Tuesday, February 4, 1975
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University Dally Kansan
Lowly mushrooms offer new highs
By BARB HANN
Kansan Staff Reroter
Many people are returning to nature and one of the natural wonders some are discovering is the hallucinogenic effect of some mushrooms.
Since earliest times, some species of mushrooms have been surrounded by fungi.
"We have only a few hallucinogenic species in Kansas," Robert Lichardwik, professor of botany, said last week. "One in particular is very common in Lawrence, but because these are also poisonous creatures, a person must be very careful."
Ancient Hindi books refer to a particular species of mushrooms, the Amanita
Rv Staff Photographer ARDEN SCHAFFER
"God plants"
Seated behind his collection of unusual mushrooms, Prof. Robert Lichwardt, professor of botany, talks about the characteristics and uses of the plants. The mushrooms, sometimes called "God plants," are worshipped by the natives of Kamchatka, near Siberia.
Wasson concluded that each Indo-European people was by cultural inheritance either mycoplasma infected and/or mycoplasma noninfected, or mycoplasma is instinctively knowledgeable and loved of it.
"We will be filling more than 100 summer job positions between now and May 1," DeVictor said recently. "Students should be especially interested in these openings as about one-half to two-thirds of our summer staff is made up of students."
Despite rising unemployment, there are still many jobs available on a seasonal basis, according to Fre迪Victor, assistant Parks and Recreation Department.
Summer job positions available in recreation
WASSON PARTICIPATED in a sacred rite in Mexico where he had eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms. He and his partner said they ate the mushrooms, saw visions and emerged awestruck from the experience.
The department is offering a wide range of employment opportunities. Among the positions to be filled at the municipal pool are jobs as lifeguards, instructors, aides, cashiers and maintenance personnel.
From his many experiences, Wasson formed the theory that ancient man worshipped mushrooms. He said he thought that mushrooms revealed worlds beyond the horizons of space and time, even worlds of being, a heaven and perhaps a hell.
Instructors and specialists in art and ceramics, drama, theater, nature and
A 1957 Life magazine story recounts 30 years of study by R. Gordon Wasson, a retired banker who became involved in the study of fungi, of the strange roles of mushrooms in the early cultural history of Europe and Asia.
muscaria, as a god-plant, Liechwardt said. It will become regularly toxic to all become intoxicated.
Russians are mycophiles, while Greeks,
colts, Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons are
mycophiles.
The common term often mistakenly used for mushroom is toadstool. Wasson said the name toadstool might have come from a fish called an alpaca in mushroom that caused bollinizations.
Sports positions for baseball supervisors, umpires, scorers, tennis instructors and coaches in wrestling, track and field are available. DeVictor said, as are park maintenance positions in gardening, mowing and ball-diamond care.
"We usually get about 300 to 400 applications for the 100 positions, so we tend to be pretty selective," DeVictor said. "We need it, and we have the best experience for the job."
libraries also are being sought, he said.
Many ancient Greeks and Romans believed that lightning bolts created certain mushrooms. American Indians in different regions carried mushrooms "carried you where God was."
"NEVER PUT an unknown mushroom in your mouth." Lichardt said. "The poisonous effects aren't always known, and the antidote may not be known either."
Lichardt is a consultant for the emergency poison control in Lawrence. He said he had yet to find a child who had eaten a poisonous mushroom because the poisonous species just weren't that numerous.
King Charles VI of France was one, Lichwardt said. In his case, there were no effects until 12 to 15 hours after he ate the mushrooms, so even his royal tasters served no useful function in protecting the king.
Lichwardt said that many species of mushrooms existed that could be collected but that most people didn't know about all of them.
Devilctor said his office hadn't received an unusual number of applications, despite the demand.
Wasson, said that hallucinogenic mushroom and medicinal cannabis for spiritual purposes.
Applications and further information are
required from the City of Washington,
Department or at the city's website.
"We have this great fear of mushrooms the really is unwarranted," Lidardwitt said.
Indians who ate these kinds of mushrooms didn't become addicts, he said. "They just ate them."
Lichardt said that Wasson brought attention to the hallucinogenic powers of other plants, as a species of cactus which produced the hallugrigenone, nevate.
THE HALLUCINOGENIC mushroom Amantia muscaria is common in the eastern and north central United States but not in Kansas. Lichwald said.
There is evidence that famous rulers were either purposely or accidentally poisoned.
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Privacy petitions need Dykes' OK
A change in the Senate Code that would make student names unavailable to non-university agencies or groups without the consent of a senate subcommittee was approved last week by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
This change in the code was one of three that were submitted to the administration by the Student Senate in the form of petitions. The petitions will now be forwarded to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes for final approval.
John Beinser, student body president,
said Monday that a response would
probably be forthcoming as soon as Shankel
had reviewed the petitions with Dykes.
The other petitions would approve the distribution of written material on campus without prior approval, and approve the review of residence hall contracts by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH).
Included in the petition to limit the
release of lists of student names was a provision that the Senate's Student Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee would have to consent.
The second petition, which would authorize the distribution of written material without prior approval, also said organized living groups would have the authority to determine regarding the distribution of written material within the living group's halls.
The third petition, which includes authority for the AURH to review residence hull contracts annually, also said an organization or living group could discipline any member for violation of social rules only after establishment of procedures to guarantee adequate due process to all parties involved.
The review board would also examine the cost, rules and regulations, social structure and areas such as special fees included in the contracts.
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