Western Front - 1970 April 28

              western front
Vol. LXII no. 30 Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington 98225 Tuesday, April 28, 1970 10c
Drugs: the only way to fly?
Bob Burnett
editor-in-chief
"Pot is the only way to fly,"
a Western coed said recently.
But according to a local
mechanic,. "Marijuana leads
directly to heroin and other hard
drugs."
A Western instructor was
heard asking, "If you roll a joint
with a filter on it, will you get a
lower high?"
This and many other
questions concerning drug use
and abuse are being answered by
three local radio stations who
have formed a special network in
an effort to inform people on all
aspects of the drug problem.
In an unprecedented move,
radio stations KGMI Bellingham
(790 A.M.), KARI Blaine (550
A.M.) and KBRC Mount Vernon
(1430 A.M.) have joined to
present the program entitled
"Project 70" which began
yesterday.
"The biggest problem
concerning the drug dilemma in
this nation today is ignorance,"
according to James L.
Hamstreet, general manager for
KGMI.
Bob Savage, producer and
moderator of Project 70, spent
three and one-half years
interviewing nearly 3,000
experts in preparation for the
program.
The series begins at 3 p.m.
each day this week with an hour
of pre-recorded interviews, case
histories and expert opinions
followed by an hour of open line
telephone discussions. It resumes
again at 7 p.m. with a similar
format.
KGMI Program Director Bob
O'Neil announced that there are
four open, incoming telephone
lines, and that KGMI will accept
collect long-distance calls from
anywhere in the listening area.
There will also be two lines
for the specific purpose of
getting answers to listener's
q u e s t i o n s from experts
throughout the United States
and Canada, he said.
" D r u g s - m a r i j u a n a ,
amphetamines, methedrine and
all the rest—are only a small
p o r t i o n of the total
drug-chemical problem, but that
is where the most interest lies,"
Savage said.
"Drugs denote different
things to different people. We
can't hope to answer all of the
..questions—only to generate
interest, to get people involved.
"The drug-chemical problems
of abuse represent one of the
greatest threats to society today.
And it's not just a local, regional
or national problem, it's a
world-wide problem.
"We've got to stop talking
about legislation and start
thinking about personal
responsibility. People must have
access to the facts in order to
lean toward a more constructive
type of thinking," Savage said.
He hopes Project 70 will be
used by radio stations
throughout the U.S., Canada and
Australia as an industry-wide
campaign, but he emphasized,
" I t ' s the follow up—the
community involvement after
the radio stations build up the
interest that reallv counts."
"Our purpose is to pique the
communities' interest and given
each individual an opportunity
to decide things for himself after
hearing the facts—all the facts."
Protestors await
Dossible charges
AS tries to create pub board
The .AS Legislature may
establish its own publications
board this afternoon in an illegal
attempt to unilaterally govern all
student publicatons on campus.
This move follows a student
government decision last week
to abolish the Western Front and
to found an "independent"
student newspaper which, in
their words, would be free of
administration, faculty and
departmental control.
The official power to disband
a student publication lies with
the Committee on Student
Publications which is responsible
to the Board of Trustees.
Until a revised publications
board structure is approved,
student government has assigned
its three student representatives
and two additional student
appointees to be selected this
week to serve as an interim
publications board.
The official publications
board normally consists of three
s t u d e n t representatives
appointed by the Associated
Students and five faculty
members appointed by the
college administration.
The AS Constitution and
By-Laws do not include legal
provisions to permit the AS
Legislature to amend or abolish
the official publications board in
favor of one of their own design.
In a special session last
Thursday, the AS Legislature
instructed Front Business
Manager Bill Woodland to make
the following changes:
1. Inform Front advertisers
of the changes in the name and
staff of the student newspaper.
2. Cut off the Front's staff
salaries following this issue and
transfer those salaries to the new
" a u t h o r i z e d " student
newspaper, which is yet to be
published.
3. Inform all creditors that
the Front is no longer the
authorized student publication
and that debts incurred after this
issue will not be honored by the
Associated Students.
4. Inform the Front staff
that it is encouraged to serve on
the new interim newspaper staff.
So far, Woodland has not
carried out student government's
instructions.
Bellingham Police Chief Cecil
B. Klein, City Attorney Richard
Busse and Mayor Reg Williams
are awaiting the return of film
footage shot by plains-clothesmen
at the Moratorium
peace march, April 15.
Once the film is returned by a
Seattle processing firm, the
decision will be made whether
charges will be brought against
those protestors who marched
down Holly Street chanting
"Holly Street for the people."
Klein said that his
department will not attempt to
arrest all 500 or so Moratorium
marchers who defied a City
Council ruling against using
Holly Street enroute from the
campus to a Federal Building
anti-war rally.
However, upon order from
Williams and Busse he said that
he will order warrants for the
arrest of those who can be easily
identified.
"They're not planning a mass
prosecution and the matter is
not that serious," Busse said.
"If we decide to arrest
anyone, the charge will be minor
and it will probably be the
persons who caused the action
to take place."
When asked by the Front
what the "minor charge" would
be, Busse said, "How about
jay-walking?"
Originator of Teach-in
to speak on environment
The originator of the
environmental teach-in idea,
Senator Gay lord Nelson of
Wisconsin, will speak on the
environment at 2 pjn. Friday in
theVU lounge.
Nelson's proposal was made
seven months ago in a speech
before the Washington
Environmental Council in
Seattle.
In response, over 1500
colleges arid 10,000 secondary
schools participated in the
nationwide teach-in.
In his speech Nelson called
for the "stimulation of the
constructive energies of
American youth in a massive
educational effort to halt the
accelerated pollution and
environmental destruction.