friday, navember 7, 1975
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daily nebraskan
KSU students favor beer in union, await action
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He said the union board will make
recommendations to the KSU Faculty
Senate Council, who will make their recom
mendations to KSU's president.
Bernard Franklin, president of the Stu
dent Governing Association, said the poll
showed 70 per cent of KSU students fa
voring the sale of beer in "some organized
fashion in the union." However, he said 60
per cent were against having beer on tap in
the union.
A situation similar to Kansas' exists in
Oklahoma where Oklahoma University
(OU) allows consumption of 3.2 beer in
living units and sale in the union while
Oklahoma State University (OSU) allows
neither.
According to Sherwood Washington, ad
ministrative assistant to the vice president
for the university community, students can
drink 3.2 beer in dorm rooms and special
places in the dorms, as well as in Greek
houses.
He said the OU union is owned by an in
dependent organization which allows sale
of beer in the union. However, liquor by
the drink is not allowed in Oklahoma,
Washington said.
City repeals ordinance
He said OU allowed consumption on
campus in Oct., 1973, when the city of
Norman changed an ordinance dealing' with
alcohol consumption on public property.
"Initially there were some problems
(with students and liquor)," Washington
said. However, he said that the problems
are not serious.
He said the only problem he could fore-
sec was controlling the consumption of
liquor by those not old enough to drink.
At OSU in Stillwater, the legal age is
the same as at Norman (18 for beer, 21 for
hard liquor). However, there is "no beer
on campus or anything else," according to
Jim Carlson, director of student activities.
Carlson said a change in the state law
banning liquor by the drink would be need
ed before beer would be sold at the Still
water union. He said there has been no
drive to change the law at Stillwater.
Liquor in dorms
At Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames,
the legal drinking age for all types of liquor
is 18. Liquor is allowed in living units and
the union, according to John Dal ton,, assoc
iate dean of students.
Dalton said a bar in the union serves
beer and liquor. He said the use and posses
sion of liquor is left to the union director.
As at OU, the union is owned by a private
corporation, he said.
In the summer of 1972, the Iowa Legis
lature changed the legal drinking age from
21 to 19; since then it has lowered the age
to 18.
Also in 1972, the Iowa Board of
Regents ruled that liquor could be drunk
in dormitories and Greek houses and could
be sold in unions.
Sept. 18, the regents ruled that Iowa
universities could make their own rules re
garding beer and liquor on campus al
though the regents reserved power to re
verse the universities' decisions.
"The real emphasis is that state law sets
18 as the drinking age and the university
follows the state law, Dalton said. "The
atmosphere is very open. When you set a
state law of that drinking age (18) its
pretty tough to restrict alcohol."
Perhaps the most liberal Big 8 liquor
laws are at Colorado University (CU) in
Boulder where students 18 and older may
have hard liquor, according to E. James
Quigley, dean of students.
Quigley said students may drink in cer
tain areas where they meet informally in
residence halls. He also said beer is sold
in the union and beer and liquor is catered
by the university.
"There are no additional university
policies on consumption as long as state
and local laws are obeyed, Quigley said.
1970 change
He said policy toward liquor consump
tion in dormitories changed in 1970 when
the Colorado regents specified areas where
liquor would be permitted.
Quigley termed Colorado policy
toward alcohol "simple and workable."
"I haven't seen any abuse of consump
tion by students," Quigley said. "Con
sumption of hard liquor in residence halls
is minimal."
He said that one residence hall contains
mostly seniors and graduate students who
are usually old enough to drink liquor,
making its control easier.
CU's policy was liberalized because of
the "double standard" set when the uni
versity tried to enforce a non-consumption
policy on campus while it was not enforced
in off-campus university buildings and
when students could not drink while
faculty and staff could in their centers, he
said.
Quigley said there was "no great con
troversy" when the regents allowed the
consumption and sale of liquor on campus
and that the university has attempted to
"play it low key."
Similar policies
The university whose liquor policy most
resembles Nebraska's is the University of
Missouri.
The legal age for drinking any liquor is
21, according to Jim Banning, vice chan
cellor for student affairs.
Banning said that Missouri does not
allow any possession or consumption of
liquor on any of the university's four
campuses and that it is not sold in the
unions.
However, he said that the student gov
ernment organization at Missouri's Colum
bia campus is asking for the sale of liquor
in the student union, but that there were
no proposals or requests to allow
consumption.
'The movement (for sale) is sufficiently
strong that the university will seriously
consider giving a yes or no decision,"
Banning said.
He said the Missouri Board of Regents
probably would decide the issue in the
next six months.
Banning said the student government
organization investigated the legal back
ground of the issue and found that there
were no state or university laws prohibiting
the sale of liquor in the union.
He said the ban on liquor sales has been
traditional at Missouri and that the stu
dents are trying to change that tradition.
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