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U:;C Library Yin A Haphazard I 1 I f . ? J 1 n I -r--K " -?' i T? ST; )rnn n i ByCAUOLWONSAVACE buSaJdCe,B,to "vacationef-6in .Kb0 Cisco'. ir,7iv. .In. . Fran- 1 rfU 1, A a . and ?9Hy district LSD and mo - frierid M I-..,, nps t0 his native tne University 0f North gOhigh an drugs. .The student's statement Hives a to view J1 ' S2r at UNc-cer people come to town with a jacia (LSD) word spreads from user to user that a sur pl'er is around. The supplier hides his stuff as word spreads, then sells it quickly. Those who buy it may use k themselves or share it with their friends. The objec. is to have as little of the actual drug around as possible. Drug possession is a felony in North Carolina with a penalty of. two to five years in prison. This doesn't mean that the entire student body flocks to buy when a supplier hits town. The drug community, num bering a few hundred, is small compared to the entire UNC enrollment of 14,000. According to Chapel Hill Police Chief William D. Blake, there were only three of four drug arrests in Chapel Hill last year. "The drug group is very close and you have to have connections within the group before you can find out anything," Chief Blake said. But once one does get an- in side look at this "close group" the mystery vanishes. The class of drug user ranges from the wide-eyed teenie-bopper out for kicks to the earnest seeker of mind-expansion, tut the I'-ual campus marij .isna smoker is an average guy who gets high once in a while on drugs instead of alcohol. Student drug users con centrate on non-habit forming drugs such as marijuana. A few try LSD, but it is much harder to buy than marijuana. Some try "pep pills" such as dexidrine, but there is next to no use of hard narcotics on campus. Campus drug users at UNC, like users on most campuses, fall into two groups those who are cut for kicks and those who are seriously interested in the psychedelic or mind-expansion movement. This last group earnestly believes in spiritual enlightenment thi cugh drug usage and is the ' only one which has any organization. Kncwn as the true . "drug crowd," this group formed the Neo-American Church a t Carolina for the.r own psychedelic "research ' According to Lorenzo Durham, 25, past head (Booboo) cf tiie church, the core of the group numbered 45 Grass, acid and dex those are the names of a few of the drags that are becoming more and more prevalent on C0Uege campuses these days. Daily Tar Heel Features Editor Carol AYonsavage spent several weeks finding out who uses them, how much and why. This is her report. . MISS WONSAVAGE last year. From 200 to 300 participated when the move ment was at its peak. The church, a branch of the na tional cult which had head quarters in New York, was one of several drug cults in the country. "As head of the church, I served as as ort of information center," said Durham, a former UNC student who now lives in Durham. "I gave out information on drug research, on what to take when you have a bad trip, how to come down off drugs, and so on." "My group was primarily trying to turn everyone off, as of last year," Durham said. "Ve rTlscsvered the Meher Baba movement, which forbids the use of drugs for enlighten ment : "Last April or May the big drug crowd turned off for good." Tne Meher Bsba movement is a rel cht the In" .an curu wnose pro- Eiba. advocates rr.ecLtaUca -for spiritual growth. Durham said there was no organization in drug distribu tion. 'The majority of people I knew just had it and sold it to their friends. Then it disap peared until someone else came around." He added that na one in his group used narcotics. "Chapel Hill seems to be the stopping-off point for hippie travelers between New York and Florida," said Chief Blake. "I don't know how it got that reputation in the North, but it has it and people are always passing through." Blake says the police force keeps watch on several hippie addresses in town. At UNC marijuana is especially plentiful after a vacation period. Students from the North bring it back to school with them, but users say the supply soon disappears. You have to be careful who yja turn on." said one student who smokes marijuana and gives it to friends. "Anyone could inform on you." The Chapel Hill drug market ii a haphazard grapevine oper ation, but at least one student here has put himself through school that way. The market at Duke University is much more organized. There is no central supplier, but several pushers support themselves with their business. One of them makes trips to New York by airplane every few weeks and brings marijuana back in a suitcase. Other suppliers get their stock from Washington, D. C. "At one point last year there was a great amount of mari juana at Duke," said Durham. "You would walk into a room and someone would offer you a joint (slang for marijuana cigarette)." The pusher can make over 300 per cent profit for himself in North Carolina. According to several salesmen, marijuana can be bought for $3 an ounce on the West Coast and $3 in the Nrth. It sells here for $15 to $25. An LSD pill costs $150 and sells for $5 to $10. A gram of LSD costs $3,0. Is makes 3.vO pills. Most sipplicrs buy mari juana by the kilo, the largest measure in which it is so4d. It is about the size of a brick and weighs from two to three and a half pounds. Since marijuana is a weed, the pusher shreds the brick with his hands, breaking it down into ounce quantities and packages it in plastic baggies. Its cost, $100 to $2C0. depends on its size, and most pushers carry a pocket scale when they buy. Many salesmen, like the 19-year-o!d Durham hippie, got their start selling drugs by ac cident. As they learn the technique, they start operating like any good businessman. The 19-year-old said he left Durham over a year ago and "turned on to acid'' i n Millbrsok N. Y.t Dr. Timothy Leary's hometown. Then he went out to San Francisco with (Continued cn Page 6) Cloudy And Mild .SwSjjr shower8 75 Years of Editorial Freedom fv- ff Your spring athletic pass is necessary to claim your Yackety Yack. Do not lose the pass! The publications Board will meet at 7 tonight in the Grail Room. Volume 75, Number 86 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1968 Founded February 23, 1893 McCarthy TO V 4 'm By WAYNE MURDER of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The first campaign" head quarters in North Carolina in the nationwide drive to get peace candidate Eugene McCarthy elected U. S. presi dent was opened in Chapel HUT Monday. The North Carolina Citizens for McCarthy are opening the office in an effort of get finan cial help and "visible support" Ifor the U.S. senator in Ms at--Xempt to get . the . iDemocratic -nomination for president, ac cording to Alden Lind, ex ecutive secretary of the group. speak. Money collected wi! be used . A second office of the to run the office and help Citizens for McCarthy will be to McCarthy in his campaigns in the presidential primaries in Northern states, said Lind, a (politsical science professor. An organizational meeting of the committee for McCarthy wiU be held Wednesday in the Chapel Hill Town Hal at 8 " p.m. . Rev. Charles Jones of the CommurJlty Church and Gerhard Iski.Xprofessor of sociology here and chafcmian of the finance committee of the Citizens for McCarthy will opened in Raleigh shortly,, Lind said. The Chapel Hill office wi! be staffed for as many hours per day as possible, according Land. Enough money: has been raised already to finance the local office and to pass some on' to the national, offices,. Land said. McPhaul, Woodruff n fv mm irjr Daily aar !?rrl World News BRIEFS By United Press International Two UNC seniors, Donald M. McPluaul and Leon F . Woodruff Jr., have been selected to receive Reynolds Scholarships for study at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem. The seholairshlp program ' sponsored by Z. Smith Reynolds Foimdaition will pro vide each of this year's eight recdipdents with $14,000 during four years of medical school. In addition, the (foundation will supplement the internship salary of each schiolar . dining the fifth year of medical education, providing him an in come of $5,000 for that year. Selection of ithe. scholars, who must be natives or legal residents of North Carolina, is made by the medical schoors committee on admissions on the biasiis of character, scholarship, potential as physi cians and financial need. The recipient is expected to follow his profession in North Carolina after completion of Mis formal medical educa tion. McPhaul, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of cne uia wem, received a Woodruff, Scholar, as a dent and a Order of the from SeUmai. a Morehead Dean's list Stu member of me Old Well. He is Frat Rush Talk Set treasurer of the Student Body, a member of the Student Legislature and a represen tative of the Men's Residence Council. Johnson Asks $186 Billion Budget WASHINGTON President Johnson Monday sent Congress a record $186.1 billion budget of "sacrifices and hard choices'' and said the Vietnam war may make him ask for even more. Congressional Republicans vowed (to out it deeply. They said it tried to do too much at home at a time when both the nation and , the dollar were embattled. A tax increase, the President told Congress in his spending plan tor the fiscal year starting July 1, lis the key to the budget's dual task of rnaintaining the pressure on the Communists in Southeast Asia and combatting social unrest on the streets of America. Invasion Cancels Lunar Truce SAIGON The Unied States and its allies said Monday in vading North Vietnamese troops were waging a major off ensive Broswell scholarship and a in northern aras of South Vietnam. The allies scrapped a lunar univty Scholarship at UNC. now vear truce on tne emioaiaea zone anu ipicaacu w " " ine waieign stuaent i s the southern reaches of North Vietnam. The U. S. Command said the Ndnth Vietnamese have massed four and' possibly dive cEiviSlions perhiaps 40,000 men in and around South Vietnam's two northern most provinces. This is no longer Infiltration," a U. S. spokesman said. "It is invasion." Pueblo Crisis Enters Second Week SEOUL, South Korea-Communist North Korea and its allies intensified' taunting pressures algainst the United States Monday and tensions inoresaed aCong the Korean armistice 'line as the r,,"u nrnt entered its second week. A. UW1V W I U S diplomatic overtures around the world and an awesome ddsplay'of American military power in the Orient failed to pro- j duce the release of the U. S. Navy intelligence ship and its 83- j man crew from North Korean captivity. . CAviPt Union. Communist China and North Vietnam Mon- t X UV' wv ' 1 - 1 da pledged support for the North Koreans in their unyielding j r.rvfnfation with the United States. President Johnson piinned some of his diplomatic pressures Monday on ef forts in the United Nations Security Council. Two More Seek Sivedish Asylum STOCKHOLM Two more American servicemen were reported seeking political asylum Sn neutral Sweden Monday, br ing to tan e&timated 22 the number of GI deserters who have arrived from military units in Asia and Europe. The latest defectors were Ffc. Edward B. Murray, 19, Wood bury N J , and Pfc. William C. Jones, 21, St. Louis, Mo., both medics from the 2nd Field Hospital for Ameircan forces in Fiermasems, West Germany. Like other deserters, they said they lift tbeir units becasue they were epposed to the war in Vietnam. ' . . , A U S Armftdeseter from Vietnam, Pfc. Kenneth C. Griggs, Boise Ida-, who sought asylum at the Cuban Embassy in Tokyo, has left Japan for an unknown destination, a Tokyo newspaper reported Monday. All freshmen ..and up perclassmen interested in participating in spring fraternity rush should attend . the rash meeting on Wed nesday, in Memorial Hall Auditorium at 7:30 pjm. Speaker at the meeting will be Roy Armstrong, executive secretary of the John Motley Morehead Foundation. All in formation concerning Fraterni ty rush wil be presented at that time. To be ' eligible for rush, freshmen must have at least a 2.0 quality point average. A list of eligible students is in the Of fice of the Dean of Men, 02 South Building. Students unable to attend Wednesday night's meeting will be able to pick up preference cards in the Dean of Men's office until noon Friday. . Lind, in a press conference, ; . Monday announcing the openr j 5 ing of the offices, explained -that the Citizens for MCarthy 5, were supporting him because I "we are involved in asenseless : I and possibly ruinouswar in Southeast Asia . . hich mocks the promise of this na- . tion as the exemplar of political and social democracy." There is no 'cheap' way of satisfying the real needs we iace internally," lind said. "In our foreign relations we should be aware that American military power is not sufficient to transform unpopular tyran nical regimes into popular democratic regimes." The persons who are sup porting McCarthy have con cluded that McCarthy is the only person in America who sees this and is the only person with the "courage to. put his political life on the line" to say . this, according to Lind. The pr i ma r i e s that McCarthy has entered are in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Oregon, Nebraska and California. The New Hampshire primary, the first one, will be held on March 12. Even though McCarthy won't be in a rriimary down here "support for hum . is clearly crucial" if he is to get the nomination, according to Lind. McCarthy is the senior senator from Minnesota and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Other members of toe acting staff of the organization are Joel Schwartz , treasurer; Charles Moore and James McCoy; student represen tatives, 'Norman Gustaveson, chairman of the com munications committee; and Charlotte Huse and Sylvia Polgar, chairmen of the Head quarters staff. i -J V, r - $ K: i ... - "- - - J K f J i 1 i t I ? i f ! S i . ' - I 1 f 3v iv 1 i' - Or..?? .i.-'W -W a" JWMr -4 1 PAT BRUCE PRACTICES her swing on the courts by Cobb as many other, students joined her in enjoying the silly balmy weather. No one would ever-btfeve it snowed last week, unless they saw it, or slogged through it as the case may be. f f- ---- f i 1 " i ff L 9 ; 1 i p I. : L i- ' - ,w - 1 . i ii UMVintSITY IIOOKKTKIUA . 1 ! I 17 ( i A line of students stands at the Book-Ex ... as students stood all day all over campus Sp ring Classes Begin, o Do The Lines And By RICK GRAY of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Spring Semester classes nave begun, and the lines around campus Monday show ed the nightmarish fact to be true. Chaos reigned on the third floor of South Building, and students mumbled silent curses as they stood in line to shell out hard-earned money to pay ifor textbooks at the Book Exchange and the Intimate Book Shop. The lines looked shorter this semester than they were in the . fall, but .they were still there. The Intimate Book Shop's line was almost ten feet shorter than it averaged in the fall, but it was lunchtime when the 'measurement was taken. At the Book-Ex, the. line barely reached the top of the stairs just before three, but five minutes later it was begin ning to bend around the corner of Steele and was threatening Knowlton Wins Hearst Award Steve Knowlton, Daily Tar Heel staff writer, tied for seventh place in the December , editorial writing division of the William Randolph Hearst Collegiate Journalism Con test This is the third Hearst award won by a UNC student this year. Knowlton, a journalism major from Charlotte, will receive an $100 cash award. The UNC Journalism School will also receive $100. " - to stretch to Old East. In the upper levels of South Building some students ap proached fisticuffs as they fought for advisors' folders in an all-out effort to be the first to go through the rigors of Drop-Add. L. D. Myers of the Book Ex change office sympathized with the students who had to stand in line, saying that he went through the same thing. Myers also said that the Book-Ex had made three ma jor changes in their operation, based on the recommendations of a grouO of seniors in the Economics Department who undertook a study of the Book Ex operation as a project. Prices, this semester, have been marked on the spines of the books, and sales tax is being charged on - the total purchase. The office hired a representative of the National Cash Register Company to train cashiers .on the newly purchased registers. The third change was individual labeling of fee shelves, eliminating the lists of texts which were formerly tacked at the end of' the aisles. Myers added, "11 we could physically eliminate that line over there tomorrow we would, but we just can't do it." He stated that no physical changes were made in the Booketeria this semester because the operation will be moving to its new building nxt fall, and any such changes would not be financially feasi ble. The enly relief from the lines and the waiting was. in Gerrard Hall where Alpha Phi Omega was sponsoring their co-operative book ex change market. Buying time there seldom took more than half an hour, but the students always had to head for the Book-Ex for the finishing touches. So, with the hope of next year's new book store burning in their hearts, students will continue to stand in line to purchase their texts. I.S.C. Planning Session Tonight Any students desiring to participate in the committee work of the International Stu dent Center this spring should come to the General Com mittee meeting at the I.S.C. tonight at 8:00. Major activities to be plan ned will include establishing UNC's first International Week, publishing a world directory o n international houses and setting up a center for information on work-study-travel abroad. Coaches Issue Calls For Baseball, Tennis A meeting for all varsity and freshman baseball candidates -will be held in 304 Woolen Gym Wednesday night at 7 :30. All students interested in playing on the UNC tennis team should report to 302 Woolen Wednesday afternoon at 2.
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