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The South Carolina Library g{ Campus Volume LXX, No.61 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 22.19BO AntiNORM By Jeannie Ralston Gairttoock Staff Writer The USC chapter of the National ! i ? ' *1 " vH&anr/,Hiion ior ine neiorm 01 Marijuana Laws, NORML, has begun organizing a counter effort against pending legislation outlawing the sale and use of drug paraphernalia in South Carolina. NORML's lobby, organized this week, was too late to stop an antiparaphernalia bill from passing in the state Senate Tuesday. NORML will try to stop the bill from 'If you don And drugs ar passing in the House. The Senate bill declares, "It is linlau/fltl t n irlirarfico fr?r> coin MltAMTTtUl iV UU VVI VIOV A VI OUCV/, manufacture, possess, sell, or deliver or to possess with the intent to sell or deliver paraphernalia.'' PARAPHERNALIA IS defined as anything used to administer or prepare marijuana, hashish and cocaine, excluding cigarette papers and tbacco pipes. Penalties for violation of the bill go up to $500 for an individual and $50,000 for a corporation. An identical bill is pending in the House. Another House bill would : set penalties at $3,000 and/or three years in prison, while another sets the Denalties at $1,000 and/or one year in prison. A House vote is expected on the measure within the next few weeks. "We are going to do everything in our power to stop passage," Michael Gooding, NORML president, said. "We feel very strongly about our chances." Gooding said NORML had not expected the bill to go through the Athletes i required By Mega Gamecock A move to lower the required Gl ' any intercollegiate athletic team I Wednesday. The vote ended in a 12 to 12 ti< shauer voted to keep the requirei male and female cheerleaders to r The senate had passed a resoh licensed organization to have a 2.1 captains was needed to maintain c || The National Collegiate Athlet maintain at least 1.0 GPR. Ward said the university must students to preserve academic int against this bill are afraid of bu( taking any type of stand," he said. Ward pointed out the resolution \ to have a cumulative 2.0 passed o weeks ago. Sen. Valerie Cox voted in fa because "the point is not just a 2 don't think the senate should ti department does." Also, Cox sai< override the NCAA. < In addition, the athletic commi \ senate which would change the W? | the Carolina-Clemson game. According to this new system, s the tickets, juniors would get 30 p< freshmen would get the remainii tickets left, they would be distribul Sen. David Clegg pointed out t I graduate students. It was decided they would be ir sent back to the athletic committe< drug paraphernali !L to fight Senate so quickly. "We'll have to rush a lot more now to stop it in the House," he said. Rep. Joyce Hearn, D-Richland, a sponsor of one of the House bills, said the Senate version has enough support to pass in the House. As part of their effort, the NUKML members are starting a petition to protest the bill, calling legislators, attempting to bring paraphernalia dealers from around the state in on the fight and securing legal assistance. >'t use drugs, you don't, eillegal.' SL?DCapt%J TVin Vnimrt Hom/uTaJc naccoH ti X KIV/ JL UUIIg L/VIIIWI 14 VO |yuuuvvi M resolution Tuesday opposing the anti-paraphernalia laws. Kathy Duffy, drafter of the resolution, said, "It won't cut out any kind of drug use because people can still get rolling papers. I don't think they are thinking about what they are doing." Mae Guess of Joyful Alternative Inc., which sells paprphernalia at 747 Saluda Ave., said people will probably go back to using homemade equipment if the law is passed. "WE PROPOSED and passed this biU because we don t think it is in the best interest of society to have these things available at every street corner. It is not aimed at one specific group," Sen. David Taylor, D-Laurens, said. "I won't be a party to permitting those things to be bought over the counter." Hearn said although legislators are especially concerned with young drug abusers, the primary reason for initiating the bill was an attempt to reduce the $10 million of nust keep 2.0 GPR in Sexton Staff Writer PR from 2.0 to 1.0 for the captain of failed to pass in the student senate e. Senate President Michael Warnent which also requires the head naintaina 2.0. ltion requiring the officers of any 0. The resolution for a 2.0 for team ; onsistency, said Sen. Matt Ward. [ ic Association says athletes must set guidelines which apply to all egrity. "I think senators who voted iking the athletic department and requiring officers in organizations verwhelmingly in the senate a few vor of rescinding the resolution ,Q GPK for captains, the point is I ry to regulate what the athletic d, the senate shouldn't be able to ttee presented a resolution to the ly football tickets are allocated for eniors would receive 40 percent of srcent, sophomores 20 percent affd lig 10 percent. If there were any ted to all classes. here were no tickets allotted for I lcluded with seniors. The bill was s for further consideration. a bill Senate state money spent to prevent drug and alcohol abuse each year. Hearn said the bill was introduced at the request of the State Law Enforcement Division. ' ''Law enforcement agents think they can better do their job if the bill is passed," Hearn said. "They say it makes it (drug use) easier if paraphernalia ia available. They think they can enforce it and feel it is essential, and we have to take their word for it." "We think paraphernalia shops need this stuff. I. Leon Gasque create a problem," Capt. J. Leon Gasque of SLED said. "If you don't use drues. von don't lhi? And drugs are illegal." GUESS SAID she is sure the paraphernalia industry would be willing to compromise by imposing an 18-year-old limit. "I think we (the paraphernalia industry) are scapegoats for the teenage drug problem," Guess said. "They are taking care of a sympton, not a cause. More money is going to be wasted through legislation enforcement and the court system.0 ...... Concerning * the ., possible ad- * ditional cost of enforcing the paraphernalia ban, Gasque said, "We never considered it, but you can't base or weigh law enforcement on a dollar figure." ONE COMPLAINT of NORML is mat tne law wouia infringe on people's rights and would possibly be ruled unconstitutional as has happened with similar laws in other states. In 1979, courts in New York, New Jersey, California and For F acuity By Teresa K. Weaver Gamscoch Staff Writer The USC faculty senate adopted a proposal Wednesday to form its own system of evaluating professors as mandated by the State Budget and Control Board. An altered version of a plan drawn up by the faculty advisory committee passed unanimously. The plan provides for an annual evaluation of untenured faculty members' performance based on criteria set by individual department committees. Under the plan, any evaluation of the faculty member and his response to the evaluation will be put in that memoer s permanent nie. USC faculty had assumed they were under university employee policy which had them eligible for tenure after a probationary period usually lasting four to six years. However, two opinions from the attorney general last year supported the claims of some professors that university faculty are state employees and entitled to iico Ihn cto(n orioiranpo nrru'arlnra UOV V IIV ovuiv ivtuiiw pi WVMUI V. As state employees, faculty members can receive tenure after six months. The State Budget and Control Board passed a resolution last month authorizing state supported Mae Guess of Joyful Alterna paraphernalia will be replaced by law is passed. Illinois brought permanent in- b junctions against local anti- p paraphernalia laws.' .v -v - . vi ^?c The reason the laws in other h states had been ruled un- o constitutional was their vague t! wording, Hearn said. "We are tightening up our wording so we Si u/nn't hni/p <hi? nrnhlpm " w"- * ^ aa Another reason for opposing the "I bill is the economic hardship pe placed on dealers and manufac- po turers, according to the NORML sa spokesman. st Legislators think there would not pa be any economic hardship, st< internal evaluationi proposal II rtv*i >. i B" i C0* " 1 B pn fllilffil 1 *" dis hmBSh th< ( fa( P^KH the W :mmA sri m< B 'I >iiafrM a { 1 to L H af! ap David Sabia, GiNTprofessor* Th speaks at faculty senate -J* meeting. ev ac colleges and universities to develop their own systems of \ performance appraisal of pic academic personnel rather than de subscribe to regulations of the pri State Persemel Board. t Under the new system, a faculty thi member who does not get tenure wr must first try to resolve any pl< complaints at the departmental fii< level. Then he mav take a ho five believes this type of homemade equipment if the ecause most dealers carry araphernalia as a sideline, acording to Hearn. 4'We haven't eard any complaints from a store wner or distributor, so we assume lereisn'ta big problem." Budget Tapes and Records, 919 jmter St., will be hurt by the bill, lid Denise Thomas, manager. ?ven though it is only 6 to 8 ircent of our sales, it is an imirtant part of the business," she id. Thomas said she has already arted running sales on iraphernalia to liquidate her 1 LK.K. 5 passed icvance to the dean of the liege, the provost and the ?sident. If a faculty member is ;satisfied with the response from M>e offices, he may appeal to the :ulty grievance committee. If i committee finds grounds for a levance, it can make recom?ndations to the president. rhe president's final decision on grievance case may be appealed the board of trustees' academic fairs committee. The committee nsults with the faculty liaison mmittee. A review of the mmittee's findings by the board trustees is the final appeal, rhe board resolution stipulated it each school submit a plan for proval no later than March 1. ie only specific requirement of ; board in the procedure was r% # ~ I a i ii piuviuc iui ciimucti aluations of all unclassified ademic personnel. Unclassified academic em )yees include teaching faculty, partment heads, deans, the ovost and the president. \lso, the board "strongly urged" it the appraisal findings be in iting, reviewed with the em )yees and kept in a permanent e to be made available to the ard.