LSD
MOTHERHOOD, APPLE PIE AND ACID - PART I
Better Than Pizza and Pepsi?
This is the first of a three-part scries on LSD. Today's article is ha>ed on interviews with five LSD users.—The Editor)
By ANDY MILLER
One is a dean's list student.
One joined a fraternity, the others won't.
Another has almost shoulder-length hair.
Another has hair shorter than most.
But these four USC students and at least one other have something in common—they all use LSD. Not did use or have used, but do use and continue to use.
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a psychedelic or hallucinogenic-drug. a dose of which would cover the head of a straight pin. It is odorless, tasteless and colorless: but it wildly alters the perceptions and thought processes of a user.
Why do students take LSD? “I think people take LSD for three reasons." the first interviewee said. “The first group takes it for kicks, just pure fun. The second group takes it because so much is to be gotten out of LSD in the way of a religious implement. The last group doesn't really know why; they take it because it is the thing to do.”
The second interviewee said. “The kicks group starts with alcohol and then goes to grass (marijuana).
Thev think grass is a great high, but then they find out about LSD. Those are the guys that lead up to real narcotics.”
The first interviewee, who was at one time a pusher, but was scared into quitting,” estimates that 500 students at USC take LSD.
“Contrary to the normal person's concept of a user of LSD, or a doper as they might call him, there is no general category of people who take this drug. You can't just look at a person you meet and tell. He might be a long-hair, or a Joe College, or an intellectual,” said the first user.
“The benefit of taking LSD is not material or physical, but it involves learning about yourself. Who you are. What you are. What you must do.
“It offers a chance of finding happiness with a completely clear, untroubled mind. The right way to take LSD is with the intention of getting yourself somewhere. Somewhere where all your phoniness is gone and you are a real person.”
The first student, however, takes an entirely different view concerning LSD than the other four students. He has taken acid 50 times. The others have gone on 12, 12. 11 and four trips respectively.
The first student now takes acid entirely as a reli-
gious implement, but the others take it because of curiosity, because it is a really good "high,” or because they are interested in knowing what it is like.
They all agree that there is a right and wrong way to take acid. The most important factor is the environment. When acid is taken, the person should be in a place where he is normally happy.
A first-time user should read “T h e Psychedelic Experience,” by Drs. Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzer, they add. A guide, either on or off LSD during the session, should be with the user. A guide is a person who should be experienced with LSD, and a close friend.
The third student had a bummer (a bad LSD experience) the first time.
“The only reason it was bad was because I dropped a little more acid than I was ready tor. I was just in a state of confusion and bewilderment. I wasn't ready to realize what to accept—to the point that I almost blew it,” he said.
“An acid trip is practically impossible to describe in words dealing with conscious reality. It is a state of mind complicated by a series of thought forms in which the real or sane world is overlapped with visual and sensual distortions. Patterns and colors become visible,
and weaving motions twist your perception. I would briefly describe LSD as an experience of total introspection,” he explained.
A normal dosage of acid is 250 micrograms. With more acid the trip changes and it becomc3 an ego involvement experience, rather than a state of hallucinations. he added.
“With a dose of 250 micrograms, your level of awareness is raised, but only to the extent of seeing and hearing some of the pretties (hallucinations)," he 3aid.
“With up to 500 micrograms, the experience changes. Things just don’t move a little more and colors aren't a little bit brighter and music isn’t just a little bit more sensual. The trip changes. From here you go into a trip that is a state of mind. Here is where the ego. struggling to remain, gets into play.
“Reality — or one's concept of it — melts away, leaving only a world as it reaily is but without one's ego to relate to it. The user is an unbiased observer.”
No. 5 recently took his first trip because he is bored with what he calls the concept of life where the ultimate in fun is pizza and Pepsi.
“It occurred to me while under the influence that we (Continued on Page 2)
Polls Open on Row; Elections End Today
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
ASSC spring elections will continue today from 9:45 a.m. until 4 p m. in front of Bovard Auditorium and from 9:45 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. st the polling booths located on the Row at University Avenue and 28th Street cn the Alpha Delta Pi sorority lawn.
Elections Commissioner Laury Scott said the same procedures will be used today that were used in yesterday’s voting. All fulltime students, both graduate and undergraduate, are eligible to vote. They must show their photo-ID cards to be admitted to the polling area.
Scott emphasized that non-regis-
TYR Head
Answers DT Allegations
The following is * statement by Linda Dulgairan, president of Trojan Young Republicans, answering certain allegations made a.bout her group’s use of outside financial assistance in yesterday's Daily Trojan. This is not a retraction, and the Daily Trojan maintains that it misquoted no one — THE EDITOR.
By LINDA DULGARIAN
As the duly elected and sole spokesman for TYR.. I am taking this opportunity to refute the maliciously false statements appearing in yesterday's DT insinuating that TYR possibly received outside funds for their NSA campaign. I assure all students that absolutely no funds have bsen given to TYR for the fight against NSA.
Evidently yesterday's o r o n i o u s statements refer to the $156 printing cost of the True Trojan. S46.80 for “Stop NSA" buttons, and S27 for posters.
For information of all. and the books are open, the TYR bank account currently exceeds S250 which sum has been supplied solely by dues and fundraising projects since November 1966.
I wish to emphasize that I never admitted to the DT editors or reporters or any student at any place nor at any time the fact that TYR had obtained funds from outside sources. My statement in the past, now and in the future is simply that the Trojan Young Republicans have been attacked for solely political reasons — namely in a final attempt to try and keep NSA on campus. This style of dirty, libelous politice is despicable and totally unacceptable for the prestigious USC campus.
tered students are eligible to vote. He recommended that they use the left-hand, “non-registered students.” lines to avoid confusion.
When asked about the effectiveness of the voter registration procedure. Scott said, “It hasn’t made any difference at all. Of course there haven^t been many lines that we could judge from—it's been moving pretty quick.”
Voting is being done by computer card. Each voter will receive an ASSC ballot, two election proposal cards and one grade representation card. Ballots are to be marked by completely blackening the appropriate box.
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1967
NO. 98
Mayock Lambasts TYRs Article About TIP for Premeditated Libel
By FRED SWEGLES
Trojan Independent Party officials accused the Trojan Young Republicans yesterday of “pure and simple maliciousness" and “premeditated libel” for TYR’s article on TIP in the
TYR “True Trojan” published yesterday.
“The ‘un-True Trojan’s’ premeditated libel of the Trojan Independent Party and its members serves as an outstanding example of McCarthyism
SIGNS OF THE TIMES—Every element of an election was captured in this montage by Daily Trojan photographer Ed Stapleton — posters, platforms, voters. The ASSC
elections go into their final day today, with voting both at Bovard Auditorium and on the Row. It will all end with the announcement of the winners at 6:30 p.m.
Laurel
AWS
Award Needs A Rest; Proposes Replacement
at its best,” TIP President Mike Mayock said.
“The article calls me ‘an obvious fraud',” TIP spokesman John Medford said. “It seems to me this article is an obvious fraud.”
The controversial article, called TIP a political “front for the new left.” It criticized several TIP members, notably Mayock and Medford, and called TIP an “SDS-controlled group.”
Both Mayock and Medford said they would investigate the possibilities of a libel suit against the authors of the article.
“I certainly don’t consider myself a member of the new left',” Medford said. “I am not now nor have I ever been a member of SDS. as the article states. Their statements about me are very nearly grounds for a libel suit.” “As far as libel is concerned,” said Mayock, “I am considering filing suit for the allegation made that I was Taylor Hackford's patronage-appointed TIP representative.
“The innuendo that I was from ‘BERKELEY.’ (sic) and was therefore a leftist—although I left Cal long before the Free Speech Movement—is a typical example of the poisoning-the-well logic employed by intellectually dishonest people who desecrate the concept of freedom of the press.”
Both Mayock and Medford attacked the article’s statement that Dave Berg was TIP executive secretary. “He isn’t even a member,” they agreed.
The article’s statement that Jim McGowan was chairman of TIP was refuted by Medford, who said McGowan was ousted last fall. Mayock called the TYR statement that TIP
is SDS-controlled “a deliberate prevarication.”
To the TYR statement that TIP is “clearly anti-fraternity.” Mayock noted that some members of TIP are Greeks and that both ASSC presidential candidates agreed with TIP’s platform.
Can Troy Out-Bleed The Bruins?
The cries of “Bloody." often heard at USC - UCLA football games, will become more of a reality than ever before as the 1967 Red Cross Blood Drive begins today.
Trojan Knights, sponsors of the blood drive, have accepted UCLA's challenge on behalf of the university to “Out-bleed the Bruins."
The drive will begin today at 11 a.m. and continue through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the base-m e n t of the University Methodist Church. 835 W. 34th St.
Students who have not made appointments to donate blood through their living groups or campus organizations may sign up at the table in front of the Student Union this week.
More than 100 prizes will be awarded to donors who will be chosen at random. Awards include gift certificates from Silverwoods and Brussels, free dinners at Julie's and Carl's and free hours at the Billiard Den.
By GEORGENE McKIM
A change in award philosophy has prompted the AWS to recommend the discontinuance of the Order of the Laurel and the implementation of scrolls or other “thank you’s” to recognize outstanding women students.
AWS President Charla Hindley announced yesterday.
The objection to the Order of the Laurel, the highest award for a senior woman, is that the criteria are vague and that it singles out only one senior woman when there might be several worthy of recognition.
FOCUS ON THE ARTS'
Alien Ginsberg to Read Poetry
By CHUCK ZAREMBA Co-News Editor
Allen Ginsberg, the poet of the hippies, will join the comprehensive scope of “Focus on the Arts: 1967,” which will begin its week-long program on campus Sunday.
Ginsberg will present a public poetry reading Thursday, April 13. at 3 p.m in Alumni Park, sponsored by the English Department.
He will also discuss poetry and present readings at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 14, in Hancock Auditorium. The first program is sponsored by the School of Library Science.
Ginsberg is the author of “Howl end Other Poems.” “Empty Mirror: Early Poems.” “Kaddish and Other
Poems" and “Reality Sandwiches.”
His poetry has been published in Italian, German, French, Finnish, Russian. Bengali. Japanese, Hindu and Spanish. He has given readings in Havana, France, Moscow and Warsaw. in addition to the United States.
He is also a contributor to the Evergreen Review and the Journal for the Protection of all Beings.
Ginsberg’s appearances are the foremost among three new additions to the schedule for “Focus on the Arts.”
There will also be a premiere of “The Flop Day,” a new play by Iikic Hughes, in Town and Gown Foyer April 12-15 at 8:30 p.m.
In addition. “Work in Progress,” a reading of James Joyce’s novel
“Ulysses,” as adapted for the stage by Nina Shaw, will be presented at Stop Gap Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m.
These programs will join such events as the presentation of three experimental multi-media films produced by avant-garde film maker Stanley VanDerBeek in association with USC cinema students during his month-long stay on campus. This program is scheduled Monday night at 7 and 9 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium.
A complete schedule of all the events that will comprise “Focus on the Arts,” with dates and times, will be published Friday in the Daily Trojan. In addition, “Focus on the Arts” will be the subject of a special insert next week.
Miss Hindley expressed several reasons for the proposed scrolls. AWS feels that a scroll or similar token could be kept by the recipient in remembrance of the appreciation of the Associated Women Students and that a great deal of money previously invested in trophies could be used in a better manner, she said.
In the past the women's alumni groups have presented trophies and awards to deserving students (e.g., Elizabeth von KleinSmid Award, Emma Bovard Award, Junior Auxiliary Award and the YWCA Award).
Miss Hindley said that AWS has asked the alumni groups to devote the funds that were used for such awards to scholarships and other forms of assistance that would be of more use to the student.
The proposed scrolls would equalize the recognition of students since they would be based on an individual’s particular merit and special contributions to the university rather than participation in a specific category as is the case with the alumni awards. The recipients would be women recognized and respected among their peers. Recommendations would come from deans, faculty, advisors and head residents.
The number of scrolls to be a-warded each year is left unstated since AWS wants to make allowances for the different numbers of outstanding participants.
Advocate of Black Power Slated to Speak at Noon
Lennie Eggleston, board chairman of the California Community Alert Patrol, will speak on “Black Power ’ today at noon in 156 Von KleinSmid Center. The meeting is being sponsored by the Trojan Young Democrats.
Eggleston will deal especially with Negroes’ views of the white community and the role that whites can play in the “Black Power” movement.
“We think it is important for USC students to become aware of the true significance of the Black Power movement,” Wendy Thompson, T\D recording secretary said. “It is a philosophy rich with meaningful insights from which we can all benefit. ’ As chairman of the California Community Alert Patrol board, Eggleston has worked to better relations between the police and the community. He has also tried to encourage more young people to enter police work as a career.
In an article in last week’s issue of West Magazine, Eggleston was quoted as having told USC students: “You’ll just keep on living in your little white community, watching your television set, driving your car on the freeway and listening to all that bull in class and you’ll be dumb the resl^of your life.”
LENNIE EGGLESTON
Black Power Advocate