features Battalion/Pa; September SI PIZZA & SUBS Delivers Free... Fresh! Fast! Hot Pizza! Plus Free Cokes! Call Now 846-3768 846-7751 We Guarantee 30- Minute Delivery Service! Men's rights need protection too! - ‘Free Men’ say sexism affects makA United Press International CHICAGO — For every women’s issue there’s a men’s issue that needs the protection of an Equal Rights Amendment, said Dan Logan, executive dire ctor on Free Men. In addition to working with Free Men, a Washington-based group working for equal rights, Logan is a free-lance writer, It's Time to Order Your Custom-made HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!! Call DRESS REHEARSAL 696-1250 We!ve;GotiYour Price!: hasting’s Books, Records and Video Culpepper Plaza Hours M-S 10:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Sun. 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. photographer and former poli tical speechwriter. “Sexism has just as devastat ing an impact on men as women,” Logan said. “We are hurt because women are hurt. “If women can make only 59 E ercent (of what men earn in the usiness world), that hurts us, too. Men and women tend to pair up. There’s the expectation that we should make 100 per cent. That puts an unfair bur den on us.” Logan, married but childless, said the impact of divorce, child custody, abortion and out of wedlock births on men has never been adequately assessed. “Men have nothing to say ab out abortion,” said Logan. “I’m not saying a woman should not be able to control her body, but we should have something to say. Men should be able to choose parenthood as well. “Then there’s paternity leave. There practically is no such thing. Families have so little fle xibility in child care as a result. “Child custody — women win 95 percent of the time. That is "Child custody — women win 95 percent of the time. That is clearly discriminatory. Judges believe women are better parents. It's a stereotype that hurts both men and women. ” — Dan Logan, executive dire ctor of Free Men. clearly discriminatory. Judges believe women are better pa rents. It’s a stereotype that hurts both men and women. “Child support is enforced under the law. Visitation is not. The father becomes a visitor. He’s no longer a father. Most men love their kids and it hurts.” Women who choose to give up custody of their children are treated like monsters, he added. Logan said men have long been forced into the roles of provider and protector, while women have been forced into the position of homemakers. “It is really a matter of stereotypes,” he said. “We are limited just as women are li mited. We need a full range of options. “We are the only ones that get drafted. The majority of posi tions in the armed forces are desk jobs. Then there’s the com bat stereotype — men are strong. Many women would a ualiry for combat but they on’t make the first cut and that First cut is arbitrary.” Logan said he worked for years for the passage of the ERA but after a while got the impress ion he was unwelcome at femin ist gatherings. “It’s useful to have an enemy,” Logan said. “But equal rights should not be a them- against-us situation. It’s good for women and men for some of the same reasons.” Logan, who is working for reintroduction of the ERA in Congress, said people like Phyl lis Schlafly, head of STOP ERA, used fear to defeat the amend- te by ment. “I don’t think she really understands it,” he said. “AH her talk about women should be homemakers — why doesn’t she stay at home? “They say a dozen men defe ated ERA. That’s wrong. It was defeated by women." The ratification deadline for ERA passed June 30. The last big push for the amendment, which fell three states short of ratification, was staged in Springfield, III. Illinois House Speaker George Ryan refused to change the voting rules to ensure pas- ment for a super-maj “Legislators are pro tery, not attacks,” Lop “They need to be told,ij in your interest.’Whatl: see in the Illinois Ltgia bunch of men godc When and bake pies for tb jam t0 tors.” ;cond-p! . . nee ' Logan said a o t ^ men’s and women sgrt l » re C( to work together forp ™ ar to ri bef<— L - ERA. But before thattT j^ ut pen, men mustaband ^ q- e lion that they don't aM protection. HtWe’l “Men reaUy havehfjJL eac radical feminist lint *ji na l have no reason to st-,Lj n p t y, a tion, that they’re on to: Mj Can said. “Women are mJ|L , s ’ a into the issues thantKfUjsistg are taught to be stroiijL vivas lent. We play that roleeilyji^ t h well. It is useful in tiiLjoo p, place. You don't wa: evei a l r< when the boss bawlsv State a home for ‘new outlaws’ “One eople tl otten t ie sumi Oklahoma’s pot industry growin neplaye igthe si ere and Villiams oach. A enence United Press International OKLAHOMA CITY — Jesse and Frank James knew the rug ged hills of eastern Oklahoma were a good place to disappear. Now authorities say those same wooded areas are a home for new outlaws — marijuana growers. The illegal weed flourishes in the hot, humid climate of the wooded mountain ranges and hills — where “Robbers Cave,” the old hideout of outlaws like the James boys and Belle Starr, is now a state park, authorities say. Drug officials say favorable growing conditions and the rela tive safety provided by the Aick forests have lured pot growers from as far away as California. They say Oklahoma pot — in cluding the expensive “sensimil- la” that goes for up to $1,000 a pound — has developed the ADD-A-BEADS & CHAINS 14K Gold Beads 3 mm - 53C 4 mm - 83$ 5 mm - $1.46 6 mm - $2.36 7 mm - $2.96 8 mm - $3.71 Add-A-Bead Chains Semi-Precious Beads •Pearls*Garnet»Lapis •Malachite*Many More Layaways M-F 9-5:30 16”-$27.75 18”-$29.96 20”-$33.71 24”- $39.71 All Sizes Available vtsa sat 9-s [FINE JEWELRy) 415 ,% n ^ lty Formerly Cowarts Jewelry ‘We Now Accept American Express” reputation of being “pretty good” and has been traced to California, New Tersey and New York. By some estimates, marijuana is easily the state’s second largest crop behind the approximately $1 billion in wheat raised on the rolling prairies of the rest of Oklahoma. A recent Time magazine re port said Oklahoma harvests $350 million worth of marijuana annually, making it the third largest pot producing state sur passed only by California and Hawaii. But Mel Ashton, resident agent in charge of the Drug En forcement Administration in Oklahoma, said any estimate of the marijuana haul would be a wild guess. “We just don’t know how much is out there,” he said. However, he concedes there is a healthy pot industry in Okla homa and that law enforcement is hard pressed to put a dent in it. “It’s just amazing to me when we stumble across some of these fields and see how much there is out there,” Ashton said. He said some growers will sneak into Indian land or rent land from legitimate farmers to grow their pot, he said. Scott Mitchell, spokesman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, said the weed is culti- never find it,” he said. “They can hide out in eastern Oklahoma pretty good.” Mitchell said the state drug agency has 43 agents to patrol ' of the thousands of square miles and does a relatively good job of A recent Time maga zine report said Oklaho ma harvests $350 mil lion worth of marijuana annually, making it the third largest pot pro ducing state surpassed only by California and Ha waii. detection. But Ashton satd the federal drug enforcement effort, with three or four agents, is ludicrous. ie retur But Mitchell saidmoind seni armaments are inten^The A ward off other grower iroved, “They’re always trnci each other off. they fq other more than they I cops.” High unempkmBsl southeastern Oklahoid makes marijuana grra more attractive Pi “It’s really a joke,” Ashton said. “I think that fighting culti vation with the number of agents we have is hopeless.” vated all across the state, but “probably 95 percent of the dope is in the southeast.” Authorities say most of their anti-pot effort consists of using airplanes to locate marijuana patches. But Ashton said detec tion by air is difficult. “In some places the growth is so thick that unless you wander upon it on the ground you’d £ e a pot growr|~ V1 | S ) p C | “Farmers, very rttJpor r ranchers, athletes, een cen people in common — larino ; real, true definition idat:e. 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