UNCC student busted
Dealers
target of new drug law
How to be seen
and not heard.
by Charlie peek
The North Carolina General
Assembly has passed into law,
guidelines more specifically defining
a "drug pusher." The guidelines are
Part of the new Controlled
Substances Act ratified during the
1971 General Assembly.
A talk with Jerry Hudson of the
Campus Security Force brought into
light those parts of the Act which
might pertain to students here on
campus who might pertain to
students here on campus who might
be dealing with drugs. The talk
however may have come too late
for at least one UNCC student. On
Monday Feb. 7, N.C. SBI agents
issued a search warrant for the
Marshall U.
Game of
the year
by j.c. meadows
The Journal talked briefly with
49er Coach Bill Foster about the
P c o m i n g contest with
oationally-ranked Marshall University
on the 19th.
Foster said the Marshall game
''''ill be the most important game in
UNCC's brief basketball history —
mainly because they are
Pationally-ranked.
"We could win the game if the
hoys played together and had one
their better games," Foster said.
Marshall could however, have an
off-night and still be tough, he said.
Marshall has two 6'8" forwards
9ot their key player is 6’5" Russell
Lee, a certain All-American and
eccording to Coach Foster," a first
found NBA draft choice."
Foster is hopeful that if the
^9ers can give Marshall a good
9ame, it will help make a name for
LiNCC in the basketball world.
room of a resident of Moore Hall.
A search of the suspect's room
yielded a "considerable" quantity of
a substance suspected of being
marijuana, according to Hudson.
Lab reports have not yet
confirmed the substance as
marijuana, but Hudson said if it
does, arrest warrants will be issued
for at least one of the occupants
of the room. "I was not available
at the time (of the arrest)," said
Hudson, "but one of my men wnet
with them (the SBI agents)."
Three provisions of the new
Controlled Substances Act identifies
as pushers those persons who have:
"(1) possession of more than 25
tablets, capsules, or other dosage
forms of any controlled substance
included in ^hedules III or IV of
this Article:
"(2) Possession of more than 5
fluid ounces paregoric,
"(3) possession of more than 5
grams of marijuana from which the
resin has not been extracted, or
possession of more than one gram
of the extracted resin thereof and
every salt, compound, derivative,
mixture or preparation of such
resin, or possession of more than
one o n e-h undredth gram of
tetrahydrocannabinols."
The law’s lists of "controlled
substances" are broken down into 6
different "schedules" or lists,
progressing from hard drugs, i.e.,
heroin, morphine, down through
barbituates, amphetimines and
amphetimines and finally to
marijuana. For each schedule the
penalties are different. For the
softer drugs, a violation is a
misdemeanor. For harder drugs, it is
a felony. A second violation carries
a decisively stiffer pienalty than the
first.
"Any person convicted of a
second violation of... shall be guilty
of a felony and shall be sentenced
to a term of not less than five
years nor more than ten years or
fined not more than ten thousand
dollars... or both..." says the Act.
The Act also has special
provisions for anyone distributing
drugs to minors:
"Any person who is at least 18
years of age but not 21 years of
age or older who violates this
Article by distributing a substance
included in Schedules I through VI
of this Article to a person under
18 years of age who is at least
three years younger than himself
shall be punished by up to twice
the maximum fine and term of
imprisonment authorized. Any
person who is 21 years of age or
older who distributes a substance...
to any person less than 21 years of
age shall be punished by a term of
not less than ten years nor more
than life imprisonment and shall be
fined not more than fifteen
thousand dollars..."
"These provisions," said Hudson,
"are geared to someone who passes
it (drugs) out."
Added evidence of this fact is in
a provision which allows a first
offense for distributing or using
"soft” drugs to be wiped from the
books.
Upon such conviction, the court
is allowed to place the defendant
on probation and when the terms
of probation are fulfilled, all
records of the offense are destroyed
save one, available only to judges
of the General Court of Justice of
North Carolina.
Another facet of the Act is that
it aims at those who own houses
or apartments in which drug use is
frequent. The Act states that
persons are liable for conviction if
they "knowingly keep or maintain
any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling
house, building, vehicle, boat,
aircraft, or any place whatever,
which is resorted to by persons
using controlled substances in
violation of this Article for the
purpose of using such substances, or
which is used for the keeping or
selling of the same in violation of
this Article."
The Act also restricts so-called
"half-way houses" which might
falsely purport to be remedial
centers for drug users. It says "any
person other than a practitioner,
who holds himself out to the
public, or any part of it, as being
a drug treatment facilitly, or as
being able or available to treat, give
shelter or comfort to, or who
proposes to do any of the
foregoing to or for any person
using, under the influence of, or
experiencing the effects of a
controlled substance... shall first be
licensed by the N.C. Drug
Authority as a drug treatment
facility."
Licensing by North Carolina
includes the availability of
immediate professional medical
services and adult supervision,
among other things.
Hudson emphasized that this drug
law was not the "official"
University policy. A University
committee is currently working on
such a policy. "But," said Hudson,
"Any violation of that (the Act) is
considered a violation by the
University."
UNCCs
student
newspaper
Volume vii, number 16 /February 15, 1972
•lOlPIKKAL
photo/briscoe
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^ VDU'eE ONLY A5 GDDD A5 THE
■i 1 ‘ ■ t !! ^ s —i .
To be heard, vote.
To vote, register.
During the upcoming two-day class break, the Journal
staff urges you to register to vote when you return
home: it may be your last opportunity before voting
begins. Unfortunately, recent rulings have denied you
the right to vote if Mecklenburg County is not your
legal residence. Don't let this stop you from registering
your voice in the upcoming elections...
—llic editor
Six-year outlook
Future monies
by sharon deck
The Administration has made the first move in the biennial battle of
the budget with the State Legislature by submitting a six-year projection
of capital improvements needs.
Although the list of things we need is long, we are asking only for
what we need, according to Silas Vaughn, Vice-Chancellor for Business
Affairs.
At present, UNCC has 86 square
feet of instructional space for each
full-time student. The state-wide
average for four-year colleges is 89
square feet.
"UNCC is not overcrowded, but
it is not lavish, either," Vaughn
said.
If all the requests are granted, by
1979 UNCC will have between 80
and 86 square feet per full-time
student.
Because of the great increase in
the number of students expected in
the next few years, UNCC will
need more new buildings and
equipment than schools with stable
enrollments.
The new buildings will be used
at all hours of the day, because the
community wants and needs to
have campus activities at varied
hours. The Administration plans to
use this line of reasoning to
convince the powers-that-be that the
buildings will be worth all the
money they will cost.
Vaughn believes that the recent
re-structuring of higher education
will enable -UNCC to get the
buildings they need.
"The decisions will be made by
people associated with higher
education. The legislators will have
faith in what they recommend," he
said.
Future plans call for enough
dormitory space to house between
one-fourth and one-third of the
total enrollment. The dorms now
house about one fourth of the
students. When the new dorm is
completed, there will be space for
one-third of the students.
Dorm space for 1200 more
students is being requested for the'
1975-1977 biennium.
The requests have been sent to
the Consolidated University for
combination with requests for other
campuses. From there, they will be
sent to the Department of
Administration, where cost estimates
will be made.
When the estimates are returned,
administration officials here will
decide exactly what to ask tor
when the State Legislature convenes
next year.
Almost certainly, an earth-life
sciences building will be high on
the priority list.
The requests are listed below.
They are not listed in order of
priority:
1973-1975: earth-life science
building; high-rise office-classroom
building; renovation for Kennedy,
Winningham, and other classroom
buildings; maintenance warehouse
and shops; landscaping; scientific
and engineering equipment;
recreation fields; untilities, roads,
and walks; parking for 1000
additional cars; major equipment for
colleges - Humanities, Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Business
Administration; acquisition of land.
1975-1977; physical science
building; administration building;
boiler house ^addition; warehouse;
utilities, roads,* and walks; scientific
and engineering equipment; addition
to Health Services Building;
renovation of "Classroom buildings
and offices - renovation of
administration building; greenhouse
for teaching earth-life sciences
courses.
Visitors' information center;
recreation fields; greenhouse for
landscaping and grounds; dormitories
housing for 1200 students;
cafeteria for resident students;
parking; continuing education center.
1977-1979: nursing and related
health services building; general
classroom building; scientific and
other major equipment; recreational
facilities; addition to warehouse;
landscaping; renovation of buildings;
auditorium - classrooms and practice
labs for the arts; field house;
learning resources center; parking.
. . .sign, placed above the doors
to the Bookstore last week, is a
pointed commentary on the
Jordan case. Can we help
chose who programs us?
Read the editorial, p.
4, and judge....
800 tickets
left
Ticket manager Bill Hutchinson
has said, as of Thursday afternoon,
there are about 800 general
admission tickets left for the 49ers
home game against 11th ranked
Marshall University Feb. 19. These
are priced at $1 each.
Students, however, will be able
to get in upon presenting their lO's
as per usual.