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Show Twenty-Tw- Page 2 DIXIE SUN January 31, 1986 Attain 4.0 Fall Quarter o an(j Federal Officials Battleof The fall quarter honor roll is out! Here is a list of the students who excelled academically last quarter. 4.0 Danette Alldredge Blaine C. Aurich Brock Belnap Leif Bjarnson Kason Burgess Josh Burgon Julie Coleman Bruce Cunningham Sue Dalton Bradley Esplin Karen Fink Quint Hughes Jamie Jensen Cyndy Johnson Cindy Ludlow John Meaner Lucinda Nyberg Michael Pearson Scott Petersen Michelle Reed Michael Sorensen Trent Sterling 3.75-3.9- 9 Jason Adams Kandy Adams Heidi Andrew Gerald Anzdorf Carol Bagshaw John Barton Howard Reeve Ercell Betyea David Benge Karen Beutler Krista Davis Dana Derrick Lyndon DeYoung Brenda Esplin Eric Evans Julia Foster Cynthia Fraser Shirley Greef Leslie Harker Robert Highs David Sedgwick Sue Seely Etsuko Stugeta Michelle Snook Bryson Stucki Lisa Terry Tracy Thompson Tiffany Larkin Ginette Last Mindy Marks Kathy McArthur Donald McGarvie Karl Trimble Ronald Wade Larene Waldrom Julie Walker Elizabeth Waterhouse Janene Whiting Price Wilson Susanne Woodring Martin Mequarrie Shauna Moss In addition to the letter, Mr. Ward included a transcript of a press release from Salt Lake City, dated January 14th and along with copies of articles from several daiThe articles and the press release mostly focus on government and law enforcement agency fights to control and reduce the amount of drug and illegal substance traffic within the United States. One of several problems become rather important, when studying the above described information. ! I -- I i f current epidemic is unprecedented, and that cocaine is the most infamous drug of abuse in the United States today. Attorney General Edwin Meese P III recently described the growing in the United States 1 drug problem ! ITS ONLY p p Vs. of our problem is education and prevention. The reporter goes on to quote US Attorney General Edwin Meese who wants to be remembered for leading the first successful all out drive against drug abuse. Mr. Meese feels that to be a success we must change the nations thinking about drugs, and create a climate in which drug abuse is considered little more than slow suicide, rather than the socially in thing to do. Mr. Ward, in his press release referred to a recent report issued by the National Institute of Drug Abuse that stated that cocaine abuse has grown to be a major public health threat today, that the It is an epidemic as follows: without precedent in our history. No nation can long sustain the casualties we are suffering in terms of lives, health, productivity, wealth, crime and morality.. .Two trends make the picture grim: the spread of cocaine use to all levels of the social spectrum and the growing number of young users. These trends show a national disaster in the making... The House Select Committee on pi Narcotics Abuse and Control held P I L Enforcement Agency. Mr. Mullon said The bottom line resolution citizens. TO SALT LAKE I awareness nationwide, of the dangers and tragedies that can and do result from use of cocaine, marijuana, and other illegal substances. In WALL STREET JOURNAL article, a reporter Andy Pasztor quoted Mr. Frances Mullon, former head of the federal Drug offenders. Mr. Ward said, From my own vantage point, I believe that the growing problem of drug abuse can be successfully addressed only if the community becomes aroused. He requested of us Please do what you can to help reduce the demand for harmful substances, such as cocaine, among our fellow DONT DRIVE ! legal drugs is being lost. It seems to me that if this particular war is ever going to be won, it will be because of an increased ly newspapers. HAPPY BIRTHDAY George & Abe i I p p I I I ITS ii p P depart St. George Monday-Frida- y ! I IP Alpine Air P at 5:30 p.m. Depart S.L.C. 4 pm Sunday CALL Student TOLL-FRE- stand-b- y en- forcement and many arrests and convictions, the battle against il- who has been involved recently in the prosecution of numerous drug Jeff Thorpe Angela Murie Joille Nelson Kaye Nelson Robert Nelson Christian Nielson Melanie Oliphant Jolene Peacock Penny Rawlings Brenda Reep Even with the increase in law by Ed Rogers The Dixie Sun and KRDC recently received a letter from Brent D. Ward, United States Attorney for the District of Utah, E rate. Regular confirmed space is 1155.00 I I hearings in July last year on the cocaine abuse problem and the level of federal response to it. Representative Charles B. Rangel is the committee chairman. One of the witnesses appearing before Representative Rangels committee was Hollywood actor Stacey Keach who was recently released from a London, England prison after serving a term for possession of approximately an ounce of cocaine. He described to the committee his devastating experience with cocaine in these words: There is no th greater imprisonment that that of being dependent on any chemical substance for ones own to powerlessness help oneself.. .Within a few short months (after using cocaine), it became an integral part of my life. But I still foolishly and blindly refused to abandon the notion that I could take it or leave it. I thought that I was in control of the drug and not vice versa. That feeling is the hallmark of cocaine abuse. Cocaine always deludes the user into feeling that he or she is in complete control until it is too late. So distorted was my perspective that I was unwilling, unable, to face the truth that the drug had begun to dominate my life. Local St. George southern Utah use of drugs continues to be a problem and occupies a high percentage of the time of local law enforcement duties. What the problem boils down to the demand for illegal drugs is taken away, they will always be available. is this-u- ntil e According to Washington Times writer John Chamberlain, If the profit could be taken out of poppy and marijuana growing, the supply of drugs would diminish. But the police cant change things themselves. Only a vast number of individual decisions at the personal and family level can help. SUN STAFF BOX Editor-in-chi- Debbie Magill Advertising Managers Jay Tomlin, Boyd Livingston, Stephan Ellis Doug Jones, Brad Fullmer Sports Mark Salter Photography Staff.. Julie Fuller, Gary Galley, Jill Mowery, Jeremy Pitts Mark Rasmussen, Eddy Vincente, Louise Whitehair Ed Rogers Advisor The DIXIE SUN is published every two weeks by the students of Dixie College The opinions expressed in the SUN do not necessarily reflect the should be subviewpoint of the staff or the advisor. mitted to Ed Rogers in the ground floor of the Student Union Building behind KRDC radio. 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