the Michigan Daily-Wednesday, June 9,192- P6ge 1
DIE-HARD DEMONSTRATORS KEEP CONSTANT VIGIL
Living outside the White House
WASHING'I ON (AP)- You don't need to get elec- says that , demonstrations have become so shipped back to the United States.
ted president to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. All it fashionable that authorities frequently get calls from His signs proclaim, "Wanted-Wisdom and
takes is a cause, some homemade signs and a desire tourists asking about forthcoming protests. Honesty" and "Hypocrisy Stinks." Thomas considers
to sleep on the sidewalk outside the White House fen- There's no need, however, to schedule a special himself a citizen of the world and a crusader against
ce. visit to see the "fence people" and their row of signs. national boundaries.
Known to the Secret Service as the "fence people," Rugged individualists as demonstrators go, they
a cadre of free-lance protesters retires nightly on camp day and night under the noses of the passing "I'VE ACCOMPLISHED quite a bit sitting here,"
pads and sleeping bags following a day of scrounging sightseeing buses and the White House residents. he says. When he gets hungry, "I get food out of dum-
for food and exercising their First Amendment William Thomas claims to have seniority among psters. You'd be surprised how much good stuff is
rights, the six hard-core, fencers, whose ranks are oc- thrown away," Thomas says. "And people bring food
- Protests are commonplace in front of the White casionally enlarged when some of Washington's to us.
House and across the street in Lafayette Park. The street people decide to spend a night or two at the
National Park Police says there are about 1,000 White House rather than a park bench. "The Earth is really one unit, and man has only
demonstrations a year in all of Washington, CALLED "DOCTOR" by the other five regulars, imagined these lines for the purpose of serving his
sometimes as many as ten a day. Thomas says he initiated the sidewalk vigil last June own self-interest," says Thomas, who expresses no
GEORGE BERKLACY, a Park Police spokesman, after his passport was lifted in England and he was desire to plead his case personally to the president.
Speed: City users can find it if they want it
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cents a hit. I have a ten cent mark-up,
but I really don't make a profit," he said
with an air of nonchalance about his
clandestine business. Phil sat back on a
ragged sofa in the cluttered dorm room.
The walls were covered with a collage
of Miller beer and hard rock posters.
When asked what he was selling, Phil
crossed his arms and raised the tone of
his voice almost an octave above the
smooth drole he had spoken in moments
ago. "They're pharmaceuticals. Time-
release, so it doesn't hit you as hard as
straight amphetamines."
Phil denied they were Christmas
trees, referring to green and blue cap-
sules available by prescription and
used mostly by athletes. Christmas
trees sharpen reflexes and quicken
alertness - a favorite both among
coaches and students who are not in-
terested in losing too much weight.
PHIL SAID HIS were different.
"They're black and yellow. Other times
they're green and yellow. But they're
pharmaceuticals," Phil explained,
"time release."
Perhaps Phil and his roommates are
dealing in what are called Yellow
Jackets, a strain of amphetamine. They
may not even know what they're
dealing in - it could be Allarest,
because any drug, from Anacin to
heroin, is a "pharmaceutical" in that it
can be sold either by perscription or
over-the-counter.
The dorm Doctors get their "phar-
maceuticals" from a friend of a friend
and a friend, etc., not unusual in
dealing with speed. Annie, who got Liz-
zie speed for David, had called a friend
who got it from her brother, a medical
doctor. Phil, Ari, and Bob don't know
the direct source of what they're
selling.
"I THINK it's University Hospital,"
Phil said ominously.
"It might bo Kalamazoo though," Ari
interrupted.
"Yeah," Phil agreed, "but it might
be U-Hospital, too."
As much speed itself is dangerous
when abused, as it often is, it is even
more dangerous dealing with someone
who doesn't know what they are selling.
A good Doctor, like any real M.D., is
concerned about both maintaining his
or her reputation and the welfare of the
customer. No one wants to be respon-
sible for the death of a 21-year-old heart
attack victim.
So where is the "high quality" speed?
RESTAURANTS IN any city, Ann
Arbor being no exception, are always
dependable outlets for drugs, or at least
} a good word on where to go for them.
The ironic but true joke at one Ann
Arbor restaurant one Friday night was
that the staff made more money selling
drugs, including high-grade strains of
marijuana, cocaine, and speed, than
the restaurant itself did selling food and
drinks. Management either doesn't
know about the restaurant's un-
derground business, or it chooses to
ignore it. Most managers accept it as
inevitable.
Shelley, a university student who
works as a waitress, makes a few ad-
ditional dollars on the side selling blue
tables called "blues," a combination of
dexadrine and amphetamines.
"ONE HALF OF one of these will
keep you up all night," Shelley advises
a customer. "You'll really mess up
your stomach if you do more than
that."
Shelley should know, standing at five
feet, ten inches, with a weight of only
115 pounds. She says that being busy at
work keeps her slim. But the blues
assure that she keeps up the often hec-
tic pace of her job.
Shelley's blues are one dollar a hit,
imported from England where they're
legal. Her boyfriend's brother sends
them over. Again, another chain of
dealers, but in this case, each link is
definable, where in other situations,
such as that of the dorm Doctors, the
chain is tangled and perhaps even inef-
fective.
ONE MIGHT MAKE the sordid
analogy that speed in Ann Arbor can be
delivered as quickly as a pizza from one
of its many pizza restaurants. Note that
David got his hit in forty minutes, the
same amount of time it takes for a pizza
to be delivered after it is ordered.
Unfortunately for David, both of the
restaurants he works for have co-
workers who can supply him with
what has become his sustenance. His
favorite and most effective hit is
crystallized speed or powder, sulphate
and amphetamine cut and stretched
with a bit of caffeine. David either snor-
ts it like cocaine, or adds the speed to his
coffee, and zips through another day at
school and work.
When the speed market is desolate,
people turn to over-the-counter drugs
as a last resort. Favorites among the
students include water and diet pills,
such as Aqua Ban and Dexatrim.
"THE HIGH," exclaimed a resident
director for a dorm, Michelle," is
almost like speed. You get nervous,
headaches, and a numbness in your
face and stuff." She began to play with
her hands as if to quiet a numbness,
and added, "But it's not as harsh, really,
as speed."
Chemical additives, such as am-
monium chloride in the water pills, and
phenapropanalomine in the diet pills,
have long-term adverse effects too.
Pharmacist Greg Puntiniello, of
Richardson's Pharmacy explained,
"The ammonium additive stimulates
the kidneys to flush the system such
that it becomes bleached of vitamins.
The system doesn't have a change to be
practical and selective because of the
caffeine."
Pantiniello said that both kinds of
drugs have up to 200 milligrams of caf-
feine, comparable to two cups of coffee.
Amphetamines, on the other hand,
would be comparable to the caffeine of
ten cups of coffee - all at once.
PANTINIELLO ADDED that
phenapropanalomine acts as an ap-
petite suppressant, but because of the
caffeine, the chemical cannot be selec-
tive, and stimulates other areas of the
brain. Phenspropanalomine is also
used in antihistimines, and causes the
user'a mucous membranes to contract,
leaving the eyes, nose, and mouth dry.
The adverse effects of amphetamines
are worse: Brain damage, heart
problems, and kidney failure, as in the
case of the young woman who died of a
heart attack, the last-resort over-the-
counter drugs can catch up with the
user and bring on a comparable
magnitude of problems.
Will the user stop taking speed when
the semester's over? Or will he or she
really rely on it to get them through a
summer job - if it is that demanding
and they are that dependent on speed?
What about after they graduate? Will
they be able to keep up with the rat
race? Will they make it to graduation?
Maybe. Maybe all it will take it one
more hit. Just one more. And then you
can relax. Not until all your work is
finished. Then you can relax. Not yet
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