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OCT 4 1
Wednesday, October
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LSD Dropout Provides
A Hastings Happening
4,1967 University of Nebraska Vol." 91, No
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PHOTO BY MICHAEL HA'S'MASI
STREET SIGNS BECOME . . , campaign banners, as flower children recall the birthplace of the original love-in.
General Orientation Meet Set
For A WS Convention Delegates
A general orientation
meeting of all AVVS Con
stitutional Convention dele
pates will be held in the
Nebraska Union at 3:30
p.m. Thursday, according
to Nancy Coufal, conven
tion chairman.
Miss Coufal said a gen
eral discussion will be held
concerning the function of
the convention and the du
ties to each of the four
committees.
The Constitutional Con
vention was called last
6pring at the request of
AWS board members.
CHANGES NECESSARY
It was felt that changes
ASUN To Figlu
Greeks
Greek Senators plan to in
troduce a resolution against
deferred rush in Student Sen
ate Wednesday, according to
Senator Phil Bowen, one of
the resolution's sponsors.
The strongly-worded state
ment charges that a move to
Vietnam Committee
To Present Ballot
The Ad Hoc Committee or.
Vietnam plans to present a
guggested referendum ballot
at next -week's Senate meet
ing, according to Committee
Chairman Al Spangler.
He said the group plans to
schedule a series of Vietnam
seminars this fall followed
by the referendum vote be
fore Thanksgiving vacation.
On the referendum ballot
University students will have
an opportunity to indicate
their opinion on the Vietnam
issue by checking one of a
variety of choices.
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were necessary in order for
AWS rules and regulations
to keep in step with the
growing trends of the cam
pus. The delegates were chos
en by their individual liv
ing units on the basis of
individual knowledge about
AWS and personal aware
ness of the problems fac
ing University coeds.
Four committee chair
mans were selected
through interviews last
week. Miss Coulal announc
ed the following positions:
Mary Lynn Nelson, legis
lative chairman; Jody Cal
Deferred Hush?
Plan Resolution
deferred rush would be a di
rect violation of the Ad Hoc
Housing Committee's recom
mendations approved by the
Board of Regents in June.
It rec-rates the findings of
Interfraternity Council and
Panhellaiic, seconding their
"Voters will be able to say
more than yes or no to the
U.S. effort in Vietnam."
Spangler said.
He added that the group
hopes to invite several out
side speakers to address Uni
versity students at seminars
prior to the election.
Other tentative prerefer
endum plans include a series
of student discussions on
Vietnam at places such as
Hyde Park and an appear
ance by a member of the
Nebraska Congressional delegation.
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vin, powers, purposes,
and membership chair
man; Barb Doerr, judicial
chairman; and Linda Park
er, executive chairman.
SNYDER
During the orientation
Helen Snyder, associate
dean of student affairs,
will present a brief re
sume on the history of
AWS at the University and
the accomplishments of the
organization, Miss Coufal
said.
Committee assignments
will be made by Miss Cou
fal Thursday and then dele
gates will break into their
committees. Each commit-
conclusion that deferred rush
would have a detrimental f
fect on the groups involved.
Bowen said the senators are
sponsoring the resolution be
cause, "This issue is direct
ly linked to our efforts on the
housing problem and affects
a considerable portion of the
student body."
"In the light of the work
done by IFC and Panhellenic
on the rush question, we have
no choice but to show the Re
gents that we support the
conclusions reached in their
reports," he said.
Other Senate busineB6 will
include the " lection of a new
senator from the Graduate
and Professional College, ac
cording to Senate President
Dick Scbulze. The seat was
vacated by Bill Tooley.
Electoral Commissioner Ed
Hilz will discuss suggestions
for changes in the 1967-68
electoral regulations.
Hilz presented a 10-p o i n t
outline for the regulation at
lawt week's meeting.
The Senate meeting is
scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday in Abel Hall.
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tee will decide on specific
details concerning meeting
procedures.
Individual commit
tee meetings will be held
each Thursday for a peri
od of five weeks, Miss Cou
fal said. The meetings will
be in Pound Hall, Cather
Hall, and Women's Resi
dence HalL
The individual commit
tees decide whether the
meetings will be public.
FOUR MEETLNGS
A total of four meetings
will be held with a joint
session starting Nov. 16.
Each meeting will deal
with the recommendations
presented' by one of the
committees.
Dean Snyder will attend
some of the discussion pe
riods if requested by the
committee, Miss Coufal
said. However, she will not
be directly involved with
any committee proposals
and she will not pre
sent recommendations for
changes in different areas.
A revolutionary force
music, Joan Baez, will
"appear in Lincoln at
Pershing Auditorium Nov.
1 15. The singer-musician-
composer will present a
1 two-hour concert of her
songs based upon social
and political mores of
modern society.
Tickets for the per
formance will be avail
a b 1 e in the Nebraska
t U c i o n Program Office
beginning Oct. 24.
Block tickets for ten or
more seats will be sold I
from 8 a.m. to noon. Gen
eral sales will begin at
noon. Tickets for the con
cert will cost S2. $2.50 or
$3.
The performance is be
ing sponsored by the
Union Special Events
Committee headed by
Phil Bowen.
By MICK LOWE
Senior Staff Writer
Hastings Hastings col
lege is what College Board
Guides type as a "s m a 1 1,
midwestern liberal arts c o 1
lege." It has a grassy, shaded
campus and a bookstore that
could be easily fitted into Ne
braska Book Store's broom
closet.
But Hastings had a prova
cative visitor the last two
days. Dr. Allen Cohen. Har
vard graduate student and
former disciple of LSD
prophet Timothy Leary, is
spending Tuesday and
Wednesday talking to
Hastings students in panel
discussions, dinners, and lec
ture sessions.
Cohen, in his twenties, said
that he spent three years "off
and on" at Leary's Millbrook
estate participating in his
"Utopian" experiment He is
now a psychologist at Berk
eley. UTOPLV
The Millbrook "u topi a"
is based, Cohen explained, on
Aldous Huxley's novel Island.
Huxley believed in the advis
ability of culling the best
ideas of eastern and western
philosophies while living in an
atmosphere of sexual and
iiiental freedom.
The result, according to
Huxley, is that participants
in such an experiment are
free of the neuroses and com
plications that plague modern
metropolitan life.
This was not true at Mill
brook, says Cohen. He left
Millbrook be said, because
there were ''rivalries, argu
ments and hypocrisy" in
Leary's utopia.
30 TRIPS
As a participant in the Mill
brook plan Cohen said that
he took at least thirty trips
on acid. But, he told the Has
tings students, LSD is not the
answer, no matter what they
want.
Popcorn, Boos, Cheers Accent
Simon's Fashion Mellerdrama
By ANDY CORRIGAN
Junior Staff Writer
Amid boos, hisses, wild
cheering, and showers of
popcorn the 1967 Ben Simon's
men's fashion show was held
Monday in the Union ball
room. The show, an annual event
for University males, had a
Gay '90' s mellerdrama
theme.
"Dirty Work at the Fash
ion Counter" or "He was No
Simple Simon" was written
and directed by Bruce Bor
m, a University drama ma
jor and presented by a cast
of University Theater play
ers. The plot concerned the con
flict between Flash Fashion,
cool dresser on campus, and
Vincent Vile, the arch villain.
Vile ,a Marquis de Sade
original, was fighting for su
premacy among the fashion
set but in order to reach his
goal had to eliminate Flash.
True to all mellerdrama
tic themes, Flash was in
vincible but Vile persisted
and fnally through the aid
of his accomplice, Ima Will
ing, he succeeded in disgrac
ing Flash and banishing him
from the college fashion
scene.
The cast included Skip
Lundby as Vincent Vile, Nan
Burling as lma Willing, Bill
Jamison as Flash Fashion,
Sandy Lovell as Lily, and
Mark Beech as M. T. Head.
Throughout the show the
players were flanked by sev
eral of Ben Simon's College
Board members who strolled
across the stage modeling
the newest offerings for
clothes-concioui males.
Double breasted blazers
and sweater-vests still head
the list for the well-dressed
college man's wardrobe.
Other items included a dou
Rejects
Cohen's first appearance be
fore the Hastings student body
was Tuesday morning at an
all-college convocation.
"The use of hallucinogenics
is spreading at such a fast
rate that it will soon be avail
able to everyone." he ob
served. CRITERIA
Attired in a business suit
and sporting an Ivy League
haircut that belied his former
experiences, Cohen said that
"certain criteria for use of
psychedelic drugs should be
established."
Cohen divided the consider
ations into the areas of phys
iological, mental and theolog
ical effects.
Repeated LSD use can
cause a variety of physiologi
cal effects, according to Co
hen. In rare cases it c a n
cause an "increase in brain
waves," he stated.
GENETICS
There are indications that
genetic malfunctions are
caused by long-term LSD use,
Cohen reported, although re
sults of clinical experiments
vary.
"It seems that when one
group attempts to prove that
genetic damage through chro
mosomal irregularities can
occur, they usually do," Co
hen smiled.
"But it also seems that
when a group sets out to dis
prove the same theory, they
can do that, too."
At any rate, Cohen con
eluded, "there is enough evi
dence at this point to consid
er the possibility of physiolog
ical damage."
MENTAL DA5HGE
In the area of mental dam
age, Cohen reported, the
"likelihood of permanent psy
chosis resulting from a sin
gle use of pyschedelics is
very slight"
"But with accumulated
trips," Cohen continued, "the
ble-breasted boundstooth bla-
zer with matching red slacks
and tie, suede jackets, three
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MELLERDRAMMER WITH A FASHIONABLE FLAIR
. . . was the theme of Ben Simon's men's style show
held Oct 2 in the Union. Shown here are Naa Burling
as lma Willing and Skip Lundby as Vincent Vila.
Leary Dogma
chances are greater, and I
would say, almost inevitable."
Cohen recounted the exper
iences of a veteran LSD user.
"He had 102 good trips. But
on the 103rd, he freaked out
completely."
THREE POSSIBILITIES
One of three things has
happened to his friends at
Millbrook who continually use
LSD, Cohen said. They either
stop taking psychedelics, they
have accidents like jumping
out of a 3-story office building
windows or they're in men
tal hospitals.
In the final area Cohen
said that "if the LSD experi
ence is a mystical, theologi
cal benefit then maybe there
is some justification for us
ing LSD."
But it is the opinion of most
Eastern mystics, according to
Cohen, that "drugs can ac
tually hinder spiritual devel
opment." LSD QUALITY
One of the major problems
that LSD users must face
now, Cohen said, is that "you
never know what kind of LSD
you're getting."
It's likely to be cut with
bella donna, heroin and al
lied hallucenogenics. he said,
and the results of the impuri
ties are difficult to predict.
EFFECT?
The students seemed to find
Cohen's speech easy listening,
and one coed even managed
to paint her fingernails dur
ing the speech. The student
consensus was that Cohen's
speech was "interesting but
nothing we haven't heard be
fore." Still, at least half of Has
tings student body turned out
to hear a panel discussion in
which Cohen was a partici
pant Cohen was another facet,
apparently, of Ha sting's quiet
ly progressive approach to ed
ucation. piece suits, and the usual
favorite, V-neck sweater and
levis.