The Michigan Daily - Saturday, July 20, 1985 - Page 3
Liquor agency modifies
ban on alco promotion
By KERY MURAKAMI
The "Beer Olympics" would be illegal if the State Liquor
Control Commission has its way.
The LCC approved Wednesday a compromise proposal that
would make it illegal for beer and other liquor distributors to
sponsor campus events that promote the sale or consum-
ption of alcohol.
IF APPROVED by'a legislative committee, it would ban
distributors from sponsoring events like the Beer Olympics.
Olympia beer sponsors the evening of beer-drinking com-
petitions with Theta Delta Chi fraternity. The event
was cancelled last year after the University's Housing Office
warned the fraternity that organizers would be arrested for
not having an events permit.
But the year before, 1,500 people took part in such
contests as the team chug and the grueling one-minute
marathon.
NO ONE FROM the fraternity was available for comment,
but a spokesman for the Brewery Products Company that
distributes Olympia beer locally said, "Well, of course we're
' going to abide by the law."
He said that while "it's too bad we're going to lose this
promotion - it's a lot of fun," the distributor wouldn't be hurt
too badly by the law.
"We only sponsor two or three campus events a year
anyway," he said.
The rule, if passed, would still allow beer distributors to
donate money to events and take credit for sponsoring it, said
r Ken Wozniak of the Liquor Control Commission.
"What it bans are events within events," Wozniak said. For
Photo by JEFF SCHRIER example, setting up a booth and selling the beer sponsored by
Scenes like this pizza-making contest, sponsored by LaBatt's beer, may th brand would definitely be illegal, Wozniak said.r"h
Scsp lihe s He added that there are also some in the grey area" that
disappear if the state Liquor Control Commission has its way. would have to be decided case by case.
"If Schlitz sponsored a ski trip and they gave out little hats
with Schlitz on them, that would be questionable," he said.
Walter Keck, deputy director of enforcement for the com-
mission, added that some kinds of "raft races" he's
heard of would be unacceptable.
Keck explained that a group of students fill rafts with beer
and race them across a lake. The first raft to the other side
wins, Keck said, but the sailor have to drink all the
beer in the raft.
If the distributor sponsoring the event offered the beer free
or at a discount, that might be against the rules," he said.
The policy also applies to off-campus events sponsored by
campus groups.
"I know it may sound a little naive to try to stop drinking on
campus," Keck said. "There are 18-, 19-, 20-year-olds that
drink. But it would defy logic for us to try to stop drunk
driving, or to enforce the drinking age and still allow
distributors to promote drinking."
The LCC's decision Wednesday was a compromise of sorts.
A policy being considered by the commission earlier this
year would have barred all kinds of participation in campus
events, including financial aid.
The new plan would also allow distributors to continue
taking part in alcohol awareness programs. Keck said that
distributors commonly take part in programs like Students
Against Drunk Driving.
The policy would also allow distributors and brewers to
make philanthropic gifts to universities and advertise in
campus newspapers.
"We still have a long way to go," Wozniak said. The plan
must-still be approved by the legislative-rules committee of
the legislature before it can even be introduced as a bill.
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television repairs and $225 worth of ney David Lady. The restitution will U.S. combat troops returned home nam War for airlifting assault troops
typewriter repairs. Blalock said he begin once Blalock is no longer a full- from Vietnam, America yesterday into combat, flew over the gathering
paid for the repairs himself so the time student and will be made in mon- saluted the 2,464 servicemen still and the five-story Pentagon. One of
board reimbursed him, when in fact thly installments. missing and unaccounted for in the them trailed purple smoke and peeled
nation's longest and most unpopular off from the formation, symbolic of
war. the "missing man" or those who died
" Chapel services, raised flags and in the war.
hr to f in space shuttle ispeeches, as well as military planes At Reagan's direction, black and
flying in formation and released white POW-MIA flags flew over the
balloons representing each lost White House, State Department,
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sharon spaceflight." pearing to be overcome with emotion. warrior, marked National POW-MIA Defense Department and Veterans
Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire McAuliffe said her intersest in SHE HAS a reserved seat for the Recognition Day in ceremonies from Administration.
high school social studies teacher, will trying to communicate the experience planned Jan. 22 blastoff of Challenger Maine to California.
open space for the common peson of flying came when she and her to share the extraordinary experience IN ALEXANDRIA, Va., a few miles ONE ALSO was raised in
next January as a passenger aboard husband and two small children flew of flying around Earth at 17,000 mph outside the nation's capital, Vice Washington at the Vietnam Veterans
the space shuttle Challenger, the to England aboard a 747 jumbo jet. with a crew of five NASA astronauts. President George Bush was to ad- Memorial, a black granite wall in-
White House announced yesterday. "While we were on board the 747 scribed with the names of the 58,022
"One of the things that I would like to and we were 40,000 feet up in the air, The primary purpose of the mission dress the 16th annual convention of Americans killed or lost in Vietnam.
do when I go aboard the shuttle is to they looked out the window and they is to launch the second big tracking the National League of American At Arlington National Cemetery,
bring back the wonder of it all," were so excited that that excitement and data relay satellite and a small Prisoners and Missing in Southeast the MIA-POW tree was rededicated
McAuliffe, 36, of Concord, N.H., said was generated to me and I would like satellite called Spartan that will study Asia. and across the country, in small towns
at a White House ceremony. to be able to convey that to my studen- Halley's comet. Bush was expected to reiterate and big cities, memorial services and
VICE President George Bush an- ts. President Reagan announced last President Reagan's vow that deter-held.
nounced the selection of McAuliffe, a "I WANT to bring that back. My August that a teacher would be the mining the fate of these soldiers is a In St. Petersburg, Fla., military
mother of two, and said Barbara project deals with social history. As a given the matter of highest national priority. IneS Persburg, Fa ma r
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Morgan, 33, a socond grade teacher in historian teaching social studies, I've chance to fly in space. The National Gen. John Vessey, the chairman of the city hall and in Shelton, Conn.,
McCall, Idaho, will serve as a backup been very concerned that they social Aeronautics and Space Ad- the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told about 2,464 red, white and blue balloons -
in case McAuliffe is unable to go. history, the history of the ordinary ministration received 11,416 ap- 1,400 people sweltering under bright one for each of the MIAs - were to be
"It's not often that a teacher is at a people, is not in history textbooks." plications and from them the finalists sunshing front of the Petagon that released at Riverview Park.
loss for words," said McAuliffe. "I Both teachers, selected from 10 were named July 1. accounting imor tae Is is tn A black balloon was to be released
know my students wouldn't think so." finalists, will report to the Johnson estially importan issue s for those still missing in America's
McAuliffe, who has a special in- Space Center in Houston in September WHEN McAuliffe's name was an- otherwars.
terest in --nen's issues and history, to begin training for the week-long or- nounced she at first showed no visible "WE ARE CONFIDENT that the Reagan last month, in proclaiming
said she wiu take a cue from the early bital mission to send the first ordinary reaction but then began breathing Vietnamese hold far more infor- yesterday as National POW-MIA
American women pioneers traveling citizen into space. hard as Bush continued his presen- mation about our missing men than Recognition Day, said, "We as a
westward in Conestoga wagons and "Id've made nine wonderful friends tation. She put her right hand behind they have provided. I am personally people are united in supporting efforts
write a detailed personal journal of over the last two weeks and when that her and grasped the hand of Peggy frustrated and disgusted with the to return the captive, recover the
events before and during the flight. shuttle goes, there might be one body, Lathlaen, while receiving a pat on the slowness of getting that information missing, resolve the accounting and
BUSH called her "the first private but there's going to be 10 souls I'm back from David Markquart, both to us. However, we can now point to relieve the suffering of the families
citizen passenger in the history, of - taking with me," McAuliffe said, ap- fellow finalists. some limited progress," he said. who wait."