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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1978)
opinion NlORML MÊETIN6 Smoke screen 15 OUT NÖW... We are glad to see the steps taken by the staff, administration and Associated Student Govern ment in providing no-smoking areas for those who do not enjoy breathing noxious fumes while they eat. However, (there's always a however) we still think more could be done. Setting aside a few tables with removable signs is only a gesture in our estimation, and does not do much for solving the problem. What good does it do to sit at a no-smoking table when the smoke from the adjoining table drifts over into your face? If the tables were not so close together this idea might work, but as it is, it's not the best plan. What about setting aside the small dining room? We realize that a lot of the staff, faculty and admin istration sit back there and don't like their privileges infringed upon, but why not make it no-smoking just during the peak lunch hour from 11 to 1 when the cafeteria is the most crowded. It could be open to âll at other times when the tables alone would be sufficient. There have also been non-smokers who com plain that this plan would shove them out of the mainstream. "We want to be out front where we can see", they say. Well folks, you can't have everything. It is only logical that the largest area be given to the smokers, since there are more people with the habit than without. We do feel that there are alternatives to the solution that has been presented, which is really not a solution at all. Maybe some other things should be tried before the signs are made perma nent fixtures of a few tables. (A ttm « S& cvkitx R eau members ' Commentary Other viewpoints Visualization needed Editor's note: This article was an editorial in the Jan. 20 issue of the Siskiyou, the Student newspaper at Southern Oregon State College in Ashland. At a time when budgets are being written and politicians are preping for the primaries, the air is rancid with justifications based on the best interests of "the students" or "the people of the state of Oregon". •I do not intend to sound flip at this point. For many of the people verbalizing such concerns actually do have some grasp of "The best interests" of the peo ple, as they visualize it. The operative word here, however, is visualize. We all have images of "the school", the "average student" or "the people" by which we function. But regardless of the Page 4 reality of those images, a large part of any image is wrapped up in our own needs, shaped by our own drives and often non-existent apart from that. It may be healthy for all of us to occasionally pinch ourselves with the reality of our own self- interests in order to bring clarity to the task at hand. Must we avoid speaking in terms "of the people"? Of course not. We are often en trusted with the responsibility of caring for the interests of others in a particular fashion, which is to the best of our abil ity. But if we can all agree to recognize the extent of our own self-interests when we think or talk or write budgets "in the best interest" of that imagined majority, we may all find our selves a little less rigid, a lot less hostile and more open to change. NORML takes new directio By Mike McCarty Associated Student Government President For The Print The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has begun to work in a new direction towards its goal of legalizing marijuana for recrea tional use. It has decided to pull back in its efforts to get the drug legal ized in Oregon, soon, and is in stead concentrating on educating the voter as to the different di rections this legalization can take. NORML's future directions committee says that the organi zation should become more ag gressive in its efforts to present marijuana related issues to the public, and should continue to lay the ground work for the e- ventual legalization of marijuana. There is a universal agreement among NORML activists that some day we must have and will *have a system by which smokers can obtain marijuana legally. Rather than stump for legali zation, NORML should educate the public to the differences be tween "legalization" and "regu lation." Legalization is defined as commercialization with adver tising; regulation denotes a sys tem in which marijuana could be obtained legally without all the advertising glamour. It is felt that there will be mo success with the general putt in lobbying for regulatioriths for legalization, and it is town this that our efforts should! directed. sprint 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B - Telephone: 656-2631, ext. 259 or 278 editor Happie Thacker * news editor Cyndi Bacon * arts editor] Marlene Clark * sports editor Ann Breyne * copy editor Scon Starnes * photo editor Brian Snook * assistant photo editor Lor raine Stratton * staff reporters Hallie Brown, Randy Frank]H photographer Sam Baer * production staff Mary Cuddy, Jack Tuck er * business manager Paul Byers * professional adviser Randy Clark * office personnel Tommi Davidson, Crystal Tompkins! Opinions expressed in The Prnt do not necessarily reflect those: of the CCC administration, faculty or the Associated Student Go vernment. Editorials, columns and signed letters reflect only the opinions of the editors and the persons signing them. Correspond! ence should be addressed to the above address. Clackamas Community Colli
