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ews Vol. LX WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., OCf. 27, 1966 No. 7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandeis Professor Nenierov Senate Discusses Auto Rules, Will Read Poetry In Ltbrary quently emblematic: Ute poet finds emblems of the modem sensibility Agrees to Improve Bus Service in such phenomena H the dial of his telephone, sea wrac\, two lovers by Susan Sprau '68 Senate began to make specific de- '67, Helen Locks '67, Nancy Sey in a park. "The sense of the meeting in dsions about the t1·ansportation mour '(i7 and Connie Stowe '68, After Mr. Nemrov's reading, dicates that we are thinking in problem and made clear that its Mrs. Asa Tenney, director of resi members of Phi Sigma will be terms of specific plans with speci inte1·est in ananging fo1 buses does dence, will advise the committee hostesses at tea in the society fic answers," explained CG presi not mean an abandonment of the about what registration charge house. Members of the audience in dent Deborah Davis '67 at the close cal' problem. would compensate for snowplowing the parking lots. terested in talking with the poet, or of last night's Senate meeting on Mr. Roger Johnson, assistant perhaps in hearing him re-read cer transportation. In contrast to last professor of biblical history, in- Debbie also appointed a bus tain poems, are invited. week's general meeting, this week troduced a motion to allow seniors committee lo investigate and de to have cars this year at the be- velop a shuttle service between ginning of Tenn n, rathan than Boston, Cambridge and Wellesley Laws, Public Frown on Drugs at the beginning of Term III, pro- at such well-traveled times as Yided that appi·opriate arrange- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and And Hinder LSD Researchers ments may be made. Miss Ruth · Saturday evenings. This commit Adams, College president amended tee hopes to establish such a ser by Betty Demy '69 and males and their wives 01· gid the motion to allow only those sen- Yice before Senate's next meeting, Kay Williams '69 friends; they are whites, often An ion; of diploma grnde standing to if it is financially possible. Mem Within the last three years, the glo-Saxon P1·otestants. The phen keep ('ars on eampus. During the hers of the bus committee include use of LSD no longer has been omenon is concentrated among re discussion which ensuecl. seYeral '.\fartha Levine '69, Laurel Johnson confined to ttie laboratory. The spected, conforming, successful per problems which were not resolved '69, Jane Oliver '68, Elizabeth users of the drug are proud that sons with socially favored back in tho motion became apparent. Rodgers '69, chairman Diane Saw Howard Nemerov, professor of English now one million Americans have grounds and careers. The use of the such as what should be the fee for yer '67, Naney Wanderer '69, and at Brandeis, who will present a reading tried LSD, the majority not in a drug has now expanded into a fad parking lot maintenance, whethei Mrs. G. Scott Gillespie, head of of his poetry Oetober 31. scientific context. The sensation on college campuses. The drug is scholarship students should keep house at Bates. At the November cars on campus, and what campus me<>ting they will report on the Howard Nemerov, noted poet, created around the drug has usually introduced during small, so brought it public attention. One dal gatherings among intimate clriving regulations should be en- implications of several model pro novelist, literary critic, and profes forced. And so Senate tabled J\fr. grams for bus shuttles. sor, will initiate this year's series scientist has surmised that all this friends. publicity will stifle legitimate re The prime motivations are to .Johnson's motion until the next Disseutinir Viewpoint of poetry readings sponsored by Senate meetinit which Debbi<> Mr. Mar><hall Goldman, associate the English Department. .Mr. Nem search. provide deep religious insights and Humphrey Osmond, psychiatrist to create deeper love of mankind. scheduled for Thursclav, November pl"ofessor of economics, presented a erov will read from his own work 10, at '1 :15 p.m. in mitings. diss<>nting vi<>wpoint which had not on Monday, October 31 in the Pope at the New Jersey Neuro-Psychia Many users seek to allay a sense Car Committee het•n vok<>d ht ~enak's fi1st trans- Room, at 4:15. tric Institute in Princeton, says, of futility or inrompletenes,.;; th<'Y A graduate of Harvard College, "Every age produces the thing it are disillusioned by finding life's At this nE'xt meeting. S<>natc portation mc<>ting. He agreed that Mr. Nemerov returned this year to requires. This age requires ways of promises unfulfilled. will taC"klc the theoretical and "there is a n<>ed for improving the Boston area as a professor of learning to develop its inner quali Conditions of the Road practit·al problems of allowing stu- transportation, and l ('an find many clents to k<'<'P t•ar,.; on campus clur- inst:rnres of it in my own c?urses." English at Brandeis University, ties." LSD differs from opiates and The drug produces a wide variety ing Terms r and lT. Debbie ap- I However, hi' opposed allowmg stu after serving on the faculties of other euphoric drugs in that its of reactions, depending upon the Bennington College, the Unh·ersity spread is a product of an intellec emotional state of the m•er, what he pointcd a car committee to propos<' I dents to keep ca_1·s on c~mpus on alternative r<>gulation changes and lh<' grounch· that 1t would mfrocluce of Minnesota, and Hollins College. tual revolution. has heard about the drug before to explain their implication to 'a status an_d a Editor and Consultant Brave New Worlds taking it, and under what condi s~lt~ation moveme~t S<>nate. Committee memhers in- town1·d pnv1Tege which h.., feels 1s From 1946 to 1952 Mr. Nemerov Beginning with Huxley, people tions he takes it. The major J)hysi dudo narhara Baker '68, c·hairnian presently ahs<'nt among Wellesle~· was associate editor of the "little have turned to LSD in an attempt cal consequences arc incapadty, magazine" Furioso and in 1963-64 to demonstrate man's flexibility nausea, numbness, cramps, exhaus Ma1·ian Ferguson '67, Anne Hannah Ca11ti11ued on page eight served as consultant in poetry to and resiliency and to free his mind tion, and change in facial muscula the Library of Congress. Mr. Nem from the confines of social restric ture. erov's work has earned him grants tions and taboos. Huxley desired Among the numerous m<>ntal ef Peaceful Japan Favors China and prizes from Poetry Magazine, to prove that man possessed inner fect.<;, the main 1·eact.ion seems to the Virginia Quarterly Review, the resources and powers equal to those be a loss of objectivity or a belief Kenyon Review, the Longwood of any drug. He believed man on the part of the user that he has Except for Bombs, Red Guard Foundation and the National Insti should experience a maximum in actually gained new perspectives tute an<i Academy. life and not fear experimentation about himself and others. Hallucin by Tracy Trompson '68 Academic politics and the crises for reasons of his weakness. This ations, feelings of anxiety, excite China "meant to Japan what precipitated by a football player's involves a view of a superior man. ment, despair, release of tensions, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece precarious academic standing con Most researchers, on the con calm detachment, and an increased and Rome would mean to us." In stitute the theme of one of Mr. trary, feel that man becomes a artistic or philosophic awareness the light of this traditional affinity Nemerov's novels, The Homecom slave to such drugs. In response are common reactions. Most per of Japan for China, Edwin 0. ing Game, published in 1957. Other to this, Timothy Leary, the "high sons experience both pleasant and Reischauer, Harvard professor and works of fiction are The l\lelo priest of psychedelic experimenta unpleasant effects. former ambassador to Japan, ex dramatists, Federigo, or the Power tion," has declared a one-year Road Blocks amined current Japanese attitudes of Love and A Commodity of moratorium on the use of LSD to Research in the field has been towards China Friday night. Dreams and Other Stories. He has explore other avenues of mind hindered by several factors. As Despite the elusive quality of his also published a critical volume on expanding experiences. government control becomes more topic, Mr. Reischauer delineated. Poetry and Fiction. LSD's Own Trip strict, there is increased difficulty the ethnic and economic, psycho Volumes of Verse Discovered to be a mind-altering in obtaining the drug from a legiti logical and ideological attitudes of Mr. Nemrov's six volumes of agent in 1943, LSD has been of mate supplier. Researchers are met the Japanese towards China, touch verse, published during the past great interest to researchers as with hostility and unwillingness on ing at the same time on Chinese twenty years, contain two verse evidenced by over 1,000 studies pub the part of many users to c<>nfide attitudes towardr. Japan. plays, includ.ed in his last collec lished by 1964. However in the in them. LSD users won't consider Emotional Affinity tion, The Next Room of the Dream. 1950's, a shift occurred in the at the study unless the investigator Mr. Reischauer indicated that the Among other titles are The Salt titude of researchers. Professionals has tried the drug and had a favor Japanese are emotionally drawn to Garclen and Mirrors and Windows.