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daily nebraskan tuesday, february 26, 1980 paga2 OKO 9:30 ajn. - Nebraska Union Staff Regency Suite Noon - Interclub Coun cil Luncheon Georgian Suite 1:300 pjn. - Kimball Hall - Guthrie Workshop Rostrum - Cellar 2-3:30 pan. - UPC-City Concerts - Coffee House South Crib 3:154:15 pjn. - UPC City Free University 401 3:304:30 pjn.-Baptist Student Union 122 5- 6 pjn - Corncobs 232 5:15-6:45 pm, - I.E.S, Women Across Cultures 402 5:30-6:30 pjn, - UPC City Talks & Topics Dinner Harvest Room C 5:30-8:30 pjm, - UPC City Heritage Room 6-9 p mK - Multi-Cultural Affairs Tutoring 225 6:30-& pjnt - Baptist Student Union The Rostrum 6:30-8 pjm. - Students for Pro-Lite The Cellar N 7-9 pjn, - Tau Beta Pi Harvest Room A-B 78 pjn, ASUN Facili ties & Services The Cellars 7-8 pjn, - Parking Appeals Board 216 7-8:30 pjn, - IF, CV Rush Committee 402 7:15-10:00 pjn. - The Navigators 232 7:30 pjn. - Math Coun selors 225 B-C 7:30 pjn. - UPC City Talks & Topics Middle East Symposium t)r. Hatem Hussain. Centennial Room 8-9:30 pjn. - Students for Responsible Energy Decisions, Harvest Room C 9:30-U pin, - Mortar Board 401 Senator proposing legislation to outlaw paraphernalia sales By Julie Bird Head shops will be a thing of the past if a bill soon to be introduced by Sen. Pat Venditte of Omaha gains legis lative approval. Although Yenditt said it is premature to discuss the specifics of his proposal, he said Monday morning that the bill will be patterned after guidelines established by the federal Justice Department Drug Enforcement Admin istration. The bill would make it a misdemeanor to possess " " " " manufacture or sell drug paraphernalia, Stiffer penalties n i m would be set up for selling paraphernalia to a minor, but SnYrTv C:07 n, i1 the penalties have not yet been determined. U UvrU U DL-J U It is too late for Venditte to introduce the bill without -a suspension of the rules. He would need 30 votes from .' the 49 senators to bring the measure before the Legisla ture s Judiciary Committee for a public hearing. The Agricultural Ecomk mics Club is to meet at 7 pjmx tonight at the East Union, Students for Kennedy is to hold a brief organization-, al meeting tonight at 8 pjn, in the Nebraska Union, Room number will be posted, The UPC Foreign Film Committee is to meet at 1:30 p jn, today at the UPC office, Nebraska 22 U UNL Students for Life is to meet at 6:30 p Jn, today in the Nebraska Union, Q Y1I Venditte said he thinks he has the votes to do it, and awaits return of the measure from the bill drafting office. He said he was prompted to introduce the legislation by two recent Omaha World-Herald editorials and phone calls from parents disturbed about availability of paraphernalia. Earmarked at youth The sad part about this industry is that it is directly earmarked at youth, where it hurts the most," Venditte said, "Young people are naive and willing to try anything.' But Steve Schneiderwind, assistant legal counsel for the Judiciary Committee, said there have been questions about the constitutionality of banning paraphernalia, sales. Most challenges have charged that the definitions are too vague, Prosecutors also would have to prove that the equip-, ment is to be used with illegal drugs, and would be able to use circumstantial evidence to establish proofs Terry Moore, co-owner of Dirt Cheap Enterprises, 22? N, Uth St., said intent would be hard to prove He is a member of the Nebraska Accessories Trade Association, a group which plans to oppose Venditte's measure, iiAnr coi,l hi h!iri shon has a xelf-imoosed ml tU.it a customer must be at least 18 years old to buy parapher nalia and regularly check identification of customers. Political climate He said he expected this type of legislation to be introduced because of political climate in the state. He said he sympathizes with parents of teens who are involved in drugs. "The government couldn't control the drug industry and the paraphernalia industry grew from that," Moore said. "So now they're coming down on the symptom rather than the problem." He said items not considered paraphernalia now sold in the head shop are being moved to the record store in case compromise legislation sets a mandatory age limit on who can purchase paraphernalia. Rather than eliminating the paraphernalia business, Venditte's proposal would drive it underground, Moore claimed. Drug dealers would sell paraphernalia along with dope, he said. Other uses Moore said between one-quarter and one-third of Dirt Cheap's total sales are paraphernalia. Mariann Wohleb, manager of The Connection, U 8 N, 14 St., said 25 per cent or less of her store's sales are in paraphernalia. The store specializes in clothing from India, Wohleb said there are other conceivable uses for paraphernalia. Bongs could be used to smoke tobacco, she said, and many people use cocaine spoons for decora tion. She said the legislation would have to be very specific in its definition and not rule put legal uses for, the equipment. She said she doubted Venditte's contention that seeing paraphernalia displays were an enticement to use drugs, comparing it to pipe displays at tobacco shops enticing a child to smoke tobacco, '.:. Moore admitted that elaborate paraphernalia could be enticing, but said that many other elements in society are just as enticing, if not more, Policy reviews 9 V MAN and SUPERMAN by G Bernard Shaw Feb, 29, March 1 and 4 thru 8 at 8 pm $3&$4 and "Don Juan In HeU" March2&3 $1&$2 Howell Theatre 12th & R 472-2073 y7 8 )J. VFHAIRJ bhane; 4751953 incoln, nebr,6B508l Continued from Page X The defendants said because testimony" has not been officially defined and is a vague term, the charges are in- ? valid, ' 5 t;f ' i The policy, established in 1 973, forbids the use of mi- I versity facilities for any event or activity 'if one of its essential features is religious worship or testimony in any of its various forms" . v;v.V J r No stand taken ; The day following McDowell's campus speech, Richard Armstrong, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he didn't know if the policy could be defended from a legal standpoint, ll ' , 'I'm just not in a position to say whether or not what he (McDowell) said last night was testimony" Armstrong had added, Suzanne Brown, assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs, said that several alternatives to the exist-, ing religion policy have been suggested by university at torneys, She declined to list any of the proposals until NU Attorney Richard Wood had reviewed them, Don Skeahan, vice chancellor for Educational and Student Services at UNO and a member of the tri-campus council, said he hopes the council clarifies the religion policy soon, 'It (the policy) needs to be put to bed," Skeahan said. This is not an easy policy to write," he said, adding that 018TI ID v: in Hi EKESJT 8FII8T8,IK WE REPAIR VW VEHICLES OUR PARTS DEPARTMENT IS EXPANDING TO INCLUDE; DATSUN TOVOTA VOLKSWAGEN HONDA AUDI SUN COMPUTER DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE AN INDEPENDENT SERVICE CENTER C BmJbufticuio I 1 2433 N. 33rd 467-2207 it is difficult to define Vtestimony," , 4 Skeahan said that" the religion policy review was? prompted by an incident at UNO last spring when, a group of .students asked to use an area near the student center for a religious activity, : i Service went on 'We didn't feel it was in line with current policy"; Skeahan said, explaining why permission was denied. However, after students contested his decision, 'a service , went on of some nature.' Neither Brown nor Skeahap said they could recall any major conflicts with religion policy enforcement prior, to the Persson case. About 2,000 letters advertising McDowell's speech were sent through campus mail to faculty members, administrators and student leaders. The plaintiffs claimed the fou groups used a privilege they were not entitled to. Charges made in the Persson -case have prompted publications department employees to search their files tor past mailing policies, according to department director Schroeder, but little has been found, Schroeder said the current policy allows campus mail to be used only for'official university business corres pondence," Most of the mail is individual items, such as a memo from, one professor to another or a bill from one organiza tion to another, Any mass mailings are entitled to the federal bulk mail rate, Schroeder said, emphasizing that the university offers no special bulk rate, but is considering one. If created, the bulk rate would be less than the federal charge, she said. Editor in chief: Rocky: H A. 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