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NORML goes up in a cloud of smoke
By CAREY O’NEIL
Thf. Red & Black
This semester left a University
marijuana advocacy group dazed and
confused about its rights as a stu
dent organization.
The University chapter of the
National Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws plans to appeal a
sanction of two years probation,
claiming the group was punished too
harshly.
After a hearing spanning two days,
NORML was found to have violated
University trademarks and failed to
follow the instructions of University
officials.
NORML officers contest the deci
sion, claiming the logo in question is
a satire and the intellectual property
of the artist. They said NORML did
everything in its power to follow offi
cials’ instructions.
The logo depicts a cartoon bull
dog smoking while studying under
neath the Arch.
On Feb. 11, University officials
Tuition increase softens budget blows
By BRITTANY COFER
The Red & Black
Fees, furloughs and increased tuition
just a few of this semester's budget
buzz words.
Students, faculty, staff and administra
tors all have been affected by the eco
nomic downturn and resulting budget
cuts at the University.
University President Adams told The
Red & Black in January there are no safe
guards against further cuts in the budget.
“While we’ve had financial challenges
before, this one is deeper and tougher
than probably anything we’ve faced in the
last 20 to 25 years,” Adams said.
About 450 faculty and.staff positions at
the University were cut through attrition
—a reduction of labor involving voluntary
quits or retirement rather than layoffs
or furloughs.
“At present we are not anticipating any
furloughs, but the state could order
them,” said Tom Jackson, vice president
of Public Affairs for the University.
In March, University System adminis
trators asked their legal offices to investi
gate “any options available to us to give
us flexibility in our faculty contracts,”
said Board of Regents spokesman John
Millsaps. Since tenured professor con
tracts employ clauses protecting against
furloughs, this was a way to find out what
the system’s options were.
As it turns out, the University System
can, in fact, implement furloughs or
time off without pay if the Board of
Regents declares a state of exigency, a
concept similar to bankruptcy.
“If all employees were furloughed for
one day, the University would save about
$2.5 million,” Arnett Mace, provost and
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from the Center for Student
Organizations contacted NORML via
e-mail, asking the organization to
cease distribution of T-shirts bearing
the logo and to remove the logo from
its Web site.
Later in the week, CSO contacted
NORML officers again, saying the
organization could continue selling
the shirts, but were barred from
printing any more.
On Feb. 16, NORML was contact
ed by Joshua Podvin, assistant direc
tor of student activities and organi
zations, who asked for all unsold
T-shirts. Podvin also gave the organi
zation a deadline for removing the
logo from the Web site.
Wojciech Kaczkowski —a junior
from Krakow, Poland, and president
of NORML responded to the mes
sages, saying NORML had sold all of
its shirts and was unable to alter its
site because the member who ran it
was out of the country.
After the deadline passed and
NORML had not removed the image
from its site, the organization was
senior vice president for Academic Affairs
told The Red & Black.
Adams worked to secure funding from
areas other than the University’s main
operating budget. In February he
announced 2 percent of auxiliary revenues
would be assessed to redirect funds “to
academic support to try and save jobs in
academics.”
The 2 percent fee imposed on athlet
ics, housing, student activities, food ser
vices, transportation and parking
amounts to $5 million or $6 million, Adams
said. Auxiliary services at the University
generally bring in S3OO mil
lion in revenue each year.
In an expected effort to
bring in additional funds to
the University, the Board of
Regents approved a hefty
tuition increase in April for
students not covered by the
“Fixed for Four” tuition
guarantee.
Adams told the
University Council the 25
percent in-state and 15 per-
cent out-of-state tuition increases will
create sl4 million in additional revenue
for the University. The Board of Regents
also voted to extend the SIOO special
institution fee for the next academic year
yielding $7 million for the University.
The budget in 2010 beginning July 1
will operate at a level consistent to
2009, pending unforeseen circumstances,
Adams said.
“My position remains that we will coop
erate with state leadership, and we will do
whatever we have to do to make the bud
get balance,” he said. “We will also coop
erate in whatever form the cuts are
required.”
NEWS
informed it was thought to be in vio
lation of the University code of con
duct, initiating the judicial process.
NORML was offered a sanction of
one year of probation so long as they
admitted to the violations in ques
tion.
NORML decided not to accept
the offer.
At the hearing, Kaczkowski con
tested the logo was not a trademark
violation and the organization had
done everything possible to meet
officials’ demands.
The University advocate claimed
the logo and the organizations’
inability to meet officials’ deadlines
were clearly in violation of University
policy.
Despite their troubles with the
University, NORML members con
tinue to petition for the decriminal
ization of holding less than seven
grams of marijuana.
Kaczkowski said NORML hopes
to have enough signatures on its
petition to get this proposition on
the ballot for 2010.
ZINKHAN: Professor distinguished in
advertising, electronic commerce
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when students needed help.
“I knew George, he was a very gentle
and decent human being in many ways,”
said Richard Tansey, a former student of
Zinkhan’s at the University of Houston.
Tansey studied at the University of
Houston for five years in the late ’Bos and
early ’9os to get his degree. During that
time, he took some of Zinkhan’s classes
and went to him for class advice.
He said he never saw Zinkhan even
lose his temper.
“George created a nurturing environ
ment,” he said. “I would have never got
ten a Ph.D. in marketing without
George.”
Tansey said Zinkhan must have been
in a desperate situation to commit the
crimes he has been accused of, and they
are not characteristic of the’ “calm and
gentle soul” he remembers.
He remembers the George Zinkhan of
April 24 the night before the shoot
ings.
He remembers a George Zinkhan who
would leave his office with plans to throw
softballs with fellow professors.
He remembers a George Zinkhan
more like the one who attended the
Boys’ Latin School of Maryland.
Zinkhan was born Feb. 17, 1952, and
during the nearly six decades that fol
lowed, he cultivated a knowledge for
marketing into a steady career.
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He began teaching at the University
in 1994 and won a 2007 Journal ol
Advertising Best Article Award from the
American Academy of' Advertising. The
publication discussed recognition
aspects of print advertisements.
According to a Terry College profile of
Zinkhan, “he has published more than
140 articles in the areas of advertising,
promotion, knowledge development and
electronic commerce.”
And his passion for marketing spread
into the classroom.
“I never got a weird vibe from him,”
said Kate Larson, a junior from
McDonough, who spoke with him after
class two days before the incident.
She said everything seemed normal
with his demeanor. He helped her with
marketing research and even donated to
a campus organization she is a part of,
she said.
“Of all the professors I have ever had,
he would be the last one I’d think would
do this,” Larson said.
He has two children, ages 8 and 10,
with his second wife Marie Bruce, one
of the victims of the shooting. He also
has two children in their 20s with his first
wife, Lydia Stoiadin, who lives in Texas.
He took classes at Swarthmore College
and the University of Michigan. He
taught classes at the Universities of
Houston, Pittsburgh, Georgia and Vrije
Universiteit in Amsterdam.
He threw it all away on April 25.
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