The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 25, 1967, Page Page 4, Image 4
Page 4 The Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, October 25, 1967 'News In Perspective LSD: The Case For o 0 Silhouette ... -. . in" I 0 1 ... 0 Statehood The 0 By BARB MARTIN Junior Staff Writer Falslaff. an adaptation of "Henrv IV" "Henry V." ' Richard II" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." by Shakespeare, will be shown at the Stuart Theater Oct. 26 and 27. The play, edited and produced by Orson Welles, will be presented twice daily at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets priced at $1 are available from members of Ne braska Masquers. , The Lincoln Broadway Theater League is presenting The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd, Oct 25. The play stars Edwar Earle and David C. Jones, members of the original road show cast Guys and Dolls, first presentation of the season by the Lincoln Community Playhouse, has opened and will be play ing Oct. 27 and 28 at 8:30 p.m. and Oct 29 at 7:30 p.m. The musical features the New York underworld of a die-hard gamb ler and his chance encounter with a dedi cated Salvation Armv worker. RECITALS Faculty recitals will be presented by the Music Department at Sheldon Audi torium Oct. 26 and Oct 31. at 7:30 p.m. The performance Oct 26 will feature Au dun Ravan. Raymond Miller and Dennis Schneider will play Oct 3L Thirtieth in the series of programs sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church will be presented at the Church Oct 26 at 4 p.m. Conrad Morgan, Direc tor of Music will be featured in an organ recitaL KFMQ Radio station KFMQ is promoting a series of programs emphasizing various types of music. The Classical Hour is broadcast every Saturday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and the Jazz Hour is presented each Wednesday and Saturday from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. The Great Symphony selection is a regular Sunday evening feature, playing from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., when Talk Back, a discussion series is presented- Each day from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. the station sponsors Command Performance, a request pro gram. The Nebraska-Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Decorators and the Nebraska Chapter of the American Insti tute of Architects are Jointly sponsoring a lecture by Charles Fames, architect and des'srer. The program will be presented at Sheldon Auditorium Oct 27 at 8:30 p.m. SCULPTURE The employment of plastic cement to achieve sculptural surfaces is featured in the work of Oklahoma artist Eugene Ba vinger, who will exhibit his creations at Sheldon Art Gallery Oct. 3L The display will be held in Gallery C from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. LtRoy Burket, former Nebraskan, bag collected a display of prfnti and paintings from the book flails, flea market and antique shops of Paris which will be ex hibited at Sheldon Art Gallery Oct. 31 through Nov, 5. FILMS Jul?s and Jim, a French filn which ther was awarded the Director' prize at the Mar del Plata Festival of 1962. will be shown at Sheldon Gallery Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Francois Truffault, star ring Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner and Henri Serre, the film is the story of two men who have shared a love for the same, woman for twnety years. Also included in the showing is a short exptrimental French film by Edmond Se chan. who has previously presented the. "Red Balloon" and "The Silent World." The short, The String Bean, concerns the diligence of a wispy woman in cultivating a potted string bean plant. 'THE BIG SLEEP' Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Malone star in The Big Sleep, which will be presented at Sheldon Oct 29 at 7:30. Howard Hawks produced the movie which is based upon a screenplay by William Faulkner, depicting the efforts of a private eye to save a decadent mil lionaire's daughter from blackmail. Goddess of the Far West, second epi sode in The Perils of Pauline, will be presented during the Sunday show. The Nebraska Union Weekend Film scheduled for Oct. 27 and Oct. 29 is The Chase. The movie will be shown at the Union Friday at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. CAXTEBURY CLUB The Canterbury dub of St. Mark's Episcopal Church is presenting a lecture concerning the reconciliation of a faith and science Sunday at 6:30 p m. Richard K. Boohar, of the Universitp's zoology department will be the speaker. The United Ministry in Higher Educa tion will present a taped intergiew between Malcolm Boyd. Episcopal minister, and the Ministry's Bill Philips Sunday at 6:30. The topic of the interview is Campus Ministry. The Methodist Wesley Foundation will sponsor a program Sunday at 6:30 p.m. featuring Dr. Harry IWtington, who will speak about George Washington Carver in a lecture entitled The Boy Who Wa Traded Fr A Horse. LECTURES The Career Scholars Program of the University is sponsoring a series of lec tures by R. N. R. Peers, curator of the ture topics include archaeology in Dorset and Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Maddening Crowd. The schedule includes Hardy and Dor set 3:30 p.m. Nov. 2, 104 in Burnett HalL Roman Remains in Dorst, 11:30 a.m., Nov. 1, 229 Andres Hall, Ancient Dorset, 7 p.m., Nov. L, E11C Burnett Hall. Hardy and Dorset I, 8:30 a.m. Nov. 2, 205 Bur nett HalL Hardy and Dorset II, 3:30 p.m., Nov. 2, 104 Burnett HalL and Digging la Dorset, 2:30 p.m., Nov. 3, B11C Burnett HalL Nebraska Wesleyan Theater Depart ment win present Dark at the Top of the Stairs Oct 25, 27, 28 and 23. Performances Thursday through Saturday will begin at 8 p.m. and the Sunday presentation will begin at 2 p.m. at the Enid Miller Theater, 51st and Huntington. Union Schedules Gregory Today Noted comedian and civil fights worker Dkk Gregory is scheduled to speak Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the East Union. Gregory is author of two books; "Nigger", an auto biography, and "From the Back of the Bus." He is appearing in con junction with the University Speaker-Artast Series. f-kve yos fees foul Krasfter's CsRcssiisa m fmemUtj Festers? V.zrtk Essbter 1032 P tOSfvlET Presents Their Fall "Katostrcphic Krusades" Saturday, Nov. 4, 1SS7 8 p.m. Pershing Auditorium Tickets in Union row $1.50 Tickets fit the 4oor Nor. 4 $1.75 Ry MICK LOWE Senior Staff Writer "Remember what the dormouse said, Keep your head." The Jefferson Airplanes When a head drops acid, he risks arrest and impri sonment, expulsion from school, brain damage and amnesia from a freak-out and possible malformation of unborn gtnerations. Yet thousands of heads, LSD users, run these risks to trip. If anything, their numbers are increasing, although figures pertaining to acid and its prevalance are, understandably, un available. Acid heads are sometimes aware of the risks they take. Many are well-educated, intelligent, and sen sitive. And the fact re mains regardless of these consequences, that they still turn on. Why? The answer wou'd seem to lie in the nature of the experience. All heads des cribe the acid experience differently. For some it is a powerful mystical exper ience so powerful, in fact, that it cannot be com municated, it must be ex perienced. Others can describe a trip, but with the fervor of a religious convert. And a "I could see why it's call ed a trip, remarked one in dividual after his first trip. "It's like a trip, it is pleas ant. But, like a trip, I wouldn't want to do it every day." "Sure, it's pleasant" ob served another individual after several trips. "I don't think it has changed me as an individual or made me a better person, but it is without question the most pleasant sense impression I've ever received." But the most intriguing arguments for acid are pre sented by the most enthusi astic. They claim that acid can give what every stu dent dreams of increas ed creative and critical pow ers, a comprehension of the unit of all things, an un derstanding of the beauty in everyday objects, a sen sitivity to the intricacies, say of music. "I have a friend who studies a certain period of literature very closely," one acid head recounts. "As a part of his studies he had read a particularly contro versial ode many times. Scholars have disagreed about the meaning of t h e work for centuries." "Well, my friend dropped acid and re-read the Ode. Understanding of the pas sage became immediately clear. And it was also clear that these centuries of schol orship were all wrong." "Then, his wife dropped. She had always liked to paint, but she did bad stuff. But, after turning on, she started painting in an en- o And Til e Case A "I consider myself a prophet. And I may be wrong." Dr. Timothy Leary Considerable copy has been written in the last two years against LSD. The Saturday Evening Post ran a story last Au gust about a baby whose brain was abnormally shaped because its mother had dropped acid during her pregnancy. Millions of Americans read the story and one coed was heard commenting last week that she didn't want to try LSD because 'it would do things to my babies." What then are the facts about the evils of LSD? First it is a fact that anyone caught possessing LSD in Nebraska faces stiff fines of up to $5,000 and imprisonment of up to 10 years in the Nebraska State Penal Complex. The chances for appre hension have also increased with the establishment of a special drug agency under the State Safety Pa trol, which was created by the last Legislature. Both the creation of the drug agency and the penal ties imposed on those who possess LSD were included in LB786 which was passed during the 1967 Legislature. But possessors of LSD not only face trouble with state law enforcement agencies. They also face stiff penalties at the Uni versity. University students caught possessing LSD will be "subject to suspension from school," states a re cently written policy state ment by the Board of Re gents. The laws, however, are only results of scientific studies of the effects of LSD probably a strong er case against LSD. Articles in popular jour nals about the physiological effects of LSD stem from research publicized in two editions of Science maga zine. Dr. Samuel Irwin of the University of Oregon Medi cal School reported in the July 21, 1967 Science that "a significant increase of chromosomal abnormali ties was found in leukocytes of 25 users of LSD. Irwin discovered that chromosomal abnormalities were present in six out of eight "LSD-25" users. The same abnormalities were present in only one out of nine non-user "controls." ' But it is too early to assess the signigicance of these finds," Irwin con cludes. Another issue of Science carried the report of George J. Alexander of the New York State Psychia tric Institute. Alexander gave LSD (in weight for normal human dosages) to five rats early in pregnancy. One aborted. Two de livered stillborn litters and one delivered a litter of seven apparently healthy and one underdeveloped young. One mother de livered an apparently nor mal litter. Five matched control rats on the other hand gave birth to healthy lit ters. No abortions, no still births. The March 17 issue of Science stated that "chromosomes produced with LSD strongly resem ble those of chronic myelogeneous leukemia." Three mothers who were known to have used LSD have since given birth to four children, two with blood cell abnormalities. Studies on the effects of LSD are still in the infant stages. Thus, while re searchers are still hesitant to draw any strict conclu sions, there are strong in dications that use of LSD can be physically harmful. A third serious conten tion against acid is the possibility of a "freak-out" And the stories of freak outs can best be told by acid users themselves. Berkeley Psychologist Allan Cohen, himself a vet eran of acid trips at Le&ry's Millbrook estate, tells the story of an actor, "a man with a good career, a beautiful wife and hand some child, everything you could want," who took a very special trip at Mill brook. "He asked to take a trip based on the Tibetian "Book of the Dead." So we arranged a special room, guide." By the eighth hour of his trip he had compeltely freaked out, Cohen con tinued. He went eleven days without sleep, severed all ties with his friends at Millbrook, returned to his home and tried to set his wife and child on fire. "He ran every step of the way through country roads, and then set out for Pittsburgh, sixty miles away running. "Several months later he Campus Calendar WEDNESDAY (All activities are in the Nebraska Union, unless otherwise indicated.) INTER-VARSITY 12 noon. PLACEMENT LUNCHEON 12:30 p.m. SOCIOLOGY 53-11:30 p.m. VIETNAM WEEK 2 p.m. State Department Speaker. VIETNAM HYDE PARK 3 p.m. AWS WORKERS COUNCIL 3:30 p.m. BUILDERS College Days 3:30 p.m. AWS House of Repre sentatives 3:30 p.m. YWCA Girls Club-3:30 p.m. YWCA Head Start-3:30 p.m. BUILDERS Foundation Committee 3:30 p.m. RECEPTION for Mexican Students 4 p.m. EAST UNION Recrea tion Committee 4 p.m. JR. P ANHELLEMC 4 : 30 p.m. BUILDERS Campus Pro motion; 4:30 p.m. TOASTMASTERS CLUB 5:30 p.m. REDCROSS-6:30p.m. IFC 7 p.m. MECHANIZED AG. - Ag Engineering 7 p.m. BUILDERS BOARD 7 p.m. ASUN Seminar on Viet nam 7:30p.m. CIRCLE K 7:30 p.m. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST 7:30 p.m. ALPHA PHI OMEGA-7:30 p.m. ASUN Parking Appeals Board 7:30 p.m. MATH COUNSELORS-7:30 p.m. AQUAQUETTS TRYOUTS University Colisium 7 p.m. ORCHESIS University High School Gym 7:30 p.m. FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIS TIAN ATHLETES 9:30 p.m. Friday Nite Featuring The Marauders C! Whet's a wild, new snack that fakes 30 seconds to make, needs no refrigeration, comes complete with nothing to wash, and can be stored in a dormitory for 63 years? -if!in J -jijSnotu joj poo ti 0 usa juBiuj no put AjftiiMip 8q o iO)0q mBu 'juBiupiui i Ads uuiow iu6jj 941 (snj ijun moot snok ui Aomo jj opitj VO noA jotu sj u ppry y-eiou jnoqo 6unu paq ouj ng iqcsodstp si SuiiuAjsaj 'SJ8JJO4S AoMOMOiqt puo 'spy 'woods 'sSuippnd jnoj qM t9duK3 wiuod Boipod u.ppnj y-ttpu qaog 'oucuog jo ipioxjaung 'diuo '9(0O3oiq u 6utppnd 108 OA.noA puo (s 4! ja) 'puo3os 0 lof moqt 'pi auj dDus 'dro m ui jspMod puo jsjcw. jnd jsnr ') Cuiqowos s,j 'u.ppnj y-Dj o 7 tirely different style, in some ways impressionistic, and in some ways like some thing I've never seen." "But now it was very, very good stuff," he con cluded. "Mind direction" is an other frequently heard argu ment. On an acid trip it is pos sible to concentrate upon one thought or one object for hours. (Most trips, de pending on the dosage, last from around twslve to twenty-four hours.) It is possible to change the object's time and spatial posial position with the conviction that the object has truly chang ed, most heads agree. At least one acid head maintains that similar con centration can be directed while sober after several trips. "But," he adds, "I think that the chances of a person being able to con centrate or meditate this heavily without having ever dropped is about a million to one." This idea is not a new one, Eastern holy men have been able to produce hal lucinogenic effects through Yoga-type meditation for centuries. But the trance-like effect requires intensive concen tration, and, it is general ly agreed, years of train ing. The ability to see the unity of all things is the approach to enlightenment, and such concentration is extremely desirable to the serious practitioners of East ern religions, particularly Buddhism. And now acid comes along with mystical qual ities beyond Budda's fond est dream. All for a couple of dollars, a quiet apart ment, and a day of "drop ping out" of whatever so ciety you happen to be in. The case for acid is not overwhelming but it does exist gainst was stopped by the police. He swallowed all the drugs in his possession, and they were forced to shoot him." "I guess he's all right now . . . physically." Cohen said "a freak-out is inevitabel with prolonged use of LSD." Tne question of LSD is a complex one. Studies are yet in the beginning stages and the full effects of LSD may not be fully known for many years. But if students wish to follow new research on LSD, they are advised to return to the original scien tific journals in which the research is initially printed. This, then, is the case against LSD: It is illegal and one who possesses LSD can incur heavy fines, a long im prisonment and will prob a b 1 y be expelled from school. 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