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University Press • Friday, March 30, 2001 • Page 4
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UP briefs
Houston theatre to produce ‘Miss Saigon’
The musical 'Miss Saigon’ will be staged through April 1 at the Theatre
Under the Stars in Houston, Amy Pruitt, public relations manager, said.
Theatre Under the Stars is the first American company to secure the
rights to produce this play.
The musical pertains to a young Vietnamese woman who falls in love
with a U.S. marine and she becomes pregnant.
The marine is transferred from Saigon but later returns with a new
wife.
He meets his son for the first time.
Tickets range from $18 to $57.
For more information, call 1-800-678-5440.
SWSA to celebrate 25th year
The Social Work Student Association is having a spring banquet on
April 5 in Gray Library at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate its 25th anniversary,
Vemice Monroe, program director, said.
“All alumni and friends of the social work program are invited to
attend the special event,” Monroe said.
Tickets for the banquet will cost $15.
For more information, call 880-8552.
Internship program initiated
The Southeast Texas Arts Council has initiated a new internship
program that will give students the opportunity to prepare various
media publications, Uliana Trylowsky, spokesperson, said.
SETAC has one intern this semester and hopes to have enough
funding to take on two interns for the fall semester.
For more information, call 835-2787.
GTML seeks members
The Golden Triangle Musicians League has begun its summer
concert season and will continue to meet on Tuesdays from 7
p.m. until 8:15 p.m., Jim Kesman, director, said.
“People who can read music and have a band instrument may
become a G.T.M.L. member,” Kesman said.
For more information, call (409) 745-3589.
Scholarship launched for Texas festivals
The Convention and Visitors Bureau is launching an incentive
scholarship program that will promote planning of festivals and
other special events that take place in Beaumont, Debbie Borel, a
spokesperson, said.
The event must occur by July 2002. It also must be in
Beaumont, last a minimum of one-and-a-half days, and be open
to the public.
For more information, call 880-3749,
Humane society sponsors rabies vaccination
The Humane Society of Southeast Texas is sponsoring a rabies
vaccination Saturday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., a spokesperson,
said.
A $5 fee will be charged for each vaccination, and all proceeds
from the event will benefit the society. ,
For more information, call 833-0504 or 722-0605.
Galveston’s Grand to present ‘Chicago’
The Grand in Galveston will present the musical "Chicago"
today through Sunday. Show times will be at 8 p.m. today, 2 p.m.
and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Ticket prices range from $16.50 to $65, with special discounts
for groups and senior citizens.
For more information, call (409) 765-1894 or 800-821-1894.
Canterbury group to sponsor poetry night
The Canterbury Association of Lamar University is sponsoring a poet-
ry reading at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on April 6 at 8 p.m., B.
Herrington, "An Evening of Poetry” director, said.
Twenty-five poems will be selected, and three people will be featured
for outstanding work.
For more information, call 833-5642.
AMSET displays photographer’s work
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is displaying photographs
by Mark Low, a Beaumont photographer, through June 10, Janna
Fulbright, a spokesperson, said.
The display will include about 20 of Low's black and white
images.
For more information, call 832-3432.
Lamar student earns scholarship
Ashley Anding, a Lamar, student finished in the top 25 of
Vector Marketing Corporation’s All-American Scholarship competi-
tion and won a $250 college scholarship, Ted Taylor, a
spokesperson, said.
The scholarship was given to Vector’s top student sales repre-
sentatives from last year’s fall semester.
For more information,'call 1-877-576-7212.
Museum to sponsor bubble day
The Texas Energy Museum will host “Bubbles,” an outdoor sci-
ence activity on May 1 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., Christy Gladden,
administrative assistant, said.
The Texas Energy Museum is located at 600 Main St. in down-
town Beaumont.
For more information, call 833-5100.
Deadline for submitting announcements for UPbriefs is noon of
the day one week prior to publication. Announcements are run
as space allows — no exceptions. Press release forms are
available for organization reporters in the UP office, 200 Setzer
Student Center. Information may be addressed to University
Press, P. O. Box 10055, Beaumont 77710 or by sent by fax to
880-8735.
UP briefs compiled by Sarina O. White
Oakland club
defending pot
therapy at
Supreme Court
By Michelle Locke
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A few
years ago, an author writing about death
asked ailing AIDS patient Michael
Alcalay how he was accepting dying.
“I’m not accepting it,” Alcalay retort-
ed.
Alcalay is alive today thanks in part,
he believes, to doses of marijuana that
helped him keep his medicines down and
appetite up as he fought the disease.
On Wednesday, Alcalay will be in the
audience as lawyers try to convince the
U.S. Supreme Court that federal anti-drug
laws shouldn’t prevent marijuana from
being given to seriously ill patients for pain
relief.
“Once the justices recognize what’s
really at stake in this case, if any sem-
blance of justice prevails then so will we,”
said Robert Raich, an attorney represent-
ing the Oakland Cannabis Buyers’
Cooperative.
The cooperative is a distribution club
operating under California’s Proposition
215, the voter-approved law that allows
the possession and use of marijuana for
medical purposes on a doctor’s recom-
mendation.
That’s where Alcalay used to get his
marijuana. But he’s had to look elsewhere
since the federal government sued the
cooperative and five other California pot
clubs in 1998 to prevent them from distrib-
uting the drug.
A federal judge sided with the govern-
ment. But last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled that “medical
necessity” is a legal defense.
California officials, including Attor-
ney General Bill Lockyer, argue that the
state has the right to enforce its medical
marijuana law, which was approved by
voters in 1996. Distribution clubs sprang
up because Proposition 215 is silent on
how patients will get marijuana, outside of
growing and harvesting it themselves.
The Supreme Court is not looking
directly at Proposition 215 but rather at
whether medical necessity may be used as
a defense against federal drug bans. It’s
unclear whether the justices will rule on
that general issue or rule more narrowly
on how lower courts have handled this
case.
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