The Ithacan, 1968-02-02

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1967-68 The thI acan: 1960/61 to 1969/70 2-2-1968 The thI acan, 1968-02-02 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1967-68 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1968-02-02" (1968). The Ithacan, 1967-68. 14. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1967-68/14 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1960/61 to 1969/70 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1967-68 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. A Weekly Newspaper, Published by and for the Students of Ithaca College. Vol • .40--No. 15 Ithaca, New York Friday, February 2, 1968 WIG B Suspends Intervisitation Drug Survey Reveal§ AM Programming Discussed by Congress Limited Student Use Sports Coverage To Continue Ithaca College students are cur amphetamines without a doctors by Craig Wolf ITHACA, N. Y. - In a deter \VlGB-AM, · mysteriously pulled WICB-FM returned to J.he air mined effort to clearly identify rently involved in the regular use prescription. off the air Saturday at midnight, Tuesday night at 6:00 P.M. with Student Congress heard some student's attitudes and experi of any type of illegal drugs. As for barbiturates and the is off the air until Sunday, Feb virtually the same programming. helpful words Tuesday on the ences toward the use of illegal The two men labeled the sur opiates, scant usage was indicated ruary 4, at noon. The reasons were When WICB-AM returns to th e subjects of intervisitation and ad drugs, Ithaca College surveyed its vey unique. "We believe-it to be by students. Only two percent of discussed this past Monday eve air on Sunday, the programming mission fees for home hockey student body during registration the most extensive of its kind - the students reported that they J ning when faculty member and emphasis will most likely fa 11 games. this month. and possibly the first - yet con have ever used drugs from either ducted on an American college group. Only three percent of the radio director Rudy Paolangeli on more music and less deejay Student Body President Pete The four-page written survey 2,000 students surveyed said they met with bis staff. Lack of force chatter, and more campus serv was conducted under the auspices campus," S!Jid Dr. Hammond. Burrell reported that Dean of had ever used psychedelic drugs. ful direction by the student ice features. of the Illegal Drugs Control Com Students, John Brown, desires to 2,000 Complete Survoy Several popular conceptions management and dissension WICB AM, 600, and WICB FM, meet with Congress' Intervisita mittee, a student-faculty-adminis about what students think among .the staff were the prime 91.7, will broadcast a "first" in tration body started last spring to Slightly more than 2,000 of the of tion Committee. According to drug usage were shaken by the motives for calling the meeting. WICB history today - February prevent drug usage among stu co-ed schools' 3,300 students com Burrell, the Dean is not opposed survey. 2. At 3:20, live from Canton, dents by educating them about pleted the survey on the first day ,1 Paolangeli opened the meet to the principle of intervisitation, For one, the survey indicated . ing and offered three alterna N.Y., the Ithaca-St. Lawrence though he is concerned about the dangers involved. of the two-day registration period, Jan. 13 and 14. that a vote taken among Ithaca tives to the students, number one basketball contest will be aired. such potential problems as room Results of the survey were Rand explained that the survey College students to legalize the being that WICB could remain a This is the first time in WICB mate inconvenience. Brown cited, "gratifying ... revealing a much use of marijuana would be de history that a live basketball questioned students about their student operated station, but only said Burrell, a problem experi lower drug usage than estimated" feated. Fifteen percent of the if the staff, in bis words, "Shaped broadcast has been aired on a enced by his former employer, according to two faculty members possible use of marijuana (com monly called "pot"), ampheta user group feel marijuana should up." The other two alternatives weekday · afternoon. Be sure to Harpur College: students found who conducted the survey, Dr. J. not be legalized. A full 66 per mines (stimulants, such as benze were either become a fully edu listen. themselves sleeping in halls be David Hammond, administrative cent of the non-user group echo cational station, where only tap Then, tomorrow, Feb. 3, the cause roommates were entertain director of the college's Health drine), barbiturates (relaxants), psychedelic drugs (hallucinogens, these sentiments. ed programs would 'be heard, or Ithaca-Clarkson game will be ing. Center, and Martin Rand, assist Second, the college campus at remain silent. WICB-FM also fell broadcast live from Potsdam, "I think the administration is ant professor of psychology and such as LSD), or opiates (heroin, for example). mosphere is not solely responsi under these proposals. However, New York, starting at 2:50. ready for a change," Burrell told author of the survey. It is esti ble for students using drugs. it was apparent that the F.M sta If the basketball team wins the delegates, suggesting "by mated that only eight percent of Also identified in the survey Many college users began taking tion's problems were not as seri both games, they will have won Spring Weekend." was the sex, class standing and illegal drugs before their fresh ous as those of WICB-AM. It was as many this year as they won all The Student Body head- also academic curriculum of the re man year. decided that WICB-FM would last season-11. The cage record reported that President Dilling disfavor was found toward the spondents. Marijuana emerged as the Rebellion is not sole reason 1liroadcast over the AM facilities is 9-3. ham and College Secretary Ben introductory speeches and the principal drug used ·by students. Third, rebellion is not the sole rior the remainder of this week to Light will meet with officials of Making the overnight trip north beanies. Academic registration Survey statistics indicate that criterion for students using il provide service to the campus, Cornell's Lynah Rink to try to with the basketball team are approximately 22 percent of the legal drugs. Followers, or those while WICB-AM itself would re end the 50-cent admission fee was disliked. WICB Sports Director Don Ber Ithaca College student body have who do what the leader in their main off the air for a week in being charged IC students attend man, who will do play-by-play, tried marijuana, either during peer group does, begin using order to "regroup and reorgan ing home hockey games there. MGB, WGB Amendment and Chuck Leirrberry, who will do high school or after becoming a drugs simply to "belong." Some ize." A vote of confidence was The college may have to pay the Men's and Women's Governing color and analysis. - college student. Only 15 percent times being ''with" their group given to both program directors, rink to secure free admission for Don was appointed Sports Boards now have original juris have used marijuana -on more means drinking; other times it Charles Dick of FM and James students. Coons of AM. Mr. Dick, who had Director in December, 1966, and diction on cases involving on than two occasions. means using drugs. thought of resigning, reconsider has since added hockey broad Nighttime Snacks? campus infractions that could "This limited usage - one or Fourth, the popular conception ed and will stay on the job. Mr. lead to suspension or expulsion. two times - indicates that such that "wide spread usage" of drugs casts as well as all basketball Congress adviser Dean Perry exists among college students Coons, in trying to be fair to his Congress approved an amendment students wished to satisfy their broadcasts of the current season. Noun is investigating the possi curiosity,'' explained Dr. Ham may well be erroneous. staff earlier in the year promised bility of having a food truck visit to the Student Body Constitution run a "tighter ship." Anyone "If the basketball team goes to mond. "They apparently found "Very few colleges have taken 110 the campus from perhaps 11 to establishing legally what had who did not follow the r u 1 e s playoffs - NCAA-, the playoff their contact with it unsatisfying the steps necessary to attain rela 1. A straw vote of Congress pre previously existed in practice. and may well have no further as tively accurate statistics," points henceforth. said Coons, would be games will also be broadcast." ferred a local private concern to immediately dismissed. The governing boards have had sociation with marijuana." out Rand. said Don recently. He is a staff the college's Saga food service. He explained that students who many such cases, due to the Dissatisfaction with marijuana Following talks by Coons and member of the ITHACAN, has a use drugs naturally tend to asso Dick, and other program depart Orientation Survey large number of infractions with after use was shown in another weekly TV show on WICB, Sports way by the Ithaca College student ciate with other users. These ment heads, there was a question possible suspenion or expulsion users can honestly say that "near man's Corner, and is a brother Dieter Scherer, head · of the survey.

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