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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 5, 1968
Smoking pot
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hurtly easy to find people. "Some of the people around here are dying to let everyone know they smoke—it's almost like a badge for them," a student said.
Accessories which are sometimes used for pot smoking are sold at several stores in Lawrence. They sell flavored cigarette wrappers and all types of pipes. Also available are "roach" clips and holders which enable a person to smoke a joint (marijuana cigarette) down to the end.
The students who smoke pot don't think it creates any barriers between them and non-smokers.
"Nobody gets up-tight about it. People here are pretty sophisticated about marijuana," one fraternity man said.
A student from San Francisco said police are "not too much of a threat."
He asserted that most of the narcotics agents are known and the word gets around if they are after anyone.
"It's nice how people watch out for everyone else up here—but it's ridiculous that it's necessary."
But as an extra precaution, he hides his marijuana outside his apartment. "I can't see going to jail for something so trivial," he said.
He admits he has not always been that cautious. He said he has smoked joints in front of the Kansas Union, in front of both the Campanile and Malott Hall, and even inside Strong Hall.
One fraternity man conjectured that the illegality makes pot more interesting.
Most students consider laws against it unjust and a few consider it their responsibility to see that laws are changed.
One Kansas City coed said she is not afraid of being arrested.
"I believe that smoking pot is right. I wouldn't mind suffering for what I believe in," she said.
Why do students smoke marijuana? What do they get out of it?
Curiosity leads many students to experimentation. When they find that marijuana can be bbe fun and that it doesn't seem to harm them, they see no reason to stop.
But each person has his own reasons. One fraternity man said he would rather smoke pot now than drink.
"I can't see any moral difference between smoking pot or going out and having a beer," he said.
An Oklahoma senior said he doesn't smoke to find any profound meanings in life, but just to have fun.
"It's like a euphoria," said one coed. She said things around her take on a deeper meaning when she's on grass.
Another said marijuana helps her see reality more clearly.
I can see my real character, what I really am, but that can be depressing." she added.
Very few students think marijuana is leading them to more powerful stimulants.
"I don't even bother to become educated about other stimulants. I have no desire to go further." said one.
Two Kansas City coeds are exceptions—they have recently been taking speed, methedrine, which usually is taken in capsule form.
"I guess you could say marijuana led me to speed," one of the coeds said. "But I don't think there's anything wrong with that."
She claimed that speed has not harmed her in any way. Speed has an effect somewhat similar to marijuana, but the high lasts considerably longer, she said.
Most of those interviewed agreed, however, that the majority of KU users are content to stick with grass. They claim they have not been harmed by it and that the only objections to it come from people who haven't tried it.
Several! said its acceptance by such a wide variety of KU students gives them hope that it may be legalized someday.
"There's nothing wrong with feeling good," a coed said. "But people won't believe it until they try it."
Angry outbreaks
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the full force of the million-man walkout was felt.
Some public officials said they feared that continued strikes and violence could mushroom into a crisis of anarchy like that which shook France last spring.
Toughs from a mob of more than 5,000 students in Naples beat up three police officers and a truck driver who got in the way of their demonstration. Riot police rushed to the scene and dispersed them.
At Florence, demonstrators marching behind a red flag smashed windows of government offices and hurled long wooden sticks at police, injuring four of them. Police stood their ground but did not retaliate.
Two persons have been killed and 180 injured in the nationwide disturbances.
Clark E. Bricker, KU chemistry professor, in a comparison of his philosophy of education to the physicist's Second Law of Thermodynamics, yesterday appealed for persons throughout the world to develop a genuine concern for one another.
Prof appeals for concern
"Lack of concern can be seen in the continuous backbiting within our own country." Bricker told students attending the SUA Topics Forum. "Instead of criticizing, we should help one another."
The chemistry professor substituted this need for concern in the formula for the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Change in free energy (represented by Bricker as human drive), equals change in heat (life), minus temperature (men's concern for each other), minus change in randomness (disorganization of society).
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"Society as a whole today is increasing in randomness," Bricker said. "Only when men's concern for one another is positive rather than negative, will the outcome be favorable," he said, referring to the operation of the physics law.
Bricker advocated that a concern among persons, stimulated by education, is the preventive of randomness. Present isolation is breaking up society, he said.
"Man's basic desire is to be random; basically he isn't much different from an animal."
Bricker came to KU in 1963 from Ohio where he had been Dean of the College of Wooster. At KU, he teaches Chemistry 21 and 22 and an occasional graduate course.
Man can change, the KU chemist stressed. This is the next step in social evolution. "If he does not, all will be destroyed."
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