emerald
Vol. 82,No. 102
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Tuesday, February 17, 1981
CGI
Who, me?
Photo by David W. Zahn
The Harlem Globetrotters whirled and bounced their way in and out of Mac Court Monday night,
wowing a near-capacity crowd. See story Page 5.
Brainy teams
go for awards
By DOUG BUTLER
Of the Emerald
Some of the best and bright
est minds in University dormi
tories will match wits for $100 in
prize money at tonight's College
Bowl finals.
Fifty-two teams entered this
year’s College Bowl, which is
sponsored by the University
Housing Department.
After two rounds of single
elimination competition, only
five teams remain — one team
representing each dormitory
complex.
Billed as a varsity sport for the
mind, College Bowl is patterned
after the old television game,
Hi-Q. A whistle blows and the
game’s moderator reads a toss
up question to two, four-student
panels. The questions can
cover anything from sports to
Greek literature.
The first team to hit their
buzzer and give the right
answer gets ten points and the
opportunity to answer a bonus
question. Quickness is essential
because teams have only three
seconds to answer the toss-up
question, ten seconds for the
bonus.
College Bowl can be as fierce
as any athletic event, with star
‘‘mental jocks” often emerging
to lead their teams to victory, as
happened last Tuesday during
semi-final competition at the
University Inn.
Randy Nishimura, captain of
the Seventh Floor Cadavers, al
most single-handedly rubbed
out the competition.
The Cadavers beat the Scemi
5, 225-159, then whipped Four
Squared, 185-65.
In the second game, Ni
shimura answered 8 of 18 toss
up questions, including one that
led to a 70 point bonus
He handled the obscure
questions with seeming ease. At
one point moderator Barbara
Nichols exclaimed, “He knows
everything.”
“On some questions I just got
lucky,” Nishimura said.
But he and the other
Cadavers were stumped when
asked to name the teams in the
1981 Super Bowl.
“I got a mental block (even
though) I saw the game," Ni
shimura said.
Pat Hanlin, captain of Four
Squared, said his various
former majors helped him
answer the broad range of what
he termed “shallow” questions
“Most of the questions are
just surface," he said. "When
you take eight people, it’s
amazing how much information
they have about diverse topics. “
University professors sub
mitted the questions.
Sally Smith, director of the
University Inn, is coordinating
the College Bowl this year. She
sees a bright future for the
competition.
"People are enjoying it so
much this year, I hope we can
expand it next year,” she says.
Next year the winning Univer
sity team may even be able to
compete with other colleges it
intramural competition is start
ed earlier, she says.
The Cadavers will join teams
from Stafford, Sweetser, Collier
and Caswell for finals in the
EMU Forum Room at 7:30 ton
ight. The first place team will win
$75, with $25 going to the
second place team
PEACE calls for student support of pot bill
By MIKE RUST
Ol the Emerald
Supporters of efforts to legalize the cultivation of
marijuana for personal use are hoping students will join
them in testifying before a Legislature committee later
this week.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings
on House Bill 2422 Wednesday. The bill would allow
adults to grow three marijuana plants for personal use,
if the home has been licensed by the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission. A $20 fee would be required.
The bill also would make it a crime to sell drug
paraphernalia to children, with a penalty of up to one
year in jail, a $1,000 fine, or both.
Oregonians Cooperating to Reduce Drug Abuse is
the statewide group working to pass the legislation.
People Effectively Appealing for Cannabis Equality
(PEACE), a Lane County-based group, is working with
OCRDA on the bill.
University business student Lew Ward, a member
of PEACE, says the organization is setting up carpools
to take Lane County residents to testify before the
committee.
He says he hopes students will take part in the effort
by testifying or by writing or calling their representa
tives.
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Ward says supporters also hope the bill will be
changed to make the selling of paraphernalia to minors
a civil offense instead of a criminal offense.
“They (students) are voters too," he says. "It's our
interests that are at stake. We've got to be the ones to
show support for the bill.”
The hearing will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Hearing
room 354 at the State Capitol.
HB 2422 is one of three paraphernalia bills being
considered by the Legislature. All three would outlaw
the sale of paraphernalia to people under 18.
HB 2585 would allow paraphernalia to be sold only
by people licensed to dispense controlled substances.
Ward says this means pharmacists would be the only
ones able to legally sell paraphernalia.
The other bill, HB 2535, would prohibit the sale of
paraphernalia with the intent of using illegal sub
stances.
"There’s going to be some kind of paraphernalia
bill passed by this Legislature," Ward says. "Ours is
probably the mildest and most sensible.”
Ward says the paraphernalia industry opposes all
the bills. However, supporters of HB 2422 say some
regulation is necessary.
Ward says he is optimistic the bill would pass the
popular vote.
"We’ve been told by people in the Legislature that
it'll probably get through.”
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