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The Red and Black • Friday, October 26. 1990 • 3
People seek the facts about drugs
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Instead of persuading people to
forsake one set of beliefs for an
other, the end result of a drug le
galization debate held Wednesday
could be that people are more in
formed about drugs and more
likely to find the facts for them
selves, said one of the participants
Thursday.
Leon Singleton, who represented
the University’s chapter of the Na
tional Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws, said the Tate
Student Center debate between
NORML, the Objectivist Society
and College Republicans left him
unhappy with the disparity be
tween tneir idealogies.
“It was just a real weird mix,” he
said. “Everybody was trying to
argue his cause, and every cause
was barely hinged on the issue.’’
In front of about 90 people, the
Objectivists and NORML agreed
that the government shouldn’t dic
tate individual rights, but dis
agreed on the role of government
regulation.
Robert Pellock of the Objectivist
Society said their philosophy of
reason and capitalism allows men
to make free cnoices and engage in
laissez-faire capitalist trade to sat
isfy themselves. They shouldn’t
have to bear government restric
tions.
"The relationship of men is not
that of sacrificial animals or slaves
— it is of free trade between citi
zens,” he said.
Objectivist Todd Fantz also
nixed the idea of government regu
lation, citing the mechanics of capi
talism as incentive for people to
produce quality drugs.
“If you buy a bad drug, it's like
buying a bad car — if you buy a
Yugo it’s going to fall apart,” he
said. “If you buy a bad drug, you’re
going to get sick.”
Elizabeth Martin of NORML
listed medical and other uses for
the hemp plant, of which mari
juana is a derivative, like relief
from glaucoma and epilepsy.
"You can get four times as much
paper from an acre of hemp than
from an acre of trees,” she said.
Fantz said NORML’s arguments
for the usefulness of hemp are un
related to the iBsue of drug legali
zation.
"I reject their argument that
anything should be legalized be
cause of social utility,” he said.
Morality means different things
to the Objectivists and College Re
publicans — for the former, it’s a
reason to legalize drugs; for the
latter, it’s a reason to do the oppo
site.
Kyle King of CR called the issue
of drug legalization “a simple
moral issue of right ver sus wrong.”
“Right now alcohol, a legal sub
stance, is the most abused drug in
the country," he said. “We’re faced
with a cancer that threatens the
very life of our nation.
“Murder's been around since
Cain and Abel — I don’t think
that’s justification for legalizing
any kind of criminal activitv.”
Young Democrats Vice Presi
dent Susie Rodriguez said
Thursday that YD was invited but
declined to participate in the de
bate. They sponsored a speech by
former Secretary of State Dean
Rusk that coincided with the de
bate.
"The election’s coming up and
we really wanted to concentrate on
that,” she said. “It wasn’t a matter
of associating with any of the
groups — our basic job is to endorse
the Democratic ticket.”
Rodriguez said she was unaware
of any Democratic candidates with
drug legalization planks. She said
YD hasn’t been approached about
joining in a similar debate after the
Nov. fi election.
Biathletes race for environment
Series focuses on gay issues 1
Mon, Oct. 29
Unity and Diversity
Roundtable
Discussions
12:00& 1:15
Tate Student
Center, Rni 144
Tues, Oct. 30
Gay Men,
Lesbians, and
Religion
TBA
Wed, Oct. 31
Pluses mid
Minuses
AIDS Discussion
2:00 Tate Center
Rm 142
Masquerade Hall
Memorial, K:3(l
Thors, Nov. 1
Fri, Nov. 2
Campus-wide
The Gay Past,
Speakers Bureau
Present, and Future
GLAD
Gay and Lesbian
Tate Center Plaza
12:10
Awareness Dais
12:00
Tate Student
Vigil. 1 luirs night
Center, Rm 144
By CHRISTY THORNE
I Campus Correspondent
Athens’ first Gay and Lesbian
Awareness Days (GLAD) — a
weeklong series of eventB in-
i eluding speakers, tables and
| seminars on gay issues begins
Ijj Monday.
I "Our reason is to increase
; awareness of the lesbian gay
fl community and of the Athens
ij Gay and Lesbian Association as
^ an organization,” Lawson Sul-
£ livan, co-president of AGLA, said.
"(GLAD) directly addresses
r some of the misconceptions
people have,” she said. “When
< people think ‘gay’ they think 'gay
white man.’ That’s just not the
r* case.”
Monday focuses on "outing” —
S revealing that a person is gay
I without the person’s permission.
The editor of "Southern Voice,”
an Atlanta gay newspaper, will
speak. Both pro-outing and anti
outing perspectives will be pre
sented by various speakers.
Sullivan said pro-outing argu
ments are based on two premises.
One is that the end justifies the
means.
“There are so many gay people
who are closeted,” she said.
"People think thnt outing would
increase acceptance of gay
people.”
Others argue that gay poli
ticians and other gays who acti
vely discriminate against gays
should be exposed, she said
Sullivnn nnd AGLA meml>er
Andrew Hinz disagree
"I think it’s an individual
choice," Hinz said. "Anyone who
is exposed through outing isn't
going to be a positive role model
for the gay community.”
Election issues remain same
By RICH FAULKNER
Contributing Writer
Athletes from throughout the
Southeast will converge in Athens
Saturday for the Georgia State Bi
athlon Championship.
The race is a qualifier for the na
tional biathlon competition in New
York City.
More than 250 participants have
already registered for tne 30-mile
event, also called the Athens Bi
athlon, Lee Cain, event director,
said.
Sponsored in part by the Univer
sity^ Environmental Law Associa
tion, the event retains its
enviromental roots, even though
commercial sponsorship has been
added, said Nancy Agro, ELA orga
nizer and a first-year law student.
This year’s theme is “Plant a
tree, cool the globe.” Agro said each
participant will be given a tree and
a pamphlet on tree value and how
to care for a tree.
‘The idea is not just to plant the
tree but to use it wisely,” Agro said.
‘Tor example, plant it on tne south
side of your house to shade it in the
summer and cut down on air condi
tioning."
Cain said the enviromental
theme is a vsstige of several years
ago when the enviromental law
group had full sponsorship of the
race.
The University group started
the race 10 years ago. The race is
now directed by F.E.I. Velo, an
Athens business thst organizes bi
athlon races. Under the current ar
rangement, students supply the
labor for the project and share in
the proceeds.
O’Malley’s will be the hub of the
race, Agro said. It will be the start
and finish line, and the transition
point from running to bicycling.
The race will start at 9:30 a.m.
Most contestants should be fin
ished by 12:30 p.m.
Anyone interested in partici
pating may still register at 8 a.m.
Saturday morning at O’Malley’s
The cost is $24.
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Center have pre-fire plans, which
are maps of exits, nearby fire hy
drants and potential blockages
during a fire, he said.
He said Tara Rush, who uses a
wheelchair and lives on the first
floor of Soule Hall, is included in
the fire plan.
'The fire department is aware
that she lives there and that she
might need help in a fire,” Edwards
said.
Rush said the building isn’t ad
equately equipped for fire safety
for the disabled and that she
doesn’t feel Bafe there.
"I don’t feel safe in any building
that has only one exit. Not here, or
when Tm in class upstairs,” she
said Thursday. “I have to depend
on someone else to get me out
safely. It’s scary."
Rush, a junior child and family
development mental retardation
major, said the electricity automat
ically shuts off when the fire alarm
sounds, and two hallway doors
leading to the exit close, trapping
her inside.
An emergency generator would
allow the doors to stay open so she
could get to her wheelchair lift lo
cated just beyond the doors nnd get
out of the building, Rush said.
‘The firemen told me to go to the
window and wait if there is a fire
alarm,” she said. “That’s all I can
do.”
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DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
The candidates, government nnd
districts may all be new, but the is
sues remnin the same in the Nov. 6
general electon.
Danny Daniel, 7th District can
didate, told voters Wednesday at
the Greater Five Points Neighbor
hood Association meeting that
there nre no incumbents in this
race.
The association hosted a forum
conducted by Phil Sanderson, of
the Athens Observer, for the seven
candidates from the 4th nnd 7th
Districts to answer questions
about campaign issues.
Most candidates emphasized
that the new government means a
new beginning for Athens nnd
Clarke County.
“We can make history here in
the next two years,” snid 4th Dis
trict candidate Scott Davis.
For University students, selec
tive enforcement of the open con
tainer ordinance has always been a
concern.
Candidates Thomas Stubbs nnd
Michael Diogunrdi, from the 4th
District, oppose the ordinance.
Dioguardi snid, "I am opposed
Scott Davis
beenuse it is placing public burden
on responsible individuals.”
Howard Guest, 7th District can
didate, said ho doesn’t want to see
it completely abolished, but the or
dinance is entirely Ux> broad in its
meaning nnd he would support
amending it.
Historic preservation brought
out some disagreement among the
candidates. It’s a matter of nidi
vidual property rights versus pre^
ervntion.
Cnrdee Kilpatrick, 7th District
candidate, snid she’s always sup
ported historic preservation.
Guest said he supports historu
preservation, but the individual
rights of property owners must !*e
respected.
Stubbs and Guest agreed that
government money needs to In-
aside to purchase historic prop
erties from owners who want t.
sell.
Stubbs said a balance should K
struck between property i ight- a
preservation.
Diogunrdi said lie favors mdi
vidunl property rights.
Scott Barrow, 4th District candi
date, said the role of the gown
ment should Ik* like that <>
"traffic cop” for development He
snid he has seen too mat
“dreadful, shameful waste" of In
tone sites in Clarke County
Davis said a preservation plat
should be sot up that takes into
consideration wlmt the communi's
feels is most important.
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