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Marijuana Use Rises
In AUC
By Stacy Adams
Features Assistant
Marijuana use in the
Atlanta University Center
deserves more attention
according to some students
and staff members.
Dr. Rhea Gordon,
director of counseling ser
vices at Spelman College,
believes that marijuana
usage within the campuses
is not a major problem but
said, “It’s more of an issue
than people really think. I
think people fail to realize
how much alcohol and
drugs are a problem on our
college campuses.”
According to drug
information pamphlets
provided by AUC student
health and counseling ser
vices, marijuana or
cannabis is an illegal sub
stance that alters mood,
thinking and behavior and
can create serious prob
lems such as lung cancer
with prolonged use.
Gordon said that
slowed reflexes and
heightened emotions are
also reactions caused by
the use of marijuana. “I
think that some students
use and are aware of side
effects, but use the drug
anyway because they want
those side effects,” she
said.
Shirley Hoover, direc
tor of Student Health at
Morris Brown, said, “I
know that there are stu
dents who are using it but
I’ve never been presented
a problem with it.”
Hoover said that in her
opinion, most students
who use marijuana are
basically aware of the side
effects of long-term usage,
which include drowsiness
and weak sperm counts for
males but “generally don’t
care.”
According to Dawn
Smith, a CAU transfer stu
dent from New York, mar
ijuana use is a growing
problem in the AUC.
“They (students) could be
in casual conversation and
they’ll say let’s go get a
bag of weed. They actually
brag about doing it,” she
said.
Smith said more coun
seling would probably help
improve student awareness
about the negative affects
of the drug.
Gordon and Hoover
said that due to the broad
subject matter and confi
dentiality, they are unable
to give statistics on stu
dents in the AUC who are
known to use the drug.
Both mentioned programs
to help prevent and
decrease the use of the
substance on the campus
es, such as Morris Brown’s
Drug and Alcohol
Committee and Spelman’s
National Collegiate
Alcohol Awareness Week.
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“It concerns me because we’re hurting ourselves instead of anyone
else. This could be a beautiful campus just like Emory,” he said.
The director also said that everyone has to work together in
order to make the school beautiful.
“Don’t let anyone tell you that only one person can make a dif
ference,” he said. ‘This has to be a major concern for everyone to
not tear up property.”
Students such as Angela D. Bums, a CAU sophomore, said that
a few people damaging property can affect everyone.
"I was aware of the damages, however, I wasn’t aware that
students were causing them. I feel that it is a disgrace that we
can’t appreciate the little things that we have,” Burns said.
“Although a few students are demolishing our campus, it takes
funds to remodel those damages, and those damages will eventual
ly come from the entire student body.”
According to Van Dyke, two computers were stolen from the
new Research and Education Center for Science and Technology.
Although he claims that students are involved in most of the dam
age, outsiders are usually suspected in situations such as that type
of vandalism.
The director of facilities said that he wanted the students to be
aware of the situation, and take pride in their school.
“I want us to be proud of the campus,” Van Dyke said. “I want
people to be proud of their heritage and university.”
He said that an act of vandalism occurs on a constant basis.