THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1969 PAGE 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN End to pot penalties pushed By Floyd Norris College Press Service Los Angeles A Senate , sub-committee has been told here that mari juana is in many ways a better drug to take than alcohol and that Operation Intercept, i f successful, would merely drive more people to dangerous drugs such as amphetamines. A series of witnesses testi fying before the subcommit tee on alcoholism and larcotics. chaired by Senator Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), ;cld the committee that penalties for drug usage should be ended. These in cluded Dr. Joel Fort, a Ber keley professor and former consultant of drug abuse to the World Health Organiza tion; Dr. Roger Smith, director of the Amphetamine Research Project at the University of C a 1 i f o r n i a Medical Center in San Fran cisco; Dr. David Smith founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic; and Dr. William McGlothlin of the UCLA Department of Psychology. Fort told the subcommittee that it is "totally immoral and hypocritical to express concern about marijuana smoking without worrying also about other kinds oi smoking." Tobacco, he said, is clearly as dangerous a marijuana. Under questioning about possible harmful effects of various drugs, Fort told the committee of one drug that "accounts for thousands of deaths every year, that, despite decades of use, still works on the brain in ways we do not understand, and that has caused not only chromosomal damage but actual birth defects." The drug is aspirin. McGlothlin told of a study of middle class whites who had been initiated to mari juana some twenty years ago. All had used it for several years, and some are still smoking it regularly. The study found that it was used as a substitute for alcohol. Those who had overused marijuana ' had also overused alcohol at a different period of their li ves and would probably do so again if they were to stop using marijuana. "Of the two drugs," he said, "alcohol is probably the more disruptive when used to excess." Roger Smith, who has set up a clinic in San Francisco, told the committee that, "As a result of this (past sum mer's) marijuana drought, many users are turning to other drugs." If Operation Intercept is successful, this pattern will increase, he said. San Francisco dopers are still getting large quan tities of hash from North Africa and grass from such midwestern states as Iowa and Kansas, but prices are up for marijuana, Smith said. Hughes agreed with the witnesses that drug laws relating to users are overly punitive. "Excessively severe, almost sadistic levels of punishment .to not deter a young generation determined to turn on," Hughes told the committee. Tri-U organizes volunteers for tutoring Indian students The Tri-University Project is organizing voluntary tutorial projects in Lincoln, Omaha and on the Win nebago Indian Reservation to ; .it . H ' " " -war- ' v 'My t' "V, hi j TEAM TUNE IN TURfJ ON. DANCE TO THE 0AK0AIE TWYNE HALLOWEEN PARTY FM. PARTY LAND OCT. 31 NE ( Wov.rly COSTUMES YOB at htr iGiutf The Hutchinson Bros. PLAYING ROCK FROM 9:00-12:00 FRIDAY NIGHT ON MAIN FLOOR NO COVER rT"ir iiiM i j Kosmet Klub Fall Reyus Saturday Evening PERSHING AITUTORIUM t P.M. NOVEMBER I, m combat the rising dropout Tates among minority groups. The project is strictly voluntary with each of the 50 tutors paying his own transportation expenses, on his own time and deciding what subjects to tutor. Plans are being made with the Indian center in Lincoln and the Winnebago Reservation for groups of two or three young Indian students to meet one or two nights a week with a tutor. The volunteers w ill shortly begin orientation sessions conducted by Indians to let prospective tutors know what problems they will face. Jim Kohler, one of group's organizers, explained why there is a 50 per cent dropout rate among Indian students between grade school and junior high. "During the first years of school the children are iu t e 1 1 i g e n t , active and creative," he said. "Then during the filth and sixth grades they see only a reservation existence ahead, and they lose tho:r interest and desire," he said. The Tri-University Project will also arrange to "send tutors to the Sunside "store front" school in Omaha's Near North Side. College students will assemble one night each week with disad vantaged youth and dropouts. "These tutors will be fac ing students with problems much more intense than those of middle class students," Kohler added. Folk group plays at club meeting The International Club of the University of Nebraska will present a group of pop folk singers in their Fall Get together at the Wesley Foundation. 640 X. 16th, on Friday. October 31, at 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served and admission is free. v uamei l'lowvrs an' a grvut way to say tlutnk you. son 127 South 13th Floral 432-7(02 Jf HAIRCUT y X,, BARBER SHOP m& isfcv mm 3ft otai APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE. SHINES TOOl 135N.13TH ST. 477-9555 Tkfcfto mi Sri Cnim m FrnUng fcm OHitt-'l.TS THE SIMMON'S JEWEL GALLERY ft ring tfcswn "Beauty In tbi leugh" CUSTOMCD DKIGN5, WITH YOU IN MIND! DIAMONDS - WATCHES - PEARLS - EARRINGS - CPALS -BRACELETS - JADE US' N. 13 St. VAKSITY THIATHI IUO.0IM IINCMN, NISI. Thursday, Oct. 30 Nebraska Union 12:30 p.m. Nebr. Union Board Luncheon Placement 1:30 p.m. ETV Staff Meeting Discussion Group 6 Student Affairs 3 p.m. Free University Personal Development Lab 3:30 p.m. Hyde Park 4 p.m. Builders Culture 4:30 p.m. YWCA Head Start 6 p.m. Teachers College Faculty Dinner ALT Exec. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Phi Gamma Delta 6:30 p.m. ALT Board Block & Bridle Interviews Panhellenic Christian Science Org. 7 p.m. J Phi Sigma Loga ! Kappa Alpha Psi j Quiz Bowl I French Club YWCA Cultural Crafts ASUX Human Rights Quiz Bowl Isolation 7:30 p.m. Math Counselors 8:00 p.m. A S. U.N. Festival of Life 9 p.m. Comenius Club AS UN will meet twice a term on Ag campus Continued from page 1 Senator Lynn Holden said that there are many people on East Campus who have expressed interest in what ASUN is doing and question ed why it does not meet (here. Prier pointed out that East Campus participation in ASUN elections has been better than city campus participation on the whole. In further business, Gless was elected as Senate member of the ASUN elec torial Commission. Four candidates were presented for the vacant senate seat in the College of Engineering and Architec ture. They were Tom Hen dricks, Stan Peters, Tom Piper, and Bob Yunag. Piper was elected. In an informal session after the meeting, Union and Student Affairs officials were questioned about their operations. 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