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Show Temple Square Serve Liquor? & ' r '- ' I f f PHIL HANSEN . . . Attny. General Mike Galagher By STAN SMITH Chronicle Staff Writer "Brown bags are for lunches, not booze," declared Phil Hansen, Utah's a.'Jorney general on campus Thursday. Sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, political science fraternity, and the Hinckley Institute of Politics, the lawyer fielded student questions about liquor, the Mormon Church and his political aspirations. "There's no logic in the state position permitting you to buy booze in a bottle and not in a glass," he said. The Attorney General Gen-eral stated, "If Utahns could dare to have wine with their meals" the state could reap a tremendous profit, pro-fit, the level of entertainment would personally would be a good governor gov-ernor or senator, but I would have the law as my companion." "I ran for attorney general because be-cause felt my view of full constitutional con-stitutional protection for every citizen cit-izen would be more readily accepted ac-cepted if it came from the state's top legal officer. The law is the law. It isn't one way for regents asd another ano-ther way for students. It should be enforced without fear or favor. We've got a thing called the law, and by damn, we'd better follow it." He noted, however, that he had no lack of things to do as attorney general. "I'm the only guy in town that sleeps with a respirator." rise, and policing of liquor laws could be improved. Hansen predicted that Utah would have liquor by the drink by 1970. 'The governor has said this will not happen," he observed, "but the mini-bottle system is already exanding to hotels and motels. It's perfectly legal to ask a waitress to bring you a bottled martini. We'll start to see these bottles everywhere every-where including, if ecclesiastical opposition isn't too great, Temple Square," he jested. "I think Utahns should be given the opportunity to vote on the liquor li-quor issue. If they're too dumb to do that, they're too dumb to vote for legislators." Out To Get Them? "I am not out to get the Mormon Church," he said, "I merely want to separate profit from prophet." Hansen further noted that his office is studying credit toward high school graduation for seminary courses. If they find it unconstitutional unconstitu-tional he said he would see that this practice is stopped. No Second Term In response to a question about his political ambitions he said, "I intend to keep my pledge of not running for a second term as attorney at-torney general." After stating he would not close the door on other jobs, he insisted, "It's not that I |