UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 7, 1995
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Park rules tee off vendors
Washington says no to shirt sales at its monuments
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Peddlers at some of the nation's most revered monuments are going to lose their shirts — if they want to hold their ground.
The National Park Service is banning the sale of T-shirts on Washington's federal parkland, including the Washington Monument, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Mall and other sites now overrun by vendors' tables.
The new regulations, unveiled yesterday, have some vendors teed off.
"We're going to defend ourselves," said George Pena, as he hawked T-shirts in the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial. Pena said he would lose money if he had to move to a city street.
And Alfred Parker bristled at the suggestion that his display
detracted from the dignity of the memorial. "Do you think it's ugly, all these pretty T-shirts?" he asked, gesturing at the colorful piles.
But George T. Frampton Jr., assis-
But George I. Faint secretary of the interior, said the new rules were necessary to stop Washington's monuments from turning into giant open-air bazaars.
"People will be free to demonstrate—to sing, to talk, to sell all kinds of written materials. But under our regulations, they will no longer be free to create a market out of some of
the new regulations would withstand an anticipated court challenge because the rules did not attempt to restrict the content of any political messages or other pro-
"...they will no longer be free to create a market out of some of our most sacred places." George T. Frampton Jr. assistant secretary of the interior
our most sacred places," he said at a news conference on the grounds of the Jefferson Memorial, a few hundred feet from vendors selling T-shirts from collapsible tables.
Frampton voiced confidence that
appealed.
tressespeed. However, the park service is fighting a lawsuit brought by a vendor who objected to restrictions on the sale of T-shirts. A court order allows vendors to continue to sell T-shirts near the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum — the most popular tourist attraction in the city — while the case is
Frampton said the regulations may be extended to other national parks where T-shirt vendors have proliferated.
"We think the regulations are a
model for the rest of the park service." he said.
The issue arose several years ago when protesters near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — who have been staging an around-the-clock vigil for years — started selling T-shirts to raise money and promote their cause.
When the park service announced draft regulations 11 months ago to restrict such sales, it drew attention to how people could sell T-shirts on federal parkland if they claimed to be exercising a First Amendment right to advocate a cause.
Under the new rules, which go into effect May 7, vendors on national parkland would be limited to selling books, newspapers, leaflets, pamphlets, buttons and bumper stickers. The new regulations rescind a guideline that allowed the sale of T-shirts that contained a message directly related to a cause or activity protected by the First Amendment.
Chris Kotouch, of Charlotte, N.C., who leads foreign exchange students on tours of Washington, said it was much more convenient to be able to buy T-shirts at the monuments.
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In the last eight years, critics contend, taxpayer money designed to warn schoolchildren to stay away from drugs and alcohol has been diverted to a slew of inappropriate and wasteful things.
In recent years, McConnell and other supporters insist, the program has improved dramatically because of better oversight from the federal government.
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"It was a slush fund," said Bob Peterson, who heads Michigan's Office of Drug Control Policy.
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As they fight in Congress to save its $482 million budget, supporters also point to a recent study indicating drug use among young people is again on the rise.
The Associated Press
Even many anti-drug activists and grassroots supporters agree: A program begun with high hopes in the Nancy Reagan era, and recently praised by President Clinton as crucial for children, was riddled with waste from the start.
"It really is sad, because we need this anti-drug message so desperately right now," said B.J. McConnell, who helped pick the program's nationally recognized drug-free schools. "And now we're risking losing it."
But even then, critics charge, most schools had little guidance deciding what to spend the money on and
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"I would be the first to admit there are abuses of the program like in any federal program," drug policy director Lee Brown told a House subcommittee yesterday.
That is no reason to gut the only federal money targeted toward drug prevention for children, both Lee and Education Secretary Richard Pilgrimist.
used for the correct purposes," said Rep. Beana Roa Lehinten, R-Fla.
Thousands of schools use the money wisely, bringing in police to talk with students and paying for peer mediation, counseling and intervention for children and teens, the federal officials say.
Los Angeles, for example, uses the money
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Education Department officials insist Michigan was an aberration. They audit state programs, and in the vast majority of cases the money went to schools' drug programs, they say.
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Allyson Tucker of the Heritage Foundation agreed: "It was a beautiful, noble idea. But in reality, it was a mess."
Safe and Drug-Free Schools, administered by the Education
local level. Instead, it was used on a statewide health education program, including $22,000 for giant toothbrushes and teeth, bicycle pumps, and sex-education consultants, Peterson said.
less ability to see if their programs had worked.
"It was a beautiful, noble idea. But in reality, it was a mess."
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But in at least one state, Michigan, the state education agency failed to send the money down to the
"We need to make sure that the very precious money that we have is
in part to pay for anti-smoking, ant-drug and anti-steroids education.
"This is absolutely crucial for us," said Ruth Rich, who heads the Los Angeles program. "If this money is taken from us, what message does that send to our kids?"
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groups long had
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But Republicans in Congress, who recently held a hearing with Mrs. Reagan to call attention to growing drug use, say a mismanaged program isn't the answer.
To McConnell, the low point was a school that handed out cookies with anti-drug frosting messages at a softball game. Her own suburban St. Louis district hired a high-school security guard to patrol the halls and parking lot until she insisted that wasn't appropriate.
McConnell said that it was vital that communities first clearly assessed their local drug problems. Congress inserted such a requirement into the program last year. It also gave "more teeth" to local parent-community panels, said Skip Forsyth, who runs the program in Florida.
"Before, if a school wanted to spend the money to hire a guy to jump-rope at a school assembly, there wasn't a lot that I or any parents could say," Forsyth said. "But now, we can suggest, Hey, maybe there's a better way."
And the school in the nation's capital that spent anti-drug money to take basketball team members to a restaurant?
The meal — and the chance to dress up and spend time with parents — was a good way to raise self-esteem in a poverty-stricken area rife with drug use, the school's principal said.
Federal money also went for antidrug pamphlets, speakers and numerous school lessons, she noted.
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