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BLACK POWER ORANGE POWER WHITE powaER GREEN POWERS Tim Leary at MSU= By MICHAEL KINDMAN Turn On/ Tune In/ Cop Out The Michigan State News ran a front - page headline this summer, "Find No MSU Students Using LSD, Dope," and an article this fall quot ing the director of the university health center on "Dr. O'Leary," the man who was deceiving the na tion on the dangers of psychedelic drugs. Things may not be as had at MSU as this makes them seem, but it was into an atmosphere not terribly knowledgeable aboutpsychedelics that Timothy Leary descended November 17, to speak before an audience of more than 4,000 MSU students and faculty on "LSD: Man, God and Law." Most of the audience had probably had little or no contact with the tools of Leary* s trade, and the ques tions turned in on slips of paper* handed out by the ushers indicated little more than a Life magazine knowledge of the subject. (The most frequently asked: "How can I legally obtain LSD and take it in a responsible situation?" Leary evaded the question the next day at his press conference, and talked about the dangers of modern life and the loss of spiritual training as a value in this country.) In view of the relatively uninitiated nature of his MSU audience, it seems quite significant that Leary was honored with a standing ovation, and describing the conditions necessary found himself praising his student for a spiritual transformation of so government hosts for their open- ciety and identifying those conditions mindedness about psychedelics. It in American life today. His four was almost simultaneous proof of requirements are a spiritual need and Leary* s thesis as presented in his hunger, a new sacrament on which to speech and later at a reception and base a new religion, a new metaphor press conference: that we are on the with which to define and preach the threshold of a new spiritual age, new religion, and a political situation whose sacraments will be LSD and ripe for spiritual revision. marijuana and whose disciples will On the first requirement, little be (or are) the young, the creative need be said. The "insane asylum" and the socially alienated of today. of American society is "so static, Condescendingly (I have to believe) so stablized, so robotized that life wearing a "Kill, Bubba, Kill" button is being lost." The real insanity and on his lapel opposite a silver Ameri pathology of our culture is "what can Indian talisman, Leary began by has been done to consciousness." talking about prayer.- "Only those out Our society is unaware of its heri of their "minds can pray." With LSD tage, its two billion years of evolu he and his colleagues are "catapulted tion. "They rolled you off the Detroit out of our minds down strange evolu assembly line perfect—a Buddha, with tionary tissue corridors, out of the all potentialities," and have spent the twentieth century." years from birth to now narrowing us He identified his profession ("one down, with the best of misguided in of the most ancient in human history") tentions. It is time to expand the as that of shaman, guru, alchemist, potentialities. sorcerer. "We seek to reaffirm the The new sacrament, of course, is divinity of the human being, we seek the psychedelic drugs, the new "vis to get man out of the manacles of ible, tangible method of finding his mind," to help him find the grace." "A new sacrament imperils "revelation that is within his own the old regime," Leary said, and is body." always opposed by the establishment. This is undoubtedly not the way This has been the case through his the audience would have described tory. The only difference today is Leary beforehand, but more un - that the new sacraments are chemi familiar ideas (or so I assume; after cal in nature, because we know now all, Michigan State isn't a Berkeley, that "consciousness is a biochemical full of social dropouts) were to come, phenomenon." Leary spent a good part of his speech The Water Closet from winning the NCAA crown last year. Bobby Joe Hill and Big D By W. C. BLANTON Basketball Polls, Already? Lattin just are not going to collapse when faced by Alcinder's press clip The deafening silence from more ratty. MSU edges ND slightly in Saturday is a day that has been a pings. than 80,000 stunned spectators was statistics and by a large margin long time coming for many roundball Louisville should rule the Mid- indicative of the feeling across the in playing, as a champion should, fanatics. For on December 3, Lew West with Wesley Unseld, said by nation when Michigan State and Notre but neither of those factors shows Lacinder will play his first varsity some to be better than Alcinder, and Dame tied 10-10 in the game of the on the scoreboard. Who's number game for UCLA. All pre - season Butch Beard and Jerry King up from century and left themselves at the one? Michigan State? Maybe. Notre analysis concedes the national title UL's best-ever freshman team. mercy of pollsters, sportswriters, Dame? Hardly. Co-champions? Got to the Bruins and an ail-American The Southland, which is in the Mid- barflies and other assorted arm any better ideas until Duffy's play slot to the 7-1 man who shoots, East Region of the NCAA, will again chair quarterbacks and coaches. The off system is adopted by the NCAA? passes and rebounds like an all-Pro. be led by Kentucky and Western Ken question of which team is really No. At any rate, the gridiron season is So they say. Alcinder has plenty of tucky. Adolph Rupp's Wildcats lost 1 will undoubtedly be debated for over, except for a few scattered con help from Lucius Allen, Edgar Lacey, two men from last year's NCAA years, as well Ara Parseghain's all- tests and the bowl games in which and others on Johnny Wooden's squad runner-up, but Der Baron will be out college try—to tie. the Southeastern Conference will but perhaps the NCAA tournament able to win the SEC behind all - demonstrate once more that is is should be held anyway. Americans Pat Riley, Louie Dampier Notre Dame was hampered by in and Thad Jarancz. Whether he will be juries, to be sure, but one of the the home of the best college football There are a number of teams in the nation. Now the sports scene around which should be capable of able to claim supremacy in the Blue- greatest Irish strengths all year was moves to such places as Memorial grass State is another matter. The depth; and the breaks of the game giving the Bruins some trouble. In Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky re went with Ara's squad. That would Coliseum, Madison Square Garden the West, there is Houston, with a and Jenlson Barn for basketball, the big and talented Elvin Hayes, and turn four men, including the incredi seem to negate the cries about miss major winter sport of America. ble Clem Hawkins from the team ing poor Nick Eddy and Terry Han- Texas Western has five starters back that clobbered Loyola and barely lost to Michigan on an off - night last March. Rich Hendricks should 5 * fill in well enough to send the Hill- -M;C* £ toppers to the NCAA finals, barring •=.S o«; « S THE PAPER bad luck. The Eastern Region has Jimmy PAPER PEOPLE Waler, i.e. Providence, and Duke. PAPER Weight Michael Kindman Bob Verga should get the Blue Devils « C PAPER Cutter Laurence Tate at least as far as last year's third 2z v c ^^ i_ «~ PAPER Mate .. Gregg Hill place finish, but beating Kentucky PAPER Dolls Carol Hurlbutt, Char Jolles or Western Kentucky or, yes, even i<- «*! = « PAPER Knives. Brad Lang, Doug Lackey Michigan State could be tough. PAPER Tiger . Stephen Badrich To end the prediction game, let H^ilS - PAPER Backwriter dale-walker it be said that MSU will win the Big U*~ 5 y a C 13 a Ten, despite the loss of Bill Curtis a _ .2 ,2 s £ = * PAPER Wrappers. .Barb Brown, Arnie Strasser, Karen Smith "° *-c*.2<" o PAPER Hanger Denis Trover and Stan Washington and the pres •SJ*fcL"*£s-8 PAPER Route The Lounge(s) ence in the league of a veteran v ir ai *- « c PAPER Boy. Jack Laks Northwestern club. Steve Rymal and PAPER Clip Judie Goldbaum John Bailey should be more consis «S? PAPER Cup Russell Lawrence tent this season and with Matt Aitch <o 3 u s> « §• a y • 2 a steady nucleus for leaping Art 2 - PAPER Towels . .Ron Diehl. Bill Kunitz. John Wooley 5 w PAPER Roses. Ann Barton, Merrell Frankel Baylor and super-soph Lee Lafayette <a. PAPER Airplane . .' CarolJSchneider to jell around exists. Even Super- 8 "> a. PAPER Bag Mabel Pierce gor should see plenty of action. We'll c « soon know. 3H i Black Power gTTTT^ the White Liberal By RICHARD A. OGAR More than hotdogs, America loves Dr. King has been accused of irre villains. Never is the natio'n without sponsibility on those rare occasions a popular target for that insatiate when it looked like he might actually malice which, along with violence, accomplish something IN NEGRO fills up so much of its leisure time. TERMS. Forgetting his customary At the turn of the century it was the buck-and-wing, King led a march man in the black moustache; during into a determinedly anti-Negro Chi the 20* s and 30*s it was the man in cago neighborhood.

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