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Show rijuana Inquiry launched Above "jyiiga's Waters -uiCA NY. (CPS) For the second time in less than two : 1 tavestigation of the use of marijuana by Cornell Uni-fidents Uni-fidents has been undertaken. n ARRESTS have been made yet, but James A. Perkins, I n President, said that "several" students were using mari-' mari-' ,i that the university viewed with "utmost concern" its "fand use by "even a few students." If mil began investigation when they were notified ' . Lent at Connecticut College for Women in New London jijljgedly obtained marijuana from a Cornell campus source, j' THE CONNECTICUT student became ill and a preliminary in-Mtion in-Mtion by her colleSe traced druS to Cornell, nation will lead to the real offenders in this vicious business, I in discussing the probe, Perkins said: "Cornell hopes the in-lon in-lon wiU iead t0 the real offenders in this vicious business ianized network of producers and agents who prey upon ' people and persuade them to experiment with habit-form- tarcotics. BRNO! intends to do all i its power to remove the j (dimity for life-long harm mws out of the availabil- 'of narcotics here," he said. 1 1963, on the same day that . jjjs was inaugurated as pres-i pres-i j n earlier marijuana scan1- iwept the Cornell campus. :jU BAT INVESTIGATION, how-Blti how-Blti (resulted in no convictions 1 in uses against two students nut, i topped because of insuf- Lt evidence. ting the past two years, 13 jLEj people, including students I'll (toll and Ithaca College, (ten arrested in a contin-jj contin-jj (, investigation of marijuana rov-jj, fee in the college community. iokIOLLEGE spokesmen declined Itr comment until the distal dis-tal attorney reported findings holds? lis investigation. Isewhere, three men were jp j.itted recently on charges of . pujbg narcotics in the neigh-MJbd neigh-MJbd of Harvard Square in tbridge. Mass, s ilflDGE EDWARD Pecce, who i ft Bed suspended fines and tjji sentences on the three men, t 'The situation is alarming jilJ. the use of drugs among roplmtj is depressing." ,'lltagh none of the three was associated with Har- 1 University, the "New York W reports that the univer-administration univer-administration is known to ware that some students raomers of drug peddlers. pCIALS at Harvard have Rly expressed moral and I concern about student use Nuana, but they are un-N un-N to believe that the use jMJnig is more a matter P1 experimentation than pctioa |