Mellow Yellow-the craze
"Bah," preclaimed a local merchant.
"How the hell do you light one," asked a Lehigh student.
"Electrical banana, is gonna be a sudden craze. Electrical banana, is bound to be the very next phase," sang Britisher Donovan in "Mellow Yellow."
And at colleges and high schools across the country, it's the now phase; the latest hippie kick: smoking bananas.
Not the whole thing, though; get a banana; peel it; dispose of the "gushy;" scrape off the inside of the peal; bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes or until dried; and smoke it.
Whereas this fad has caused the retail price of bananas to skyrocket in other cities, Bethlehem banana prices (11 cents a pound) are the lowest they have been for 10 years.
Those who've lit the musa sapientum fibers
agree they get a little high, but the United Fruit Co. said, "You can get no psychedelic effect from smoking banana peels." Another company said it's possible to get psilosybin from the smoke.
One student noted the tobacco "tastes like a banana without the gushy, and I never was real big on the gushy."
But the greatest thing is that it's legal: you can smoke it in the U.C., or around the flagpole, and tell a cop. "Hey, I'm smoking a banana to get high. It's hallucinogenic, you know."
And Dean Parr won't have to try setting up discussions as he did for marijuana (although these have never taken place).
Wake up. Lehigh! It's better than booze!
Reprinted from Lehigh University Brown and White
The people say...
To the editors:
I fully realize the great difficulty of summarizing in a few paragraphs the essence of a marathon debate of three and one-half hours, such as I had on last Tuesday with Mr. Robert Love, a member of the national council of the John Birch Society, on the functions of government in democratic America in the mid-1960's. Since, in my opinion, your article in last Wednesday's UDK did not effectively outline the main trend of our controversy, and since many of my comments were either taken out of context or mis-represented, I should like to summarize briefly our respective points of view.
MR. LOVE ARGUED an extreme laissez-faire position. He described government as an agency of force, and advocated that it stay completely out of economic lives of people, as well as of all other aspects of life he dealt with. He came out strongly against public education which, as he described it, is not a "right" since all children are legally obligated to go to school. He considered utterly unnecessary any governmental supervision over consumer goods, including foods and medicines.
He also asserted that police forces are quite useless since they cannot prevent crimes but merely exact retribution. Thieves and burglaries, he argued, prefer to operate in well protected towns
since over-confident people tend to be more carless in such communities. When a woman puts down her bag in a department store, Mr. Love explained, and when a thief steals it, the policeman merely asks the woman, "Who did it?" which she of course does not know. The policeman could not have stopped the theft, which occurred in the first place because of the woman's carelessness.
Mr. Love also argued against social security, against taxation (and in favor of voluntary contributions), and in general, against majority rule. Finally, Mr. Love emphasized that it did not matter what kind of government it was: all government—any government—is bad because it restrains freedom.
1. IN TURN, stated my conviction that the adoption of Mr. Love's policies would bring about the greatest disaster in American history. Not only would it lead to unemployment, to business failures, and to an unprecedented decline in living standards, but it would also result in the loss of all that our forefathers struggled for, and all that we cherish in our land today.
I pointed out that pure laissez faire never did and never could have worked, and that it surely could not work in an advanced industrial society such as ours. Among the necessary functions of government I listed public education (without it education would become primarily the pre-rigative of the wealthier classes); protection of the consumer against harmful products (thalidomide, health endangering foods, toys that catch fire too easily, etc.); control of monopolies (a private individual should not have the right to monopolize the water supply of a town and then charge monopoly prices for water); and many others.
I also pointed out that if it be granted that maximum utilization of our resources and maximum output therefor be our national goal, our government may have to undertake steps in order to assure that total demand be such as to maintain a relatively full-employment economy. This may call for certain monetary and fiscal policies aimed at averting threatening inflations or depressions. In general, then, I argued for "private enterprise whenever possible, and government intervention when private enterprise fails to do the job."
AND I DISAGREED strongly with Mr. Love that the type of government did not matter. I quoted Robert Welch, founder and leader of the John Birch Society, who stated in the BLUEBOOK (the John Birch Society's Bible) that democracy "in government or organization is merely a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery, a perennial fraud." (Seventh printing, p. 124).
"Forward, Men I am 100% For You"
On the contrary, I pointed out, the type of government makes all the difference in the world. If the government is a dictatorial government which wishes to impose its will upon the people from above, I would stand by Mr. Love's side in opposition to it. But if the government is representative of the people, enabling them to do collectively what individuals cannot do each for himself, then I am for it.
Mr. Love and I were in agreement that our government—and any government, for that matter—does things we as individuals do not approve of. But while he argued that the solution is the virtual abolition of government, I argued that government is necessary in a human society and that as inhabitants of a democratic society we must strive by all legal and democratic means at our disposal to improve our government, to back it on what we think it does right, and to alter what we think is wrong. While the democratic process if far from perfect, I maintained, it is still the best thus far known to mankind.
Harry G. Shaffer Associate Professor of Economics
Daily Kansan Thursday, April 27, 1967
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The Hill With It by john hill
"Excuse me," said the big city reporter who stopped me on campus.
"Yeah?"
"ARE YOU A typically misunderstood, somewhat disillusioned and slightly rebellious college student, teeming with internal dissatisfaction at societies' attitudes, and turbulent with a gnawing desire to feel genuine and an individual in a world which appears to place pseudo-values upon surface goals?"
"O.K." I said. Here was a man who knew what he wanted.
"Mind if I quote you on that?" he said, and madly began scribbling. "I'm doing an in-depth article on college students and how and why they turn to . . ." He paused and looked around. "That is, well, you know, why they want to get hung up and freak out."
I NODDED ON CUE, but began to have the distinct feeling that I didn't come in on the first of this conversation.
"Now then, how many trips have you taken?" he asked breathlessly, his pencil poised expectably above his pad.
"Well, let me see . . . " I said, and began thinking to myself that last summer I took the bus to Cleveland, and then that vacation to Disneyland, and, oh yeah, when I went to visit a friend in Possomtrot. "Three trips, I think."
"DID YOU GET A BAD REACTION on your first trip?"
"No, it was a pretty good trip. I guess." I said, except for that little old lady on the bus to Cleveland that sat next to me, glaring at my Playboy and eating garlic sandwiches.
"Were you on grass before you turned to acid?" he asked in a real confidential tone.
"Huh?" I was getting used to this guy not making much sense, but this was too much.
"YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. I'm trying to find out if the average college student uses marijuana before turning to LSD."
"Oh, you're changing the subject now. I was going to tell you about my experiences with grass—"
"Go ahead," he said. "How long have you been on grass?"
"Well, I'm on grass probably a couple of times a week. But that's just when I get in a hurry, because usually I stick to the sidewalks, especially when it's muddy since—"
"Sure. There's supposed to be a good travel agency here in town, and I would just go in and ask for a few folders and—"
"WAIT A MINUTE." he said, nodding like he suddenly understood something. "Not going to give me the low-down, buh? O.K., let's try this one. Would you tell me where you would go right now if you wanted to take a trip."
"Hold it. You're not going to talk. All right, we can play it your way. Will you tell me why you are rebelling, and turned to LSD? What made you become a hinpy?"
NOW I DIDN'T LIKE THAT at all. A little overweight perhaps but . . .
"Look" said the frustrated reporter. "I suppose you're going to tell me that you haven't got a smoking jacket made from the American flag that you wear at picnics, or that you don't sit around in your undershirt leaning against your unpainted basement walls. I've seen pictures of you typical college kids on LSD!"
"My basement wall is not in the least unainted. And I don't lean against it either. Come to think of it, I sit up straight." I said, resenting his implication that I wasn't a typical college student. "Come to think of it, I haven't got a basement."
"Well, I give up," said the disillusioned reporter who was disillusioned at my particular disillusionment. "When I fly back home now to the Post-Herald-Sentinel-Sun-Star-Galaxy-Universe office and tell my editor about the typical college kids and LSD. I'll have to say, 'Look, chief, these kids—'
"DON'T CALL HIM CHIEF," I said, trying to help.
He walked away quite discouraged then, and I felt kind of bad about it so I gave him my best wishes.
"Well, have a nice trip . . ."
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