Jump to full article: KLRT Fox 16 (Little Rock, AR), 2008-07-18
Intro: The decision whether to ban smoking on the UALR campus could come in less than a month. The chancellor is opening the smoking issue up for discussion on both sides but it's happening only one side at a time.
Bring up the topic of making UALR a smoke free campus and you find everyone has a take. . . .
It's called two meetings. One for smokers in the morning and one for non-smokers Thursday afternoon at the Donaghey Student Center.
"We wanted to give each side the opportunity to discuss without getting into an argumentative kind of situation," UALR chancellor Dr. Joel Anderson says.
Usually universities are known for debate on both sides of an issue. But the smoking issue at UALR is controversial enough to where the sides are not even meeting in the same room at the same time.
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