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."
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