April 29, 1976
Compiles
Catalog
Dr. Melvin H. Wolf,
professor of humanities and
English at Penn State Capitol
Campus, is the compiler of
the recently published cata
log and set of indexes to a
300-year old collection re
lating to early printing.
The collection, now held
by The British Museum and
Library, was first gathered
by John Bagford in the late
1600’s but has never been
cataloged. It includes seve
ral thousand title-pages and
fragments of English printed
books published in the 15th
through 17th centuries, and
preserves a leaf from a copy
of the Gutenberg Bible,
generally considered to be
the first large book to be
printed from moveable type
in Europe.
This is the first catalog of
any part of the British
Library’s collection of print
ed books to be produced
with the help of a computer.
The 506-page volume was
compiled, edited and pro
grammed by Dr. Melvin H.
Wolf. The British Library’s
Principal Keeper of Printed
Books, in his Preface to the
catalog, states, “We are
greatly indebted to Professor
Wolf both for the original
idea of indexing this material
in this way, and for carrying
out the work single-handed.”
Publication of this cata
log culminates several years
of work on the part of
Professor Wolf, an active
researcher in the area of
computer applications to the
study of literature and the
humanities.
Scholarships
Are Available
Two memorial schlar
ships for the 1976-77
academic year will be
awarded at June Com
mencement.
The awards will be made
in honor of former faculty
members Wayne Lee, Busi
ness, and Lois Mark,
Education
Funds for the scholar
ships have been donated by
the Capitol Campus Faculty
Women’s Club.
Applications for the
Memorial Schlarships are
now available in the Finan
cial Aid Office.
Candidates should sub
mit their applications by May
3rd at 5:00 p.m. and file a
1976-77 Confidential State
ment as soon as possible if
one is not already on file at
University Park.
Recipients will be deter
mined by the Capitol
Campus Faculty Committee
on Academic and Athletic
Standards, Awards and
Scholarships.
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Reefer Madness Examined
(CPS)—‘‘Reefer Mad
ness,” the once popular
concept of marijuana that
misled a generation’s beliefs
about the drug, began with
an obscure tax bill hearing
nearly 40 years ago, ac
cording to a legal researcher.
Charles H. Whitebread of
the University of Virginia’s
law school traced the history
of marijuana laws from the
passage of the first state
prohibition of the drug by
Utah in 1915.
Whitebread, who began
searching records in 1968 to
discover where the idea
started of making marijuana
usage criminal, said 27
states had made the drug
illegal when Congress
passed the Marijuana Tax
Act in 1937.
Congressional hearings
on the bill lasted only two
hours, Whitebread said.
“Their key witness was
Enslinger, the head of the
HACC Offers
Spanish Class
HACC will be offering a
course in Beginning Spanish
May 17-June 25.
Classes will be held
Monday through Friday from
9:25 a.m. until 12:05 p.m.
The cost is $17.50 per
credit hour for regional
students and $35 per credit
hour for those outside the
area. For more information
contact Richard De Lucca, in
the Foreign Language De
partment at HACC.
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Federal Bureau of Narcotics,
who testified that marijuana
created in its users ‘insanity,
criminality and death.’”
zthe Marijuana Tax Act,
an extensive measure that
included prohibition of mari
juana and hemp production,
passed Congress without
debate against protests from
the American Medical As
sociation. “Now no medical
bill could pass Congress
without the approval of the
AMA,” Whitebread said.
“Why did it then?”
Birdseed manufacturers
who were using marijuana
seeds in their mixed seed
products were exempt from
the act because, Whitebread
said, “they tried other seeds,
but none other made the
bird’s coats so shiny or
made them sing so much.”
The 1937 act set the
stage for “Reefer Madness,”
Whitebread said, but the real
origin was the sensation
alists newspaper coverage
of five major criminal trails
in the early 1940’s in which
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murderers were acquitted on
criminal insanity resulting
from marijuana use.
A prominent physician
testified in one of the trials
that he had tried smoking
marijuana himself, White
bread said. “After two puffs
on a marijuana cigarette,”
the doctor said, “I turned
into a bat and flew around
the room for five minutes,
landing at the bottom of a
200-foot inkwell.” A terrified
audience bejeived him.
Whitebread said he holds
no high hopes for national
legalization of marijuana
because the public confuses
legalization with promotion.
He believes that suppresion
of marijuana usage poses
graver dangers than legali
zation.
“We simply have more to
lose as a nation from that
intrusion than from practice,
whether it be smoking
marijuana, reading pornog
raphy or using contracep
tives,” Whitebread said.
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Try Flying
Aviation Club Day is just
around the corner-Wednes
day, May 12, to be exact.
The event will take place
from 9:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m.
in front of the National
Guard hanger at Olmstead
National Airport.
Maps to find the area will
be available, and transpor
tation to and from the airport
will be provided to those
students needing it.
Last Year the event was a
huge success, according to
Larry Shrader, president of
the Aviation Club.
Shrader said the club
expects to have several
aircraft on display this year
and to have tours of the
control tower.
Students will be able
to ride for 20 minutes or take
an introductory flight lesson
for 45 minutes with Frank
Smith Aviation.
Students, however, are
reminded they will be
required to make reserva
tions and post a deposit for
these flights on May 6, 7 and
10.
Shrader said in case of
rain, the event will be
postponed until May 19.
Sees All
Nose All
Everyone knows what
happens when the nose
knows but what happens
when the nose sees?
That is the question
quizzical doctors in Japan
are asking as they puzzle
over the case of little Sayuri
Tanaka. Sayuri, 10, has
perfect vision--in both eyes
and also in the left flank of
her nose.
Doctors and researchers
have confirmed it and a
British newspaper reporter
recently clamped tight
blinders over Sayuri’s eyes
and then watched as she
read a magazine, watched
television and caught a
baseball, all by watching
with her nose.
Doctors say Sayuri is
nearly unique. “There are
cases in the Soviet Union,
Albania and the U. 5.,” says
Dr. Toshiya Nakaoka, “inter
estingly, some have vision in
their fingertips, but I have
heard of only one case like
Sayuri’s.” Sayuri herself
takes it all in stride. She
likes to blow minds by riding
her bike blindfolded in heavy
traffic.
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