October 17, 1969
THE CLARION
PAGE THREE
“To Pot Or Not To Pot” New Closing Hours
That Is The Question To Start Oct. 31
(EDITOR’S NOTE - The
owing article is written
Tut Eston Roberts an Eng-
L professor here at Bre-
J rd College. Mr. Roberts
sprved several years as Dean
Students and Dean of Men.
He is very well aware of tho
problem in the United States
today concerning drugs.)
By Mr. Eston Roberts
times
Brigadoon is a stick away — no a world of rock and stone, a
cancer, no addiction, no after- real world where Eileithyiai,
pain — and all on the economy the inflictors of pain, are the
plan!” Add to this the irony
that, at least physiologically
speaking, what their slogans
say is true at this point in sci
entific time, and we have, pur
portedly, nirvana in a stick.
But every kit has its kicker,
every miracle drug its side ef
fect.
in
These ai'e exciting
^hich to be alive. It is especial
ly exciting to be a student
in
I am convinced that no one
rides free in this world and
u r.e +V.A mn^t pv- that “pot” is reallv no panacea oesei oy ana convinc
this time, perhaps the mos support of this belief I re- of ugliness; and, _ finally, it
hilarating aspec reader to my second as
sixties-going-on-seventies is the
of choices open to
sumption — the pleasure - pain
i"n Today’s“option- principle. The pain the mari-
young peop iuana user comes to know.
packed
existence.
juana user comes
while not physical, is, I con-
While I arn personally con- tend, as real as peanuts, as ex-
vinced that learning and grow- istent as measles. Its effect is
th are only possible in an elec- painfully visible and plainly
constant companions of man.
This leads to my final as
sertion: marijuana removes our
youth from the world and ren
ders them impotent. It con
tains all the ingredients to
make it attractive - plus: it is
forbidden by society for all the
wrong reasons; it appeals to the
rebelliousness of youth; it
concocts a beautiful world for
people beset by and convinced
is
not addictive in the sense that
heroin, tobacco, and alcohol
are. It is, nonetheless, a
threat to the very foundations
of society. It is the lotos blos
som that beckons to the fields
of never - more.
The Legislature of the Stud
ent Government Association
met Wednesday night and re
ceived approval of a proposal
that had been sent to the Ad
ministration concerning the
changing of women’s closing
hours on Friday nights.
The proposal was passed by
the Legislature in its regular
meeting two weeks ago and was
sent to the Administration then.
It is scheduled to go into ef
fect the first Friday night af
ter the mid - term grading per
iod. This will be Oct. 31.
In a letter spnt to the Leg
islature. Dean L. H. Lawing,
Dean of Student Affairs, said
that he was pleased to report
that a favorable decision had
been made upon a reasonable
request.
In other action taken by the
dues. The Social Board budget
consists of $3.50 per student
from SGA dues and $6.00 from
the General Fee. The budget
was figured on a student en
rollment of 600.
The vacant seat of the Legis
lature from the Freshman Class
was filled with Joyce Gibson
named to the post. She will as
sume her duties immediately.
A proposal was passed and
sent to the Administration con
cerning the clarification of tho
number of cuts that are given
in each class. It was pointed
out that even though the pro
fessor had the right to decide
the number of cuts allowed in
his class, many of the teachers
had failed to reveal to tho stud
ents the number of cuts al-
low'ed.
The Legislature also approv-
tive environment, there is one
option that over the past^ sev
eral years has come to be ot
crucial concern to me. I refer,
of course, to the question: to
pot or not to pot?
emotional.
The regular smoker of mari
juana comes, I believe, to live
in an euphoric w'orld. In much
the same way that constant ex
ercise of the biceps will .lead
I do not profess to be an au- to muscular development, so
thority on drugs or quasi-drugs, will continuous use of hallu-
on lysergic acid or marijuana einogens lead to a state of mind
(opium - tinctured, yet!); and in which reality, daily regimen
even though I happen to share in a responsible world, loses
the convictions of some that our its appeal. The “pot - head’s”
laws (at least in the area of world becomes an unstructur-
marijuana) are out-dated and ed, free - wheeling kaleido-
self-defeating, I do happen to scope where dedication is call-
feel that “pot” is one of the ed “hangup,” professionalism
most potentially harmful op- called “sellout.” Ultimately his
tions the twentieth century has unreal world becomes his only
to offer. I base this belief on world.
two asumptions:
I believe, first of all, that
young people are biologically
set, like “tiny little time pills,”
to blow the adult establish
ment off its ever - loving ped
estals of cold complacency and
constipated conformity. Young
men and women require us to
test our premises and re-ex-
amine our principles. Their
My experience has been that
almost inevitably the psycho
logically addicted “pot smoker”
becomes obsessed with re-mak
ing the real world into the
image of his unreal, diaphan
ous and unstructed miasmic
world. He will facsimilate in
volvement in the real world
by compulsively engaging in
ideals are at the roots of much sociological endeavors, in op-
human progress. Posing ll”"' instance V
My second assumption is fighting the
establish-
Scientists give us ten years
to reverse the tide of pollution,
two generations to conquer tht
threat of over - population. It
may be that there is another
problem, one so potentially de
structive as to make meaning
less the solution to our problems
of survival. What will it prof
it us if the salt of our society
has lost its savor, if our young
people abdicate their respon
sibility for spurring the flanks
of an atrophied world in favor
of self - immolation through
marijuana? The question, “to
pot or not to pot” is not for
our youth alone. It’s a question
for the human race.
College Band
Plays To
Trustees
The Brevard College Band,
M'hich made its first appearance
of the year at the hon*ecoming
soccer game, performed last
night at the College Trustees’
group, a proposal concerning a ed the purchase of a filing cab-
budget of $1500 for the SGA inet for the storing of all pro-
and a budget of $5700 for the posals, minutes and other im-
Social Board was adopted. This portant data resulting from the
is based on a $2.50 per student SGA or the Student Lcgisla-
intake for the SGA from SGA ture.
Senator Joseph Clark
Speaks To WCCUNA
By Miss Beatrice Burgess
Former Senator Joseph S.
Clark, of Pennsylvania, Presi
dent of the World Federalists
U.S.A. spoke to the Western
peace - keeping role: (1) The
membership of the U.N. is not
universal. Nations who are not
members are not obligated to
have the U.N. help in their dis
putes. Both the Korean and
Carolina Chapter of the United conflicts involve a
Nations Association in Ashe- partitioned country, half of
ville on Thursday evening. Sen- jg not a member of the
ator Clark is a registered “lob- ^ jvj (2) Russia’s insistence
byist for peace” who says the power and use of the
most important objective of the the Security Council
based on my allegiance to the ^ent; but he will not be real- Dinner. The band will also pre-
pleasure - pain principle: that
for every -ounce of pleasure
there is an equal and opposite
ounce of pain. The amount of
pain on the morning after ex
ists in direct radio to the
amount of alcoholic hilarity ex
perienced the night before.
Now the venders of the mari
juana miracle would have us
believe that their “stairway to
ly involved because the action
taken will be structureless in
the same way the “pot” experi
ence is. Never is there place in
the “pot world” for the spec
ialist, the professional, the
dedicatee with a scientific pro
gram. He is verboten because in
the “pot smoker’s” world so
cial activism, sincere though it
sent a half hour concert next
Thursday, October 23, opening
the United Nations Obesrvance
Program at 7:30 p. m.
World Federalists is to stop
the shooting in Viet Nam. He
supports Senator Charles Good-
6ir« position Wiat funds for the
war be discontinued after De
cember, 1970.
The ultimate objectives of
both the United Nations As
sociation and the World Fed
eralists U.S.A. are to eliminate
our war system and substitute
a system of peaceful methods
of solving problems in the
world. As he discussed the role
has limited peace - making at-
tempt3i (3) The mini-state^'
having equal voice with the
more powerful notions in the
General Assembly has handi
capped efforts at resolving con
flicts. (4) The inability of the
United Nations to finance it
self, as demonstrated by the
crisis in the Congo has severe
ly handicapped its efforts in
this area.
The constitution of the U.N.
provides for its revision peri-
be, is rationalization — the
stoneland” is free of stumbling psychological crutch that ju^- performing recently was
blocks and stuffed with styro- living apart from life, College Glee Club, on Oc-
of the United Nations in keep
ing peace he gave four reasons odically but both Russia and
Under the direction of Miss why the U.N. has not been able the United States have opposed
Tillotson, the band includes 52 to fulfill more adequately its constitutional reform.
members and has a varied rep-
ertorie, playing modern pop
hits as well as familiar symp
honic arrangements.
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timately it is involvement in
non-involvement.
And this is pain, the ulti
mate pain; alienation from the
human race — “A stranger and
afraid in a world I never
made.” The habitual smoker
finds himself unable to live in
tober
gram.
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