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Volume 2, Issue12 CAMPUS UPDATE Alpena Community College, Alpena, MI March 19, 1980 CFDA campaigns to lower Michigan drinking age Janice Wade , Staff Reporter The Michigan legislature chang: ed the drinking age to 18 in 1972. According to a Citizens for a Fair Drinking Age pamphlet, the Michi- gan Legislature was “bowing to pres- sure from various groups and fol- lowing what has become a national trend’’ when it raised the drinking age to 19 effective December 3, _ 1978. In November 1978, Alpena County voters said yes to the ques- tion of having a statewide drinking age of 21. The new age for legally consuming alcohol was set at 210n December 21, 1978 Time maga- zine reports “Massachusetts thus followed five other states--lowa , Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and Montana--in deciding that lowering the legal drinking age to 18 had been a mistake.’” According to the World Alma- nac 1980, there are 25 states includ- ing the drinking age of 19, and five haveva drinking age of 20. Twelve of the ~ States with a drinking age of 21 years permit 18° or 19 year old ~ consume var-. é “ious beers and/or wines. youth to legally The tasks CFDA set are to puta proposal to lower the legal drinking age to 19 on the November ballot: and the campaign to pass the pro- Convention scheduled for Science Fiction fans Science fiction and space studies will be featured at Michigan's first major "Michicon” convention. this summer, highlighted by four nation- ally-known authors, including Alan Dean Foster, who wrote Alien, the Star Trek Logs, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. More than 20 well known ex- perts in seience fictionandfantasy, UFO stUdies, NASA program, astronomy, and space artistry and poetry will lead a series of work- shops, seminars and exhibits during the three-day convention Aug,15, 16 and 17,1980 at Flint’s Cultural Center. Several cultural activities also cont. page 2, column 4 posal. The organization employs R. Douglas Hargett to direct the campaign to obtain 286,722 valid signatures before July 7. According to Beth Anderson, Vice-President of ACC's student Senate, Tom Jawor-~ ski, a senior at Michigan State Uni- versity, coordinating the effort to contact-and establish campaign com- mittees on 40 Michigan college and university campuses. He.contacted the Student Senate office at ACC on February 22. This committee may select a representative to the statewide steering committee. An- derson reports that CFDA consid- ‘ers. its main opposition to be Al- len Rice of the Michigan Council. on Alcohol Problems. ACT's “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds,”” directed by: Jerry’ Lanoo, will run from March 27, 28, 29, and April 374,25: ets are $5 for adults and $2.50 for students. For ACC students, admission is free on March 26, 27, and April 4. MOT strives to popularize Opera Diana Flakes, Staff Reporter Michigan Opera Theatre is a musi- cal, dramatic theatre with live sin- gers and actors. Its scope encom- passes traditional, contemporary, ex- perimental, and full opera produc- tions in English as well as in the original language. This professional company's purpose is to make opera more accessible and enjoyable to Detroit area and Michigan residents. MOT began in |96! as ‘‘Overture to Opera‘’, the educational aim, of the Detroit Grand Opera Association, which sponsors the Met's annual visit to Detroit each spring. In 1971, “Overture to Opera’ responded to the community’sdemand for full productions by establishing a regu- lar opera season in Detroit, in addi- tion to. touring with major produc- The Citizens for a Fair Drinking Age state on the petitions that rais- ing the drinking age to 21 hasn't worked.’'It is not fair to punish the majority of 19 and 20 year olds be- cause a few in their age group abuse alcohol. The raising of the drinking age has had little effect. on whet- her or not young people are drink- ing--it has only changed the locat- ion of the drinking from the bars to the cars. Better that the drinking age be 19--and strictly enforced-- than be 21.and mocked.” CFDA feel the petition effort will besuccessful for five reasons. §)The effort is .well organized with a full time director and fund director and fund raising campaign. tions to other Michigan cities. Each season, MOT, and indepen- dent, tax exempt, non-profit organi-, zation, produces its own complete opera productions at its performing home, the Music Hall. It recruits talent from the international world of music, and other professional national opera companies, such as the Met and New York City Opera. Auditions are held during the spring in Detroit and New York. Singers, musical and technical personnel are interviewed and signed by MOT’s ‘General Director, Dr. David Di- Chiera. Highlighting. the week’s activities will be a fully-staged production in English of Doniryetti’s comic mas- terpiece, “Don Pasquale” at 8:00 2)The presidential election year will cause a higher voter turnout a- mong younger voters. 3) A new. Michigan law allows schools to te- gister 18 year olds to vote. 4) young people may actively participate in lowering the drinking age. 5) The in- tial reason for raising the drinking age was to keep alcohol out of the schools. Persons who would not sup- _ port the 18 year old'limit may sup- port a 19 year old limit. CFDA says it will seek funds Gs from “high school and college stu- dents, other Michigan citizens, bar and restaurant owners, grocers, small store owners, distributorships, brew eries, distillers, labor unions, politi- cal organizations, and from other sources.” Additional material from CFDA states ‘Businessmen dealing with alcoholic beverages have lost a tremendous amount of potential revenue by the new law.” However, Any one interested in the peti- tion drivete lower the legal drink- ing age to 19 in Michigan may obtain information from the Student Se- nate Office in Van Lare Hall by talking with President Tom Kane, or Vice-President Beth Anderson. — p.m. Friday, March 21 at tee Alpena High School auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50 for senior citizens and studetns. Resident artises, Dan Boggess, Nora Bostaph, Denise Coffey, David Her- endeen, Scott Redersen arid Mark Flint will perform the lead roles. Some Alpena residents, who have been rehearsing for several weeks, will sing in the chorus. Cheaters branded with an “X“ (CH)—Students caught cheating at the University of Pennsylvania are given a permanent grade of X for the course involved, and cannot have that grade removed from their tran- scripts. Students also face discipli- nary: probation or suspension. Archer toctheabiaariest Soke | Sh sehen SE