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Denton Record-Chronicle
LOCAL/NATIONAL
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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TWU slates Feyten’s inauguration ceremony
By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan@dentonrc.com
Carine Feyten, president and
chancellor of Texas Woman’s
University, will be inaugurated
next month in a public ceremo-
ny at the Denton campus.
The inauguration ceremony
will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov.
10, after other events on campus
to celebrate Feyten joining the
university.
The theme of the events will
be “Moving Beyond the Inflec-
tion Point: Pioneers for a New
Era.”
Feyten began in the position
July % after Ann Stuart retired.
Stuart, the 10th president and
first chancellor of the university,
led the university for 15 years.
The series of events will be-
gin at 10 a.m. when guests can
take campus tours with TWU
Student Ambassadors.
There will be two tour op-
tions : a historical tour and an ac-
ademic highlights tour that will
feature faculty members.
The tours will leave every 15
minutes from Hubbard Hall’s
east foyer.
A pre-luncheon reception
and luncheon, both by invitation
only, will be held on campus.
The luncheon will feature Renu
Khator, the chancellor and pres-
ident of the University of Hous-
ton, one of the only other female
university chancellors in the
state.
Before the frill inauguration
ceremony, there will be an aca-
demic procession down Redbud
Lane starting at 1:45 p.m. The
inauguration will begin at 2
p.m., when Feyten will be pre-
sented with the President’s Me-
dallion, which has the universi-
ty’s seal, the names of former
presidents and all four names
that TWU has been known as
since the school was founded in
1901.
After the ceremony, there
will be a reception for all guests
at Pioneer Circle.
Both the inauguration and
the reception are free and open
to the public.
JENNA DUNCAN can be
reached at 940-566-6889 and
via Twitter at @JennaF
Duncan.
D.C. adds race to U.S.
discussion on legal pot
Jacquelyn Martin/AP
In this photo taken Oct. 9, Adam Eidinger, chairman of the
DC Cannabis Campaign, puts up posters encouraging peo-
ple to vote yes on DC Ballot Initiative 71 to legalize small
amounts of marijuana for personal use, in Washington.
By Ben Nuckols
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A de-
bate over legalizing marijuana
in the nation’s capital is focus-
ing on the outsized number of
arrests of African-Americans
on minor drug charges.
Pot legalization supporters
in Colorado and Washington
state also spoke about racial
justice, but their voters are
mostly white and their cam-
paigns focused more on other
issues. The race factor hits
closer to many more homes in
the District, where nearly half
the population is black.
And that means this refer-
endum could change how the
nation talks about marijuana,
some drug-policy experts say.
“I think D.C. is going to
probably set off a chain of
events in which communities
of color generally and cities in
particular take on the issue of
legalization as a racial justice,
social justice issue in a much
stronger way than they have so
far,” said Bill Piper, director of
national affairs at the Drug
Policy Alliance.
There are many other dif-
ferences between the District
and states that have legalized
pot.
The city is a patchwork of
local and federal land, and
there will be no lighting up in
front of the White House or at
the Jefferson Memorial.
Also, Washington remains
under the thumb of Congress,
which could thwart the will of
the voters as it has on other
matters where liberal District
tendencies clash with conser-
vative priorities on Capitol
Hill.
Nonetheless, the District is
on track to join Colorado and
Washington state in legalizing
marijuana. A poll last month
showed nearly 2 of every 3 vot-
ers favor the initiative, which
will be on November’s ballot.
Voters in Alaska and Oregon
also decide this fall whether to
legalize pot.
Roughly half of the Dis-
trict’s 646,000 residents are
black. The American Civil lib-
erties Union found that in
2010, blacks were eight times
more likely than whites to be
arrested for marijuana posses-
sion in the District, and 91 per-
cent of those arrested that year
were black.
“It would alleviate a lot of
problems,” said Kenneth Agee,
46, a heating and air condi-
tioning mechanic who plans to
vote for legalization. “There
may be less violence on the
streets associated with mari-
juana trafficking and sales.”
The D.C. Council tried ear-
lier this year to address racial
disparities by decriminalizing
marijuana, as 17 states have
done. Possession of up to one
ounce of pot in the District is
now subject to a $25 fine,
among the lowest in the na-
tion. The law took effect in Ju-
ly, despite an attempt by Rep.
Andy Harris, a Maryland Re-
publican, to block the mea-
sure.
Legalization advocates say
decriminalization hasn’t done
enough, citing police statistics
that show most of the $ 25 tick-
ets are being handed out in
predominantly black neigh-
borhoods.
‘We can tell the police,
‘Guess what? It’s not even a
crime. You don’t have to write
a ticket,1" said Adam Eidinger,
chairman of the D.C. Cannabis
Campaign, the group that
crafted the initiative and got it
on the ballot.
The initiative also is nota-
ble for what it lacks. Because
ballot initiatives in the District
can’t affect the budget, it does
not provide for the legal sale of
marijuana or set up a system
to tax and regulate it. That
would be up to the mayor and
the council. Voters will also be
choosing a new mayor in No-
vember to replace Vincent
Gray, and both leading candi-
dates have said they support
legalization.
In Colorado and Washing-
ton state, the federal govern-
ment said legal pot must be
kept off federal property such
as parks and other huge
swaths of U.S. land. That could
be more complicated in the
District, where the situation
can change from block to
block. The parkland the feder-
al government owns in the
District, for instance, includes
59 inner-city squares and tri-
angles.
Because Congress has au-
thority over lawmaking in the
District, the initiative wouldn’t
take effect until a congressio-
nal review period that could
last several months.
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Fracking debate set today
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc.com
Officials with the Denton
County Republican Party plan
to go ahead with a public debate
on the proposed ban on hydrau-
lic fracturing tonight, with or
without representation from
proponents of the ban.
The “empty chair” debate is
scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in
the multipurpose room at the
Denton County Elections Ad-
ministration building, 701 Kim-
berly Drive.
Members of the Denton Dril-
ling Awareness Group sent a let-
ter to the chairwomen of the
Denton County Republican and
Democratic parties last week,
saying they will withdraw from
the planned debate.
The Denton County Demo-
cratic Party also withdrew from
the event.
In the letter, the drilling
group’s president, Cathy
McMullen, said that they agreed
to the debate only if a board
member from Denton Taxpay-
ers for a Strong Economy re-
presented the opposition.
Bobby Jones and Randy Sor-
rells are listed as co-chairmen on
the group’s website.
No other leadership is listed
on the site.
Local attorney and former
Denton County Republican Par-
ty chairman Richard Hayes, a
Denton resident, agreed to re-
present the opposition to the
ban in the debate, a point of con-
tention for the Denton Drilling
Awareness Group that party
chairwoman Dianne Edmond-
son called bogus.
In a prepared statement
from the Denton County Re-
publican Party, Hayes said his
job would be to educate, not to
advocate.
“We voters should be consid-
ering scientific and technologi-
cal facts, not just emotional and
irrational sentiments,” Hayes
said.
In that same prepared state-
ment, Sorrells challenged the
proponents of the ban to show
up.
“We don’t try to tell you who
you can have there to represent
your views, and you can’t dictate
who will speak for us,” Sorrells
said.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE
can be reached at 940-566-
6881 and via Twitter at
@phwolfeDRC.
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