Doctor Fears Bad Drugs on Campus

,JJ'"c™,r OF MMM/ Hurricanes Lose On Bad Call 'OCT 2 om. I LIBRARY full wrap up in SPORTS~pa THE MIA URMCANE Phone 284-4401 Volume 58. No. 16 Tuesday, October 20, 1981 Doctor Fears Bad Drugs On Campus By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE Ur "it may be thai somebody is llrad Ntrw Writer more interested in profiting Irom selling the drug thai they have no Two separate cases of bad drug interest as to whal goes in the experiences have led members of drugs — so long as Ihey i an make a the UM Counseling Center and the profit off it Open Door to believe that someone "In this particular stt nation." said may be distributing bad drugs on Zwilberman, "we sre concerned campus. that these two students seemed to The lasl couple of weeks, we have had a rathei extreme reaction became aware of two instances in to the drug which students have had bad reac "The} were still experiencing the tion! to drugs they have thought to effects of the drug up to two days be Mescaline or LSD," Dr Barn after they took il " Zwilberman told the Miami Hum Because it lakes a very small cane amount ol the drug to produce an Zwilberman. a psychologist at effect, it is unlikcK that overdose the UM Counseling Center and Ihe was the cause, the psychologist director of the Open Door, said he said could not reveal the identity of the Zwilberman said Ihe drug was sludents because of professional taken in form of "microdots," confidentiality. He did say they small, square pieces nl paper treat were resident students ed wilh a drop of a liquid form ol a Zwilberman said that the Coun drug The person who buys the seling Center did nol want to pul drug in the microdot form licks the out scare stories, bul the isolated in paper, or just swallows it whole cidents have given cause for con Both LSD and Mescaline fall cern to sludents who purchase under the class of hallucinogens, or drugs. Miumi Hurrktme/DOUGLAS *. HH 1 K psychedelic drugs "I am sure that not all the bad These drugs alfect the user's Koddcnliii i \: \EI> Nation Thai (Ian Spend $<> Billion \ Year On Cownetics Can tfford \ Space Program cases have been brotighl to our at emotional state and the user's per tention." he said. In fact, "we hear ception ot his or her surroundings, about a very small proportion of all producing an exaggerated and dis the bad drug reactions. torted view of what the person is "The potential is there lhat there thinking, feeling or seeing Hundreds Trek To See Roddenberry may be more people who had bad Zwilberman said there mav he reactions," Zwilberman continued another cause for a possible sudden "This would indeed have raised the rash of bad drug use. By I.I i ilti.l HAJ chani.ter of Spock is such a powerful character and change an evolving people You don't have possibility that other people have "1 have heard that commonlv Nm ' Writer that it's really ruining his career." the right to move into a Polaris Nine or Viet been buying the same thing." used drugs such as quaaludes and Discussing the world of science fiction and However. Roddenberry said, he would like nam, either one." In most cases, the problem is speed are currently hard to get." he the realm of science fact, Gene Roddenberry. to have Spock die in such a way that his charac During the lecture, he said the show was handled by the student's friends, or said, "so these students might be creator and executive producer of thc .Slur Trek ter could be revived, either with Nimoy or an able to talk about current events by couching the victim is taken to a doctor with turning toother drugs, such as I SI), television series, spoke before some 2,000 stu other character retaining Spock's personality. them in its futuristic plots. out the knowledge of anyone at the if ii is more available dents Thursday night in the Ibis Cafeteria. In the next film, Roddenberry will not be "And it worked," he said. "The kids all University. Zwilberman said The Open Door director warns The Ibis was filled to capacity, and many the producer, but the executive consultant: knew what we were talking about, but it went "LSD is very common to manu that this may be deadly. students had to stand along the walls or sit on "I decided I don't want to do Star Trek again right over the television executives' heads." facture by an amateur." he said "LSD and quaaludes produce the floor to hear Roddenberry speak as this unless I had the same creative controls that 1 Not only did the series go over the heads of "Therefore, il is very common for very different reactions and inexpe year's first guest of the University Lecture Se had during the series," he said. the television executives. Roddenberry said, but these drugs lo have other sub rienced drug users may nol he ries. "I won't interfere in their (directors and many television stations refused to air the show stances mixed with them." aware of that." he said Roddenberry. whose series spawned a film producers! creative decisions, though, because 1 its first year "because the idea of a mixed racial and attracted thousands of dedicated fans didn't want anyone to interfere with mine, al crew in the 23rd century was unacceptable." known as "trekkies," spoke of the series, the though there are certain things I will not permil Asked why the show was taken off the air. movie, and the philosophy behind Star Trek. them to do. One of those is to change any of the he said, "It wasn't that popular. When we came He showed three films before the actual lec philosophy of Slur Trek." on the air. man wasn't yet into space, hadn't ture began. The first was a series of bloopers But. he continued, nothing would please him landed on the moon. And most people from the out-takes of Star Trek episodes. The more "than to have new directors and produc thought it was just the wildest form of fanta second was about the making of "Star Trek — ers come along and make Star Trek as meaning sy" The Motion Picture," and the third showed ac ful to the 1980s as we tried to make ours to the Roddenberry then spoke of the future, advo tual NASA footage of man in space and on the 60s." cating space travel and colonization of other moon. Roddenberry said the show, which empha planets as the solution to many of man's prob After his lecture, the audience was treated sized nonviolence and non-interference with lems. to a showing of the original pilot for the Star alien cultures, paralleled what was happening "We as humanity are beginning to push up Trek series, "The Cage," which has never been in America during that time. against the limits of our planet," he said. "But seen on television in its entirety. He stated during a press conference earier in up there — in what we call the final frontier — Responding to a question about the status of the day: "All of us making the show at that time is an answer to every limit that is imposed upon the popular Star Trek character Mr. Spock, were very anti-Vietnam War, and we knew our us by earth. It is not too far away to get up Roddenberry announced that the emotionless audience was the colleges at that time. there, it is not too expensive, and it is not too Vulcan would indeed be killed off during "Star "Of course . there were people there who dangerous. Trek II," the upcoming sequel to the 1979 film. were about to die and took a great interest in "For those who say we can't afford to go up He said that decision came at the request of something concerning Vietnam. Our prime di there," he concluded,"I submit to you that any *%' actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the rective was really the Vietnam directive. nation that can spend six billion dollars a year series and in the first film. "We had it adapted for Star Trek." he said. on cosmetics can damn well afford a space pro Roddenberry stated: "Nimoy feels that the "Nobody has the right for any reason to move in gram." 'Con i i( Is linn liaiionl.* Rii-hlvr Soys Ex-Officer: Florida Prisons Corrupt By STEVEN A. BOYER transferred to another less desirable prison system ean be alleviated." sode, in which an inmate eating din Sews U'riler position in another correctional in Riehter talked about several ner suddenly slumped over, his face Julian G. Riehter. a former cor stitution. graphic incidents of violence during landing in his tray of food. rectional officer of the Klorida pris Riehter contended that Raiford his time at Raiford and Belle Glade. "No one knew who did it." he .*:_*&«••*» on system and a man who was once prison is probably one of the "Most of the vicious crimes com said, "but everyone noticed the accused by a prison warden of worst-run correctional institutions mitted inside prisons are sexually sharpened spoon protruding from maintaining an "overabundance of in the country. related incidents," he said. "One the dead man's back." social conscience," spoke to a "Convicts run Raiford." he said convict may be caught using anoth Riehter spoke for almosl two sparse audience Wednesday night al "The guards just hang around." er's 'sissy.' " a term Riehter said de hours on the Klorida prison system, the Ruth King Stanford Internation He related two separate episodes, scribes a con's homosexual partner.

Load more