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Drug Law Situation Rapped SAN ANTONIO Motch 5, 1972 Page 3-H By Jim Dolan said Cindy Bracewell. Skip Allen thought it was around with the wrong Laird Markland called it and Yolanda Flores dismissed it as entirely in the wrong WTiat is The drug law situation. Specifically the day-to-day enforcement of drug laws, theories behind them and punishment for offenders instead of rehabilitation. And the youths, five HIGH VIEWS panelists, were highly critical, THEIU INTEREST was sharpened when a classmate of three of the panelists, a youth who had planned to participate in the interview, was arrested only hours before. Instead of being in the Tower of the Americas with his friends he was in county jail in lieu of $10,000 bond, having been charged with possession of marijuana.

not dealing with the problem, just playing around with the symptom of the problem, which is drug Skip declared. actual problem is why someone has to rely on drugs to have a good time. The problem is inside the Cindy objected to treatment of convicted offenders. think wrong to throw marijuana users in jail because they get in with hardened criminals and defeated your she said. someone wants to use marijuana when they go to jail, want to use it when they get Yolanda pointed out.

THE LAWS also fail to discriminate between types of offenses. Lea Wellberg noted. doing is treating you the same for any kind of drug that you get picked up she said. getting the same treatment whether you get caught with heroin or with I still think any kind of drug user should be sent to Yolanda rejoined. need For the future.

Skip predicted trouble unless existing laws are changed. not advocating £-ug he said, unless the laws change going to see an increase in drug abuse, not a Yes, I'm a high school student, I hove something to say and I'd like to soy it at a HIGH VIEWS luncheon interview on a Saturday in the Tower of the Americas Restaurant. Name: Address: Age School: Clip and mail or write to: HIGH VIEWS P.O. Box 2171 San Antonio, Tex. 78297 now WIDESPREAD is drug abuse among San high school youth? Very widespread, according to the panelists.

Some even said spreading from the students to their parents. known quite a few upper middle parents who have turned on to Skip said of marijuana. want to be he laughed. one student was telling me that her mother smoked (marijuana) for the first time last Laird said. just like social Lea added.

seen several kids dealing marijuana right on campus, right in the school Laird said. it happens at our Yolanda noted, happens in the think that hard drugs are becoming extremely unpopular with the kids, Laird observed. kind of hard drugs are, but marijuana, well LEA AGREED: it is now is either you get heroin or you get cTank (an amphetamine), or you stay with marijuana. Marijuana is what most kids are staying is another thing about drug Skip added. drug culture is such that if you turning on, nobody says anything to you because just afraid.

afraid gonna get thing about it is that at public schools you can't get busted because there are so many people Lea said. something really odd about Center Skip said. kid I knew was doing dope when he came to Center School. He could go to his other school any day just stoned out of his mind, walking through the halls smiling and laughing and think that in a great mood then he went to Center School and because so small they knocked him off the minute he walked the door. Teachers there can tell you how much taken, what it is and how long ago.

It flips you out KEEPING IN MIND the prevalence of drug use, what should be done with drug laws? Yolanda declared. should either legalize marijuana or cut down on the punishment for Cindy said. think they should legalize it, but I think there should be as much punishment as there is Yolanda elaborated. think they should ever legalize any hallucinogenic drugs or even Arnulfo Martinez Educator By JOSE ANDRES CHACON AND SAVE Josf A. Chacon The new vice president for student affairs at Pan American University, Edinburg, is Dr.

Arnulfo S. Martinez, a successful educator, rancher and businessman. Martinez was born in Rio Grande City, Tex. He is the son of Cleofas E. Martinez and Ericilia Canales de Martinez.

After completing his work at the Rio Grande City High School in 1935 as valedictorian of his class, he entered the University of Texas where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1939. After graduation, he was employed by the Rio Grande City Independent School District, serving as elementary school teacher at the North Grammar School from 1939 to 1940. In 1940, he was promoted to principal of North Grammar, serving in this position until 1943 when he received a $2,000 fellowship from the Institute of Inter- American Studies, and enrolled once more at the University of Texas. In 1944, he received the Master of Arts degree and returned to Rio Grande City to accept the position of assistant principal of the high school. He occupied this lx)sition until December, 1946, when he was elected superintendent of public instruction for Starr County.

IN JUNE 1916, he married Victoria C. Vela of Hidalgo, Tex. Dr. and Mrs. Martinez re.side at Edinburg and have four children; Victoria Elizabeth, Arnulfo Eduardo, Judith Ann, and Ricardo David.

Attending the University of Texas on a part-time basis, by June, 1966, he was conferred the philosophy degree with fields of concentration in history, philosophy, educational administration and Spanish. Resigning as county school superintendent, he accepted the position of associate professor of history and Spanish at Pan American University. In September, 1969, he was promoted to the rank of professor and head of the Social Studies Department. During his tenure. Dr.

Martinez established a community services program leading to a degree in community services, a Mexican-American studies program, and a law enforcement program. In 1970, he was given additional responsibilities as counselor to the academic vice president on Mexican-American affairs. In June 1971, he accepted the position of vice president for student affairs, the position which he presently holds. In his short tenure. Dr.

Martinez has been instrumental in the establishment of a high school equivalency program, a special services program, and a counseling and testing center. The Office of Financial Aid also comes under his jurisdiction and he has liberalized the policies of the office by removing a 16 grade point average requirement and a 2.0 requirement for work study, thus making it possible for more students to qualify for aid and grants. Thh one in a series of Sunday profiles of outstanding Mexican-Americans and their contributions to this nation. Martinez has held a permanent teaching certificate since 1939 and an certificate since 1943. He is a life member of the National Education Association, the Texas State Teachers Association, and the Texas Association of College Teachers.

He has served as a member of the Association of School Administrators, Texas Association of School Administrators, and County School Superintendents Association, and is a member of Sigma Delta Pi, the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Theta. BESIDES HIS activities as an educator, Martinez is also engaged in politics, in ranching, and in business. He owned and managed the Martinez Insurance Agency in Rio Grande City from 1954 to 1966 and is president of Mar-Vel Properties, Inc. of Edinburg. In community activities, he has also served in the following capacities: Chairman of the (immunity Action Council of Starr County and of its board of directors, chairman of Starr County Historical Survey Committee, and member of the of directors of the Rio Grande Valley Council of Boy Scouts of America.

In 1965, Governor John Connally named him admiral of the Texas Navy and member of the State Committee on Aging. He was listed in Who in the South and Southwest and also in the Directory of American Scholars in 1969. He is the author of of the Scholastic Census of Spanish-Speaking Children of unpublished thesis, (1944) and of Education in Starr unpublished dissertation. (1966). Dr.

Martinez has served as member of numerous committees at Pan American University, including Model Organization of American States, and the Committee on Testing. He is presently serving as chairman of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and vice president of the Athletic Council and has served as director of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, as member of the Educational Committee of Model Cities at Edinburg, as consultant for the Southwest Educational Laboratory in Austin, and as a consultant expert for the U.S. Office of Education at Washington, D.C. FROM 1969 'TO 1971. he served as educational achievement auditor for the La Joya Independent School District and Zapata Independent School District.

In August, 1970, he served as consultant for Region II at their in-service teachers meetings. In September, 1970, he was named as a member of the Steering Committee of the Texas Performance Based Trainers of 'reacher Trainers (TTD Project and is still serving on this state committee. Thus Dr. Arnulfo Martinez joins the growing number of Mexican-American educators in high positions at institutions of higher learning. Skip said.

even so, the just not going to do it. sorry. They can do all they want with the laws and not going to get one thing they legalize marijuana, which I think is going to happen very soon, there might be a sharp increase for a period of two, three, maybe five years. And then people are going to see it for what it is and blow it he said. know a lot of kids who have smoked marijuana and who have played around with other drugs.

It was interesting to them while it lasted, but now seen it for what it is and they just blow it FUNNY about Lea pointed out, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, taking aspirin, these are all taking drugs. Drugs are all around everywhere you ithin the last 19 years the whole of society has turned into a drug- oriented Skip olr- served. you Since the psychedelics came out our clothes are beginning to reflect it. our actions, styles, everything based around what hallucinogenics brought may not be socially acceptable as far as the actual use of the drugs, but the shadow effect of the drugs have become pretty well known and pretty he said. you think this trend is good for Laird asked.

not at High lews Drug laws and the need for changes drew the attention of panelists, from left, Laird Markland, Cindy Bracewell, Yolanda Flores, Skip Allen and Lea berg. The High Views interview was held atop the Tower of the Americas, Panelists From NEISD Schools Panelists in the 16th HIGH VIEWS interview held in the Tower of the Americas Restaurant were students at four San Antonio high schools, including Center School, a special high school operated by North East Independent School District, Yolanda Flores, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Candor Tovar, 1050 Santa Monica is a junior at 'Thomas Edison High School and a member of her Junior Senate and Student Council. Yolanda is also news editor of her school newspaper, a part- time secretary at a junior high school and plans to major in journalism at Southwest Texas State University.

Stephen Allen, 18, is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Jimmy R. Allen of 7618 Vinewood St. and a senior at Center School.

Skip is a member of the Center Student Council and Administrative Advisory Committee and works part-time at Character Education Project, an education research organization. Also a Center student, council delegate and advisory mittee member is Cindy Bracewell, senior and daugiiter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Bracewell of 410 Dresden Dr.

Cindy has participated in a drug abuse course at San Antonio Free Clinic and a drug education course for teachers and administrators of North East and Alamo Heights Independent School Districts. A career in law awaits 17-year-old Markland, a senior at Douglas MacArthur High School and son of Mrs. Alta Markland of 311 Byrnes Dr. Now state chairman of the Young Republicans and a law clerk for a prominent local law firm, plans to major in political science at St. University before attending the University of Texas law school.

Wellberg, 18, a senior at Center School and daughter of Col. and Mrs. Vi. K. Walker oi Brightwood PL, hopes to become a drug counselor after gaining a college education in psychology.

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