1969_03 The Daily Collegian March 1969

              THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Tharadaj. March 6, 1969
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14th annual rodeo dedicated
to retiring Dean Lloyd Dowler
The 14th annual Fresno State
College Intercollegiate Rodeo
will be held this weekend at the
The two-day event, dedicated to
the retiring Agriculture Dean,
Lloyd Dowler, Is free to all FSC
student-body-card-holders, The
event Is expected to draw more
than 170 participants from 30
western colleges.
The rodeo, one of the largest
on the West Coast, will start at
1 p.m. Saturday. The events in¬
clude   saddlebronc   riding,   bull
riding, calf roping, bulldcgglng^
ribbon roping (the cowboy ropes
the calf, pulls the ribbon off the
calf's tall and runs back to the
chute), barrel racing and goat-
tying (the girls throw a goat
and tie Its legs). There will
also be fraternity steer riding on
Satruday and sorority calf pants-
lng (the girls put pants on the
calf).
Championship silver buckles
will be awarded In all the events
with various prizes through four-
A western dance to the music
of Jim and Jack Gage will be
held Satuday night from 8-12
in the Clovis High School gym.
Tickets
Finals will b
starting at 1 p.m. with the ai
presentation immediately follow-
e purchased al
rodeo rally will be
mphitheatre at noon.
the   events   will  be
'Cage
provide music.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This la the
third of four articles dealing with
the wide use of marijuana In the
United States, including Its pri¬
mary source, how it reaches th«
country, its popularity and t
fects on users.
By Joan Ranauer
NEW YORK (UPI) - Marijuana
is as easy for Dallas teenagers
to acquire as chewing gum - and
It is the 13-15 year-old group
that Is most Interested In trying
It.
In Portland, Ore., marijuana
parties have replaced beer busts
when high schoolboys are looking
for 'kicks.'
The editor of an Albuquerque,
N.M., high school paper esti¬
mates 25 per cent of the student
body has at least tried marijuana.
A 15-year-old high school co¬
ed In Edlnburg, Tex., says'more
and more kids are getting picked
up on narcotics charges."
In New York City a 16-year-
old high school girl summed up
the attitude of many teen-agers
when she said: 'Adults drink
booze. We smoke pot."
Other names
Call it by any other name -
and those names Include "pot,"
•grass" and "weed" — the sweet
smell of marijuana is pervading
colleges, high schools and even
Junior highs literally from coast
Ag School to name
new dean for fall
arrive at, since smoking mari¬
juana is an Illegal activity. Dr.
Joel Fort, in the October, 1968
Issuer of the magazine "Psychi¬
atric Opinion," says "it is estl-
15-2
per   <
i dean for the department
will head the committee. The
committee Includes Dr. Wilbur
Ball, associate professor of agri¬
culture and education; Dr. Harry
Karla, senior vocational In¬
structor In agriculture.
The committee will screen ap¬
plicants and submit their names
to the school faculty for a pre¬
liminary   vote.     After the vote,
erence will be submitted to Dr.
Frederic W. Ness, Fresno State
College President, who will make
the final selection.
there was  some marijuana use
every community sampled. And
even where teen - agers said
marijuana smoking was very lim¬
ited, the young people responding
added that It was readily avail¬
able to those who wanted It-'"
Dr. Henry Brill, director of
Pilgrim State Hospital In West
Brentwood, Long Island, part of
New York State's department of
mental hygiene, is an expert on
marijuana   and   a   former  vice
addition control commission. He
said in an Interview:
Mysteries of life
"Marijuana and drug taking In
general Is a disorder of youth
and of young males. It reaches its
peak In the middle or late teens."
He said drugs are a problem
"at the age of puberty and be¬
yond."
added, "just as it is a mystery
why juveniledellnquency, schizo¬
phrenia - even stuttering-sud¬
denly develop at this point, and
much more so among boys than
girls."
Attitudes of the young people
themselves vary.
Teri Allen, 13, of Dallas, says:
•No, I'd never take anything like
that. It will ruin your mind. You
start taking marijuana and soon
you will be taking dangerous
drugs. All the boys use it but
the girls  I  know do."
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A student In Maiden, Mass.,
a suburb five miles north of Bos¬
ton, said: 'A lot of kids are try¬
ing marijuana. They hear on tele¬
vision that marijuana is not
harmful, they hear doctors say
this on television, so the kids say
why not, and go try it, They hear
the other arguments, too, that it
Is harmful, but they don't pay
attention to that side. They be¬
lieve the side they want to."
In New Orleans, Nell Camp¬
bell, editor of the Tulane Uni¬
versity "Hullabaloo,* said -"a
very high percentage for a not
overly progressive Southern
campus" were using marijuana
•for kicks.'
Christopher Bates, 18, a stu¬
dent at Drexel Institute of Tech¬
nology In Philadelphia, was one
of 14 teenpagers arrested on
marijuana charges recently In the
Philadelphia, suburb of Spring¬
field Township, Montgomery
County. He classifies adult shock
at teen-agers marijuana use as
'childish* and says «they don't
know anything about It and they
The youth says he and his
friends 'feel It is no big thing
... and a lot of adults are be¬
ginning to look at It that way,
too .,. . It is considered status
ness, I'm not hurting anyone.
I'm not a burglar.*
Tim Sharp, 17, student council
president at Miami Beach High
School, called drugs 'ourbiggest
problem today" and said:
"1 guess a lot of kids think they
can't find anything better to do,
so they try pot. And a lot of them
don't even make a secret of it
anymore. They talk about It quite
openly. We definitely need more
programs in the schools, ex¬
plaining the dangers of drugs and
how one can lead to another and
so on. These programs better
begin at a very early age -
junior high at the latest. You
might not believe me.butl'vehad
reliable reports of elementary
school kids smoking pot."
Psychiatrists,   police   around
tunate shocked and worried par¬
ents - have learned to believe.
Next: The Effects
I why I
d  get
hopked on stronger drugs ui
I had a psychiatric problem. I
feel secure. I really think that
what I smoke is nobody's busi-
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