New group backs marijuana legalization Coors
By Cris Wildhagen
Staff Reporter
Some UNL students have formed
a campus chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform of Mari
juana Laws to fight for legalization of
the drug.
Members of NORML have applied
for recognition as an official student
organization at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, but have not yet
received approval.
The group, which will publicize
the advantages of the hemp plant,
now is trying to draft a constitution,
said Dan Clinchard, one of the or
ganization’s founders.
The members also are planning to
petition the Nebraska Legislature,
calling for the decriminalization of
possession and cultivation of the
Cannabissativa(hemp)plani,hcsaid.
The group’s main goal, Clinchard
said, is to address the issue of mari
juana decriminalization publicly
through booths, letters and media,
explaining the history, lawsand bene
fits of the plant.
“The group is not looking for a
change in marijuana laws to be so
members can sit around and smoke
pot. Instead, they are truly interested
in the advantages the plant can pro
duce for the environment,” he said.
Clinchard, citing examples from
“The Emperor Wears No Clothes,”
written by Jack Hcrer, said marijuana
could help solve deforestation and
global warming related to the use of
petroleum fuels.
The hemp plant can be used to
make paper four limes more efficiently
than tree farms, Clinchard said. This
is better for the environment because
oxygen-producing trees are not de
stroyed, he said.
The hemp plant also can be used as
a food source, Clinchard said. Four
marijuana seals contain enough pro
tein for a person for one day, he said.
Clothing can be made out of the
plant, Clinchard said. In the 1930s,
hemp was used for parachute fiber
and shoestrings, he said.
Most importantly, he said, hemp
can replace petroleum as a fuel source.
Fuel can be made from the woody
stalk and oil from seeds, he said.
Clinchard said these benefits of
the hemp plant motivated him to
reorganize NORML. The group had
existed at UNL. in the late ’70s, but
died in the early ’80s because of lack
of interest.
At the first meeting last month,
there were 35 members, Clinchard
said. So far, reactions to the group
have been positive, he said.
“Most people seem amused. The
average citizen believes it (smoking
marijuana) is not really something to
go to jail for,” Clinchard said.
The main argument against legali
zation of marijuana is the belief that
smoking it leads to use of harder
drugs, he said.
“It doesn’t necessarily lead to other
drugs. The social circles of a mari
juana user can gain access, which
could lead to the availability of harder
drugs,” Clinchard said.
NORML meets Thursday nights
in the Nebraska Union.
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of Nebraska-Lincoln this year to put
the Herbie logo on 500,000 beer cans,
with the athletic department receiv
ing a penny per can.
Some officials, including Nebraska
football coach Tom Osborne and the
directors of the Alcoholism and Drug
Abuse Council of Nebraska, were
angered by the arrangement, saying it
appeared that the university condoned
drinking.
Coors said he thinks the deal’s
opponents have blown the issue “way
out of proportion.”
“I feel it has done a good thing,” he
said. “But it has to be done because
the school wants it done.”
Coors said the same offer was made
to the University of Colorado last
year and it met with “tremendou;
enthusiasm.”
He said the deal was made not to
encourage young people to drink, but
to honor the university and to support
the athletic department.
ASUN
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would have been “inherently wrong”
to elevate the problems of racial
minorities above those of others.
“I agree these types of oppression
are not the same,” he said. “But none
is more important than the others.”
“It is not fair and it is not right to
make one wrong more important than
another wrong. That’s not why we’re
here.”
Gosch said adding committees to
deal with other minority issues is not
possible.
“It’s unfortunate that we raised the
hopes of some racial minority stu
dents,” he said. “But some senators,
and I, too, feel that this isn’t the way”
to address minority concerns.
Gosch said he thinks the debate
over the issue will intensify senators’
efforts to find some solution to the
problem of making AS UN more rep
resentative.
In other action, senators tabled
indefinitely Government Bill No. 3,
which opposes strengthening the cur
rent Nebraska Coordinating Commis
sion for Postsecondary Education. That
issue will come before Nebraska vot
ers on Nov. 6.
Commission
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will become the fourth university
campuson July 1,1991, joining UNL,
the University of Nebraska at Omaha
and the University of Nebraska Medi
cal Center.
Roger Larsen, director of Higher
Education Services for the Nebraska
State Education Association, said
enrollment in Nebraska’s state and
community colleges had increased
11 percent during the last three years.
Under a 2 percent lid, he said,
college budgets would have been al
lowed only a 6 percent increase to
cover the 11 percent enrollment in
crease.
That would have limited institu
tional growth and would have denied
enrollment to some students, Larsen
said.
Under a 2 percent lid, he said,
potential faculty would look to states
other than Nebraska.
Nebraska ranks low, in the 20th
percentile nationally, for faculty sala
ries in state colleges, Larsen said.
“If we are unable to attract and
retain qualified faculty members, we
are going to have weaker institutions
and arc going to deny our students a
quality education,” Larsen said.
Panel
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UNL College of Law, said female
enrollment nationwide in law schools,
at 40 percent, is the highest it has ever
been, but noted the upper echelons of
the field are still resistant to women.
Moreover, black women suffer from
a “double impediment,” according to
a study presented in the book, “Invis
ible Bar,” she said. Black women are
twice as likely to encounter obstacles
to succeeding to more powerful posi
tions in law firms and better paying
judiciary posts, she said.
The Rev. Susan Davies, pastor at
Aldcrsgalc United Methodist Church,
8320 South St., said she found her
niche in the ministry when the institu
tion began to open up to women.
After “bumping up against the
institution” for years, Davies said,
it’s time that “the doorways be opened
for a shared ministry between males
and females” because of the impor
tant work women can offer, she said.
“People seek me out more easily
to talk about problems than males,”
she said.
Alice Diltman, president, chief
executive officer and secretary of the
hoard of Cornhusker Bank in Lin
coln, said family planning is critical,
but doesn’t need to interrupt a woman's
career.
Ditunan and former Lincoln mayor
Helen Boosalis said career women
need a strong mate who doesn’t feel
threatened by the success of his spouse.
“There’s a lot of closeness involved
with raising children that men have
missed out on for too long,” Diltman
said.
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