Clackamas Community College
Thursday, January 27,1977
Senator
confirms
proposed
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marijuana
legislation
URML in Salem
■NORML members participated in an
■font session dealing with proposed
jarijuai a legislation in Oregon last Fri-
ay in Salem which was hosted by State
enlStephen Kafoury
(D-Portland).
wove from left to right are NORML
Embers Dennis Ryan (Southern Ore-
pnState College), Charlie Bennett, Mar­
ita Kunkle, John Derr, Mike McCarty
nd Ror Kunkle (Clackamas Community
Hegel
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1C nurses receive caps
weekend ceremony
fenty licensed practical nurses received
pursing caps at a ceremony held
lay, Jan, 22, at Clackamas Community
i men were among those eligible to go
gh the capping ceremony, according
brgorie Sidman, chairperson, Depart-
bt of Nursing and Health Occupations.
■ students receiving caps were:
Idy M. Bennett, Ruth D. Carlsun,
irie M. Davis, Barbara A. Dawson, Jerri
Ingtoi. Marjorie I. Emsley, Kristin L.
»r, Forest J. Hufer, Catherine J. Ma-
Heath J. Purvis.
iori (Robinson, Cindy J. Smith, Kath-
M.|fenyck, Sandra M. Weber, Tom E.
ford, Glenda R. Wilson, Lois Yoder,
|e D.lBerm, Ronita F. Broyles, Daniel
(ant,Patricia Gibboney.
Iristina A. Guenther, Kathryn D. Gun­
in, Beorge D. Hunter, Katherine M.
ary,Pauline A. Johns, John Laningham,
cia I Larson, Timothy M. McNeil,
•hodir Laurene Stocks, Ann Wagenius,
Bastor
Beteer students enrolled in a special
|4toreii pilot program also received
■These students are employed nursing
assistants who are coordinated through the
evening nursing program:
Margaret I. Allee, Jean Brady, Nancy A.
Cohen, Stephen Collins, Kathleen Dolittle,
Marlene Elmore, Hilbert (Skip) Engelter,
Linda M. Hartley, Evelyn G. Higgens, Janice
L. Hinze, Patsy J. Hopkins.
Jan A. Humphrey, Cathy Johnson, Faith
D. Kirchern, Donna L. Moore, Heidi Sand­
ford, Th alma K. Schnaible, Isabella Swaney.
A $122 infusion demonstration arm used
to teach students how to give intravenous
injections was presented to CCC during the
ceremony by the Soroptimist International
Club of Oregon City, a women's service
organization.
Mrs. Ida Faye Curtis, LPN, office nurse
for John J. Wedge, MD, and a member of
the college nursing advisory committee, was
the featured speaker at the ceremony.
CCC nursing department students have a
high degree of success. Of the 60 students
who entered the program in June, 1975,
100 per cent passed the State Board Licen­
sing Examinations in June, 1976 with an
average score of 571. Passing was 350.
Forty-eight of these, or 81 per cent, have
been licensed.
Members of the Clackamas Community
College chapter of the National Organiza­
tion for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML) met with State Sen. Stephen
Kafoury (D-Portland) Saturday, Jan. 21, to
discuss proposed marijuana legislation.
Kafoury said that he would probably
introduce the proposed reforms in Oregon
marijuana laws, and that the bill would be
introduced under the Uniform Controlled
Substances Act (UCSA) of 1970.
The UCSA originally lowered the federal
penalties of possession of small amounts of
marijuana from a felony to a misdemeanor
and the proposed state legislation would
allow for additional provisions in the act.
Among the proposed changes in the state
laws concerning marijuana are legalization
of possession of less than an ounce, legali­
zation of the transportation of less than
an ounce and the legalization of cultivating
a certain number of marijuana plants.
Kafoury introduced similar legislation in
1975 but he said that it died in committee.
According to Kafoury, the main reason the
legislation was allowed to die was the legis­
lators' fear of the voters. "Sometimes legis­
lators are chicken," said Kafoury.
Kafoury also said that the states of
Washington and Hawaii look promising for
decriminalization this year. This would create
a solid block of decriminalized states in the
far west.
Kafoury is optimistic about the chances
of the proposed marijuana legislation especi­
ally since new light has been shed on the
healing properties of marijuana. He feels
that legislators are more enlightened on the
subject of marijuana than they were in 1975.
Sen. Kafoury told the CCC NORML
members that their most effective lobbying
tool is individual letters to legislators.
Inside
This week the Cougar Print focuses
on the foosball craze, not to mention
pinball and pool enthusiasts. This two-
page section featuring special adver­
tisement can be found in the middle
of this issue on pages 6 and 7.