The Tar Heel
13
Bruce Mann
Book
rug questions
Thursday, June 10,197)
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"Kids 'n Drugs" is perhaps the first
book written about the drug problem
which only asks questions and offers no
answers.
Engagingly composed by Professor
Leonard Barlow, Director of Drug Abuse
Education for the UNC School of
Pharmacy, the book contains literally
hundreds of hand written student
questions about drugs compiled by
pharmacy students who visited North
Carolina junior high and other secondary
schools during the past year. These
pharmacy students were a part of the
School of Pharmacy's Student-to-Student
Drug Abuse Project which trains them
and makes them available for school drug
abuse programs. During the past year
they traveled to 224 schools and
contacted an estimated 53,000 students.
The author feels that his new book
"vividly shows what our young people
have on their minds about drugs.
"It is not our purpose to answer these
questions. But rather to share with the
reader what troubles our kids," Barlow
says.
The author succeeds quite well in his
aim, creating a very interesting, always
engaging collage of questions. His
undertaking might easily have resulted in
a propaganda sheet intended to merely
evoke emotional responses against drugs,
but Barlow avoids soapbox editorializing
by just letting the students have their say.
Divided into seventeen different
sections, the book covers specific abused
drugs, alcohol, legal implications, health
and other general topics.
In all sections, however, the variety of
questions reveals the tremendous range of
knowledge from intimate understanding
to total lack of understanding of the
problem. Some students are quite
misinformed and curious ("Can you get a
high off of chewing Teaberry Gum that
has been placed in a banar.a while still in
its wrapper and placed in the freezer for a
week?"). Others can relate to family drug
experiences ("My cousin was on drugs
but since she got married she got off.
Why?"). Still others appea: to be already
involved with drugs ("Can you tell by just
looking at me that I'm on drugs?").
Some express their own opinions ("I
myself believe that drugs aren't harmful
and I'm all for drugs, do you think that I
am wrong in feeling this way?"). Others
resort to stereotyped expressions ("Why
mosly does hippies take drugs?" "I've
heard Heroine taken by teenagers cause
them to become hippies. Is this true?").
Still others scrawl imploring pleas ("Is.
there any way to put a stop to drugs?").
Many students find contradictions and
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j Campus activities calendar
Auditions for the first summer session
chorus will be held in room 212 Hill Hall
between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. today, Friday
and Monday. The first session choral
concert, to be presented in July, includes
works from Josquin, Mozart, Brahms,
Orff-and Elliott Carter. The chorus,
directed by Edward Dawson, meets from
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. each Tuesday and
Thursday during the summer session. The
chorus is sponsored by the Music
Department, the Carolina Union, and the
Summer Activities Council. The chorus is
open to students and townspeople.
Sunday morning worship services at
the Wesley Foundation will resume this
Sunday, June 13th, at 1 1 a.m.
The UNC Karate Club will resume
summer training with a demonstration
this Thursday night, June 10, at 7:30
p.m. in Room 207 of the Carolina Union.
The demonstration will include films of
Mr. Young II Kong, 6th degree black belt,
and four times national champion of
South Korea. The instructors will then
show the basics of karate and self-defense
against one or more opponents, knife,
pistol, club and special women's
self-defense.
Karate is simply a system of physical
training based on sound physiological
principles. It has since developed into a
major competitive sport. It involves basic
moves such as punches, strikes, blocks
and kicks and these are combined into
hyungs or pre-arranged movement
patterns. It is excellent for over-all
exercise, discipline, control and even
weight reduction. One does not have to
be big and strong to do karate. Agility
and speed are preferred to strength. There
is no age limit and women are gaining
attention as outstanding kareteka. -
For women who are interested in pure
self-defense rather than classical karate,
there will be a meeting on Friday, June
11th, at 7 p.m. in the Frank Porter
Graham Room in the Union. This
meeting will be to describe and
demonstrate women's self-defense and set
up a short, intensive course.
dilemmas in society's attitudes toward
and uses of drugs. One student asks: "If
there has been no proof of the harm of
marijuana, why is the penalty so harsh,
Another student is concerned about
opium: "If opium is the parent drug why
is it that when a drug problem is taken to
the hospital it is used to stop the
problem?"
A motif throughout all of the sections
is the effect of drugs on sexual behavior
and on heredity ("Do you get sexually
uproused if you take LSD or marijuana?"
"How does drugs mislead the problem of
sex?" "Is it true that some drugs damage
the chromosomes?"). -
Professor Barlow also presents a series
of questions which by their very phrasing
exhibit a special horror inscribed between
the lines: "What will happen if a bus
driver takes drugs and children are on it?"
"When a person takes drugs and stays on
the trip forever what could be done?"
These questions, like many others in the
book, are unanswerable. Instead, they
seem to carry their own answers within
their three-dimensional, Twilight Zone
structure.
Still, the book is not purely preaching
one way or the other. It is saying merely
that these are the questions which
students want answers for, and hopefully
the book will succeed in spurring on drug
abuse educators to answering student
concerns. As Dean George P. Hager of the
School of Pharmacy remarks in the
Foreword: "Perhaps these actual
questions may provide answers for those
involved in drug abuse education
regarding what kids really want to
know."
"Kids 'n Drugs" is available at $1.50
per copy from , the UNC School of
Pharmacy.
N.C. Quartet slated
for Tuesday concert
The North Carolina Quartet, UNC's
quartet-in-residence and one of the
Southeast's leading string quartets, will
appear in concert Tuesday night at 8 p.m.
in the air-conditioned Rehearsal Hall at
Hill Hall. The concert is open to the
public and admission is free.
The group will offer a program of
Mozart (Quartet in E Flat), Borodin
(Quartet No. 2), and Debussy (Quartet).
The Borodin quartet includes two
melodies used by the composers of the
Broadway musical "Kismet" in the score
for that production.
Dr. Edgar Alden, first violinist of the
group, considers the Debussy Quartet the
"best of the impressionistic quartets."
The use of one motive in all of the
movements to tie the composition
together and the use of special effects
such as pizzicato and mutes highlight the
performance of this piece.
The North Carolina Quartet is a
polished ensemble which has been on the
music scene since the early 1950's when
Dr. Alden, a UNC professor, founded the
group. Since then it has appeared in
numerous community and college concert
series as well as on television.
The members of the Quartet are all
accomplished artists and teachers on the
UNC faculty.
Dr.. Alden and Dorothy, his wife,
violinists, are both masters of the violin
and viola. Dr. Alden is professor of violin
and musicology at UNC. Mrs. Alden is
known for her work with the Chapel Hill
Young People's Orchestra.
Mrs. Ann Burnham, violist, trained at
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, as did the
Aldens. She has earned degrees from
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
and Yale School of Music in addition to
European students under Nadia
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Charles Griffith, cellist, is presently
principal cellist in the University
Symphony and head of the North
Carolina unit of the American String
Teachers Association. He trained at
Julliard School of Music and Oberlin
Conservatory with special studies in
Salzburg and Geneva, Switzerland.
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