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. He claimed that the Jack
Anderson stories on obvious
American bias toward Pakistan
in its war with India in 1971 were
basically a charade to cover up
America’s basic “self-interest.”
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