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University Daily Kansan
Marijuana enforcement
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sell drugs for a profit—to the person who doesn't appear to be turning on a friend.
"But again, sometimes our investigator has to report everyone when he's after a pusher. Otherwise, we wouldn't even fool with the others."
--know. There must be a powerful mail-order lobber." he said.
Captain Bob Ellison of the KU Police Department said that in terms of disturbances, alcohol probably caused more problems than marijuana.
There have been several marijuana arrests by the University police, but most of those were the result of investigation of other offenses, such as someone's being stopped for a traffic violation and marijuana being found in the car.
SMOKING MARLIUANA at concerts is more of a matter of disregard for fire regulations than of being an illegal activity, he said. The KU police rely heavily on the sponsors of an event to prevent any kind of smoking, he said.
The department considers the residence halls and Greek houses to be private facilities.
The effects of being busted are as varied as the severity of punishment allowed by law.
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Handgun bill . . .
ched or checked for marijuana unless the police are there for other purposes such as fire or burglary and happen to notice some marijuana.
Morris said that if the bill became law it wouldn't affect his business because the forms already required to buy a handgun would be easy to people with illegal intentions away anyway.
"I a fit of passion you use whatever is handy. You don't say wait a minute, I'm ready."
An employee at Trader's Pawn Shop said he thought the bill was a duplication of the federal forms that must be filled out to buy insurance. He says the bill will increase the "red tape" for gun retailers.
The bill won't 't affect the "heat of passion" homicides in which a person gets angry, buys a gun and kills another, the employee said.
THE COST of the bookkeeping involved to sell one handgun is about $5, the employee said, and the bill would hurt his store by increasing that cost.
"I seriously consider quitting the business
One person, who no longer attends the University and asked not to be identified, told him that he would marijuana and conspiracy to sell LSD five years ago. The former student, who will be called Roger, says he has spent about a year at the Kansas State Industrial Reinforcing in
because of the red tape," he said, "I suppose that's what they want anyway."
Jim Ellis, an employee in the sports department at Gibson's department store, said he thought passage of the bill would hurt sales tremendously because people would object to both the fingerprinting and waiting provisions.
"I think many people will say, 'Well this is a free country and they drive us to go shopping.'"
Sergeant Francis Alexander of the Lawrence Police Department said he thought that the bill would have no effect on people who are doing a sit-in.
He said, "They already have some pretty good laws on guns if they were enforced."
ALEXANDER AGREED with Morris that guns could be easily procured without remote control.
Alexander said no decision had been made about the criteria that would be used to decide whether the waiting period for an individual buying a run should be waived.
HE DOESN'T like to talk about that now.
“What can I say?” Roger said. “I wasn’t fun. I couldn’t say it it ruined my life or anything like that but it’s certainly made me suffer.”
He was busted in the Vern Miller era, he said, and the heat was really on them. The bust set him off from a lot of the people he worked with, it created an uncomfortable situation.
The match is to raise money for the club and to break the current world record of 37 hours for a marathon soccer game, Mullin said.
"Everybody was sorry it had happened to me," he said, "but if you've been hit once and they know your name, it can happen again."
He said he thought the rules of the Guinness Book of World Records required that seven of the 11 players be on the field throughout the match.
He stayed two semesters before he
was hired to get a job in the
construction trade
WHAT EFFECT did the stigma of a drug record have on him? He worked for work several months before he got his present job. He said he hoped employers looked on a
When he left the reformatory,he went back to school--but not here.
KU's soccer club will leave Friday for a spring break tour that will include a match against Oklahoma State University Saturday at Stillwater and a match March 17 against the University of Matamoros in Mexico.
Marathon soccer match reslated
"I don't know if they bothered to check it
whether or not they did as well, as hell not
going to ask them if they did."
"You know where the application asks 'Have you ever been compiled of a felony?'"
Wait, let me look at the first line again.
"You know where the application asks 'Have you ever been compiled of a felony?'"
Yes, that's it.
Let's re-read the whole thing one more time for clarity.
"You know where the application asks 'Have you ever been compiled of a felony?'"
No, it's "Have you ever been compiled of a felony?"
The postponement will allow the club time to raise more money than the $600 in reserves and stock.
conviction as a mistake of a college student—but he didn't have much faith in
Roger says he still smokes marijuana but he's not in the retail business any more. A few of his friends know he's been busted, and he gets his smokes from them.
"I've been through the wringer once, man," I've said. "I don't need that grief man." I nodded. "Okay, I'll go."
The club's regular season begins March 21 against the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Mall said ticket for students were 50 cents a game or $2 for a five-game season ticket. The cost for nonstudents will be 75 cents a game or $3 for the season pass, he said.
THE AGENT who busted him five years ago told him then that it was for his own good and that someday he would thank him, Roger said.
Through the stigma of being busted for marijuana may have lessened somewhat because of an increased acceptance by society of marijuana use, those who end up on the wrong side of the law still have to face problems that an arrest can bring on.
A marathon soccer match between clubs from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University has been tentatively rescheduled for April 17-18 at Manhattan, following the postponement of the match Friday.
Jim Supica, director of Headquarters, Inc., said the biggest benefit of the headquarters program was the elimination of drug conviction from a person's record.
Bernard Mullin, KU soccer club coach,
said yesterday that the match was canceled
because the field at Manhattan's City Park
was too wet.
"I'm still waiting." he said.
"It might be less of a stigma than it used to be," said Supica, "but it's still something that leaves people bitter. A lot of time spent with them is lost." The negative afterfections of being busted.
The show consists of 12 panels, each depicting some aspect of American life through the original works of such famous artists as Edgar Degas, Charles Curst Ularty, Grant Wood, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston, Reginald Marsh and Rockwell Kent. The artwork, dating from 1817 to 1974, includes watercolors, woodcuts, engravings and paintings, etchings, silk screens and drawings.
The exhibit is a portrayal of various aspects of American life through an artist's eyes. It is strong because of its display of some well known works by some of America's known artists, according to Dolo Museum, a curator of education in the Museum of Art. The museum is responsible for deciding which of the museum works would be used in the exhibit.
“Artists’ Views of America”, the new travel art exhibit sponsored by the University of Karelia Division of Continuing Education, will be on display in the foyer of Storm Hall.
Traveling art show gives view of U.S.
After the showing ends Friday, the exhibit will tour the state for the next two years.
The idea of sponsoring a traveling art exhibit came to her one day during a conversation, Brooking said, and was inspired by a similar exhibit sponsored by the National Gallery. She said she didn't know of any exhibition similar to KU's in the country.
There are only three art museums in
Tuesday Night is Lite Nite at the Jayhawk Cafe. 12 oz. cans or bottles of Miller or Lite-40° all night.
Kansas—one in Lawrence and two in Wichita, she said.
"We feel we have an obligation to the state to share what we have with them," she said.
Brooking said she thought the exhibit could help people understand that art has a sensory value.
"People have the idea that museums are musty, unreachable places," she said. "Really, they're places where they can gain insight into the world in which they live."