Volume LVI
Marijuana
Pressure for the legalization,
or at least the decriminalization,
of marijuana is on the increase
with several recent
developments.
Sen. George McGovern,
Wednesday, announced his
support for the legalization of
marijuana in Boston in a speech
before a drug counselling center.
"Experience, along with
limitations on enforcement and
the grave costs involved in
imposing severe sentences and
prison terms on usually law
abiding young people and young
adults, suggests that a more
promising route might be to
regulate marijuana along the
same lines as alcohol, while
continuing and expanding
educational programs aimed at
discouraging its use," he said.
Pressure from within the
Nixon administration towards
the decriminalization of
marijuana has increased to
significant proportions with the
forthcoming report of the
National Commission on
Marijuana and Drug Abuse. The
report, it was revealed last week
will recommend complete
decriminalization for private use
and possession of marijuana.
Adding to the pressure is the
resignation of John Finlator as
Deputy Director of the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs. Finlator has
since become a member of the
advisory board of NORML (The
National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws) and
has announced that he plans to
take an active role in getting
current marijuana laws changed.
The report of the National
Commission on Marijuana and
Drug Abuse is scheduled to be
released on March 22 and is said
to contain a unanimous
recommendation from the 13
member commission that all
criminal penalties be eliminated
for private use of marijuana.
After studying 50 reports they
commissioned, plus the
testimony at 10 hearings and
Special Programs
In Summer Sessions
Two joint summer school
sessions sponsored by the
Greensboro Tri-College
Consortium - Greensboro,
Bennett, and Guilford Colleges
will begin Monday, June 12,
and Monday, July 17, according
to Dr. William J. Lanier,
consortium director.
The two five-week sessions
will be held on the Greensboro
College campus with night
courses offered at the adjacent
Downtown Campus of Guilford
College. Of special interest will
be nine courses dealing with
instructing exceptional and
mentally handicapped children,
Lanier said.
Registration for both the first
and second sessions will be held
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four private sessions conducted
during their year study, the
commission members were
persuaded that the cost to
society of enforcing the strict
marijuana laws currently on the
books proportionally outweights
any dangers which might result
from liberalizing current laws.
The commission has not
made clear to what extent it has
recommended liberalization in
its unreleased report. Apparently
the report shows favor toward
legalization of possession and
use, but it is not clear how it
stands on selling, growing,
transporting or giving away
marijuana, or on smoking it in
public.
According to THE
LEAFLET, a publication of
NORML, commission members
have been under pressure from
the White House to adopt a
June 12 and July 17 in the
Recreation Hall of Main Building
at Greensboro College.
Registration will be held on
those dates from 8:30 a.m. until
noon and from 1 p.m. until 2:30
p.m.
A general meeting of all
students will be held on
Monday, June 12, at 4:30 p.m.
in Odell Auditorium at
Greensboro College.
New dormitories for men and
women on the Greensboro
College campus will be available
to house both students taking
day-time courses at Greensboro
College and night courses at the
Downtown Campus of Guilford
College.
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position closer to that of Nixon.
According to an editorial in the
periodical, at least two of the
commissioners are being
considered for federal
judgeships, and the NORML
writers fear that the
appointments are being "dangled
as a carrot" in an attempt to
soften the report.
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New Requirements For
Athletic Scholarships
by Jim Shields
The Faculty Athletic
Committee proposed, and the
college instituted, a new set of
requirements for the granting of
athletic scholarships over the last
semester. Under the system
adopted, all incoming freshmen
must have a 2.0 prediction (on
the NCAA 4.0 scale) and most
undergraduate athletes must also
maintain a similar average to
receive grants.
The committee includes in
the new system a provision that
seven times the amount of a full
scholarship may be granted to
student-athletes who do not
achieve the required quality
point average. This means that
the various coaches who have
scholarships to give are allowed
to use the given amount of seven
scholarships (about $19,000) for
seven or more students who did
not get C averages.
If more than seven full grants
are held by students who did not
get a 2.0, some will lose their
grant, according to the
discretion of the coaching staff.
The Athletic Committee and
the Financial Aid Committee
jointly approved the new system
PE, Psych Discussed
V
by Tori Potts
In a two and half hour
meeting Wednesday morning the
faculty Curriculum Committee
discussed extensive revision of
the psychology program, the
physical education requirement,
and requests that graduates of
Brevard College and the
Bowman Grey Anesthesia
Program for nurses be accepted
at Guilford.
Registrar Floyd Reynolds
expressed the concern that many
students are not taking the P.E.
requirement for graduation
seriously, and are avoiding
taking P.E. in the hope or belief
that requirement will be
dropped.
The committee charged
Randy Catoe and Gary Kirby,
student representatives to
Curriculum Committee with the
responsibility of gathering
student opinion and formulating ,
a proposal for the abolition,
reduction or continuation of the
P.E. requirement.
Wednesday afternoon
Student Body President Douglas
Scott announced that he will ask
the Community Senate to
include a campus-wide
referendum on the P.E.
requirement on the general
election ballot. Scott stated "The
student members of the
Athletic, Curriculum, and
Educational Policies Committees
are meeting to gather
information and formulate a
position and active policy
towards the subject of reqiiired
P.E. The proposal for a
early last summer, and sent it to
President Hobbs, who in turn
reported it to the Board of
Trustees. Upon approval there, it
passed to the faculty, and there
received final approval.
This new system technically
went into effect last semester,
but its actual effect will not be
felt until next fall. At the end of
the spring session, the status of
each athlete will be determined
to see if he is eligible to keep his
grant or not. Any freshmen on
scholarship next fall will predict
2.0.
Athletic Director Herb
Appenzeller said Guilford is now
attempting to attract good male
students who are also good
athletes. He also said he hoped
all of the present scholarship
athletes could make the grade.
Professor J.R. Boyd,
chairman of the Faculty Athletic
Committee, said he felt the
measure established an active
relationship between athletics
and academics. Other members
of the committee, from the
faculty, are Jim Outsell, Jim
Gifford, Cyril Harvey, John
Stoneburner, and Odeh Ali.
Student representatives are
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campus-wide referendum with
the general elections of March 1
will be brought before the
Senate at their next meeting"
In addition, the committee
approved the recommendation
that General Psychology be
counted as either a natural
science or a social science credit.
The Psychology requirements
for education majors have been
reduced from three courses to
two. The General Psychology
requirement has been dropped.
Education majors will now only
be required to take
Developmental Psych (224) and
Educational Psych (331).
In addition the committee
approved revision of the
requirements for Psychology
majors. Under the proposal,
majors will have only three
absolute requirements. All
majors must take General Psych.
(200). Statistics (241) and one
semester of experimental Psych
(301). In addition to these three
courses, majors must take five
other courses in psychology.
In other actions, the
committee rejected a request
from Brevard Junior College that
their graduates be automatically
accepted by Guilford College.
The committee discussed a
request from Helen Vos, the
Director of the Anesthesia
Program at Bowman Grey. She
requested that graduates of the
Bowman Grey program be
allowed to apply their nursing
school credits toward a bachelor
of science degree at Guilford.
Michele Van Gobes and Jack
Grossman. Ex-officio members
are Jerry Godard, Bill Burris and
President Hobbs.
Football coach Johnson had
no comment about the measure
in general, but said he would
abide by any rules adopted by
Guilford.
The majority of the Carolinas
Conference colleges admit
students on a 1.3 prediction.
jGuilford as a whole admits on
'1.6, but scholarship athletes will
'not be admitted below 2.0.
Under the 1.3 prediction that
Guilford used to both admit and
give scholarship by, a student
could be in the 50% range and
score 600. At 1.6, if at 50% he
had to have a college board score
of 825. Thus the new system
calls for quite a substantial
increase than the QPA
prediction of new student
athletes.
There has been opposition to
the new measure, mainly on the
theme that it should not apply
to those athletes who came to
Guilford under a less stringent
system, perhaps believing it
would remain that way.
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