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Show Editorial Pressures, Problems The Campus Enigma The accompanying story on this page is about students. stu-dents. But these students are not the usual happy, normal people on campus we all believe ourselves to be, but are kids who feel so pressured by studies, home life and social obligations that they resort to any means of "escape' they can find goof-balls, bennies, glue, LSD, marajuana, and even suicide. Though it may sound far fetched, the fact remains that more and more students are finding these "escapes" more desirable and the social pressure increasingly in-creasingly unbearable. Although the vast majority of us don't find very much wrong with our school life, or find it to be so unbearable that we must "rebel," there are those students who do. As we have written on previous occasions, the desire to find thrills or to escape has caused a great deal of concern con-cern about students throughout the country. The devices they use are many with the more adolescent escapees turning turn-ing to glue sniffing. This may not sound particularly serious, but when it involves the theft of cases of glue at a time, the seriousness of the situation becomes evident. Salt Lake area police have found stacks of empty glue tubes with as many as a thousand empty tubes at one time. The graduation point seems to come for many glue sniffers who move on to use, or attempt to use, LSD. Although Al-though not proven to be a habit forming drug, LSD has been found to have adverse effects upon users and its recommended rec-ommended as being extremely dangerous. - . It has been said many times and been proven by records rec-ords that colleges are having increased problems with drugs, sex, thievry and student misconduct. This seems to varify the contentions of many psychologists that students .. also have serious emotional problems and that some of these students have thought of suicide or have been successful. suc-cessful. We have rekindled this subject of drug use time and time again this summer, hoping to bring to the readers' attention at-tention the plight that students are finding truly real. Young people are becoming increasingly interested in escape drugs and seem to be having more and more difficulty diffi-culty adjusting to society. Some of these students are experiencing ex-periencing great dificulties in coping with the pressures of competing for jobs, grades, friends, and the admiration of their friends. Fortunately the University of Utah does not exert much pressure upon its students. The entrance requirements require-ments are not unduly high nor is the work load particularly heavy. Our class requirements do not even compare with some private institutions where the emphasis is placed on academic excellence from the entrance test to the final oral exams. Utah doesn't take a back seat to other institutions by any means, but there are tougher schools. If Salt Lake parents and school officials read accounts of student problems prob-lems in other cities and shake their heads in dismay, they need to be alerted to the fact that Utah students are no different. If these parents do not pay more attention, there's a good chance they'll soon be reading about the problems of their own children. |