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Show ; mV, v Yes Question $D Restrictions I cpA Policy Spesrtis Debotfe dent guilty of an offense, he is usually dismissed from school. Perhaps the strongest position against LSD use is taken by the University of Maine. That institution's insti-tution's handbook states that all students involved in the use of hallucinogens will be dismissed from the university. "Students dismissed from this university under the policy," states the Maine school, "will be denied access to the campus." cam-pus." Wednesday: Timothy Leary on LSD from Harvard ; Response from Southern California. I ported to service with after-effects from drugs during his two-year two-year tenure. Amherst College's Committee on Guidance and Counseling mailed a letter to the student-body student-body indicating the school's "concern about the use of drugs because of possible physical and psychological dangers and damaging dam-aging effects to the individual user." An Amherst official described de-scribed the purpose of the letter let-ter as "purely educational and informational." Students at Amherst "desiring further information, or wishing to discuss confidentially the implications im-plications of drug use, are encouraged en-couraged to visit the Counseling Counsel-ing Center or the Student Health Office." Policy is 'Flexible' The letter included a discussion discus-sion of federal and state laws governing drug use and gave a brief discussion of the effects of LSD and marijuana. A college col-lege official described the school's policy toward the individual indi-vidual drug user as "flexible." Rhode Island School of Design De-sign has a policy of waiting for the results of court actions before be-fore disciplining students for drug use. If a court finds a stu- rest if you're going to be thrown out of court." Some FDA agents have been specially trained at the University Univer-sity of California at Berkeley's School of Criminology. There, the agents are taught law, techniques tech-niques of enforcement, criminology crimin-ology and corrections, drugs, physical evidence, accounting and auditing, weapons training, physical training, and use of vehicles. ve-hicles. (A recent U.S. Senate report indicates the largest number num-ber of LSD users at any school exists at Berkeley. The report attributed 2,500 LSD users to the Berkeley campus.) Debate Continues While Goddard's agents were looking about the campus, the debate over the implications of LSD use continued at many colleges. col-leges. At others, administrators were taking independent action against student drug use. Haverford College President Hugh Borton told students that they faced possible suspension for repeated drug use. Borton said drug use is "largely socially social-ly unacceptable and hence puts the good name of the college in jeopardy." He said Haverford would cooperate with all law enforcement en-forcement agencies as "a matter mat-ter of policy." Borton said the Pennsylvania college has a physician, a psychiatrist, psy-chiatrist, and counselors available avail-able to discuss matters confidentially confiden-tially pertaining to drug use. He said the first use of drugs by a Haverford student would be considered con-sidered a result of "lack of accurate ac-curate information or of some medical or psychological problem." prob-lem." Considers Disciplinary Action University of Montana vice-president vice-president Laurence E. Gale has announced his school will consider con-sider taking disciplinary action against student drug users. Montana's Mon-tana's Health Service Director, Dr. Robert B. Curry, said, however, how-ever, that no students have re- . SMent rumors, i beinghUS1d j!,h,t. v of I't"11 stu: '" l'iter it the issue of brnfEe campus into ' ''tllnn wit stu- in AmeriCan ' A Bookshester S-sservlce . -GTON, D.C (CPS)- tryingt0?rn I n, and drop out" have Company, Dr. James V-id revealed this week, 'commissioner and Drug Adminis- (FDA) and the unwel-visitors unwel-visitors to the campus -"e are the 200 agents 1 FDA's Bureau of Drug t; ' 4 Control. The FDA agents, k "Z, as students, are buying Amphetamines, and other at an unknown number ;: :;wls throughout the na- et commissioner's state-a state-a .thisweek was in line with r: ';ierhe sent to 2,000 college .son April 5, 1966 in which oned of "the gravity of : vation" and asked for the r 3 of academic admin-iiiiciB admin-iiiiciB "in combating an in-lif in-lif 3 and dangerous activity." Report LSD Use . te a ard asked that "any info in-fo ua of the illegal use or pos-" pos-" m (of LSD and ampheta-m ampheta-m :s) should be reported at :s to the Food and Drug Admiration Ad-miration district office." He ied university officials N to b j ins any questions you may j'u a which will aid in eliminat-poli eliminat-poli -ike illegal use of hallucino-a hallucino-a and stimulant drugs." Although FDA officials claim Sfill a are primarily interested in itg illegal sources of drug 4 rather than finding in-, in-, , vial users, they admit to y --rating with local law en-aK en-aK went officials in geographi-jj.j.jg geographi-jj.j.jg & w where possession of ?i drugs violates local law. et x Possession Not Legal Federal statute prohibits the . 4 i LSD, but possession for v filial use is not a criminal 1 --FDA's agents, however, are ' Prized to use "executive " in confiscating LSD un-: un-: to provisions' of the Fed-Drug Fed-Drug and Cosmetic " "-'nendments of 1965. . is permissable because : . lacking FDA approval, is i Maldistribution." After ) of research, it is still J.i rjjf an "investigatory Aware of Rights $ k.k official said that i trained to be "well-i "well-i !hat the rights are." S 4 stated, "It doesn't J CMojnake an ar- |