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Two states push
for relaxed laws
for wine orders
BY DEVLIN BARRLTI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A group of Cali
fornia and New York congressional
lawmakers urged state lawmakers
Thursday to quickly pass legislation al
lowing consumers to order wine from
small vineyards in other states.
In New York, officials said they
would move to offer a bill before the
legislative session ends June 23.
The push to open new markets to
small wineries comes a week after
the Supreme Court struck down
laws in New York and Michigan that
banned wine shipments from out
of-state producers
The court ruled 5-4 that such laws
were unconstitutional. The fight over
who can order wine by mail or over
the Internet has now switched to state
legislatures around the country.
New York and California mem
bers of Congress met Thursday to
call for states to open their markets,
not shut them down, in response to
the court decision.
“Right now if you’re a consumer
who wants to enjoy wine that’s made
from small wineries you have a real
tough time getting it,” said Rep. Mike
Thompson, D-Calif.
While California has an global rep
utation for wine, New York is the third
largest producer in the United States
and the second largest consumer.
In the past 20 years, the state’s wine
business has boomed from roughly 30
small wineries to more than 200.
“This is an explosive industry, and
it’s an issue that needs to be dealt with
not only in New York but nationwide,”
said Rep. John “Randy” Kuhl, R-N.Y.
As a state legislator, Kuhl authored
a bill that would have loosened New
York’s restrictions, but Gov. George
Pataki vetoed the measure in 1995.
Ten years later, the governor sup
ports the change, but New York’s con
gressional delegation wants to see the
state take action, particularly because
some states such as New Jersey have
decided that if they can’t bar out-of
state wine shipments alone, they’ll bar
all mail-order wine shipments.
“That would be moving backward,
that would be regressing,” argued Rep.
Maurice Hinchey, R-N.Y.
States with similar laws now consid
ered unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court will need to take some legislative
action in order to properly regulate the
sale of alcohol.
“We’ve fretted and worried and
stewed about it, but now we’ve got
to make the state Legislature do
what it ought to,” said Rep. Louise
Slaughter, D-N.Y.
New York, Michigan, and 22 other
states barred consumers from directly
ordering wine from out of state.
Charles Carrier, a spokesman for
New York State’s Democratic Assem
bly Speaker Sheldon Silver, said law
makers will take up the issue before
the session ends in late June.
Opponents of the change argue
loosening state laws will make it easier
for underage people to get alcohol and
that states have a right to decide what
limits they place on alcohol sales.
Wine lovers, said the court’s deci
sion will boost Internet sales nation
wide, resulting in lower prices and
more choices.
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attend because he had to teach a class.
Mason said he “agreed that the Uni
versity should be trying to hire more
faculty of color.”
He added that in past faculty search
es within his department, efforts to re
cruit faculty of color have been unsuc
cessful because there has been a lack
of applicants of color.
“The department did advertise... es
pecially to reach African-American fac
ulty,” he said. “But the fact is, in the
past three searches we conducted,
only 4 percent of applicants have iden
tified as people of color.”
Associate professor Gerald Berk,
head of the Political Science Depart
ment, said past attempts to recruit fac
ulty of color have failed because the
University couldn’t match offers from
other universities.
“We’ve had no success, but we’ve
been recruiting like crazy,” he said.
Just this year, Berk said, the de
partment attempted to recruit a black
political scientist from the University
of California, Los Angeles.
“He had counter offers from Univer
sity of Washington and UCLA, and the
salary was over a third more than we
could offer him,” he said.
After OSCC presented the awards,
rally participants brought out 36
chairs that remained empty, except
for a single student who sat in the
middle. The exhibition was meant to
display the isolation students of col
or feel in classes where the vast ma
jority of the students are white.
Greg Vincent, vice provost of insti
tutional equity and diversity, was pres
ent at the rally and said difficulties in
recruiting faculty of color arise from
funding constraints.
“I have found that many depart
ment chairs want to (recruit faculty
of color), but there are issues with
funding,” he said.
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