1970_11 The Daily Collegian November 1970

              COMMENTARY
Think before you experiment with acid
(Editor's Note: The following
article is reprinted from *Now»,
a magazine supplement to the San
Jose State College Spartan Dally.
In presenting this article to Dally
Collegian readers, the editors
and staff of the Collegian are in
no way advocating the use of
LSD or any other drug. It Is
our belief the article will aid
students in gaining added insights Into the pitfalls of experimenting      with     dangerous
Bad vl
s begin.
talk ourselves
of It. We find that we a
making sense. It Is like c
puters trvlng to talk comp
language when m
But soon it U
We beg!
U first it
veryfu
acid.      This   is
What will happei
decided to drop
his first time.
? What are his
trip  goes  bad^
NOW.  Tomorrow
d they want?   Was It I
We move Into the bei
the -maggots crawl up my legs!
Holy God, Am I mad? And soon
they cover my entire body!
Words cannot begin to describe
my utter terror! At the time I
prayed that I could die and then
It would be all over.
I shut my eyes, but Instead
of peaceful blackness I .had two
borrow shows going In color.
3-D and Cinemascope, right on
the Inside of my eyelids.
Eventually, with my chick's
help, I made It through that night
of horror.
Why did It happen? Because
I was stupid! I should have
never lost touch with reality. I
counted on Gary and my chick
to help me. They couldn't. Gary
l  help himself.     I
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trouble, they will help you.
Don't be afraid.    It Is ei
tlal   to   remember  at   all I
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r brings.    And      trudlng
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leaves to Investigate,
t  Gary.    Suddenly It
Mngsbe-
I   didn't.
happening,   it
Remember,
all   a   men
I  WILL   coi
did.     But  I   1
The drug Is stronger
I have dropped ai
time was different
Last New Year's
source.  The people 11
real triple-double zonker.
A friend and I dropped al
night. "Happy New Year!
were  at   my   chick's plac<
vibes were very good.    Tl
began to happen...
It is 3:30 a.m. We are
ping good. The phone ring:
chick    turns    down   the   r
jobs with silver dust sparkles all
over It, begins to move. It
writhes and suddenly II becomes
a mass of squirming maggots,
too. These slowly drip off the
celling and onto the floor.   The
If you have any mental hassles,
don't drop. With acid, the mind
working with the drug sends back
what is happening.    If It's good,
your body t;
Don't   eve
fight   it.
than  yoi
things.    Don't ever try to come
down  before  the  trip's over.
Don get hassled. You will come
down. You will go to sleep. But
not until the drug works Its way
If you find yourself on a bum-
orange Juice, or Vitamin D into
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ugly   things!       Mothei
They cover the celling, the
and the walls.
Slowly they
I draw back,
escape! The
humming soun
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hours. But If just by
to that plan hums you,
ihlng else - PLEASE!
e   acid   heightens  the
senses.   Feel how alive you are.
rourh  and   taste  things.     Look
music       Dig   on   what   you   dig.
3ui   warning:    don't get too In-
A friend who guided me on my
Irst trip lold me. "Digit, every-
hlng.    Involve yourself, but re-
■eallty If you wan
If you get scared, don't panic!
~ake a cool drink'of water. Swirl
go   to  sleep,
taste   will   tak
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of th
■■age 1
all    :
the nearest "drug-crisiscenter."
These people are there to help
you. not bust you. They are
trained specialists In their field.
They win help you!
Dropping  acid  Is  a  personal
thing  - if you read this
jurnallsm department appointed by his department, and
Schyler Regan, the faculty representative appointed by the College President from three recommendations made by the
Board on Publications. Rehart.
who is an assistant professor
of journalism, was appointed to
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w.'ll.  .
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Vietnam revisited—'Operation foster'
English lesson. 'Altogether now.
By Martyn Green
The   big  green  Marine  helicopter hovers like a fat grasshopper over the waterlogged rice
blades  whooping  noisily,  whlp-
•own mud and sink almost to the
ilis. The next moment It begins
scharglng Its r/argo as twelve
U.S. Marines leap
"Ess*
"Esk!* they shout, triumphantly.
"Very good - number one.
Now again -•
I learn that he is teaching them
the letters O.C.S. - for Officer
sergeant shortly hopes to go.
handing out candy, cigarettes and
chewing gum. Twenty grubby
hands reach up to eagerly grab
them.   The   children   chorus   a
territory. Then, less
nty seconds after it had
n. the whining shopper
i way back Into the clear
Entering the tree line slowly,
ihe Marines watch and listen
carefully.
We move up through leech-
infested rice paddies toadesert-
«! village. The VC have moved
is   no  doubt  that it Is VC. The
place is riddled with tunnels.
For  the next couple of hours
searched and tunnels blown. Then
whose teeth arebla*
nut chewing, tries t<
thing. We gather tl
want to get their h.
>t  allowe
s give
to   II
\   long   coll
village along a narrow dyke, towards a low hill ahead.
Twenty minutes and a mile
further on, we enter another village. I am well down the column
and by the time I arrive, about
sixty refugees - mostly women
and children — have been rounded
up and placed together in one of
the thatched bamboo houses.
A tall, dark-haired sergeant
is   giving   the   kids   their   first
... their houses. Anyone
w..... ~~ J VC who would run and
tell the Marines' position.
I dive Into a bunker beneath
one house and discover a big
Negro Is checking it out. «Doyou
see any hats in there?" I ask In
the gloom. He struggles to maneuver himself around the tightly
cramped space that Is lit by a
solitary' flickering candle. There
are boards on the floor and the
rovered with nil
lis of
pie.' I grab the
, the light of day.
artillery, so I go across the
bumpy field to where they have
Just pitched a tent made of two
green ponchos clipped together.
I suggest that I dig the trash pit.
•Okay," they agree. *As long as
you  don't  dig  It   In these little
•Why not?" 1 query.
"Because  there's  bodies   un-
We are sleeping In a graveyard!
There arenohellcopters available tonight, so the refugees will
have to stay till the morning. A
young lance corporal bring! them
a sandbag full of *C* rations
which they accept eagerly.
Later I speak to a young marine as the evening twilight gives
way to the dark of night. -Ever
since I was five I wanted to Join
the MarlneCorps,* he says quietly. *I Joined because I wanted to
do something for my country.
These protesters though . . .
They don't understand the reason
we're here. They haven't seen
these people — 1 have.* He ponders and then adds, "I'd like to
see the war ended and the people
with a belter way of Ufe —
especially the kids. 1 love kids.*
He tells me that although he
feels the Vietnamese are often
very attractive he misses his girl
back home and his parents. *I
also miss taking a bath. Once I
had to go for 26 days without one."
One experience he will never forget was when he was out In front
of the lines on a 'listeningpost.*
"There were nine water buffalo
out there In the darkness. Then
one came up to within Ave yards
of us and started pawing the
ground Uke he was going to
charge. I fired two shots and he
bolted. I was pretty worried
though - he was bigger than me.*
During the night there Is a
sudden "Crack-crack* asasmaU
flreflght breaks out. The firs Is
coming from a village only a
quarter of a mile away. It Is returned from the rear perimeter
lines. The two artillery men and
I wait cautiously In the dripping
rain. When the fire Is finally
suppressed, ten minutes later, we
sUp back Into the tent and fall
asleep - hoping that we don't
now get mortared. Next morning
we learn that a VC managed to
crawl within 15 yards of a foxhole
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Peace Corps is alive—but spirit is dead
By John Lewis
The Peace Corps as a government agency, as a functioning
bureaucracy, is very much alive.
But the peace Corps as an Idea,
an 'esprit de corps" that excited
dence of its decay is in its 40%
Corps feelings of Its ex-volunteers. How did the PeaceCorps,
an agency that Inspired so much
continued   f
;, flam.
the  first f<
I by the m
exposure, but slowly
began to emerge. The delusion
that college-educated generallsts
could cause real development
was overly optimistic. A U.S.
AID official in Chile summarized American optimism: *You
take  any red-blooded American
,d put I
■ in I
To anrver that question we
must examine the Peace Corps'
beginning and evolution. President Kennedy created the Corps
in March 19G1. It was a time
when Castro was establishing his
place in Cuba, the Russians were
in outer space and Khrushchev
was comparing the U.S. to a tired
runner. The Peace Corps was
one of the New Frontier's answers to the Communist challenges, thus Its ralson d'etre was
political.
Regardless of Its poUUcal motives, the peace Corps created
genuine excitement among students. They beUeved In President Kennedy and the Peace
Corps'mission. This excitement
and he's going to get things done."
It turned out that the red-blooded
American boy was often ineffectual In the boondocks. Many
learned that two years was too
shdft  a  time  to learn the lan-
.n the
try.
sklUs
generallsts. They found their
skills weren't applicable and that
they were used as cheap replacements for native technicians. The
Peace Corps of 1970 sUU remains
as a development agency, though
its
The Peace Corps'
been   hastened by
Us ex-volunteers. They
size the contradiction o
Corps idealism In the cc
U.S. foreign poUcy.   As
volvement In Vietnam Increased,
volunteers' ..rlUclsm of their
organization increased. The
Committee of Returned Volunteers (CRV), an organization of
ex-volunteers, was started In
1966 and has grown Increasingly
hostile to the Peace Corps and
American foreign policy. A recent CRV debate lswhetherVietnam was an accident or an expression of America's basic nature. In 1969, CRV took the position that the Peace Corps was
beyond reform and should be
abolished. Not all ex-volunteers
hold that view. Some beUeve
that lnternaUonaUzaUon could
reform the agency. It would
then have InternaUonal volunteers and leadership. Whatever
the suggesUons, most ex-volunteers agree that the PeaceCorps
must be reformed.
Whether the Peace Corps Is
alive, dying or dead must seem
Uke an esoteric quesUon to roost,
but for ex-volunteers Uke myself
question.     A  good
written by Morltz
book about his peace Corps
perlence, "Living Poor*:
•The physical world has been
mapped: but In the last analysis the Peace Corps Is an Intellectual exploration, the chance
(If you are paUent enough) to
enter In some degree Into the
hearts and minds and feeUngs of
alien peoples with exotic cultures. The final discovery, that
we are all ultimately alike, is a
hard-earned revelation. And it
Is weU worth the trouble.*
If promoting International understanding had been the goal of
the Peace Corps, instead of Its
patronizing development goal, It
would have succeeded. But It'
made the presumption that a
UtUe American know-how and organization could Improve the ■under-developed" countries. The
growing realization that America
Is as under-developed as the poor
nations has stunted Peace Corps
arrogance. It la now nanLitir-
volunteers to believe that America staggers with Its own problems.   The decline of the Peace
Corps has encouraged re-evalu-
aUon of ourselves and our system; I think the re-evaluaUon
teUs us to get ourselves together
before we trytohelpothersover-
Readers please note
This  Issue nearly didn't come
out due  to the lack of articles
from   students.   This   Is your\
newspaper.  If YOU don't write,
WE can't publish.   .
concerned students
•We have a deep capacity
for caring for others.
Unless we use
this capacity
we feel Incomplete,
Caring deeply
for something
outside oneself
Is one of the most
gratifying *—■—.
and self fuUUUng
human experiences.*