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vol. 56 no. 7
houston, lexas
thursday, oct. 17, 1968
Richard Sawyer
Lee stones drug users
talk implies 'Use your
By JON GLAZIER
"Psychedelic drugs are the motive
power of the generation gap; once you
take them and your eyes are opened you
become a militant member of that side
of the.gap," said Dr. Paul Lee of the
University of California at Santa Cruz.
He spoke in the chapel Thursday night
to an audience of 100 interested students,
faculty members, and Houstonians.
Lee prefaced his major themes with
the observation that youth has to
cope with the "insinuating presence of
psychedelic drugs" and "the continuous
temptation to get stoned." He cited as
examples of the omnipresence of psyche-
delic drugs the popularity of such songs
as "Don't Bogart Me" ("don't bogart
that joint, my friend, pass it over to
me") and Bob Dylan's double entendre,
''Rainy Day Woman No. 12 & 35"
("everybody must get stoned").
Moving on to his first theme, the
psychedelic lapse, Lee likened the drug
experience to an extended daydream. He
commented on the danger of the psyche-
delic lapse in a university environment
where one is expected to think. The
more one becomes enamoured of this
lapse, or condition of "creative stupid-
ity," the hai'der it is to stay in school.
This chain of events, Lee suggested, led
Dr. Timothy Leaty to the motto "tune in,
turn on, drop out."
Tyranny of hip
Lee received his doctorate from Har-
vard Divinity School under Dr. Paul
Tillich. He was active in the famous
Leary experiments with Harvard divinity
for high expectations;
head before you can't'
Students, and was a co-founding editor
of The Psychedelic Review. He described
his own experience with LSD as "un-
ambiguously beautiful."
"Peace"
"Young people are eager to put any-
thing into their mouths in any combi-
nation to effect any kind of change,"
-Lee opined to introduce the third
aspect of the question. Often this temp-
tation to "get stoned and experiment"
results in tragedy, as in the case of two
drugs called "peace" and THC (the
synthesized active ingredient of mari-
juana), which were found to be horse
and dog tranquilizers.
SAC plans a 'week of fife
The Student Action Committee is lay-
ing plans for a "Life Week against the
Death Culture" on the Rice campus Oct.
21 through Oct. 25, in conjunction with
the National Mobilization Week Against
the War in Vietnam.
Life Week starts Monday, Oct. 21 with
Black poetry and Black theater by a
group from Texas Soutfiern in the Baker
Commons at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, in the
Chemistry Lecture Hall at 7:30 pm, two
films — "War Atrocities" and Felix
Greene's "Inside North Vietnam"— will
be shown.
Larry Caroline, a philosophy profes-
sor currently battling for his academic
life at the University of Texas, will
First Houston film conference emphasises
instruction, interpretation of cinema as an art
The Media Center at The University
of St. Thomas will present the first
Houston Film Conference Oct. 18-20 at
the Shamrock Hilton Hotel.
The conference will consist of screen-
ing of assorted short subjects a feature
work by Michelangelo Antonioni, and the
world premiere of "The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter," Robert Ellis Miller's adoption
of the Carson McCullers work, combined
with discussion by film media author-
ities.
This initial conference will be sponsor-
ed by the American Film institute, the
Motion Picture Association of America,
the Contemporary Arts Association, and
departments of art and communication
at the universities of Houston, Texas,
Texas Southern, and Rice.
Introduction to Gulf Coast
Dr. Gerald O'Grady, Director of the
Media Center and former Rice English
professor, emphasizes that "our intent
is clearly to introduce the art of film
and the modes of teaching and inter-
preting it to high school and university
teachers and students in the whole Gulf
Coast area." O'Grady adds that the Con-
ference hopes to present each fall, as a
contribution to the city's October observ-
ance of the arts, the best of today's
explorers in film culture and other media
environments.
speak Wednesday at 7:30 pm in Ham-
man Hall on "Soi-iai Revolution in
America."
Explo
The highlight of Life Week happens
on Thursday, with "The Life Explosion"
from 1 pm to 11 pm in the RMC Grand
Ballroom. "'Hie Life Explosion," says
the SAC, "is bands, tapes, poetry, light,
space, time and people."
A fast, protesting the Vietnam War.
will begin at the statue of William Marsh
Rice at noon Thursday, and last for the
duration of Life Week. The Week will
conclude Friday with a discussion, led
by Ramparts magazine staff writer Da-
vid Welsh, on "Corporate Structure in
America," at 7:30 pm in the Chem
Lecture Hall. Welsh was the author of
the article on Brown and Root, LB J, and
corporate involvement in Vietnam which
appeared last fall in Ramparts.
Greater awareness
Throughout the week, the SAC will
sponsor a literature and information
table in the RMC, and "outbreaks of
guerilla theater and study groups will
occur" during the period.
The Student Action Committee, ac-
cording to spokesmen for the group, has
resulted from "the move toward greater
political, social, and cultural awareness
by the Rice student body. It seeks to pre-
sent a democratic program through or-
ganized analysis and action for the re-
structuring of the University and society
so that at each level, all those affected
share control in policy-making."
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