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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.
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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
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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.
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