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To student dismay, Housing and Food Services Student Code prohibits hookah use near dorms.
Oudaily.com | March 07, 2006 | Calvin Son





Hookahs are known to provide a smoother, cooler smoke, but some students are still feeling the burn.

Though the popularity of smoking flavored tobacco in the traditional Middle Eastern water pipes continues to grow, students living in dorms are finding out that hookahs are prohibited by the Housing and Food Services Student Code.

“Drug paraphernalia, including bongs, clips, pipes and other items used in preparation or consuming illegal drugs, is not allowed,” states Section 15 of Title 16, titled “Prohibited Conduct" in the Student Code. “These items are subject to confiscation by Department of Public Safety officials."

Logan Hooper, University College freshman, said he has smoked his hookah over 15 times in the courtyard of the honors dorms in David L. Boren Hall. His resident advisor passed on a warning that smoking hookah in the courtyard is prohibited.

“I could be cited if I smoke it again,” Hooper said.

Some residents of the Cate McSpadden dorms chipped in together last semester and bought a hookah they smoke once or twice a week at the Cate Center rock garden, said Matthew Morris, University College freshman.

Jared Kuntz, University College freshman, said he has been approached by an OU Police Department community service officer who made sure they were not smoking illegal substances.

“Citations may be issued for violations occurring inside... surrounding residence hall property and premises, to include but not limited to parking lots, sidewalks, laundry facilities, basketball and volleyball courts, etc.,” states the code.

Both the courtyard and the rock garden are considered residence hall property.

“I can take it elsewhere or just walk across the street [to the South Oval],” Hooper said.

Many students are aflame with displeasure with what they believe is an unfair stereotype.

“There's nothing hidden inside of it like opium or weed,” Hooper said. “I've never smoked weed out of it before and never will because it will hurt my hookah and I don't want it to hurt my hookah. It's my baby.”

Morris said he feels the administration needs to research hookahs before banning them.

“It is a widely accepted fact in the 'pot community' that hookahs are inefficient and sub-par for marijuana smoking,” he said.

Morris' friend and fellow hookah-smoker B.G. Frankenberg, economics and entrepreneurship and venture management sophomore, said he thinks administrators are assuming that anything students enjoy which smokes and bubbles is illegal.

“If one feels that anything that could be used to smoke marijuana out of should be banned, one would need to ban apples, Coke cans, cigarettes, paper, tobacco pipes and two-liter bottles because every single one of those items can be used to smoke marijuana better than a hookah,” Frankenberg said.

Some students say they will not willingly allow their hookah dreams to go up in smoke.

“We will still continue to smoke hookah on campus regardless of the ban,” Frankenberg said. “We need to show them that rules and regulations are needed, but some are so completely illogical that we won't respect them.”

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Cassius

Actually, I kind of like hookahs. But, I think outlawing them is ridiculous, because they ARE used for other things besides illegal purposes. When I was in college, I smoked some religious thing with a friend I met who was Islamic. Not sure what it was, but it started to give me a headache after a while, didn't taste that good, and it was undoubtedly perfectly legal.

So I guess clothespins are banned from dorms too, since they could be used as roach clips?

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nerphroll

Such nonsense. What about the old profs who like a pipe in between classes? I'm sure the school finds nothing wrong with that. This is so arbitrary and carries a flavor of cultural intolerance as well.

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Tokamak

"It is a widely accepted fact in the 'pot community' that hookahs are inefficient and sub-par for marijuana smoking,” he said.

Uh, thats not exactly true. It is true that the size of the hookah bowl is prohibitively large to fill with good bud, and pot is not sufficiently moist to smoke properly using the hookah method. Mixing ground marijuana with packaged hookah tobacco, however, is quite an efficient and enjoyable way to get stoned.

Peace.

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dedbr

with hookahs, so I asked my buddy, Jay Token, to help us out. Jay...

"Hey everybody, Jay Token...Pot Detective here. Banning hookahs, huh? Sounds just like a case for me to stick my nose in."

"Hookahs can be small or large, so the direct effect can easily be affected by hose length and of course size. Kinda like the same difference between a twelve inch bong and a four foot one, right? They have personal hookahs and party hookahs, for those spiritual gatherings, if ya get my drift."

"Mixing herb with tobacco and smoking it can cause severe allergic reactions in first timers. To some a blunt can be enjoyable, but to others a nightmare. I myself am allergic to tobacco,(or maybe the chemicals in it?), and have to pass those blunts, they hurt the Jay Token as far as I'm concerned."

"I'll be checkin' the hookah bannin', but I think a private enterprise has the right to make and enforce their own rules. Somethin' called mind your own business I think. "

"Well Folks, gotta get back to my latest case, been nice stopping in. "

Jay Token...Pot Detective

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TheNewGuy

Saying that hookahs can be used for non-illegal purposes isn't just some BS, I used to smoke sheesha (or shisha, I've seen it spelled several different ways) alot with my friends, and we never mixed weed in with it. This rule was put into place by people who don't know what they're talking about. They just saw this thing that looked like a bong, and decided they didn't want it on school property. It won't stop people from using them, they'll just have to hide it when its not in use.

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Toking Jedi

They don't have to hide it because they can be determined to change the rules. When an officer comes up to them and says they're not following the rules, they can refuse on the basis that the rules are wrong. They have every right to protest and prove that the rules are unfair and unreasonable.

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Cassius

True, that is a legal course of action, however that doesn't mean that it won't cost them a lot of time, effort, and possibly money.

ComfortablyNumm

Plainsman... what college was that at? I can't believe how rediculous the government is acting! It seems like every week there is some new "Crack-Down" on drug use implemented! The only problem is that marijuana is not the major drug problem in the state of OK! In fact, I don't really hear too many citizens that care about pot use! Yet the officials have to keep their funds rolling in by implementing useless laws every couple of months! Oh well, guess I will just have to break some more rules now!

Thanks for the info!

Plainsman1963

That would be the University of Oklahoma.
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