OBSERVER Vol. 13 No. 7 April 8, 1970
Page 1 Lower College Of Bard Unite! . . . Gene Baker, Mark, Kanovos, and Michael Lieberman Page 2 [“The current moderation strike in the Government department was inevitable.”] [Cartoon] Feiffer Access To Systems Geoff Cahoon Letters [“The sage of Hysteria, Abbie Hoffman, advertises thusly in your paper: . . .”] The Headless Horseman Page 3 Tim Leary Gets Ten Years Earth Action Weather Bureau Busted Recital Hair Out Page 4 Dr. Hip Pocrates Talks About Drugs And Sex Eugene Schoenfeld, M.D. Page 5 The First Bard Graffitti Annual Ross Skoggard, Joe Lemonnier and Lily Kilvert Page 6 The Day Pot Goes To Market Page 7 [Photograph] Page 8 Cat Of Nine Tails The Sophomoric Ogre . . . Or From The People Who Brought You Tenure, Now, Moderation . . . John Katzenbach Rufus The Ineradicable Radical Reptile “Moratorium Day” Bill Crawford Page 9 Abbie Hoffman Mass. Votes No On Viet Service Abortion Bill Not Dead Yet Page 10 What The Hell Is A Woman? Bard Womans Liberation Presents The Fifth In A Series . . . Coco Bus To Bard Page 11 Midnight Rambler Michael Harvey [Quotation] A Report By Clergy And Laymen Concerned About Vietnam Mother Bell Lost: volume 13 number 7 april 8 1970
Moderation strike...
Weathermen indicted ...
Bard graffitti. .. WOULD YOU EAT DICHLORVOS? Public Health Service and the Cali NOW IT HAS BEEN PROVENTHAT petition is bei ng "studied". they can I F YOU LIVE NEAR A "NO-PEST fornia State Department of Public THE CHEMICAL SOAKS INTO continue to sell the product to an STR IP--- YOU PROBABLY WILL. Health. Three former influential NEARBY FOOD. uninformed and convenience-oriented governmental advisers, now employed public. That innocent-looking gold box from by Shell, were instrumental in getting On September 11, 1969, the U.S. Shell hanging up there is exuding a the chemical registered. All three Department of Agriculture's Pest powertui nerve poison that has been are now under investigation by the icide Division (USDA-PRD) informed found to contaminate food. U.S. Jastice Oepartment for con- the registrants of dichlorvos resin flict of interest violations. strips that the use of such strips near Dichlorvas VaponaR. al so known as food will result in residues in that DDVP or VaponaR, isa powertui When it was proved that the strips food and that a warning must appear organo-phosphorous insecticide which actually interfered with a nerve on the la bei: is the active ingredient in the "No enzyme known as cholinesterase in Pest" insecticide strips manufactured humans exposed in closed rooms, "Oo not use in kitchens, restaurants, by Shell Chemical Company. When the U.S. Department of Agriculture or areas where food is prepared or combined with a special resin, the orderedShell to put on the box served." chemical slowly vaporizes from the label the words "Oo not use in nur strips to kill insects which encounter series, or rooms where infants, iil Shell Chemical, of course, has found its poisonous cloud. or aged persons are confined." Shell a way to get around the enforcement deliberately has delayed corrpliance of the label regulation. They filed a petition with. the U.S. Food and In order to get the chemical registered with the order. and the federa I gov Drug Administration (US-FDA) to from home use, Shell has used power ernment has not acted to enforce its request a toleranee for the chemical . ful political influence to overcome own rule. It is readily apparent that the strenuous objections of the U.S. such a warning would affect sales of in food (!o allow a certain arnount-to the product. be eaten by people) and while the
President Kline:
I understand that the yellow plastic "Vapona strips" hung over the doors in dining commons and the coffee shop contain an insecticide potentially harmful to humans. I feel strongly that the use of these strips should be discontinued, and that a non-toxic alternative such as fly-paper be employed, if necessary.
Signed, by Gene Baker, Mark Kanovos, and Michael Lieberman.
should have been evident long before to submit the two short moderation moderation, so serious discussion papers to the student;s advisor---to coneerning the project should have eneourage personal involvement by been taking place since admission. the faculty and students ineach The attitude of advisors and other other's affairs. (The moderating faculty makes it difficult to discuss Government students had resolved a student's personal progress on a not to submit long papers for review, regular basis, hence most of such • partially in protest to moderation discussion is left to the moderation in general, partially in protest to session. Consequently for the stu the irrelevant role they thought the dent, moderation takes place in an long paper played in determining environment of severe apprehension, the competency of a student to certainly not unwarranted for a attempt a Senior Project.) doctorate review, but in this context at the pretentious at best. Probably No concrete resolve was maintained of the students' positian very basis by the students during Thursday's was their reiuetanee to grant to the eertain session, which had been the first such The community controversy surrounc The faculty position, though to make a final, faculty the power confroritation in the Government ing moderation is emerging again, this ly not uniform, was generally ~~is: terminal decision about a student's tradltlon of department. Four of the moderating time from the sophomores of the Maderatian is part of the status at Bard. An unmotivated stu College; one traditionally cannot sophomores stood apparently firm government department. Last We~ Bard dent should be considereda challenge by the tactic of refusing moderation, nesday those students voted unam be admitted into the upper college_ by the advisor, not deadweight to be while two or three of the others mously to refuse to participate in without the approval of a moder~tiOn carried for two years and then dropped voiced sympathies with the faculty maderatian proceedings in an attemp1 board. Although this procedure ·~ at moderation. A hopelessly reluctant position. The majority student fac to force the Government faculty to not uncontrovertable fact it is unl•ke· student could be flunked out or main this part of the pracess can be tion felt that the present structure assist their modera~ing sophomores ly that tained on academic probation. Ad is saerosanet of the moderation procedure invar in pursuing much needed wide-rangin! altered. No document missions procedures could be tighten iably produced the antagonisms and reform. (i.e. the maderatian docu~entl_, but ed. Other reforms could be installed. rroderation should be retamed '" The elimination of moderation should dissatisfactions which had prompted to allow into the upper c~llege Thursday's discussion. The structure These groups met last Thursday to order not make Bard a second rate institu those students who could, m had to be significantly alteredin discuss the positian of the students, only tion; it should improve it. the judgerent of the board, complete order to rid Moderation of these a positian which was articulated in a difficulties. The minority faction brief statement made available Thurs Senior Projects. lf the es~nc.e of the The positian paper proposed two re Senior Project is to be mamtamed, disagreed with these contentions. day afternoon. One of the professars forms which were hoped would set then maderatian should be also. Per opened the forum by allowing ~hat in the tone for further suggestions. The sonal prejudice against certain s~udent! Those who stiil refusedto rroderate his opinion the tactic assumed m the Government sophomores encouraged is not considered grounds for fa1lure, were not sure of the future of their statemant was not only childish but the establishment of a sophomore nor will a student holding unpopular effort. New meetings are planned symptomatic of an attitude infecting conference, to discuss the problems or controversial opinions fail mader in the hope that wide ranging mod substantial numbers of today's col· characteristic to the discipline of that reason. eration reform will not become a In the ensuing discussion atian for Political Science. In this forum stu lege youth. dead issue. The retusal of most of assumed the rolE dents and faculty would be equal, the faculty generally those present to submit to modera of apologists for the present moder The students' concern seemed to b~ no grades would be given, no credit tion proceedings is probabl~ an un ation system, while the students at of a different nature. They were dls received. Reading and discussion relation precedented step. As such it will tempted to estabi ish some form of turbed with student-faculty would be agreed upon by vote---one prevail or tall depending on the cohesive critique of the present pro ships, deemed to be inequi~able. It vote per person. Discussion, ques was elaimed that a student s compet arnount of support that can be gar cedure. tioning, and argument would be en ency to attempt a Senior Project couraged.' The second proposal was nered from the community.
~ ... : 2 acce~~osystems The Observer has, Phone(914)75~3665 in the past, been run istratio~ fee of $10 will probably be by el an alternative newsmedia project a ique of people who happen to taken care of by the Student Forum. maintain an interest in running the The Observer is paper on a consistant an independent student publ ication for basis. This sem Final item on receipt of material: we the · Bard College ester, as community. Publication is weekly usual, the paper is being put got a letter from Royce Carltan Inc. twetve times during the semester. together Letters to the Editc:k by a small clique, one not of asking us if we night be interasteel in and other inquiries should be addressed to Box 76, our choosing, but one rather of cir- having one of our colurnnists, Eugene Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 12504. Shoenfeld, M.D., up hereto speak. The contents of the Observer are copyright 197Q by The They say that he will be in the area Obsefver Press. Inc.• uniess otherwise statect. The opinions cumstance, we seem to be the only next tall and spring, so if any one is expressed herein are not necessarliy those of Bard College. people who care about the damn interested, we'll be glad to give them thing. Personally, and in conjunction the letter. They don't mention what thom mount/editor with the rest of the staff, l'd like to his fee is but l'm sure it ain't cheap. geof cahoon/managing editor see a broader base of support for the john katzenbach/contributing editor Observer in this so-called comrrunity. Money: The followingisa rough breakdown of our expenses ross skoggard/layout and for the design As a consequence, this space will be last issue. We started off with a bal- george brewster/ business manager occupied each week with an account ence of $1873.41. joe lemonnier/ photos ing of howeach issue was put together, betsy klein/proofreading what materials we have recieved that Printing costs: $155.75. 18M rental for the nonth: with:anita schnee, n'ike ventura,jana might be of general interest but that $150.00. Salaries eel we might not teel like writing itoriall: $50.00. Typist: $25.00. silverstein, alexis hollister, about, m.h.apfelbaum, and an accurate account of how much Proofreading, pickup and delivery: janet auster, louise link money went where in the previous $25.00. Photos: $5.00. Mise.: $8.00. issue. Total expenses, issue No. 6: $418.75. Balence in account: $1354.66. First general notice- we have been Geot Cahoon recieving one hell of a 'tot of ecology 1111il, ranging from congressmen to little local The current moderation strike i11 the Government groups to publishers out department was inevitable. hyping a new release. Personally l'm For.years students at suspicious of a lot of this (for entirely Bard have camplained about moderation, same political reasons) times more vocally but if someone than others. lf they don't want would like to sort through moderation done away all this with entirely, they at Ieast with the possibility of writing an art want it modified. ide on it for us, we'd be glad to let him or her sift through it all. In fact, It seems to us that moderation is past due for some if any organization on campus V\Ould major shake-up. Perhaps a system whereby astu like to write about ecology ACTION, dent's work is reviewed by people both in and out by now I think most of us know what of his department would be better. Students, we ecology itself is, ~~~e'd be glad to look teel, should not be kicked out of Bard for poor over any articles they might want to Dear Observer: moderation perfurmance. They should not be write. subjected to the paranoia and harassment of facing The Sage of Hysteria, Abbie Hoffman, a situation of so sinistar a reputation. We recieved a letter from a group that advertises thusly in your paper: "Aiso, calls itself "The Student Forum on if you send $150.00 today, you will In fact, very4ew students are failed at moderation, International Order and World Peace" receive back $300.00 after the fall of DECADENT but many leave in the face of it. Moderation as a asking us to recommend some students CAPITALISM. review situation would be more reasonable, and, who might want to attend a major we hope, contribute to the equalizing of the sizes conterenee in New York City at which There be, somewhere in that senter.ce, of upper and lower college. there will be both Soviet and Americar a major contradiction. experts oneach other's countries. 1'11 post the flyer we recieved in Hegeman Who slipped a mickey to lchabod and if you're interested drop a note Crane? by Box 76 and 1'11 put your name on the registration card, but we have to -The Headless Horseman
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Diat. Publiahen-Hall S;vndi<'llte 3 TIM LEARY GETS TEN VEARS and teaching young rebels to kiss imperialism. PL came on nei:lvy ""' BERKELEY, Calif. (LNS) --- When For Leary it was only a matter of policemen. being more groovy than Julius Hoff. how it was the true revolutionaries Timothy Leary testified at the Conspi who would wind up in jail and not racy Trial he told the jury man to win people over. I guess Tim Jerry Rubin Dr. Timisa much more complicated Leary. cherished the merory of Robert believed we could even get the hangin~ human being and this explains why Kennedy. judge to love us if someone would he is behind bars and not dining at just slip him a hash brownie. The entire Central Commitee of PL "Tim, do you really helieve that rap one of Nixon's White House dinners. is on the streets. None of them have about Jerry digging Kennldy?" I asked. Tim had a lot of luelcwith getttng gone to the slam since the editorial "I want the radicals to answer one was written. Tim is now eating "H uptight people to be a little kinder. prison "No, but there's a young girl on the question," Leary always says. av e He was ab le to acid tr ip Max Scherr, chow so he must have done something jury who does like Kennedy and I was 1 strengthened the capitalist system owner of the Berkeley to enjoy the honor. winning her over," Leary replied. by telling people to drop out or have Barb, into giving his employees a little more I broken it up?" Timothy Leary bread. isa politica1 prisoner. The young girl was Kay Richards, who Not a brother, but one of our true turned out to be the architect of lt's clear the thousands who listened to fathers. We have outgrown his teach But people who run the Amerikan conviction. Richards brought the two Timothy Leary and ran away from ings but like good children we must Empire are a lot more psychotic than school and factory were not making take care of this cat and see he has opposing factions on the jury together Miser Max. lf Mitchell the world safe for Spiro Agnew. or Kleindeinst a happy old age. with a compromise verdict of guilty. knew you were more liberated and Tim happy than the entire ruling class they Timthought he could talk his way into was one of the gurus for the first be-in in San Francisco. will not want to read you pamph.lets. a peaceful love and good vibes revolu These lunatics will want to use your tion and out of any jail eeli in Amer· The Berkeley politicos crossed the skin for nicotine and lamp~hades. RECITAL ica. When the pigs finally put him bridge after an invitation from Leary's The thought that you have something away, he VIBS totally unprepared ana pupils and had their first meeting that they don't will drive the tyrants On Tuesday, April 7, a program in didn't even have his taothbrush. witht he cultural to genocide. revolution. It wasn't cluding Brahm's Variations on a easy for Berkeley's Marxists to figure Theme by Haydn, and Liebes Lieder A lot of people on the left are really out the painted rock freaks of Haight Most of us learned in Chicago and Waltzes, and Hindemiths's down on Leary. They think of him as Ashbury. Some politicos had about People's Park that uniess you were Sonata for beinga counter-revolutionary the same reaction as John DeBonis, prepared to defend yourself there Trombone and Piano was presented medicineman, making plenty of bread Berkeley's ultra-right city councilman. would never be anythinq to love. All at 8:30 in Bard Hall. good things would be taken away by Leary was received by the crowd the pigs including our souls. Performers were Anita Cervantes, a like some great god from another and freshman from Washington, D.C.; much more fantastic cosmic plane. To make an American revol ut ion we Marilyn Bontempo, a junior from EARTH He told everyone they were beautiful will need both Tim's acid beauty and Waterbury, Connecticut; and Freder and that was only a beginning. a 12-guage shotgun. ick Simmons, a freshman from Ards· ACTION ley, New York; and the Collegium The Earth Action group is going to The Yippie festival of life in Chicago Tim Leary isa very old·fashioned guy. Musicum. was a true son of both Berkeley have (J E:,r ·= h Festival on April 29th. and l've always thought of him as being the Haight, and Tim was one of its The major events of the day will be a not quite hip. In believing that every· first promoters. leary never made it parade, the planting of a tree, nature one in the nut house could be appealed to Chicago because the pig vibes were walks to be held at sunrise and sunset, to with a mixture of reasen and Utop too heavy. He was called a sell-out, ian bullshit, Dr. Leary is really and hopefully elasses that will be de Iike a but so much of the energy which very Progressiva College Teacher whose hair out voted to ecological problems. There exploded in Chicago was first set in ideas, despite everything, are thirty NASHVI LLE, Tenn. (LNS) -- 'lt's will be plenty of freshly baked bread motion by Tim Leary's one madman years older than reality. war,' declared Tennessee Gov. Buford for everyone. Anyone who would I trip. This is why the pigs hate him so ike Ellington. 'We want every long-hair mu ch. to bake bread on the day before the Our lives are ruled by an army of hang· in ja il or out of the state.' festival, please contact Linda Leigh, men who think of us as 'freaking fags', Dr. Tim could never go beyond a kind through campus n11il. kidnapping their children for an even One week later, the governor's threat of hedonic hucksterism as a means of ing of Mao and Marijuana. The more began to operate: 22 people organizing the revolution. were All those who do not know but would we show them of peace, love and good busted at a peaceful demonstratian like to learn, feel free to join, everyone vibes, the greater their desire to str~n "We have to start acting Iike the that was broken up by the cops with is need ed. If you have any questions gle us. Thisisa truth TimLeary domg majority," Tim rapped, "to talk about out provocation. The arrested people about the festival, jailhouse Yoga ITBY finally realize. or any suggestions ecology and astrology and be beauti were charged with participating in an please teel free to cometo the meeting assemblage of three or more people ful and make everyone love us and 1 remember the Progressive Labor on Thursday night at 8:30. Anyone see we are more fun, in which acts of violence occur. The we can win the Party writing an editorial claiming who would like to cometo the Ecol· Establishment over, we can crime isa felony that is strongly re~ win Tim Leary was a CIA Agent who gave ogy meetings is needed and welcome. everyone over." iniscent of the Chicago conspiracy the M>vement LSD in order to serve indictments. WEATHER BUREAU BUSTED
CHICAGO (LNS) · · Julius The Conspiracy Hoffman's indictment is for the Also indicted were Kathy Boudin (who Peter Clapp, Lenore Kalom, Lynn neon-ceilinged courtroom on the 23rd most part identical to the federal is currently being sought by the FBI Garvin, Karen Lattimer, John Butney, floor of the Federal Building may charges which brought the "Conspir for het connection with the explosion Brian McOuerry, David Millstone, Sam again be the setting for a conspiracy acy 8" together for their five month in a Greenwich Village townhouse in Karp, Karen Daenzer and Susan Stern. trial of radicals -- if the twelve Weath trial. Seven of them -·· Bobby New York last month), Bernadine ermen indicted for "crossing state Seale's case was severed when Judge Dohrn, John (J.J.) Jacobs, Terry Most of the twelve new "conspira lines with intent to incite a riot" are Hoffman sentenced him to four years Robins, Mike Spiegel, Linda Evans, tors" are rrembers of the Weather ever caught by the FBI. for contempt, and he will be tried Howie Machtinger, Judy Clark and Bureau, Weatherman's centralized separately •·· were found "not guilty" Larry Weiss. Warrants are also out leadership group. Few Weathermen As Attorney General John Mitchell of the conspiracy charge per se; five for their arrests. have been seen in public since Dec announced the indictments (which were found guilty of specific acts of ember, 1969 War Council in Flint, caro out of the window-breaking, incitement. Twenty-eight "co-conspirators" were Mich., when the line of "chaos in cop-fighting national action to "bring named in the indictment, but they the mother country" vws set down. the war home" in Chicago last Octo· It carrie as a'great surprise to many will not go to trial as defendants. The that Judge Hoffman VIBS selected to ber), bench warrants charging "un- twenty-eight are: Johnny Lerner, Detendants in most political trials do the honors in the new conspiracy Iawful flight to avoid prosecution" Ted Gold and Diana Oughton (both up till not have made themselves trial. His fascistic courtroom behavior went out for the arrests of Mark killed in the Greenwich Village blast). available in court, and set up legaf has angered countless liberals, inclu Rudd, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones. The Dianne Donghi, Cathy Wilkerson, political defense and publicity com ding lawyers and judges. The choice three were elected as national officers Anne Hathaway, Courtney Esposito, mitteesaimed at showing up their of Hoffman does indicate, however, by SDS last June before Weathermen Celeste McCullough, Chip Marshall lii, trials as examples of political repres that the Nixon-Mitchell regime is repudiated the organization and pre David Chase, John Pilkington, Jeff sion. The Weathermen probably pared itself for underground activi not being swayed in its rightward Melish, Corky Benedict, Howard course. will not do that. ties. Emmer, Matthew Flanagan, Roberta Smith, Jim Melfen. Mark Laventer, Cont. on page 9 4
Copyright. 1970 by Eugene Schoenfetd. M.D. TALKS ABOUT DRUGS AND SEX
The following interview with Dr. Eugene Schoen Q: What about STP'! heroin is that of an orgasm spreading all through the feld(H!Ppocrates) is reprinted from the Summer /IJ69 HIP: I don't think very much is known about the body and continuing to have that effect. edition of Sexual Freedom, the quarterly pub/ication relationship between STP and sexual acts. It hasn't Q: Can a male get an erection? of the Sexual Freedom League. Subscriptions cost been used very much and there is much more exper HIP: No. It tends to depress the actual physical $4. OO a year and are available by writing to: Sexual ience with LSD, mescaline and marijuana. sexual activity of the addict. So what he's Freedom getting is Quarterly, Box 14034, San Francisco, Q: We know of a person who tried STP and found a kind of inner feeling. California 94114. that he hnd a tremendous sexual feeling, but it was Q: So it's more of a mind sex trip than a physical Q: Are there drugs that have an effect on sexual all inside his head rather than in his loins. He felt experience? activity? that he had an orgasm with the All American girl HIP: Yes, but the feeling may be the same. The HIP: Yes. There are many drugs that havc an cffcct 5,000 times in 30 seconds, but he couldn't get an reason that heroin addiction is so difficult to treat is on sex but there aren't really any true aphrodisiacs erection to save his life. that it's kind of a cold circle~ getting the heroin is that we know about. By this I mcan a drug that HIP: Probably the rcason for something like that enough to meet all the addict's needs. This kind of would cause a person to bccome scxually stimulated is that the drug affects the nervous system so that an feeling can only be experienced by someone who is if he weren't so inclt1ed. lf a person isa priori inter crcction would not. be possible for that individual addicted to heroin. ested in sexual activity there are drugs that seem to at that time, but an erection might be possible for Q: Does opium have the same effect as heroin? enhance the feelings that he has during scx. Con· another person under other circumstances or with Heroin is a derivative of opium is it not? versely, the re are drugs which can depress these a diffcrent dosc. HIP: Yes. Heroin and feelings. morphine are derivations of You mentioned that the person had the experience opium. Opium is usually smoked. Not all people For example, alcohol in largc quantities docsn't who use opium regularly become addicted. Maybe seem to add much to sexuality. In small quantitics it half the people who use it regularly-daily-would may help by reducing inhibitions so that a person become addicted and half wouldn't. The reasoo is can proceed to carry on his natural inclinations if because the addictive properties of the drug are not he's hung up. Large quantitics have the oppositc concentrated in the form of opium. effect. Sexual performance with opium does apparently There are also drugs likc certain of the tranquilizcrs occur, in contrast with heroin use. It seems the use that can cause impotency. Some of the Phenol of opium does not restrict sexual activity very much thyazines for example are known in somc peoplc to from stories I've heard from people who have been cause temporary impotency. Il depends upon the in the Far East. individuaJ. Sorne people can take tranquilizers of all Q: Does opium heighten sexual activities and sexual kinds and never have this problem. feelings? Q: What drugs would stimulate a-person if he were HIP: Opium produces a dream-like state. Drearns so inclined? are so real that it's hard to separate dreams from HIP: Drugs like marijuana can increase a pcrson's reality so that one might, for example, be told a story sensual perceptions. The sense of touch, and of under the influence of opium. The story would be smell, and of sight, sound are all enhanced by the in his head and this is also quite imp~.>rtant because very real, so real in fact that one's actual activities - use-of marijuana. lf you are in a sexual situation and you can't separatc sexuality from what goes on above might be incorporated into the story so that you tumed. on it increases your enjoyment of the sexual couldn't distinguish reality from the story. act. the neck. Q: Oo you think if you 're more involved with a mind Q: Caa opium be used for seduction? Or would a On the other hand, if two people are together and trip, that it is possij:Jie that sex may hold no interest person who didn 't want to be invol.ved be able to they are · not tumed on to e ach other and they wc re for you at that moment? resist? to use marijuana, then this would have the effect of HIP: 1 don't think that it's sex not holding any inter· HIP: I don't think drugs can force people to do driving them further apart. It depends upon the est, but it's being expressed in a different way. I things they don't want to do. lf a person were state of mind. That's why I say that there are no mean sexuality is not only expressed in the physical tumed off to the "seducer," then the turnoff would drugs which are true aphrodisiacs. act of making love, but in many ways. be accentuated-it would be a nightmare. Hardly Q: So there 6 no '1ove potion," nothing magic about Q: How would it ~ expressed? conducive to seduction. any drug. Then, biologically, how does a drug HIP: Weil you described one way. The feeling that Q: What is the effect of codeine, dltmerol and per function in a person? this individual bad while on STP. I think that was kadin sexually? HIP: It works on the bigher centers of thought in certainly a sexual act, although not physical. HIP: I think they teod to decrcase actual physical the brain. The exact mechanism isn't known and I sexual activity. " guess won't be known for some years. Marijuana Q: There is another drug that has been popular on Q: What is the effect of blrbituates on sexual research has only recently been permitted. the underground market for the last year-THC; what activity? In an article in SCIENCE, i>ecember 1968, what are the eff~cts of this dmg? HlP: I would think that they would depress it. Bar was already known by experienccd marijuana users HIP: THC is tetrohydracannabanol. lt's supposed to bituates are medically used for sedation and to induce was confirmed on one of the first truly scientific be the active ingredient of marijuana. Some people sleep. They depress the central nervous system and studies of marijuana. That is, that someone who has think there are more mind allering components in this would tend to inhibit sexual activity. In small used niarijuana can perform sirnple tasks the same marijuana. but THC is thought to be the major quantities you might feelless teose and uptight about way or. better than he would without the drug. component. the situation, then barbituates (tranquilizers) might Whereas someone who has not used marijuana before lf I were talking about the real THC, then it tend to release inhibitions. cannot perform these tasks as weil but he doesn't would have the same effects as matijuana: in small Q: What about the amJ,hetamines? get high either. quantities a minor alteration of the seoses, time sense HIP: The amphetamines have a paradoxical effect Q: Thea marijuana or some other drug an't gering and hunger. l11ese effects are weil known. In larger sexually. Amphetamines usually stimulate a person · to make a person a &exu.i~A.~pe~~DBD? quantities it can produce a true psychedelic effect; sexually but they make an orgasm harder to achieve. HIP: No, it won't but if he's a person who is free like LSD. A psychotomimetic effect. Psychoto It may be harder for the male to have an erection and and enjoys sex, it probably will make hirn enjoy it mimetic means mirnicking psychosis. These drugs an ejaculation. But if the male does get an erection all the more. don 't truly cause a model psychosis, although it used there may be a longer period of sexual activity with· Q: Would a drug like mescaline or LSD which has to be thought that they did so. out ejaculation. more profouad psycholoaical and hallucinogenic What I mean is large quantities of THC will cause Q: What are the amphetamines? effects haw a mOR profouad sexual effect? the same effect as large quantities of LSD. HIP: One amphetamine often in the news lately is HIP: Weil, apparently it does in many cases. Some methamethamine, or methadrine. People who are people teil me that under tlie influence of LSD they Q: Moving on to "hard c:lrugs," things like opium, hung up on this drug are very often injecting it into did not feel at all like having sex. It tumed them morphine, heroin-wbat effect do these have on a their veins. off. They were interested in other things. Perhaps person ·s sexual activity? I think it is foolish to inject any drug into the it affected their nervous systems and they were HIP: First we ought to consider the elasses of addict veins, especially one which is illegal and all that unable to have sex. ive drugs. The most widely known a'"e the narcotic that implies both medically and legally. Probably the Others have said that the LSD experience has drugs, which include heroin, morphine, codeine, most commonly prescribed amphetamine is dextroam caused them to have a most profound sexual en demurol, and of course, opium which is the parent phetamine or Dexadrine. It is used for the treatment countcr, that went far beyond any minor "psyche drug to all these others. Then there are the bar of obesity. delic" !ike marijuana. bituates that are also addictive, which are used mainly Q: l've spoken to a person who was taking ampheta With a drug like mescaline the sexual act is as sleeping pills though some people use them to get mines describe the initial elfeet as one of an immense greatly enhanced because the Mescaline produces high or low. orgasm. Is this true? mainly sensory changes. Changes in sight, sound and I distinguish narcotic drugs as those used medically HIP: Perhaps this is someone who is shooting meth· touch, without the kind of visual distortions th1t for the alleviation of pain and which are addictive. adrine by the vein. This reaction is commonly re· LSD might cause. Those kinds of hallucinations are As for their relationship to human sexuality: a very ported. This is not physical. A mind trip? Yes, his rare with mescaline. common effect which is described with the use of body is not having orgasm and ejaculating, though the feeling may very weil be the same. THE FIRST BARD GRAFFITTI 5
This is the first Bard graffitti annual. by Ross Skoggard, Joe Lemonnier It is dedicated to the propositian and Lily Kilvert that a school's quality isevident in its graffitti. ANNUAL !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@! Only thirteen and she knows how to be nasty Bard is: 1. heavy 4. fun tttttttttttttttttttttttttt No cows in the day room 2. a small liberai arts college 5. mother Not today, maybe next week 3. a bad joke, a good toke, a short 6. Howard Johnson's disguise stroke Strike! (quack!) No tomatees in the apple orchard Not tomorrow Masturbation produce~~ maybe yesterday. sperms How much news Why I love Rhona!? would agnew chaase if agnew could chaase Strike news I f agnew chews wood Light the good light who chews the news Spiro Woodchuck lt's going to be a nice day Whoever pulled this paint job is a oz stupid inconsiderate dogshit. Graffiti is caol but vandalism is a midnight mover fucked up. a mean mistreater a pumpkin eater Adolf Hitler had the german measles a real soul pleaser Handoveryour Trotsky eallars
Potter has water Grow up you mutha fuckers McVickar heats quicker Potter is hotter Skaghead McVickar is slicker Potter Power Grow up you college pot head Grow up you college pot head IS
Get stoned W'B' ~ you slanderous I was just being humourous "At worst it's something to do while taking a shit; at best it's the least Please 1 joint to blow pretentious exchange of ideas at Bard." anonymous Grey paint is no weapon Your eyes are not behind your head but your head is behind your eyes. andanother mother fucker The worlds are full of privates, heather plucker privates are full of worlds. McVickar is slicker shit kicker for Love me, l'm human cunt licker But it's litter I love you Thanks, here's a dollar and may not fit her and if you git her What about me Sh e may have a Iitter which will require a babysitter I am the Japanese sandman and so it gets sicker Buffy, blow in her ear and she'll and sicker Cont'd Page 8, from Page 6 t+t+t+t+t+t+t+t+t+t+t+tt+t+t+ tollow you anywhere
The hippies at Bard are brats of the middle class. Fuck off, scumbags (right on)
God, do you ever shit here?
Put check next to correct statement:
--- The underground is a mania for the particular --- The mmia is an underground particular --- The particular has no place in the underground mania --- mania man has been particularly underground --- The particular under is a ground for mania YES, there is an ALTERNATIVE
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WHERE THE BILL CJHGINATED, from Sales Management Magazine, and is some indication study. abil i PASSED THE MEASURE IN JUL Y. of the serious thought bei ng given the legalization of grass the 1 THE PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE IS by the business world. lf anyone among you is philosophicall't acco EXPECTED MONDAY, WHEN HE opposed to the production and sale of widE RETURNS FROM A CABINET cigarettes and ancillary products made fo re MEETING AT CAMP DAVID. of pot, please let me know the soonest you can and you won't be assigned any Oi st "We'll miss the Christmas season, but part in this project. This venture shoulc into you ~n't have everything," says Ross contribute about five cents a share the~ McGrath, seanning the item on the Anyone waiting for the real Ross McGrath to please stand up to earnings after a year on the market. to bc ticker outside his office. "We have Needless to say, I see a great future are 1 is in for a disappointment. He's purely fictional, as is his for ACI in this market and urge your enough to do to get Lotus moving as amp it is." At 33, McGrath is very the conglomerate, Active Concepts, Inc. In fact, this entire story utmost cooperation. m~ch of li (signed) Ross swinging young businessman. Formerl~ is a fanciful picture of how marijuana will be marketed, and will a product manager at a large food by whom, in the event of its legalization. It does not neces whil company, he is chairman of Active (The entire plan is too lengthy to of$ Concepts Inc. (ACI), the broadly sarily mean that Sales Management goes along with the idea report in full. The following are its stoc based leisure-time conglomerate he (a view shared by the Complan division of deGarmo irrportant features.) goe~ founded six years ago (in 1970) when McCaffrey, Inc., the advertising agency that devised the tion his wife inherited her father's glove package, name, slogan, and graphic design for our mythical 1. THE PRODUCT. A cigarette, beet factory. about 100 millimeters long, white pot. marijuana cigarette). The pot story is for us an exercise in in color, filled with marijuana (about sipr: After quitting his product mmager's solving a touchy marketing problem and a comment on the 50%) and tobacco (about 50%). No and job, McGrath updated the factory's social changes that demand the attention of every marketing Filter. Uniike crude handmade "joints' real line to ski gloves, became U.S. licensee· of straight pot, it looks just Iike a d rin for a new Swedish ski design, bought a man. traditional cigarette. A chemical ove1 group of recreation ITBgazines, and additive, sprayed into the pot-tobacco age developed Go-Brisk, a high-protein, THE EDITORS mixture, providesa distinctive flavor. anti dextrose-charged energy drink with The name of the product is Lotus, the, the same effect in cold weather as connoting something sott, exotic, buy Gatorade has in the heat - instant The only real opposition came from by early 1975. But what the hell - beautiful, sensuous, rare. whi· the onee-powertui farm belt. This refreshment. It was also an instant 1976 is symbolic. A whole generation nun 2. THE MARKET. About 80 million, success, first among •IVinter athletes, 5oftened when farmers real ized the of Americans is declaring itself indep· the rmstly white, middle-class Americans the n in general consurrer markets. profit potential in marijuana acreage. endent of the taboos connected with of the same age as those who drink The next acquisition was a small, Finally, doctor after doctor, in an turning on." alcohol an~ smoke tobacco, will, by family-held California winery, to whicl" endiess successian of newspaper and 1980, spend $1 billian on pot. Mlst McGrath judiciously added a line of magazine articles, echoed what had McGrath, betraying no signs of intox smokers will be in the 25·34 age mail-order gourmet foods, several become·a standard line: marijuana, ication. unlocks adeep file drawer set recipe books, anda packaged tour used in moderation, is less harmful - flush into a nulti-colored plastic wall bracket that began turning on as teenagers. A national sample, based program known as Vineyards of the and less addictive - than either tob and pulls out a maroon folder. "Look this over," he says, flipping it on a on 20-minute in-depth interviews that World. acco or alcohol. coffee table. "l've got a rreeting next used projectiva techniques (Oo you door, but 1'11 be back in about half an think people will smoke pot?, instead By 1973, its sales over $300 million Back in his office, after reading the hour to answer any questions the told of Would you smoke pot?), confirms and its stock traded at 50 tirres earn terse, anti-climatic dispatch on the er doesn't." He leaves. what has bee n felt all along: younger ings, ACI, like the leading tobacco wire service ticker, Ross McGrath and better-educated, rrore affluent companies and distilleries, had taken opens his desk drawer, takes out a small white vinyl box labeled "Lotus:' The tolder is 50 typewritten pages. consumers are the most receptive its first steps toward marketing cig On the cover it says simply, MARKET to the pot idea. arettes made all or partially from can and lights one. He takes a few long ING PLAN "L". The opening page is nabis sativa, also known at variaus drags and holds his breath before ex a memo. A factor analysis rating the reasons times as loco weed, Mexican laughing haling. "l'm turning on:' he tells a for the use of pot is encouraging. ln tobacco, tea, left-wing Luckies, grass, visiti ng reporter. January 7, 1975 stead of smoking just to get high, pot, and, more generically, m1rijuana. "In fact, I might be the first person in TO: ALL ACI managers and direetars consumars will smoke pot because By anyone's reckoning, the timing this country to be turning on legally. FROM: Fbss McGrath Jin order of nurrber of responses) it's was perfect. In two more years (1975), Just like my father tried to drink the TOP SECRET the thing to do; it provides social the largest segment of the population first legal beer back in 1933. My status; it's more convenient than hard would be in the 25-34 age group (a wife and I have been sooking pot for This isa marketing plan for a mari liquor; it's associated with freedom statistic not lost on politicians). Many at least seven years, usually at parties, juana cigarette to be marketed when from inhibition; it providesa pleasant would be college-educated, at relativel\ or 'marijuana mixers,' as a fancy Wall marijuana becomes legal, which should sensation. lnterestingly, many blacks be, by our best estimates, later this are hostile to pot because th ey, alo ng high income levels, and V\Ould have trie Street friend of mine likes to call year or early in 1976. As most of you pot at Ieast once. (I n response to a them. You know whaf's good about with hippies and students, have borne already know, I have had an indep· 1969 survey at Columbia University it? You get high right away. lt's not the brunt of police "busts" for posses Law School, 69% of the students booze, where you drink for the taste endent product research and develop sion and use, while middle-class ment laboratory working on a mari= said they had tried pot at least once, as weil as the effect. You smoke pot "straight" whites have gotten ott and 97% endorsed liberalized mari just to get high, and it gets you there juana cigarette for the past 18 months. with suspended sentences or warnings. We also have been growing sorn mari juana laws. These students have since instantly. How do I feel now? Terrific. Therefore, their association with pot is juana on experimental farms, in green become the lawyers of the 1970s.) Everything is crystal clear. My senses an unpleasant one. are at their peak. I 'm relaxed. Wlen I houses, and even on apartment build ing rooftops in New York City, Chic As the 1970's progressed, an increas come down from my high in about 3. THE COMPETITION. Largely ago, and Atlanta in an effort to devel ing number of influential vaiees were 20 minutes I won't be hung over. from tobacco companies and distil op a crop better than the marijuana raised in favor of legalization- in Probably, 1'11 be ravenous. leries. Tobacco companies, which have that grows wild everywhere from cluding several of the nation's most watched cigarette consumption decline Mexico to Nebraska to Lebanon to outspoken conservatives. Enforcement "Oo you realize that pot being made steadily and whose ventures into non Afghanistan. {In this regard, we even since 1969 had become a joke, with legal in 1976 has historieal significance tobacco products have met only lim have a couple of U.S. Dept. of Agri people buying selling, and smoking lt's 200 years after 1776. Damn! Why ited success, see pot as a natural div culture scientists moonlighting for us.) pot as openly as cigarettes; a Californ couldn't Congress have gotten it ersification. As far back as 1967, the ia narcotics official that vear oubliclv through by July 4? First I was anxious major tobbaco companies have exper for pot to be legalized by 1975 at the conceded that the battle against pot imented with pot-and-tobacco blends. A SfUl latest. As 1'11 show you in a minute, We also have been keeping a careful was lost and urged legalized regulation Until a check with the U.S. Patent this p. and control. ACI began developing a product in eye on what our competitors in this Ottice showed otherwise, it was 1973 and was ready to go to market line - tobacco companies, distilleries, aucti01 ~S TO MARKET ed that American Brands pius for distilleries: they are geared capulco Gold" and "Mor-· to market a luxury product once brand names in anticip outlaweet A big pius for both tobacco ization. The U.S. Tobaccc companies and distillers: massive and iandmark editorial on lAoell-trained sales forces. ~. conceded the inevit tlization, further opening obacco marketers. T ob 4. THE SUPPL Y. Cannabis sativa ies are counting on their isa heip-Iike weed that can grow distribution channels virtually everywhere. This year rrore ·ket penetration. than two million acres are being cultivated in the corn belt (Kansas, e equally anxious to get Nebraska, lllinois, lowa) alone, vs. 1ough pot cigarettes have 60 000 acres in Kansas in 1969. sical characteristics as v:rmont and New Hampshire also hav• ucts, consumption patten good yields. Harvest time usually is September. Pot costs about $3 per those of liquor. For ex the highest in tetrahydrocannabinol acre to grow in Mexico (Mexican grass 7. PR ICI NG. Because pot is so cheap served at parties in lieu (THC), which is the hallucinogenic is reputed to be the best, although to raise, and because it is legalized, ~ average pot smoker agent in marijuana. Mexican pot will dornestic grades are every bit as good), the underground price of $15 an 1.5 "joints" per party, continue to be most expensive because 1t underground prices about twice that in the U.S. G-owers ounce is obsolete. However, pot of its mystique. won't be cheap, since its price will mee, is cheaper than will be tobacco farmers, truck farmers, be based on market positian rather or for 20 people. But it and the giant wheat, corn, and soy 5. ADVERTISING. (McGrath's own been rilisers of the Midwest and South than cost. Then, of course, there han this. Liquor consump comments here.) "No end to appeals, dropping in favor of east. is the federal excise tax, which both hut our hands are tied. We can't use the liquor and tobacco industries ~. which go better with young people sit in bars U.S. Agriculture Dept. will help devel would insist on. Nhile they turn on, op improved strains, since pre-legaliz TV. We can't show anybody actuauy or sales decline. Distillers ation marijuana is uneven in qual ity. Assurning that taxes would double taking a drag. We can't say what a nice the price, here are some early est you smoke pot and All potential pot prodvcers are workin· high it gives you, or that it really helps on hybrid strains. Pot wll become a imates of retail prices: the basic )t the same time, they you dig the sexual experience. We're commodity, like wheat or potatoes, un it price would probably be $1, :;ince the people in this in the same boat as the booze people :fentify liquor with the and marketers will buy it at auction. with a three-pack selling at $2.99 10 years ago. But it isn't all bad. We're anda six-pack, at 95 cents each, titudes of their parents, Therealready is talk about a "pot all starting from scratch with exchange" either in Chicago or New selling for $5.69. A box of 20 ot. Distilleries have been product identity. lotus is no more neries and wine illlJorters, York. would run from $10 to $12. Whole or less known than the brands anyone sale prices, about 40% lower than een marketing an increasit else is pushing. lf we had the bucks to y white wines, considered Among the domestic grades, Kansas retail, also indude federal taxes, spend, we could establish ourselves which are tacked on at the factory. < with pot. The biggest pot will fetch a premium, since it is more strongly than the big guys, like National Distillers or R.J. Rey Early estimates put the per unit nolds. profit for the pot marketer at 20%. Because ACI is marketing only one With de<:armo-McCaffrey, a medium brand - at a premium price - we're sized New York agency, ACI is devel not concerned with pricing an entire oping a fresh, wholesome, youthful line. larger marketers probably will appeal based on the slogan "lighten come out with grades ranging as low up with a lotus." The budget for the as 25 cents each. ("The guys who first year is $5 nillion, to be spent on will smoke these will be in the same mass magazines, outdoor, spedal class as winos," McGrath sneers.) student marketing, and trade promo tions. Subsequent advertising appeals 8. DISTRIBUTION. A real problem. will be seasonal (with emphasis on Everybody will shoot for the outlets holidays) and will stress convenience he knows best and where his sales (e.g., you never run out of ice cubes). men already are accepted. Distiller Eventually, Lotus should be connected ies will go to liquor stores; tobacco with celebrities. In sum: the first ads companies, to drug and food stores. have to be super-wholesome; next lotus has entree in both areas (re year they can swing. member Go-Brisk and Wines of the Month Club). Already there are "head shops" - stores specializing in 6. PACKAGING. Because of projected pot smoking accessories (pipes, consumption patterns, lotus will be flavored cigarette papers, pouches, packaged in quantities of three, six water pipes with as many as four and 20. The 20-pack is comparable to, hoses, to name a few) · which started '!Xly, a quart of liquor. Pot, uniike in bohemian quarters of large cities liquor and like tobacco, has a limited and spread to suburban shopping shelf life. The package must also look centers. With proper permits, they'll expensive, since the product is expen be able to sell pot. College book sive. The design must be distinctive, stores are a natural, and the re are yet flexible enough to be positioned plans afoot to make a big push in any number of outlets. Best bet so through one of the student market far is an ivory-colared vinyl box, ing outfits. But this doesn't. touch lettered simply and delicately. (Says the mass market. Our solut1on: Mcgrath privately: "I 'm sick of all Vending machines. Here's how that psychedelic crap.") As important they'll work: as the package will be the point of sales display that will set lotusapart A state regulatory agency (the fed fromanything else being sold in era! government and some states are the store. There will be holiday blueprinting regulatory bodies, like packages, including a special "Grad New Jersey's MCC, for Marijuana uate Pack" to be prornoted in the Consumption Commission) would spring. The first Christmas package issue credit cards to applicants of will be introduced at simultaneous 1ests pot growing wild in a Kansas field. Since 1969, when luncheons at "21" in New York and contd. page 8 as made, pot is cultivated, quality-controlled, and sold at Maxim's in Chicago. ~as pot is called best, New England strain tuns second. the student body, sirrply because would revert from its present ogre 8 THE SOPHOMORIC OGRE ... asking support from the student body state back to the positian it was or FROM THE PEOPLE WHO at Bard is an extremely dangerous designed for, something that helps BROUGHT YOU TENURE, thing. So I would imagine that their NOW, MODERATION more than it hinders. Cont. from page 2 ... effort is predestined for failure. The To the Editor: problem that they have run into is This should not be too difficult. It Nowthat a srnall group within the that moderation is such an intrinsi is simply a matter of interesting both Government dept. has had the courage cally ingrained manifestation of the CATOF parties in the moderation to such a to start a boycott of moderation, it whole Bard career. It is more of a degree as both would find pleasant. is the responsibility of moderated tradition than any single other thing To the faculty, moderation should government majors to support the at Bard, with the possible exception be presented as a form in which they boycott. of the Senior Project, but one must could get closer to the student body remember that moderation is supposed on a personal level; to the student Their support should be forthcoming to prove thatastudent is capable of it should be a discussion of something for two reasons: performing a Senior Project. that interests him, so that, in essence, 1. Moderation has represented an invalid form of second admission to he would be allowed to express him Of all things, tradition is the hardest this college for many years now; a self in moderation in a manner not to change. Rules can be chahged, dictated by tradition, but by intel function, according to Dean Tewks and people's ideas can be manipu bury, it was not initially designed lectual involvement. One way to do to lated, but tradition by its very nature serv e. this would be to assign moderation resists all intelligent comment and boards much earlier in the spring, and 2. The issue of moderation serves as reform. That is why all attempts at a good beginning have the student meet with the mod point for the open the bastion of moderation have ing eration board and formally the four of a true and honest dialogue be failed. of them could work out a subject tween the majors and their faculty. Too long have certain faculty mem So much has been changed and re that was both arnicable and interest bers (after all, there are only two) formed at Bard this year that one ing to all. There wouldn't be any said one thing to the majors' faces more effort seems to be excessive. standards, save for those that the This is probably why moderation re students and faculty individually and another behind their backs. TAlL S form will be attack ed, primarily. But worked out themselves. it seems to me that Bard is on the The department supposedly deals As you undoubtedly are aware, it is road to truly becoming an institution This kind of reform seems to me to with systems of governing people, time once again for sophomores to where thereis a constant and useful be very much in order here at Bard, yet it has consistantly obfusticated undergo that particularly Bardian dialogue between students and facul and in the same breath seems to be and hindered innovative ideas that ritual, moderation. And, as in the ty. Bard is in the process of actually relatively painless to all concerned have been offered in the department. past, this year the fact of moderation becoming the innotive institution parties. Bard isa small, ingrown Double talk may be a valid form of has been met with a considerable that it is supposed to be. Why then, community, and it strikes me that government, but it is no·t appropriate here at Bard. What arnount of anxiety and controversy. not try to reform the one single tra there is really no need for anyone to the boycotters ask, and what I ask, is not accession And, once again, groups of students dition that everyone dislikes? Why have to revolt as openly as the gov have taken the issue and confronted not chanqe that last of the majür ernment students did. But that is to demands but rather open discus it in hopes of finding some kind of stumbling blocks in the scope of life already past, and they have raised sion of what a number of people con reform, which would make modera at Bard? some interesting questions that sider reasonable proposals. lf the tion. A more pleasurable occurrence should be dealt with before they, department would disprove the alle for all parties. And, most likely, I personally don't feel that moder like so many other things, fade away gations that have been made against these students wili be as unsuccessful ation should be done away with. 1 into the Annandale spring. They de it, then all Dr. Koblitz need do is call another meeting of the depart as those students that preceded them, think the concept of an upper and serve the support of the student body, ment in which we all lay our cards and after a urid rP.volt thinqs will lower college, a division bridged by and more importantly, the under on the table and have some honest settre back into normalev, and mod the academic prowess of each student standing of the faculty. lf that is and forthright discussion, rather than eration will be debated agam next is a basically sound idea. And prob- ' available, then there should be no a bullshit discussion who utility lies year. ably, back when it was first initiated problems in working the whole thing in pleasing each other at no cost in moderation fulfilled its proper role ' out in a satisfactory. to all parties, thinking. But this year there isa different mood in this division. But moderation has manner. on campus, that could possibly pro metamorphasized into an ordeal for John Katzenbach Yours sincerely, vide sorne kind of legitimate reform. both groups, faculty and students. Geoffrey R. Cahoon In particular, look to the example To the faculty it is an extra and J------~------~ set by those government students unsought burden; to most students who, bravely, have chasen not to it means considerable busy-work, comply with the moderation pro couplerl with what is potentially ceedings in any form whatsoever. an ego-shattering review. But within Tt'IE 1N6RAO~A6U: This, granted, is going to extremes the framework already provided it RADicAL REPT\LE and it would seem that their exam~le seems that these things could be 11N\OR/1JORIUM OA'/ 11 would go untended by the rest of done away with, and moderation ~0!9market minin1.1m age (to be determined by Tests to identity and quantify THC the state) with no record of major in the bloodstream and urine. crime or drug abuse. lnserted into the vending machine, the card actu McGrath returns to this office, as ates a light or heat sensitive impulse promised, about 30 minutes later. to eject the package of cigarettes. "Weil, what do you think?" he asks. Not only is the credit card vending Not waiting for an answer, he adds, idea a good sales outlet, but it serves "That's only the beginning. Do you as a control against consumption by know that vou don't have to smoke minors or others thought unfit to pot to get high? ·vou can eat it in smoke pot. macaroons, put it in salad dressings and spaghetti sauce, and brew it like 9. THE LAW. While the federal tea. l'm thinking of coming out ~vernment has legalized marijuana with pot-injected gourmet foods, and put a tax stamp on it, most en and I may even lace an adult version forcerrent is by state and local gov of Go-Brisk with pot. ernments. As with liquor, minimum age may vary from state to state. "Of course, we'll come out with Merchandising would vary as weil. Lotus pipe tobaccos, and maybe Stiil a big question is pot and driving. even try it in cigars. The biggest Police are learning that ir]toxicated break of all may come when we can while-driving laws don't apply to pot, artificially synthesize THC, so there since tests made in Boston in 1968 won't be any need to grow marijuana showed that people accustomed to at all. My R&D guys are working on pot actually drive better when it. A friend on Wall Street predicts stoned, while people stoned for the that if Lotus goes over, ACI stock first time drive worse than usual. will probably take a 15-point ride. Tests a year later at the University of Washington had substantially sim ''That kind of talk turns me on even ilar results. One possible solution: better than pot." 9 MASS. VOTES NO ON VIET SERVICE BOSTON (CPS)-In a vote all but ignored by the local press, the Mass was aimed at the current U.S. war achusetts House of Representatives making in Vietnam and Laos and has passeda bill forbidding its citiz possible similar conflicts in the ens from fighting in undeelared wars future. of the U.S. government. The.. Massachusetts bill is expected to freaking fag The decision was greeted by an ova- be tested before the U.S. S~p~eme . f the House gallery which wa Court. States have passed s1mllar t1on rom . • • h b filled primarily with young persons, btlls severa 1 t1mes m t : pas~, ut rebolution many of them of draft age. The bill they have not held up 1n court tests. Cont. from page 3 The prosecutor in the first Conspir West Coast organizing activity and to abortian bill acy tr ial, Thomas Foran, was quoted create a Weather collective in the as describing Weathermen and its San Francisco Bay Area, but by March not dead yet October 8-11 activities as "mon the Weathermen seems to have given strous." Fo ra n recently described the up on organizing. It was on March 8 ALBANY, N.Y. (LNS)- The abortian anti-woman 19th century abortion entire American rrovernent as a that Weatherman's clandestine activity reform bill was beaten on a technical law. "freaking fag revolution." came into the open; the dynamite ity Mar. 30 in the New York State bomb explosion which ripped apart Assembly. Several supporting votes "Your answer," warned one opponent Movement people have also criticized the W. 11th street house in New York were not counted - inconsistent with of the abortian bill, "is to the future the aetions carried out over those killed three Weathermen. previous rulings and agreements - of literally hundreds of thousands of four days ---not because revolutionary because they were east before the role human lives, all of which are in your violence itself is "monstrous" but The 11th street explosion triggered call. Assembly sources believe the bill hands tonight." This assemblyman wa~ because Weathermen's anger was a police-FBI search for weatherwomen will pass when it is reconsidered later speaking not of the righ1s of women, often directed against ordinary work Cathy Wilkerson (whose father owned in April. thousands of whom die each year at ing class white people instead of just the shattered house) and Kathy the hands of butchers or by self-inflict ruling class targets. Boudin. Both were named as co Assemblywoman Constance Cook, ed attempts to abortion, but of the conspirators in the new indictment. one of four women in the lower house rights of the unborn. Eighty per cent Weatherman had hoped to bring tens Three men were also reporteel to is the chief sponsor of the abortian of all wo!'Tlen who die from unsuccess of thousands of young street kids to have fled the house after the blast. bill, which would make abortian a ful abortions are non-white. help in the "trashing of Pig City," medical decision between a woman and to radicalize them. But almost The federal indictments will allow and her doctor. Two days before the bill was rejected all of the 400 people who d id show the FBI and police across the country by the Assembly, 2000 women and up in Chicago were Weathermen. to intensify the search for the under In the heated debate before the vote,. men marched from New York' Bellevue Almost none of them were new to ground Weathermen, as weil as to Cook told her colleagues in the Ass Hospital toa rally at Union Square, the organization. continue their harassment of move embly, "We are not considering here demanding free and legal abortian ON ment people in general. today abortion on demand - we have DEMAND. Aprons on a number of The Weathermen d id recruit a small that already. The only question is how women read: "Is this uterus the prop number of young white working Aside from the blanket conspiracy abortions are to be had. Right now, if erty of New York State?" class kids for the streetfighting "Red indictment against the twelve, they you have $25 you can get an abortion Army" in the time between the Oc are also charged with specific "crim in the back alley under the most ab It Is likely that if the decision is not tobw action and the December War inal" acts related to the Chicago via ominable conditions, but if you have reversed soon, there will be a major Council. But an internal split in the lenee ---making speeches and phone $2,500 you can go get a proper eScalation of an already rrounting Weather Bureau ---between a faction calls, publishing newspaper articles, abortion." struggle in New York and elsewhere exclusively advocating terrorist action planning.the demonstration's tactics, for safe, legal and free abortions. lf and a group in favor of continueQ or holding karate training sessions, or Back when Margaret Sanger was hittin! the bill passes, poor and non-white ganizing of street kids-- effectively ganizing into affinity groups, and the tegislature hard with her argument women will continue to suffer the dis neutralized whatever organization plotting to "kill, maim and injure" that physicians have a right and an crimination they have always suffered strength Weatherman had. Shortly polieerneo and city officials. obl igati on to give married women con on the issue of abortion and health after the War Council, Weatherman traceptive advice and information, care. Abortian stiil will cost money and ceased to function as an aboveground Conspiracy prosecutor Foran said of CathoHcs and the conservative medical women will stiil have to find a phys political organization. the fugitives, "lt's going to be diffi professian were putting forward the ician to perform the newly legal oper ation. An attempt was made to ex pan d their cult to find some of these people." same arguments they are now using to counter repeal of an antiquated For more information on the abortion struggle, contact People to Abol ish Abortion Laws, 135 W. 4 St., New York, N.Y., phone 212-254-4488. MICHAEL M. AHMED (518) 828~9971 n Pr•sid.. J 1. 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The nature of student protest has All the other demonstrators have able pressure has been put on them changed in the past few years. I realized that what they were doing to change courses. Now I believe think the change is for the better. in the classroom was in direet con they must change their courses and At first small groups used to walk tradiction to what they were doing change them radically if they wish around campus carrying signs. Next in the streets. So what they are to salvage their department. Student a whole rash of buildings were occu· doing is creating their revolution in power has not been lost. lf the pied and later they were seized and the streets and I think that is good. changes are not rrade then the courses liberated. Now the tide seems to be Others stay to fight academic proh will not be taken and will eventually ebbing on campus and the action has lems. They have given up at fighting die. lf moderation is insisted upon, moved off. Mare violent aetions are the trustees. They know that if you then each individual should put his being taken while inside the univers take 90% of all the trustees of all energies into designing a forum which BALTIMORE (LNS)- Who says ity, administrators are bending over the colleges in this country, you will will be meaningful to him. Whether that work for Ma Bell has to be alien backwards to avo id a confl iet. have the cause of 90% of the world's he passes or fails "moderation" there ating? When things got boring for problems. They aren't going to be- will stiil exist a valuable experience. Stephen Blumenthal and other work Some people are disappointed that gin to try to evict these people from And if the board rejects what the ers at theBaltimere telephone ottice the action has moved off campus. their positian but have ehesen to student has presented and fails him, they would regularly listen in on There are good reasons for this. The ignore them. Students today are then the department isn't worth con local conversations. hard core radicals have realized that fighting for more relevant curriculums. tinuing in and the individual should what they struggled for on campus reject the hoard and its department. "The plain, cold fact," Bhmenthal was a form of opportunism and that At Bard, six government majors pro told tfle Senate Judicial Proceedings there were mare important things to duced a document which stated that Change is coming to Bard even at SUbcommittee, "is that in the bore struggle against. They had the op they "canr1'ot and will not moderate." the expense of many traditional domof the evening, some of the portunity to get into college and Several students backed oft but I standards. Moderation is changing deskmen would cut in on the local they found themselves fighting the don't helieve they lost their power. all over the Bard campus and this chapter of SDS to see what's happen University's role in American imper I believe that moderation can be change can do no harm. ing." ialism. But they soon realized that aholished and stiil exist. I helieve they were not really attacking the --- Michael Harvey that moderation can continue but Lost: one yellow hat, witharound Art heart of American imperialism. They not really exist. Moderation must realized that they had to work out Nouveau style pin showing a Pheonix be more flexible, however. It should flying over a sunset. lf FOUND please in the streets. be important for the student to de contact me at Box 278, Campus Mail, sign his own moderation. Moderation a reward of eternal gratitude is offered, There are very few hard core radicals "Total tonnage dropped on Vietnam should become a presentation of please contact God for reward. left at Columbia University and those something which the student i exceeds the total dropped in all that are left probably won't stay theaters of WW li by 60%. By Feb much longer. The campus just will something which the student finds ruary 1969, 3,200,000 tons of hombs not be mobilized because what is relevant to his field and then should had been dropped on Vietnam. This left isa hunch of wishy-washy lih he questioned by the board. But amounts to 180 pounds of bombs erals out to get their status-providing the purpose behind the boards' for every man, woman and child - Columbia degree. That degree rreant questions should he towards gaining we have dropped 25 tons of bombs little to Mark Rudd compared to a greater knowledge of the subject for every square mile of both North the good he could accorrplish trying presented. I n this way the student and South Vietnam." to provide a better life for others. can communicate about a topic he is Juan Gonzales, the exciting leader thoroughly interested in and has -from a report by Clergy and Laymen of the Columbia strike of '69, left knowledge of. The pressure of failing Concerned About Vietnam school to work in his Puerto Rican a test of this sort is totally relieved. neighborhood and is now one of the An interaction of ideas can take place. top three leaders of the Young Lords. Te Mark Rudd's co-worker in the strike of '68, Paul Rockwell, gave up a The board might learn something too. masters degree. Althought he has The whole experience will be some since gotten rrarried and has had to thing valuable to both parties. leave the city (his doctor told him he would be dead soon breathing Already Dr. Koblitz and Dr. the city air with his asthma) he is Bertelsman have suggested telling teaching school and working amongst the student that he will probably be the oppressed peoples in Arizona. passed during m>deration. Consider- STUDIINT
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