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Thursday, Sept. 3, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Kansas Lowers Penalty For Having Marijuana
The basic difference between this law and the old is that those who are convicted for possession only, and who are first time offenders, will be charged with a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
Effective July 1st of this year, the state of Kansas has a new marijuana law.
Douglas County Attorney Dan Young described the new law as being much more lenient to the first time offender convicted of possessing the drug. He said the new law provided a sentence of not more than one year imprisonment and/or a $2,500 fine. With the old law, a first time offender convicted for possession of marijuana could have been sentenced to serve as many as 7 years imprisonment and pay a $2,500 fine.
Young said those who were convicted of not only possessing but also intending to sell the drug would still be charged with a felony. This conviction carries a sentence with a minimum of no fewer than one and no more than three years imprisonment and a maximum of no more than ten years imprisonment and/or a $2,500 fine.
Young said there had been nine arrests for the possession of marijuana in Douglas County since the new law went into effect July 1st. He said many of those convicted had served from seven to ten days with the remainder of their sentences suspended with probation.
KUMC Runs Smoothly Despite Strike Rumors
The campus of the University of Kansas Medical Center operated smoothly Wednesday despite rumors of a strike by employees of the Public Service Employees Union Local 1132 there.
Lloyd E. Rose, business agent for the union, said employees at the Medical center, along with about 27,000 other state employees, had been unofficially promised a salary raise by June 1, 1970. The members have not yet received the increase, Rose said.
Members of the State Finance Council, who have received a personnel report on all state jobs, are responsible for implementing the raise, Rose said. The report was received in May and since that time the council has been bogged down with appeals from individuals and institutions, Rose pointed out.
Despite this, no strike vote had been taken, Rose asserted. A meeting of the complete membership will be held soon, he added. The local includes workers in the dietary, housekeeping, laundry and building and grounds departments at the center and some employees of the Kansas State prison at Lansing.
"Governor Docking, who is chairman of the council, has committed himself to an October 1 deadline for implementing the proposed raise," Rose said.
Rose met with members of the finance council's sub-committee Tuesday and felt that sufficient progress had been made in reaching the October 1 date. A meeting of the complete council is scheduled for September 17 at which time a decision on the raise is expected, Rose said.
Police Clubs, Not Bombs Agnew Tells Legionnaires
Residency Rules Determine Student Registration for Vote
A students' voter registration in Lawrence for the November elections depends mainly upon his length of residency, voter officials say.
She says that the law applies to out-of-state students as well as Kansans.
She says that students registered in other areas of the country will have to notify all their previous residences to terminate the students' registration.
Married students who live with their families in Lawrence are considered permanent residents, Mrs. Lamb says.
Mrs. Louise Lamb, of the Lawrence city clerk's office, says that, according to the Kansas Constitution and the Suffrage Act of 1968, the student must be a resident of Kansas for six months, a resident of his precinct for 30 days and he must consider Lawrence his permanent home. The student must also sign an oath stating that he is a citizen of the United States and he fulfills all residency requirements, Mrs. Lamb says.
Group Aims For Change
The NUC is a national organization made up of university faculty members and graduate students whose aim is to work for radical social change, especially within colleges and universities.
A group of faculty members and graduate students are trying to form a KU chapter of the New University Conference.
William March, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and one of the organizers of NUC, said although they do not agree with the establishment, they do not always agree with the more radical students.
One of our main goals this year, March said, will be the publication of irregular papers, which we have researched, to inform the people of what is really happening. We have already come out with our first publication, the "Disorientation," which can be bought at the bookstore.
that, they don't understand the system," Agnew said.
"Those students who have lived at several addresses in Lawrence should be sure that there is no duplication in registration or they may be counted twice," she says.
"There are some who look at the faults and cry that the system has failed. Their problem is
Mrs. Lamb says that although the voting law's requirement for residency differs from the University of Kansas' policies for fee payment, the student who registers in Lawrence should list the same address on vote registration and KU registration forms in case he is asked to prove that Lawrence is his permanent home.
Dance Club Schedules Meetings
A band of about 150 anti-war protesters marched in front of the coliseum as Agnew left by helicopter for the airport after his speech.
Milton Rosenberg, professor of mathematics and club organizer, said Greek, Yugoslavian, Israeli, Rumanian, German, and American folk dances would be taught to club members by experienced folk dancers.
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"Folk dancing is beneficial in many ways," Rosenberg said. "It helps develop agility and coordination, an appreciation for both foreign and American cultures, and provides an opportunity to meet people and make friends."
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The KU Folk Dance Club will hold organizational meetings at 7:30 p.m. next Monday and Thursday in Hoch Auditorium.
Gov. Tom McCall earlier had called up National Guardsmen and warned of possible "violent confrontations" with antiwar protesters. The convention, however, has been orderly and quiet.
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"But true peace lies neither in bomb nor in truncheon," Agnew told a cheering American Legion audience. "It lies in that pattern of mutual respect and mutual forbearance that is the essence of a civilized society."
State officials were not told officially to prepare for Agnew's arrival until late Tuesday night, when large numbers of secret servicemen arrived.
Agnew made a brief, unscheduled appearance at the Legion's 52nd national convention. He was enroute from conferences at San Clemente, Calif., with President Nixon to Texas to brief former President Lyndon Johnson on his recent Asian trip.
His trip was not announced until the last minute, and his 23-minute visit to the Portland Memorial Coliseum.
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