald When asked Thursday night by a student what he thought one of the major dangers of marijuana was, District Attorney Pat Horton replied, “getting caught.” Horton spoke to students at a meeting of the psychoactive drug class at the University. The D.A. explained that Oregon’s criminal code provides that if a person is arrested for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and it is his first offense, the charge is a misdemeanor. Otherwise, the defendant would face a felonious criminal activity in drugs charge and a possible prison sentence of five years. Responding to questions about the citation system for certain crimes, Horton said that he feels “it’s a big step forward not only for drug offenders but in the entire bail procedure.” Horton explained that if a person is arrested on Friday night, he has no alternative but to post bond or call a bail bondsman. “I feel this is inherently unfair,” he said. “Now we have the option of issuing a ticket.” Horton said that in developing a uniform policy for Lane County law enforcement agencies for issuing citations to drug of fenders, “we found that with marijuana the type of offender is easily distinguishable from those who are likely to commit other crimes.” Horton said that his office has received very favorable response locally and a great deal of in terest from other agencies on the West Coast. Commenting on law en forcement priorities in Lane County, Horton said, “It’s pretty obvious where marijuana is in my book — not very near the top. We’re more concerned about crimes of violence against people.” Asked whether a conflict would exist in law if local voters told the city government to place their lowest law enforcement priority on marijuana, as has recently happened in Berkeley, Horton said there would not be too much of a problem because the “job of law enforcement is primarily to protect lives and property.” Horton said he opposed the use of paid informants in drug cases. “Since I’ve taken office no money has been spent for such pur poses.” The D.A. said that while the “use of citizens in reporting criminal activity” is an im portant and necessary part of law enforcement, he opposed the use of informants “in the role of a policeman because that person simply doesn’t have the training or responsibility.” Asked who would be eligible for a citation for marijuana possession, Horton said that each police agency has its own guidelines which center around the likelihood of the individual appearing in court. “If someone is busted in Eugene while hitchhiking from Seattle to Mexico, they probably aren’t going to get a citation.” Horton said that America as a nation “is preoccupied with drugs, although perhaps we overlook the abuse of alcohol and pharmaceuticals by middle aged, middle-class Americans.” Dinner, speeches given to raise funds for Pakistani POWs By SHAHRYAR AHMAD Of the Emerald A reading from the Koran, the holy book of the Moslems, of ficially opened the University Pakistani Student Association’s (PSA) dinner, lecture and movie presentation last Friday at the Newman Center. The presentation was to publicize the cause of the 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war (POW) being held by India in the aftermath of the 1971 India Pakistan war. Amidst the outcome of 1971 war was the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Pakistan now holds some 200,000 Bangladesh citizens hostage who were in West Pakistan at the time of the war. India is holding some 93.000 Pakistani soldiers who surrendered to a joint command of Bangladesh and India, and Bangladesh is holding some 200.000 Bihari minority people who have opted to go to Pakistan. Kenneth Ghent, professor of mathematics and foreign student adviser, delivered a background speech on the history of Pakistan. He said that Islam is what brought East and West Pakistan together in 1947 across “a thousand miles of Indian territory.” But other forces — bad economic and political planning — caused the separation of the two parts in 1971 and war between India and Pakistan. Bangladesh was a product of that war. Iqbal Azad, a Pakistani now living in Corvallis, spoke on the Co-governance committee to lobby for students on board By MARIANNE RINALDO Of the Emerald The ASUO has decided to lobby for the placement of two students on the Oregon State Board -of Higher Education. Jeff Johnson, former delegate to the Inter Institutional Union of Students, spoke to the co governance committee on Friday urging student participation and support of House Bill 2147. HB 2147 calls for two students to be members of the board with the same voting power as the other members. The students would serve two-year terms. Johnson asked.the co-governance committee, “What is the purpose of the University if not for students to have the highest quality of education we can get? We view education as a product,” Johnson continued. “The faculty are the producers and the students are consumers. It is the rightful place of students that they should partake in their education. Basically, what you have now is taxation without representation.” According to Johnson, if HB 2147 is passed the two students elected to the board would not be representatives per se, because “how can two students represent 59,000 students? “I see the two students not as students, but board members first who see things the way a student would and hopefully he can enlighten the other members.” Co-governance committee members signed a letter addressed to University President Robert Clark expressing the committee’s delight in the “recent action of the faculty in creating a parallel body composed of faculty members: the Faculty Senate committee on the design of a legislative body.” The letter closed by asking Clark to serve as a mediator between the student and faculty com mittees. “We would appreciate reading your comments on the relationship between the two committees,” the letter said, “and we would like to propose at this time, the possibility that you might accept the role of mediator in these negotiations.” “Concept of Pakistan.” In bitter terms, he blamed the Hindus (the religious majority in India) for “all the hardship and misery suffered by the people of the Indian subcontinent.” (The subcontinent includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.) Azad asserted that Pakistan came into being as a refuge for the Islamic minority of India. Masood Mian, PSA president, spoke on the theme of the Pakistani POWs. He mentioned that some 93,000 Pakistani POWs and civilians are being held in India as “human hostages for political concessions.” He cited several Geneva Convention rules and UN Security Council resolutions to back up his claim that “no country has the right to hold civilian populations as hostages.” He said, “All Oregonians present in the audience should do everything possible to secure the release of the Pakistani POW’s.” The last speech was by Esawey Amasha, an Egyptian student with a rather Marxist in terpretation of India-Pakistan affairs. His charge was that the United States, Britain and India colluded together to bring about the separation of Pakistan in 1971. 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