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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma

Feb. 18, 1982

Vol. 80, No. 39

Drunk drivers top priority

Macy promises crackdown

Vista photo by Daniel Smith

Robert H. Macy, Oklahoma County District Attorney, presented a lecture in the Liberal Arts auditorium Wednesday morning. Macy was co-sponsored by the political science department and the Young Democrats.

By Kim McConnell Oklahoma County drivers will be seeing an increase in the number of Highway Patrol troopers patrolling for drunk drivers, according to Robert H. Macy Oklahoma County District Attorney. "My stand on drunk driving was the first really controversial thing I did," said Macy, who is running for re-election in November. Macy started his controversity program in September, 1981, when he discovered the county was running 22 deaths by drunk drivers above the 1980 rate. No drunk-driving related deaths were reported that weekend, he added, and the county finished the year with only 12 more deaths than in 1980. According to statistics, 83 people were killed by drunk driv-

ers in Oklahoma County in 1981, and thousands were maimed, people the DA office doesn't have statistics on. "It's just as critical I do something about the murder on the highways as drag traffic," he said. "I've done more experimenting than anyone ever has. In the last three or four months, I've done everything I can think of. Sixty-five percent of the single-car accidents are drunkrelated," he added. "It's a double tragedy when you have one (an accident). Could you live with yourself knowing you killed someone? I couldn't. Most moral people couldn't. Another controversial target of the DA's office is consumer fraud, emphasized by the automobile repair scandal. Macy maintains the car repair shops were selected at random and nine of 16 overcharged

Senate passed scholarship proposal is in support of the Faculty Senate By Donna Bennett The amended version of a re- plan to reschedule finals for one solution dealing with the creation hour later than scheduled at presof a scholarship for deserving ent. senators was passed with a vote Resolution 82-105, dealing of 22 to 13 at the weekly Student Senate meeting. The amend- with amending the Student Sements changed the working from nate constitution, passed without budgeting the funds to raising the difficulty. The constitution at present funds to create two $50 scholarships, one to be awarded each reads two-thirds of the student senate must approve a constitusemester. Resolution 82-102, concern- tional change. The resolution ing the evaluation of the final ex- will change this to read twoamination schedule, passed with thirds of the senate present during the consent of the senate. The bill voting.

Special orders were called on resolution 82-106, calling for the installation of soap and paper dispensers in the dormatories. The housing committee had not finished their evaluation of the bill and it was tabled for one week. Resolution 82-107 was presented to the housing committee and the student relations task force. This called for the senate to urge all students to register for the draft. Resolution 82-108, concern-

ing the delegation procedures for those attending the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Legislature, (OIL) was sent to the continum committee. Resolution 82-109, concerning the purchase of birth control pills, was given to the school spirit and social activities committee for consideration. President Tim Reese appointed Cherri Lowther and Julie Burkhard to the student court as justices, with the consent of the senate. Reese will be appointing a new attorney general within the month.

consumers anywhere from $65 to $364. "We picked them at random and still got ripped off by over half," he said. "In every case but one, when women took the car in, they were charged more." Macy added his office that pursuing more consumer fraud situations. Macy has not specified one target and said this will probably ensure consumers will get a better deal in the next few months. Macy has been critized as being harsh with his sentencing, but he said he feels he has to be. "I've got to be violent with the criminal element because it is the only thing they understand. I do everything in my power to legally take the criminal element off the streets," he said. "I got a bigger high by putting Clifford Bowan on death row that most of you will ever get off pot." Massey is also taking a unique approach to law enforcement, a stand to which he said his opponents may take exception. "I don't believe in uniform treatment," he said adding that the prosecutor should take into consideration the nature of the crime and the nature of the person committing it, drawing a firm line between the first time offender and the hardened criminal. However, everyone who cornmits a crime should expect to be prosecuted. "The DA has the authority to file or refuse to file charges against anybody. But, everything someone has laid evident in my desk, I've prosecuted. Everytime they violate the law, they will get prosecuted."

Proposal tabled by Watson Plans to present a resoltution calling for a statewide consituttitutional amendment vote for a separate board of regents for CSU have been tabled, according to Anne Lynch, Faculty Senate president. The Senate Education Committee resolution, sponsored by Sen. Phil Watson, R-Edmond,

was tabled because the senator does not feel he has the support needed to pass the measure, Lynch said. All committee work for legislation approval must be completed by the end of this week. Lynch said she didn't feel this move would harm CSU chances, but may instead help them.

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"By putting it off this session, we may be able to get the approval of more people in the state," she said. "The tricky part of it is getting the constitutional amendment Lynch added that the committee members supporting a separate board now know what arguments the opponents will be using and can prepare themselves. "After hearing their arguments, we know pretty much what arguments will arise. It doesn't worry us. We can produce hard, concrete data and use the time given to us quite well." The present board of regents that govern CSU also controls five other colleges. All were once tied together under the title of teaching colleges.

Vista photo by Daniel Smith

Androcles" lion (Shawn Greenfield) takes time out from his busy entertaining schedule to relax and read the best seller "Cats." The play will have its last run tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Mitchell Hall.


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