Drugs
KU sponsors conference on use and effect of drugs
By VIKI HYSTEN Kansan Staff Writer
Drug abuse has been a topic of extreme interest at KU. Last week eight persons-five of them KU students-were arrested in Lawrence and charged with violating federal drug laws.
Interest also comes from KU's chapter of the American Pharmaceutical Association which plans an all-day public conference today on the use and effect of drugs.
In addition, Watson library is displaying a showcase of books and pamphlets about drugs in the sub-basement display area.
One book-not on display-presents a picture of illegal drug use in the United States, Sweden and Britain. This book, "The Drug Scene" by Donald B. Louria, attributes drug addiction to poverty, alienation, breakdown of the family, intolerable home conditions, sexual problems and societal emphasis on sensual values among others.
However, a publication of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says "drug abusers may come from any occupational, educational, religious and socio-economic
group. Regardless of how or why people start taking drugs, they soon come to depend on them as a chemical crutch to solve the everyday problems of life."
Users are numerous
Reports from the FDA and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics indicate the drugs young adults will eat, smoke, drink, inject or sniff are numerous.
Dangerous drugs are amphetamines (stimulants) and barbiturates (depressants). Some of the popular names for stimulants are "co-pilots," "bennies," "ups," and "pep pills." The depressants have such names as "yellow jackets," "blue heavens," "blue devils," "phennies," "downs," and "goofballs."
There is another group of drugs which, in the past few years, have grabbed the American public's attention—the hallucinogens.
LSD is most sensational
Marguerite Clark, for some years medicine editor of Newsweek magazine and author of books on medical and scientific subjects, reports in PTA magazine most sensational of the hallucinogens is LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide.
Among the "hipped" it is known as "acid," "Big D," "trips," "cubes" and "sugar."
Mrs. Clark said marijuana, often called "pot," "grass," "Mary Jane," "tea," or "locoweed," is a milder hallucinogen.
She explained that by distorting reality, hallucinogens could lead to the users irrational and dangerous behavior, in some cases ending in death. Inhaled solvents such a glue, she said, may damage the kidneys, liver and heart.
Although doctors and scientists generally agree the use of LSD and other hallucinogens bring harmful physical effects, there are areas of dissent.
May cause birth defects
a tricycle race and the crowning of the Phi Psi "500" queen will take place at the fifth annual Phi Psi "500" to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The races, Goplerud said, will take place in the Phi Psi parking lot. The tricycles will be furnished by the Phi Psis.
Trike race planned Phi Psi queen to be announced
Pete Goplerud, Iowa City, Iowa, sophomore and chairman of the "500," said the queen candidates represent the sororities and residence halls on campus. He said the queen will be chosen on the basis of her poise and beauty and the winner announced before the start of the race.
Goplerud said the course will be complicated by various obstacles including mud puddles, swinging eggs, and sandpiles.
He said during the relays the participant cannot leave her tricycle until she reaches the designated area in which she relays her tricycle to a teammate for continuance of the race.
He said the race will consist of four different heats and a small trophy will be awarded to the winner of each individual heat. The final winner will receive the annual Phi Psi "500" trophy which is now held by the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
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Goplerud listed the queen candidates as: Marsha Cromwell.
A report from Dr. Virginia Apgar, head of research at the National Foundation-March of Dimes, said LSD users subject their children and children's children to possible birth defects. Marguerite Clark contends LSD definitely damages human chromosomes, the hereditary material found in all body cells.
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Wichita, senior, Alpha Chi Omega; Joan Shellenberger, Manhattan, sophomore, Alpha Delta Pi; Cheryl Orth, Overland Park, junior, Alpha Gamma Delta; Mardie Ladwick, Fort Madison, Iowa, junior, Alpha Omicron Pi; Brenda Pine, Lyons, sophomore, Alpha Phi; Lee Rothermel, Winnetka, Ill., sophomore, Chi Omega; Martha Noland, Kansas City, sophomore, Delta Delta Delta; Shannon Mandle, Wichita, sophomore, Delta Gamma; Vee Ann Stephens, Prairie Village, sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta.
Mary Pfuetze, Hinsdale, Ill., Pi Beta Phi; Mary Sturgeon, Dodge City, sophomore, Sigma Kappa; Janet Winn, Overland Park, sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Barb Jacobs, Kirkwood, Mo, freshman, Corbin; Maureen Callahan, Prairie Village, freshman, Gertrude Sellars Pearson; Judy Finn, Roland Park, graduate student, Naismith; Carol Cornish, Chanute, sophomore, Hashinger; Marsha Brim, St. Lous, Mo, freshman, Oliver, and Terri Williamson, Overland Park, sophomore, Lewis.
A National Foundation—March of Dimes pamphlet also warns of the dangerous effects of these drugs on unborn children.
However, Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) gave a report to the Senate subcommittee in March 1968 on his findings on LSD and marijuana. In the Congressional report he said scientists did not yet know whether the chromosomal changes noted in LSD users were long term and a prelude to other diseases or whether they were short term with no significant consequences.
He added the evidence on birth defects was not definite. He said the use of LSD was on the decline but it was estimated nearly two million college and high school students have had some experience with marijuana and its use is increasing.
examples of off-campus apartment dwellers, fraternity men, sorority women, dorm residents, the hippie groups, KU athletes and a faculty member who were pot smokers.
Black movement featured by SUA
The report also stated several students said its acceptance by such a wide variety of KU students gave them hope that it would some day be legalized.
The SUA Minority Opinions Forum has scheduled Jim Turner and Playthell Benjamin, speakers on the black movement and history, to appear this weekend, said Jay Barrish, Kansas City graduate student and forum chairman.
Barrish said Turner, who holds a doctorate degree in political sociology and is dean of the newly established Institute of Black Studies at Cornell will speak at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
The reporter quoted one coed as saying "there's nothing wrong with feeling good. But people won't believe it until they try it."
While the effects of long-term use of marijuana are not known, he explained, studies of short-term use shows marijuana leads to faulty perception—a really exaggerated notion of thinking more clearly, profoundly and creatively. It is known to cause reddening of the eye membranes, rapid heartbeat, muscular incoordination, unsteadiness and distortion of time and space perception."
Kansan study
A study made by a Kansan reporter last semester showed smoking pot at KU was widespread and knows no social barriers. The reporter gave
A Lawrence physician, Dale Clinton, said Lawrence does not have a center specifically for drub abusers.