TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ELEVEN TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1966 TUE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ELEVEN DRUGS ON CAMPUS: Government Seeks To . Put Lid on Use of LSD, EXPANSION APPROVED: State Board Calls for Autonomy of MTU Branch In July, Gov. George Romney signed into law a bill making the manufacture and possession- of LSD a felony. This action is part of a series of events illustrating the great concern of adults around the na- tion about the use of LSD. Con- gress has held hearings on it to find out how widespread its use is and what should be done about it, if anything. A special corps of undercover agents is going into action on college campuses and elsewhere to combat the illicit manufacture, sale and use of the mind-expand-. ing drug LD, the Food and Drug Administration has revealed. FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard said LSD has been un- der intensive investigation by med- ical researchers since it was dis- covered by accident in 1943, and that no legitimate medical use has ever been found for it. Pure Bunk' Asked what he thought of the widely-published claim that LSD k "expands" the mind and makes possible a sort of mystical spiritual experience, Goddard snapped, 'Pure bunk." "It's an extremely dangerous drug that can precipitate serious psychiatric illness or even suicide," he added. Goddard said that no one real- ly knows how widespread the cur- rent LSD fad is. "You hear loose talk about 30 per cent of college students using LSD, but I know of no reliable data on the extent of the usage," he said. "That's one of the things we're trying to find out now." Goddard said the FDA, together with the National Institute of discover how widespread abuse of Mental Health, would attempt to LSD has become. "Along with this will be an edu- cational effort aimed at college students and others who seem to be particularly at risk, to try to acquaint them with the dangers of thed rug and to counteract this dangerous publicity that others have put forth advocating the use of the drug for mystical experi- ence," Goddard said. He revealed that special inves- tigators are in training now at the University of California at Berke- ley. "We now have '60 men working out there who are being trained as undervocer investigators. We have already graduated two class- es and there will be more brought into the program after July," he said. Three states--California, Neva- da and Michigan - have passed laws banning the manufacture, sale and use of LSD and have im- posed severe penalties on viola- tors. Other states have bills pend- ing which would make possession of the drug a, felony. Campuses Awash There has been a flood of re- ports which make it appear that America's colleges and university campuses are awash with mari- Juana, lysergic acid diethylamide -LSD-25 - mescaline, psilocybin and other drugs, such as pep pills and goof balls. There is evidence that at schools all over the United States there are some students who have had some experience with LSD or grass, as marijuana is now called by the hip or in groups. Some. But how many? No one really has any concrete figure. No one knows how many of the nation's 5,320,294 college and university students are using, or have used psychedelic - mind- manifesting-drugs. Timony Leary, a pioneer ex- perimenter with LSD, estimates that perhaps one-third of the nation's young college students are experimenting with the drug. He bases his estimate on information he hays he has received from cor- respondents - about 700 letters a week--students and faculty who have attended his lectures, and from numerous sources among college and high school age groups. Goddard gave some clue to the extent of college use at a Senate hearing at which he rejected sug- gestions by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn) that use of LSD be made a crime. "It would automatically place maybe 10 per cent of hundreds of thousands of college students in the category of criminals. I would hate to see them chargedj with a crime," Goddard said. The FDA issued a warning to college administrators in Aprilt saying that use of mind-manifest- ing drugs was increasing and call- ed it an insidious and dangerous activity. Whatever the number of users,3 to most school administrators any incidence spells trouble. Despite, the kinds of pressures that can be applied to schools by parents as well as governmental bodies, ad- ministrators generally seem to be taking the situation in stride. "The g e n e r a 1 denunciation against LSD is not expressed in warnings against its use on moral grounds, but that it is dangerous," says Howard Becker, sociology pro- fessor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He is author of "Outsiders," a book which deals, with deviant behavior by youth. Another professor suggests that even warnings about a danger may fall upon unconcerned ears. "It is difficult to tell a kid he may lose his mind with LSD when he knows he can have his whole head blown off in Viet Nam." Talks with students and faculty at various schools from coast to coast appear to bear this out. Users Doubt Danger "Grass has been accepted on campuses because no one really be- lieves it is harmful," says a Uni- versity of Texas student. "Too many people who are edu- cated-you know, we can read and write and reason-know from ob- servation, logic and even exper- ience, that stories about mari- Juana simply are not true. They are convinced that the threat to health and morals is no greater than with ordinary tobacco and certainly far less than with alco- hol." Is this dabbling with drugs a tell-tale sign that the college gen- eration is going to be lost to real- ity? How does one assess the gen- eration? "I do not despair for this college generation," says Northwestern's Dr. Wolff. "They are more intel- ligent, more alert, thinking more, doing more, and are probably physically healthier than any oth- er generation in our history." The State Board of Education approved last June the expansion of the Sault Ste. Marie branch of Michigan Technological University to a four-year degree-granting institution. The branch presently offers only the first four years. The board also named Harold T. Smith of Kalamazoo to the post of Project Director for development of a State Plan for Higher Edu- cation. The board also approved a pro- gram leading to independence of the branch within a six year per- iod. Michigan Technological Uni- versity is expected to ask the state Legislature for authorization and funds towards an autonomous Sault branch. Autonomy Representatives of the univer- sity said they hope that the auton- omy can be granted sometime be- tween 1968 and 1972. This action would bring to 12 the number of four-year state-supported institu- tions of higher learning. The board's decision on the Sault branch was based on an ad- visory committee recommendation made last October that the branch be expanded beginning this fall. Thomas J. Brennan, board pres- ident, said that one consideration in the Sault decision was the fact that the board has "clearly stated its opposition to additional uni- versity branches and its desire that those which do exist should become autonomous in the near future." This statement could very easily have an effect on the University's Flint branch. The question of dis- putes over whether the Flint branch should remain under Uni- versity administration or be grant- ed autonomy was not raised. How- ever, the Sault decision may pre- sage a potential board policy to convert all branches of the present state colleges and universities to; autonomous units. Smith Smith has been Economic Pro-: gram Director of the Upjohn In- stitute since 1957 and prior to that was a professor and later vice-president of Kalamazoo Col- lege for 11 years.F The education plan is expected to be ready in its final form earlyI in 1967, according to board mem- ber Charles Morton. Discussed by educators for almost a decade, the idea behind a master plan for post-secondary education is to establish uniform guidelines which can be applied to individual policy decisions relating to Michigan's rapidly expanding system of high- er education. Branch Controversy For example, a state plan with an explicit policy on the proper role of branch colleges would have been applicable two springs ago when a heated controversy arose over the addition of freshman sophomore classes at the Uni- versity's Flint College branch. MSU Request Michigan State University re- quested the State Board of Edu- cation to approve expansion of MSU's new two-year medical school to a four-year. degree- several years until the Legislature granting progran gave its consent. Last November The request came in the form of the board decided not to take a a letter from MSU President John position on the question because Hannah to the board, saying the the Legislature had already acted MSU trustees instructed him to upon it, though Board President ask approval of a 'full degree pro- Thomas Brennan indicated at that gram in human medicine." time that the board planned to The two-year MSU College of consider budgeting of the MSU Human Medicine will open this program. fall with a class of about 25 stu- Brennan commented that he dents. Original approval of thej- controversial college came before the board began operating, but the school needs board approval to expand. According to Dr. Leon Fill, chairman of the board's medical education subcommittee, the re- quest will be studied by the State Board of Higher Education and will be referred to the board's committee on education for health care. 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