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Show Campus Tot 'Parties - By MARK LONO I Collegiate Press Service I "The New York Times" this spring reported that "from one-fifth one-fifth to one-half of the 12,500 students ... at Harvard ... will have tried marijuana" while there. All Cambridge broke loose. HARVARD DEAN, John U. Monro, via the "Times" letters column, insisted that this just was not so, and Dr. Dana Farns-worth Farns-worth of the university health service was quoted by the "Crim- ' , . son" to the effect that, "The crisis in drug traffic has been greatly Tt! exaggerated by people without accurate information." ' But there does seem to be a crisis, and a Cambridge judge A did urge a full investigation "to clean out Harvard Square" of drug peddlers. "I have no use for those people in Harvard Square who are preying on students," Middlesex Superior Court ' Judge Frank W. fonasellor declared, after sentencing a 19-year- old youth to a five-to-seven-year suspended sentence for selling drugs in the area. AND SO FELL the judicial gavel throughout the country. ; Five Hunter College students studied for their exams in a Bronx fji jail after being arrested during an alleged "pot" party. "jt Last month a University of California-Berkeley student was arrested for marijuana possession, and last week a University of Pennsylvania senior was similiarly aTrested and held under $10,- 000 bail. State police investigators arrested five Brandeis Uni- rT versity undergraduates last fall in a marijuana raid on campus. J The use of marijuana by some students at Cornell University in SALT 4 March led to the second investigation of campus narcotics traf- cor fic in less than two years. Xwr THE HARVARD concern led Boston police and New York : auo c State's Bureau of Narcotics Conrtol to hold seminars for college jaew ( administrators. The New York Bureau, reports "Time," has col- lected evidence of marijuana use at 15 upstate New York cam- ;on 4 puses. 5comp An Oklahoma psychiatrist testified before the House Com-merce Com-merce Committee that some college students were earning $200 cycu a week selling "pep pills" to their classmates. The Texas Depart- :7s. : ment of Public Safety reported eight cases of illegal possessions; involving college students last year. A health center official at;!new ' the University of Texas reported "a pronounced upswing" in c university students' use of the drugs recently. 5v7" CANADIAN SCHOOLS, too, face the problem. The University; ' of Toronto Health Department reported in February that drug-overdoses drug-overdoses were responsible for the death of at least two students there last year. Three University of British Columbia students 5f 2 4 have been arrested this year on marijuana possession charges. A 1 Ued leaflet advocating the legalization of marijuana has been dis-; tributed on the UBC campus. '. At the University of Manitoba, eight "pot" users told about L l their drug experiences to a campus newspaper reporter. "The Manitoban" printed the story, along with a school official's lament that "Oh, God forbid that it has come to Manitoba." AT THE UNIVERSITY of Colorado, three students were hospitalized for atrophic poison following a session of drinking ne belladonna tea. Stories of students passing out during exams as a result of drug use are widespread. At Penn State, a student was very confident that she had done well on a post-LSD exam, only to find later that she had written her name as the answer to each question. r- A HIGHLY ranked graduate student at the University of Oklahoma who had been taking dexedrine to to help him prepare for his last final, wrote the entire 3-hour examination on one lme 4. of a blue book. He told a friend as they walked out of the class- ;y room that he thought it was the best paper he had ever written. J3 |