Black Cultural Center Planned The University has begun steps to establish a Black Cultural Cen ter. Working with members of- the Black Student Union ' and the Commission on University Life, President Walker has recommend ed that a non-profit 'corporation be established that could hold funds, rent or buy property, and Otherwise serve as a permanent management' structure for the Center. He has asked the Univer sity's legal counsel; Love Sc Wilk inson, to assist in drawing tip in corporation papers and otherwise providing legal counsel in the _es tablishment of the. Center. President Walker pointed out that assistance in funding _ Center was "a difficult buy not impossible task and one on which we are proceeding as rapidly as possible. "As soon as the Board of Direc tors for the - Black Cultural Center has been chosen, I would like to meet with the members and see what can be done to advance this project." Funds from well-known foun- Marijuana.-Weed With Roots In Hell by Gary Ttiornbloom For opinions on the use of grass it is perhaps best to deal with four main viewpoints: 1. the per sons :who' use• marijuana, 2. the persons who use marijuana for religious rites, 3. the views of med ical .experts and .doctors, and 4. the U. S. Narcotics Bureau. The opinions, will be discussed in the order in which they are listed above. Marijuana is smoked by per ..- sons.tfrom all over the world of all ages, races, religions, and social classes. lioW.ever; -in this country the public eye is on the younger generation, the youth of the fla gon. Most are turned on (initiated to the marijuana) for themselves, while a lot more will actually only smoke four, of five joints and then will be scared away by. the pos sibility of getting busted (arrested on a narcotics charge). The per sons who continue to smoke pot will gradually come :to associate with a select group of friends. The reasons for this are obvious, the smokers will have a big thing in common and the less outsiders there are around. the less chance there is of being busted. The almost unanimous opinion of marijuana smokers is that mar ijuana is goad for a person and it has no drawbacks or hang-ups. They are also unanimous in their description of its effects. Persons who have smoked marijuana quite a few times claim that the herb produces a. feeling of lightness, happiness, all actually a feeling of euphoria. They also make claims of specific sight and hear October 31, 1969 E NITA ... • ,(Continued from rage 2) -This spring ('69) the MITA adopted the exact fare system on the buses with little inconvenience ,dations generally are not available for funding stu,dent centers, and at the present time state -and fed eral funds cannot be used. "But working together," Presi dent Walker said, "I believe we can find funds for the Center, ing perceptions. Little things can be seen better while high, nature is more beautifully appreciable, music sounds better, food tastes better, and words come easier. Poet and philosopher Allen Gins berg asks this: "If marijuana is a hoax, what is Money? What is .the War in. Vietnam? What are the Mass Media?" I -Many different religious cults use marijuana - in their religious ceremonies. Among the religions of the world which use this herb are: the Brahmins, Suddhus, Hin dus, followers. of Zen, and mari juana is also considered to be the beginning of the Yogis path. The Tibetan Yoga and the •Mentra : Yoga followers smoke the herb in their rituals. The Ascetic Yogi _Shiva is believed to have smoked marijuana. Many Homdis be; oefs jav numbered as high as 400,000,- O 0 and have practired their beliefs for quite. a long time. Many of he Eastern religions follow this idea: "The result of eating meat and drinking liquor is that you get filled with passion, rage—and then what happens? The spirit of God _flies out from you." 2 Religions which use this herb are also springing up in the U. S. A lot of them are not sincere in their be liefs, but a great many more are very sinlere. They believe that the cultivation of the cannabis herb helps to bring man closer to the earth and closer to God no matter what religion you belong to. 3 Most doctors are in agreement that marijuana is not the killer drug that it has been made out to be. One doctor's opinion is this: THE NITTANY CUB caused by the transition. This sys tem greatly reduces chances of drivers being held up. It also facilitates maintaining schedules and book-keeping. Behrend receives full-time bus service beginning at 7:08 A. M. and ending at 9:52 P. M. daily- Next week we'll take YOU inside the MITA garage, inside the bus es themselves and behind the scenes in the operating and fund ing of this phenomenon. "Much less dangerous than alco hol and, in the long run, much less toxic than tobacco." 4 Many other doctors share this belief. There is a great lack of medical reports which deal with mari juana. Many consider the LaGaur dia Report to be the most detailed study which b o as .aver keen made. It was made in the year 1944. Most of the other reports are very old and outdated, many of them dat ing back to the 1800's. However it is interesting to note that the majority, of these reports find nothing physically or mentally damaging to a person who smokes marijuana, which may be blamed on marijuana. Two conclusions drawn by the LaGaurdia Report are: "In most instances, the behav ior of the (marijuana) smoker is of a friendly, social character. Agressiveness and belligerency are not commonly seen . . . Snioicing marijuana can be stop ped abrUptly with no resulting mental or physical distress com parable to that of morphine with drawal in morphine addicts." 5 It is of general agreement among doctors that marijuana does no physical damage to the human body. Mental tests to both users and nonusers produced these results: "The Bellevue Adult Intelli gence Test was administered to a total of 60 male subjects, 40 mari juana users and 20 nonusers. The average I.Q. for the user group was 96.7, range 70 to 124, and for the nonuser group the average I. - Q. was 104.5, _range 93 to 114. Both .groups may therefore be Ghost Of Behrend Haunts The Campus PART I: ' PHYSIC . ENDEAVORS Over 30 years ago, a boy by the name of Warren Behr end was struck and killed by a car on Station Road. In. order to express sympathy, the -Hammermill Paper Co..presented the, Behrend family with a hand-scrolled memorial. -The paper is still hanging in th - e. Memorial Room of the Admin istration Building. A section -of - its text reads thusly:„ c`. . . Warren Moritz Behrend, only son of our president, Ernest R. Behrend, recently met with accidental and un timely death in a deliberate and unhesitating effort to avoid danger to other lives at the .risk of his own, under circum stances which have appealed strongly to every member ,of the Hammermill organization as well as to the public gep.- erally . . ." It was an unhappy fate for any young man.. As was said before, the docu ment hangs in the Administra tion Building—the very same structure which was once the home of the slain boy. Ever since Warren's death, however, there have been strong indications that his spirit still frequents the' building. In other words, Behr end's Administration Building is haunted. Up until 1966, girls attending Behrend Campus lived in the old white house. Although there were no reports of actual apparitions, thte girls told of hearing many strange noises during the night. None of the sounds could be ex plained naturally, so they Were attributed to "evil spirits." Most of the stories concerning Warren's visitations, however, center around an old arm chair which sets in -the southeast cor ner of the Memorial Room. It seems that the chair is his place of accustomed resort. The ghost supposedly sits in - the chair and taps the left armrest with his fingers. Upon inspecting the arm-1 rest, I found that the tip of it is frayed, exposing the chair stuff ing. Another unusual occurence is that the chair, which is usual ly facing the -center of the room, is ,often fouPd facing the .window so that a person sitting in it could look out the window. The most noteworthy of the bizarre events that have been observed in the room, is the reoccurring classified as of average intelli gence." 6 1. George Morris Carstairs, DMP, FRCP, Bhang And Alcohol, quoted in _Solomon, David, The Marijuana. Papers, p. 13.2 2. This opinion is expressed in many underground papers and is also my own. 3. Jack L. Ward, M. D., as quoted on the backcover of _Solo mon, David, The Marijuana Pap- George B. Wallace, M. D., chairman of the Mayor's Commit tee on Marijuana, quoted in 'Pa pers, David, _The Marijuana Pa pers, p. 5. Adolph G. Woltmann, MA, "Family and Community Ideal ogles," "Mayor LaGuardia's Com mittee on Marijuana," The Mari juana Problem In.the City of New York, quoted in Solomon, David The Marijuana Papers, p. 395. 6. Solomon, p. XXV. by Charly Lee voice of a little boy saying, "Oh. mommy, oh mommy," which Lit then followed by a little chiickle. -In an effort to establish : the validity of the stories, I took it upon myself to contact the spirit. by means of automatic _writi p ng. On the morning of October 28, 1969, 'I entered the Memorial Room, positioned myself in a chair adjacent to Warren's, and with pencil in hand, I closed my eyes and requested that the spir it guide my hand to answer a few _questions that I had asked him. For fifteen minutes nothing happened, but suddenly my hind moved. Concentrating on noth ing but the question, the spirit wrote, through me, six words. This took half an hour, and then my concentration was broken by a person who entered the room. I looked at what was written, and there were these six words: T-HE ONLY ONE THAT Tlit;HE -IS. Atlhough the words compose only a sentence fragment, I believe that had the communication con tinued, a complete message would have materialized. Next week I will try automatic writing again in order to varify the ghostly tales. Anyone who has any information on this sub. ject, please contact me. In the next issue of ;the CUB there will be a more complete article which Will trace the, ghost's activities in the house from• the time of his death. Why LSD?... (Continued from Page 2) Ts, -- ) use among youth :today. "The college degree may now function as a rite of passage, replacing physical tests of manhood custo mary in the preliterate tribes. it is the ~.gegree which abruptly en titles the individual to the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of the adult world," they contend, without giving him a real oppor tunity to develop as an individ. ual. The authors attribute the grow ing use of LSD to a society which inhibits the development and ex pression of feeling. The discoy ery most frequently expressed is that much is to be gained by .the Use of that "which causes one to :feel ,and enables one -to talk about one's feelings. Suddenly,one feels rapport with humanity, a new synthesis_of intellect and _em9- fion." au -LE LARGEST STOCK,of Levi s n Northwestern -Pa. at • Asaac -Baker -,45. - -S0 - 111 state at Ith Page Three
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