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...response, students on nearly all PASSHE campuses have organized daily "smoke-in" protests since the ban went into effect on Sept. 11, and they've collected hundreds of signatures on petitions against the anti-smoking measures. They've found support from faculty and even from nonsmokers. "This law, [the Clean Indoor Air Act], very explicitly defines its terms," Kutztown University geography professor Steven Schnell, a nonsmoker, told Cavanaugh during a campus visit last week. "I suggest a grammar class for your legal counsel...
...Campus safety is another concern raised by dissenters. Campus residents who wish to smoke late at night now have to walk off the grounds to do so - and they could pose a fire hazard by sneaking a cigarette in a dorm room. "Do we really want an 18-year-old girl walking by herself off-campus at 2 a.m.?" Dugan asks. "All we're asking for is a compromise that considers students' needs here...
...While some protest indignantly at the latest encroachment on their space to light up, others welcome the elimination of clouds of smoke outside classrooms. At Clarion, for example, more than 500 students and faculty have signed petitions in support of the ban. That's great news for anti-smoking coalitions around the country who have been pressing colleges and universities to get stricter on tobacco. Although PASSHE is the first full school system to outlaw smoking, the American Lung Association estimates that about 130 schools now have campuswide bans, while several others have prohibited selling cigarettes on campus or have...
...Decriminalize it all the way, recognize that it’s an individual liberty to enjoy activities that impose no harm on anyone else,” said Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, who in the past has admitted that he often smokes marijuana before classes. “Legally, I think it’s a very good idea [to] moderate the Draconian application of drug laws.” Earlier this year, Nesson mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts’ drug laws, arguing that criminalizing marijuana...
...Stable Boy set off through the bustling streets. He attracted little attention. Who would distinguish him from among the fishmongers, tinkers, tailors, beadles, gentlemen, and dogs? Quickly, he made for one of the city’s more disreputable neighborhoods, where he entered a brothel.Lamps flickered weakly in the smoke-filled room. The floor was covered in sawdust, spit, tar, and drink. The Stable Boy’s eyes were some time in adjusting to the gloom. But, yes, there he was. It was hard to make him out in the tangle of fleshy limbs that occupied the loveseat...