No Results. Just 'Mellow Yellow
TYR CAMPAIGN INVESTIGATED
The Board of Inquiry meeting last night and into the morning considered complaints brought by AMS President Stu Benjamin against Tro.ian Young Republican-endorsed canddiates and against TYR itself.
Benjamin later withdrew his complaint against the candidates. He said he had only brought the charges to prove a point regarding candidates' supporters.
At 2:30 this morning the board was still considering the complaints of misconduct against TYR in connection with its campaign to stop USC affiliation with the National Student Association.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1967
NO. 99
Ballot Boo Boos Baffle Computer; Results Today
WHAT DO WE DO NOW? — Laury Scott, elections commissioner, iect, and Carl Emerich, member of the elections commission, view with desmay the 1000 incorrectly marked ballots from the student election
Blood Drive Starts; Sets Turn-out Record
Tn spite of the rain, yesterday set n turnout record for the Blood Drive. Two hundred and sixty donors appeared at the Bloodmobile to boost I'SC into what could be one of the most successful blood drives in Trojan history.
Beta Theta Pi leads the fraternities in amount of pints donated. The Betas are followed by Lambda Chi. NROTC. Kappa Alpha, Tau Kappa Ensilon Delta Chi. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Phi Delta Theta. Kappa Sigma. and Phi Gamma Delta.
Betas also lead in the competition for the trophy awarded to the house with the highest percent of members donating bleed. Lambda Chi is in second ril?ce. followed by Tau Delta and Th”ta Chi.
Kanpa Alpha Theta ha? captured an early lend in the sorority competition with Delta Gamma at second pl-’cc. md a tie for third between Alpha Chi Omega ?nd Gamma Phi Feta. Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi pr1 tied for fourth, and Delta Delta Delta is at fifth place.
Amcng th? men’s dorms in the race to se° which floor has the high-
est percentage of donors, first and second floors of Town and Gow'n are tied for first place. Third floor of South Trojan Hall is in second place, followed by sixth tlcor Mark's Tower, and third floor Mark's Tower.
It is still too early in the drive to determine the results of the competition betwreen the women's dorms, however, the third floor of Harris Hall is leading by one pint.
Because of the rain, many students who had signed up to give blood missed their appointments, however they can sLill donate any time from Wednesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Because of an error in scheduling appointments for the Bloodmobile. students who had made appointments after 3:30 should come in before that time, or reschedule their appointments.
During the Blood Drive. McKeev-ers is offering pitchers of beer at discount prices to people wrearing red pins to indicate that they donated blooJ.
More than 100 priz.es will be awarded to donors chosen at random.
By KATHY GALLOWAY
Election Commissioner Laury Scott's car is knowTi as The Mellow-Yellow Psychedelic Love Mochine, he informed the Daily Trojan last night at the YWCA.
This bit of information has little to do with the ASSC elections, but then nothin? that happened last night at the YWCA has much to do with the ASSC elections.
One computer caught fire. Bob Jani garnered two votes, the Election Commission typewriter was reported stolen, no results were announced and all the candidates left.
“If the voters had filled out their ballots correctly, everything w'ould have been all right.” Scott said.
“The main problem is that nearly half the ballots were not completely blacked in. were marked with the wrong ink or were not marked at all," Scott explained.
“The computer rejected a lot of ballots and they had to be marked by hand. There wasn't time to run them through again.”
Scott said results wrould be announced today at 12:30 in the YWCA.
“There's no one to hand count the ballots. People are having midterms this week and I am already asking the elections commission to work three days out of five.” he said.
Results were expected yesterday at 6:30 p.m. The delay caused by the incorrect ballots made it impossible to have the votes counted by that time, and then the computers had to be used for paycheck programming.
Scott said the ballots would run through starting tomorrow morning.
About 2.100 voters turned out.
1.100	on Tuesday. About half of the
2.100	ballots did not go through the computer.
Only about five or ten percent of the ballots w’ere marked incorrectly last year.
“We’ve never had this problem before,” he said.
Scott said the Row lost voters between registration and actual voting, as only 250 of 400 registered voted there.
Another development of this year’s elections will be the removal of the polls at the Medical Campus.
The elections code requires such polls to be there, but not one of the 277 medical students voted.
“The code can be changed and will be changed,” Scott said.
“It's a waste of time and effort to keep it open.”
Students aren’t the only ones in-
terested in the results of yesterday’s voting. The major wire services and the Los Angeles Times have all contacted the campus to learn the results on the NSA vote.
Although four other schools have affiliated with NSA since its CIA involvement was uncovered, this is
the first student vote on affiliation in the nation. ASSC president Taylor Hackford explained.
“Why don’t you have the results?” an AP reporter asked Hackford.
“This is a national release."
12:30 today?
MASS PANDEMONIUM — Candidates, campaign managers and Daily Trojan staffers were stunned by the results of the ASSC election, that is that no results are
available because half the 2,100 ballots were marVed incorrectly. The results of the ASSC elections will be announced at 12:30 at the YWCA, Laury Scoot said.
Business Deans
26 Receive 4.0
List;
CPAs
Twenty-six School of Business undergraduates topped the fall semester dean's list with perfect 4.0 averages for 12 or more units.
They are: Michael Kaplan, Alan Tsuma, Patricia Robbins, Arlene Lieb-erman. Alvin Koski. Martha Angell, Harold Berman, Michael Dellar, Wolfgang Jahn, Michael McMillan, Kathy Daruty, Howard Hammerman, Donald Walton. Robert Duskis, Roger Cope, Michael Murray, Stuart Benjamin,
Edward Diamond, Charles Folcke, Gary Sawka, Judy Weber.
Tommy T. Nakachi. made a 3.S5 and two students, Kenneth D. Alban and David M. Todd, made a 3.8's.
Students with a 3.75 are:
John Adams, Timothy LaBrucherie. Ronald Arak, Craig Cox. Daniel Montrenes, Alan Casden, James Hi-sano, Robert Dick. Vincent Von Der Ahe, David Mead. Jon Rasmussen. Dianne Brock, Thomas Wilkinson, Barbara Wheeler, Richard Cadieu,
MOTHERHOOD, APPLE PIE AND ACID—PART II
The Abstract Religion of LSD and Ego—Loss
(This is the second article of a three-part series on LSD. This story deals with I.SD as a religious experience.—The Editor.)
By ANDY MII I.HK
LSD user No. five has taken acid once a week for over a year. But he no longer takes LSD for kicks, curiosity, or to see the pretties. He takes LSD as a religious experience.
Of the five USC students interviewed, he is the only one who claims to take LSD for religious inspiration. He says the reason ethers oon't view LSD the same way he does is because they haven't taken it enough times, and therefore haven't experienced
what he has.
He threw out a dizzying amount of abstract LSD terms to illustrate what he meant — ego games, the first, second and third bardos. the primary’ clear light, the secondary clear light, the void, ego loss, levels of consciousness.
User No. five's religion is based on “The Psychedelic Experience — A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead,” by Timothy Leary. Ph.D.; Ralph Metzner. Ph.D.; and Richard Alpert, Ph.D. Leary has emerged from the trio to capture the imagination of the young.
The book defines a psychedelic experience as a journey to new realms of consciousness. These experiences, the book says, can occur in a variety of ways: sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation, religious or aesthetic ecstasies — and most recently, LSD.
By using the age-old “Tibetan Book of the Dead,” the psychedelic experience can instruct and direct the LSD user. The book is concerned with death and the rebirth of the ego, the most important concept of the religion.
'You can't think of it as a religion where you go to church. This is a way of life—and living your life is the religion. In my
mind. LSD and the Golden Rule go hand in hand. The preaching of LSD is love your neighbor,” the student said.
“If you really think about it, Timothy Leary is not really teaching more than Christ. And you can see what they are trying to do to Leary — they’re putting him away. In a way Earl Warren can be called another Pontius Pilate.
“Will it be accepted? It’s hard to say now. If you would go back to Christ’s time, you would have to say no. The Romans wrould throw you to the lions. Nowadays they put you away.”
Games people play are important in the religion. They are behavioral sequences defined by roles, rules, rituals, goals, strategies, values and language. There are three levels of consciousness, termed bardos. The third bardo is routine, everyday game reality. The second involves hallucinations. The first is pure a-wareness and ecstatic freedom from all game and biological involvements.
The first bardo is a period of ego-loss, and the primary clear light is seen at the moment of ego-loss. The LSD religion centers around this brief clear light, which is complete ego-loss. Before the primary clear light is the secondary clear light, when the person relates objects to objects, but not to himself. Following the clear lights is the void.
“You can’t apply words to an ego-loss. or a clear light. Complete ego-loss is ultimate truth. The void is absolute nothingness which encompasses everything,” the student said.
“It’s a paradox, but LSD is full of paradoxes. That’s why it is so hard for people to understand. The idea I try to keep in mind is to accept the paradox. And by accepting it to become enlightened to it, without having to figure it out.”
He believes that we all came from the void, and will all wind up there again sometime. It is not a heaven, but a complete peace.
The key word of the religion is anti-phoniness. This comes
through the process of losing one’s ego. With the loss of ego. the user has to face many things and accept many suppressed thoughts. The benefit comes when this “reDorn” person again enters society. There is a gradual shaping of a person's attitude. The user then becomes a better person because he is more truthful with himslf, the student said.
“Too many people have the idea that it is a one-time thing in that you drop a pill and experience an ego-loss and rebirth and their lives will all of a sudden be changed. But 1 don’t think that is being realistic. It is important to have an idea of a constant but gradual shaping of your outlook on life.
“Every trip shows you something different; you see things about life you have never seen before because your ego got in the way of truth. With an ego you figure things out — but you only get so close to the truth.
“An LSD experience where ego-loss is reached can be a very valuable experience. Some people somehow change their lives by just trivial things like cutting their hair.
“Say I had long hair and I looked in the mirror. With an ego I would realize why I'm taking all this crap for having long hair. With an ego, I wrould be prejudiced because it is my own hair. But if I look at myself as a stranger. I might cut my hair.
“I’m sure LSD is not the answer for everyone. I would hope it would be the answer for at least 90fo of the students. I feel that anyone who does not find the truth in LSD has problems. These 10% are immature, unstable, and too deep in their game reality.
“I think I have found something while other people are still going through life like a ping-pong ball. I’m personally tired of people’s illogical arguments against LSD. And I’ve yet to hear of a logical argument against it. The people at this school who knock the drug, are not in my opinion expressing their own thoughts, but others.”
Bruce Birkeland. Jean Bellinger. Charles Kawakami.
Raymond Barthel. Lawrence Mc-Cart. David Heller. Michael Bourke, Arthuur Bosworth. Nancy Obenchain, Dixie Smith. Marc Lerner. Gary Stib-el. Kenneth Young, Allan Wexler. C. T. Littleton. Virginia Moser. Steben Fisher.
More are Robert Hada. Philip Hunt. John Lindsey. William Moore, Kathleen Murphy. Stephen Newman. John Podgorny. Nazih Salem, Kenneth Stringer. Marilyn Sutton, Eva Macho.
Alan Wittenberg received a 3.71 snd four students made a 3.7. They are Jeffrey Kaplan. Charles Blenk-horn II, Bary Feiner. and Michael McKee.
Students who made a 3.66 are: William Mallen, Walter Unger. Timothy Irwin, Kathleen Wright, Jon Lrette. Terry Long. Robert Nichcolas, John Rutledge. Jr.. Robert Thompson, Ronald Los?ett, Charles Evans. Mohammed Suliman, and James Wegge.
Paul Shields made a 3.63, and a 3.6 was made by Nan Map!es.
Two students made a 3.55: Patrick Garrett, and Douglas Shurtleff. Robert Dickson and Shiela Shigemura made a 3.53.
A 3.52 was earned by Thomas Kristovich, Leo Norville. William Wade and Kenneth Stanfield
Students who earned a 3.5 are: Ronald Atkins. Michael Gunn, Steven Sogge. Daniel O'Conner. Lisa T'mpe, James Wintrode. Gwendolyn Smith, Eric Young, Gary Perkins Michael •Boland. John Freiburg. Stephen Brown. Craig Haley. John Porter. Henry Blau. Mark Freed. Terry Pop-lawski. Edward Vail, Charles Harrison. Sylvia Bezzola.
More are: Peter Tymstra. John Thomas. Donald Donaldbun. Donald Jones. John Rainey. Michael Crain, Douglas Bower. Randal Bramel. Jlobert Burt. Thomas Callister. Nancy Carver.
Others are: Steven DeGraff, Jonathan Gaule, Richard Heller, Joseph Holm, Marcia Chase. Sharon Klass, Keith Leavitt, Charles Ma-gruder, Christopher Massey, Janice Moser, Barbara Munro. Dennis Parker, John Rooney. Gary Shemano. Leslie Spetz, Duane Waters -t>d Richard