Only two issues
this term
This is the first of only two issues of the Highacres Collegian
to be published this term. The reason: lack of student support.
Believe it or not, this issue was produced by only four
people, two of whom are not even Penn State students. Of
course, there are still those staff members who write and take
photographs, but the production work, totalling some four to five
hours per night for five nights, is the exhausting work.
We advertised for a new editor to take over operations this
term. No one applied. So rather than deprive Highacres of what
could very well be one of the top college papers in the
Commonwealth, the few (believe us when we say FEW) of us
remaining here decided to publish only two issues this term
instead of the usual five.
The only one you can blame for the loss of the bi-weekly
status of The Collegian is yourself as an individual. If perchance
we publish something offensive or contrary to your opinions,
tough shit. Why didn't you speak out and voice YOUR ideas
when we needed you?
S G A General Election
May 8 & 9
10 representatives,
president, vice-president
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Charlie Fox, Paul
. we are all one, I mean communication, just the
realization of human love reciprocated, it's such a gas, it's a good
vibration which makes you feel gOod. These vibrations that you
get through Yoga, cosmic chants and things like that, I mean it's
such a buzz, it buzzes you out of everywhere. It's nothing to do
with pills or anything like that. It's just in your own head, the
realization, it's such a buzz, it buzzes you right into the astral
plane.
Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's
obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz of
all buzzes which is the thing that is God-you've got to be straight
to get it. I'm sorry to tell you . . . you can get it better or more if
you're straight because you can only get it to a degree. You know
even if you get it, you only get it however long your pill lasts. So
the thing is, if you really want to get it permanently, you have
got to do it, you know ... be healthy, don't eat meat, keep away
from those night clubs and MEDITATE . . ."—George Harrison
"I had given LSD to a number of pundits around India and
some reasonably pure men:
An old Buddhist Lama said, 'lt gave me a headache.'
Somebody else said, 'lt's good, but not as good as
meditation.' "—BE HERE NOW by Baba Ram Dass (Dr. Richard
Alpert)
"And so, very, very clearly, (Meher) Baba told me where
LSD was at. He said that drugs, especially LSD, was a delusion
within illusion, that it gave you a glimpse into the lowest plane,
only a glimpse. He said it was nothing into nothing. He said not
only was it physically dangerous, and mentally, but he said it was
spiritually dangerous. And no one I had ever heard who spoke
with authority had mentioned the spiritual side effects. He said
that principally what it did was that it liberated a certain amount
of energy that is used in opening the higher centers, but that it's
not something that's controlled, it's just spurts, and that taking of
it could lead to madness. He was very adamant. This was the first
public statement Baba ever made on drugs."—A disciple of Meher
Baba from "The New Religions" by Jacob Needleman
"Many people who use psychedelics primarily experience
astral planes where their ego is present. Thus they often attempt
to use the powers that are available in such an astral plane in the
service of their own ego. This creates additional karma for
them-for it is action which comes out of attachment. Many
messianic trips are of this nature. Sometimes such individuals get
stuck at one or another astral plane and lose contact with the
gross physical plane. In the West such beings are usually
hospitalized until they find their way back to the physical plane.
Of course, what in fact has happened is that they have not gone
far enough. For the psychiatrist is attached to the physical plane
(denying the reality of other planes) in the same way that the
patient is attached to the astral plane (denying the reality of
What's on your agenda for this summer ?
His manner was calm and relaxed as he waited patiently in
the Green Room. The initial confusion of lights and cameras and
;able was gone, replaced months before by the polish applied by
lectures and interviews and Senate hearings.
This new sense of political and social interest constantly
amused him. The problems were far from new. Volumes ha'd been
written by dozens of more knowledgeable men. The voices of
warning had spoken thousands of times and gone unheeded
thousands of times. Finally, the nation with 6% of the world's
population, the same nation that consumes more than 40% of the
world's resources began to react. The "cause" had become
fashionable.
His host was making the cue card introduction, taking care to
use the right phonetic sound for the word ecology.
He paused for a moment at the curtain. The applause sign
flashed on but he wanted the audience to have a few more
seconds to reinforce their expected image of some half-bald,
half-mad scientist before he faced the lights. The success of his
entrance was reflected in the increased applause as the handsome,
young Dr. Paul Lution greeted his host with outstretched hand.
The din diminished as he took his seat. He smiled, remembering
how many times he had watched this show clad only in his jockey
shorts.
That scene (scene?) is being repeated over and over across the
country. If any one group can take credit for forcing the issue to
national prominence, the applause is deserved by the young. They
deserve one further recognition because they are forcing the issue
beyond the usual stage of lip-service. They are not just talking,
they are doing.
Editor-in-chief
However dismayed most Americans have become at the
extent of militant antiwar protests, the Berrigan mistrial shows
that juries are not easily persuaded to side against all accused
activists.
Where a conspiracy to commit grave crimes is alleged, the
evidence must be solid and incontrovertible that defendants did,
in fact, plan to carry out illegal acts. This is as it should be under
the American system of justice where the burden rests with the
prosecution to prove its charges.
In the case of the Harrisburg Seven, just terminated with a
hung jury, the evidence of conspiracy to kidnap Presidential
Advisor Henry ,Kissinger and bomb Washington heat ducts
depended almost solely on FBI informer Boyd Douglas'
testimony.
And, as one juror, Mrs. Vera Thompson, said after the panel
was dismissed, the "jurors didn't believe Douglas." His record as a
convicted check forger and prison escapee turned informant
clearly damaged his credibility with the nine women and three
Also, there appeared to be considerable confusion about
what actually constitutes a conspiracy.
While the Government put on 63 other witnesses, they
testified mostly to draft board raids, not the major charges. As to
the letters between the Rev. Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth
McAlister which the FBI intercepted with Douglas' help, one
mentioned kidnapping "someone like Henry Kissinger" but the
defense was able to brand this a fantasy that died almostas it
And so the jury could agree only on those counts not in
serious dispute - that Father Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth
HEAD
The spiritual case
ECOLOGY:
The Berrigan mistrial
against drugs
Quotes compiled by Richard Rockman
other planes including the physical). The only true reality
includes all these planes and is beyond them all at the same time.
This is known as the paradox of Mahamudra-the paradox of
two-in-one."---BE HERE NOW
"In these few years we had gotten over the feeling that one
experience was going to make you enlightened forever. We saw
that it wasn't going to be that simple.
And for five years I dealt with the matter of 'coming down.'
The coming down matter is what led me to the next chapter of
this drama. Because after six years, I realized that no matter how
ingenious my experimental designs were, and how high I got, I
came down.
At one point I took five people and we locked ourselves in a
building for three weeks and we took 400 micrograms of LSD
every four hours. That is 2400 micrograms of LSD a day, which
sounds fancy, but after your first dose, you build a tolerance;
there's a refractory period. We finally were just drinking out of
the bottle, because it didn't seem to matter anymore. We'd just
stay at a plateau. We were very high. What happened in those
three weeks in that house, no one would ever believe, including
us. And at the end of the three weeks, we walked out of the
house and within a few days, we came down!
And it was a terribly frustrating experience, as if you came
into the kingdom of heaven and you saw how it all was and you
felt these new states of awareness, and then you got cast out
again, and after 2 or 300 times of this, began to feel an
extraordinary kind of depression set in - a very gentle depression
that whatever I knew still wasn't enough!" - Baba Ram Dass (BE
HERE NOW)
"Because the psychedelic agent is external to yourself, its use
tends to subtlely reinforce in you a feeling that you are not
enough. Ultimately, of course, at the end of the path you come
to realize that you have been Enough all the way along." - BE
HERE NOW
"A Saint cannot be Made from taking a pill. What I know of
making saints is that it takes many lifetimes. If you can make a
saint with a pill, also make some doctors and engineers." - Swami
Satchidananda
"A man who has attained certain powers through medicines,
or through words, or through mortification, still has desires, but
that man who has attained to Samadhi through concentration is
alone free from all desires." - Vivekananda
"Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together." - Jesus
"Conserve your powers. Daily renewed sense yesrnings sap
your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that allow
vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism.
Continued on page four: see HEAD ECOLOGY
Sixty students at Hazleton High School formed an ecology
club this year. They immediately passed the lip-service boundary
when they conducted the area's first can recycling drive. They
established a system of collection, prepared the cans and entered
into an agreement with Continental Can Company to have them
buy the cans and ship them to a major recycling center. This first
effort fell short when the club was unable to find the space
necessary to prepare the cans.
It might have been a good time to throw in the towel, but
the Hazleton High School Ecology Club merely reinforced their
intent to do something. They became affiliated with Lu-Lac, an
environmental action group based in Wilkes-Barre which serves
Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.
The club's plans for the remainder of the school year and this
summer are many. They will head the area's first large-scale
newspaper recycling drive. They will conduct a clean-up campaign
for the school building and grounds. They have already taped a
series of "Earth News" programs to be aired on WAZL and
WVCD. They will engage in other campaigns in cooperation with
Continental Can Company, area Boy Scout and Girl Scout
organizations, and will participate in Project SOAR. (Save Our
American Resources). Project SOAR is sponsoring a highway
clean-up campaign on April 29th. Club members will also
participate in the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company's
tree-planting project on the same day.
The message is clear. There is work to do and groups like the
Hazleton High School Ecology Club are providing the ways and
the means.
What is on your agenda this summer?
smuggled contraband (letters) in and out of Lewisburg
Penitentiary.
This offense is seldom, if ever, prosecuted. It would seem to
warrant the maximum penalties that could be levied against
Father Berrigan (40 years) and Sister Elizabeth (30).
Two points need to be made about the trial of accused
conspirators generally. First,when the Government must rely
upon an undercover informer to supply the major evidence
concerning a plot, it must make certain that its agent does not
become a provocateur or lead the conspiracy. At the very least,
such actions will tend to discredit whatever testimony he later
gives.
Second, the Berrigan mistrial is no carte blanche for those
who would illegally conspire against AMerican institutions and
the Government. This is a nation of laws and people must abide
by laws if we are to avoid anarchy. The Justice Department must
continue to seek out such offenders.
Nevertheless, before serious charges are ever brought, the
evidence should be clear and convincing of guilt. In Harrisburg,
too much room was left for reasonable doubt.
This doubt crept in at the very beginning, in November of
1970, when FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover first revealed the alleged
plot in a budget hearing before Congressmen, in an effort to
justify additional agents.
Having made the charge, Mr. Hoover was immediately under
pressure to substantiate it. Under the circumstances, it is hard to
imagine why the Government would want to try the case again.
Reprinted from THE SUNDAY BULLETIN, Philadelphia, Pa
Sunday, April 9, 1972
by Met Mundie
MIKE GRAVEL
ALASKA
ZCnifeti ,Sictlea ,senate
Dear Editor
On March 23, 1972, I introduced in the Senate legislation to
halt immediately further U.S. bombing in Indochina and to
require the total withdrawal of all U.S. military and paramilitary
(e.g. CIA) personnel from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos within
30 days after enactment. This bill, S. 3409, is explained fully in
the enclosed remarks reprinted from the Congressional Record,
and a copy of the bill itself is included on page two.
The U.S. air war over Indochina has escalated steadily during
the past several months, in direct contradiction of President
Nixon's public assertions that the war continues to wind down.
Due to public pressure American ground troops are slowly
coming home, but they are leaving an automated war behind.
Computer technology and a small number of troops manning
aircraft and artillery are creating a U.S. destructive presence that
may literally hover over Southeast Asia for years to come. The
President's troop cuts in South Vietnam do not affect U.S.
firepower in Southeast Asia at all because the planes are based in
Thailand and on aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
At the same time that the President is stepping up the
bombing, he is imposing ever more serious strictures on the
release of information about the air war. Newsmen have never
been allowed to go out on bombing raids outside of Vietnam, and
all information about the air war except gross tonnages and
sorties has been kept from the public by classifying it secret.
Official statistics released on the air war are now more bare-bones
than .ever, and press briefings are designed to accentuate the
positive rather than provide hard facts on the continuing U.S. role
in the war. Most recently, for the first time since bombing of
North Vietnam began eight years ago, the U.S. Command in
Saigon refused to give out figures on the number of planes flying
missions in the North.
In the face of this news blackout on the air war I want to
encourage you, as the editor of your school's newspaper, to
provide your readers with candid information on this issue, and
thus to join me in this election year to force an end to the war.
Students have been leaders in pointing out the tragedy and
mistake of Vietnam, and their help will now be vital in turning
out of office those politicians who will not join us in ending the
I hope that those Americans throughout the country who are
concerned about the immorality of the war will attend political
meetings wherever there is a candidate, and ask him this very
simple question: "How do you stand on ending the war?' If the
candidate does not stand for ending the war as provided in my
simple and clear proposal, then I hope the American people will
not vote for him, for he does not deserve to occupy a high
position in the government of this country.
S. 3409 now has fifteen cosponsors in the Senate, and
identical legislation introduced in the House of Representatives is
supported by 44 members of that body. I am enclosing a list of
the names of those individuals so that sttideiltsiiiosee if their
-VIC "vi.-IrwriEtt.
own senators and representatives are included.
If you need further information on the legislation, please
contact my office or the National Student Lobby, which is
coordinating efforts on behalf of thiS bill within the student
community.
Cosponsors of Gravel Bill To End the War
Senate
Birch Bayh
Alan Cranston
Mike Gravel
Fred Harris
Philip Hart
Harold Hughes
Edward Kennedy
George McGovern
House
James Abourezk
Bella Abzug
Joseph Addabbo
William Anderson
Herman Badillo
Nick Begich
Jonathan Bingham
Philip Burton
Hugh Carey
Shirley Chisholm
John Conyers
Ronald Dellums
John Dow
Robert Drinan
Bob Eckhardt
Don Edwards
Donald Fraser
William Green
Gilbert Gude
Seymour Halpern
Michael Harrington
Ken Hechler
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