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VOL. LXVII NO. 41 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. MONDAY. MARCH 8. 1976 Voters By Lee Harter Students will be given littW r'hnifp in thoir lrntino fr\r r?f 67 positions up for grabs in today*! Student Government Associatioi (SGA) election. Of the 63 senate seats and foui arlminictratino nncifiAnc fUol ttiil uviiiiiiiiuvi un ?v pvQivivna mui mi be on the ballots, 13 senate seat: have no one listed as running, an< 36 senate seats and one ad ministrative position -- secretary - nave one person running lor eacn Steve Hill, president of SGA, sai< nij i~ viu iaA u By Carl. Strange "Reefer Madness," the onc< popular concept of marijuana thai misled a generation's beliefs abo^ii the drug, began with an obscure tax bill hearing nearly 40 yean ago, according to a legal resear cher. Speaking Wednesday to ? gathering of USC law students Charles H. Whitebread II of the t ~ 1 ?* univcrsiiy ui Virginia s iuw scnoo traced the history of marijuaru laws from the passage of the firsi state prohibition of the drug bj Utah in 1915. Whitebread, who began sear ching records in 1968 to discovei where the idea started of making marijuana usage criminal, said 2' states had made the drue illeea when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937. Congressional hearings on th< bill lasted only two hours Whitehread said "Thoir witness was Enslinger, the head o / Enrollmen measures asked I get little he had no explanation for the small number of people filing for the s various races. As a result, though, ? he said he expects a large number s of write-in candidates, i "I know of one person who is planning a write-in campaign for r the vice-president's position and 1 I've heard rumors about several s others," Hill said. "Since there are i so many seats that nobody is 1- running for. when students hear about it, I imagine that there will be many more write-in can3 didates." ill made 'pi the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who testified that marijuana i created in its users 'insanity, t criminality and death.' " t The Marijuana Tax Act, an i extensive measure that included 3 rvf rv* lliOMn V*n?v>r\ J piuiuuuiuii ui niaujuaiia aim - production, passed Congress without debate against protests * from the American Medical Association (AMA). 5 "Now no medical bill could pass 1 Congress without the approval of ? the AMA," Whitebread said. "Why t did it then?" r Birdseed manufacturers who were using marijuana seeds in thf?ir mivpri sppH nrnrlurts u'orp r exempt from the act because, I Whitebread said, "they tried other 7 seeds, but none other made the 1 bird's coats so shiny or made them i. sing so much." The 1937 act set the stage for - "Reefer Madness," Whitebread , said, out tne real origin was the / sensationalistic newspaper f coverage of five maior criminal By Joye Watson The USC Faculty Advisory Commil 2,200 freshman students enrolled in t recent report to the Faculty Senate The Faculty Senate received la: meiiucuiuiis iroin mis commmee c Committee on Admissions and the " cerning admissions. ^ Other recommendations from th< concerning admissions policies are: -preferential treatment on adrni Carolina residents until Feb. 1. - an admission deposit of $85 wou plicants, which would apply to the t< registration. -alter May 1 openings in the f available as they occur, but prefe Carolina applicants. -no admissions for the fall semeste - that the graduate school would I nonrefundable fee for its applicants dates for processing its application: "in addition to SAT scores, the s English Composition Achievement Examination Board as another fact freshman admission. -the Faculty Senate should endoi standards at USC are ultimately faculty. ; choice Hill would make no prediction concerning me voter lurnoui ior today, noting last year nine persons ran for president and the turnout was around 12 per cent. "I haven't heard people talking about it that much," Hill said. "I don't know if that is any indication of the possible turnout or not. I think the Gamecock not picking up : A i 1 ii i on 11 any more man mey nave may have something to do with it and the fact that campaigning has only been a week this year." According to a spokesman for ot' illegal trials in the early 1940's in which inui ucrci a were acquiueu on criminal insanity resulting from marijuana. A prominent physician testified in one of the trials that he had tried smoking marijuana himself, Whitebread said. "After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette," the J . _1 ! J 4 4 T A. 1 ' A - ? I A oocior saia, i lurnea into a uai and flew around the room for five minutes, landing at the bottom of a 200-foot inkwell." A terrified public believed him Whitebread said he holds no high hopes for national legalization of marijuana because the public confuses legalization with r\ ?v\ r* # 1 /-v 1.1 /\ i-v r* 1 /\ ? * 4 (jiuiiiuuuii. ne ucucvcs me suppression of marijuana usage poses graver dangers than legalization. "We simply have more to lose as a nation from that intrusion than from practice, whether it be smoking marijuana, reading nornoeranhv or usine rnn traceptives," Whitebread said. ttee has recommended a limit of he baccalaureate programs in a st week several other recom:oncerned with the role of the role of the general faculty con5 Faculty Advisory Committee ssions would be given to South ild be levied on all accepted apDtal fees the student pays during reshman class would be made rence would be given to South r would be accepted after Aug. 1. [)e advised to consider a similar i and to consider similar cut-off 5. idmissions office should use the Test of the College Entrance or in determining eligibility for rse the principle that academic determined by the university ; of cam The Gamecock editorial staff, the one-week campaign is primarily < responsible for the paper's lack of coverage. "We covered their filing < in the March 1 issue, but we have only had one other issue between | then and the election. Our i reporters are students, too, and j working on a story as complicated as 10 different candidates1 platforms takes time that they didn't i have," the spokesman said. Hill said he thought a campaign period of about 10 days might be 1 better for candidates and students. iimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuj mBBsmEswsxB&mszm Chairman of the Faculty Advisory also recommended in this report thi sideration to the practice of comprehe majors to all graduating seniors. The Faculty Advisory Committee a concerning a presidential selection cc faculty an opportunity to communica USC's president when the occasion j USC Provost Keith Davis told the "increasingly concerned with acadei the lacuity of the regulation prohibitir classes. Nicholas P. Mitchell, vice preside announced advisement will begin Aj part of next fall's registration." Mil who take advantage of advisement process will be in September." Mitchell also presented an interpre to be reconsidered by the Faculty Se tachment to the meeting's agenda. In other action the Faculty Senat* ..nnnrnvoH ?? fhnnrto ir? rlndrua rnnn M|/|/* W V\4 M VIIMII^V III UV{^I W I WjU Education Program within the Colle -approved a change in numbers, t journalism courses and approved ch the College of Journalism. - approved a new course in the De and Literatures. -approved a change in prerequisit< -approved a new course in the Depa ? - ^ ? iidates "The problem was that last year we had the 10 days plus the oneweek delav." Hill said "That was " y T * ?' entirely too long." Voting machines in 16 polling places open today at 9 a.m. and will close at 5 p.m. (Polling districts and locations are listed on page 20.) Any race in which the leading candidate does not receive a clear majority, 50 percent or more, will be decided in the run-off election Thursday. The run-off election would narrow the field of can 1 Committee, George L. Geckle. at the faculty giye serious coninsive final examinations in their ilso submitted a draft proposal >mmittee which would insure the te their views on the selection of arises. senate members his office was nic regulations," and reminded ig quizzes during the last week of nt for administrative services. >ril 5 and called it "an integral | chell said, "The more students in April, the simpler the whole tation of graduation with honors nate in the form of a written at I irements in the Early Childhood (ge of Education. itles and descriptions of certain cingca in me tuie curriculum 01 partment of Foreign Languages ae in * ' - l-o 111*7 iint'iu ifi music, rtment of Religious Sludies. See MEASURES. Page 6