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Show tprugs on Campus Investigated Jy Pennsylvania have John identify which of the two Philadelphia-area universities universi-ties (Temple of the University of Pennsylvania) he had attended attend-ed failed. JOHN would simply answer, "I'd rather not say." John continued his testimony telling the committee that he had begun to use cocaine because be-cause it gave him a "better, freezing" feeling. "I USED a cap of cocaine a day for six months," he said-"It said-"It cost $7 a cap and I got the money by depriving my family and from a part-time job I took." John said he then began to use heroin at the rate of one or two packages a day. Each package pack-age cost him $10, he said. "I NEVER committed any criminal act to get the money for narcotics," he said, "but other people in the crowd I ran around with used shoplifting, prostitution, and a variety of other ways to get money." He said that many of the students with whom he began to smoke marijuana while in school also turned to the use of cocaine and heroin, rrnntinupd on Paee 6) j By ROBERT JACOBS ; Collegiate Press Service ! Philadelphia Two hooded ) p-dents set the cloak-and-dag-Ptone for testimony last week t the Pennsylvania legislature , im a promised investigation ) . use of drugs on Pennsyl-J Pennsyl-J aa college campuses. F"( loe students, their faces cov- with blue hoods to prevent location, told the investi- a8 committee of their in-I in-I "nt with narcotics. They ed in detail their exper- they were introduced Utilise on their college cam- FIRST student, identify identi-fy as John, told the com- he began to use mari-C mari-C freshman at one of , -Philadelphia universities. ,!n m 1958 and I was ; f f ! about $15 a week for U "jf for the feeling it 2Vnd il was that feel-at feel-at became a crutch," John the feeling he got """ent from drinking be-, be-, never got sick after iguana, but ..after. i i?s felt like havi"g jjgjTlDonolow to Drugs On Campus Investigated ijow long the investigaijon . ' last nor indicated ? d. if anything, wiJ h 1 U ' matron it collects I. e ' ver, t0 COnd fe (Continued from Page 1) "WE ALL felt we wouldn't get hooked on heroin like the other people you read about," he said. "We felt we were too strong for that." Then he said his drug use began to bother him. "I would feel great," he told the committee, com-mittee, "but after it wore off, my bones would ache and the only way I could get rid of that aching was to take more." HE WAS on heroin for three years, he testified, before caught and sent to a hospital for "the cure." Tie said that all of his narcotics had come from people in the Philadelphia area who, in turn, said they got their supply from New York. The five-member joint legislative legis-lative panel and the about 50 people who attended the open hearing heard a second student, identified only as Robert. ROBERT told the committee he began taking excessive amounts of cough syrup when he was 15. He would not identify his school either but told a story similar in detail to that related earlier by John. FROM cough syrup he began taking "amphetamines and barbiturates bar-biturates every day." The drugs made him "feel fine," he said, and he took a part-time job as a caddy to finance the $5 he was spending each day to get his supply. Robert first came to the attention at-tention of the police when he was arrested on a homosexual charge. He said he had turned to homosexual activity to finance the growing cost of his drugs. He was making $15 to $20 a night, he said, and all of that went for drugs. The committee has not said |