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Show Across The U.S. - Campos Busts Are Commonplace (Editor's Note: This is the first of schools like Stonv BronW ham . . and other hallucinogens. Goddard has publicly questioned the laws against possession of marijuana. Goddard has lost the battle. President Presi-dent Johnson called for new antidrug anti-drug efforts in his State of the Union message, lambasting those who "sell slavery to the young." The Administration is pushing a bill for strict new laws against LSD, which Goddard has been forced to reluctantly support. Goddard's defeat is best demonstrated demon-strated by the creation of the new Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the Justice Department. schools like Stony Brook have gotten got-ten the most publicity, pot busts are so frequent at large campuses that they go unnoticed. In response to a recent CPS survey, college editors at many large schools, such as the Universities of Wisconsin, Colorado, and California at Los Angeles, said there had been too many arrests for marijuana to count. Arrests for possession of marijuana mari-juana are rising. In 1966 the California Cali-fornia Department of Criminal Statistics Sta-tistics reported 14,209 arrests on marijuana charges. In 1967 there were 37,513 or about two-and-a-half times as many arrests. Why The Upsurge Why this upsurge in arrests? There are three major reasons: Marijuana use among students is increasing. Chuck Hollander, director di-rector of drug studies for the U.S. National Student Association, estimates esti-mates that in 1966, 10 to 15 per cent of the nation's students used marijuana. mari-juana. Today he estimates that it has risen to at least 20 per cent everywhere except in the South and as much as 35 per cent on the West Coast. Moreover, he says that may be a conservative estimate. A CPS survey of about 20 different differ-ent schools showed 20-30 per cent on most campuses. Most of these were results of surveys taken by the campus newspaper. The effect of this increase in use has been com pounded by publicity. There are few national magazines which have not run at least one story about drug use on campus, usually with scare headlines on the cover. Students are not careful about when and where they use marijuana. mari-juana. An editorial in the Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin Wis-consin recently warned: "Drug users us-ers at this university . . . insist on smoking marijuana in dormitories and advertising the fact to all the world . . . The moral of Stony Brook is that students let down their guard and let themselves be infiltrated by police informers. Wisconsin Wis-consin is ripe for a similar experience experi-ence unless students here begin to realize that drug use is not a game." Perhaps the most important reason is the triumph of the philosophy philos-ophy of strict enforcement view of drug use over the educational view. This confrontation has occurred primarily within the Federal Government. Gov-ernment. Protagonists The two protagonists in the battle have been Harry Giordano, director of the Bureau of Narcotics, and James Goddard, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Giordano is an advocate of strict enforcement of anti-marijuana laws and strict new laws against LSD (Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series analyzing the nationwide na-tionwide attention and focus on drug use by university and college students. stu-dents. The concluding article appears ap-pears tomorrow.) By riQL SEMAS College Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS) Arrests for possession of marijuana are becoming be-coming as common as protests on many campuses. No one knows exactly how many there have been. A compilation by the National Student Association lists 90 raids involving 333 persons, most of them college students arrested ar-rested for possession, during the four month period from Nov. 2, 1967, to Feb. 23. An informal survey sur-vey by CPS turned up an additional 21 busts involving more than 100 students during the present academic aca-demic year. Famous Bust The most famous bust was at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where students were rousted out of bed just before dawn in a police raid complete with extensive ex-tensive on-the-spot press coverage. But Stony Brook is not the only college to face the pre-dawn raid tactic. At Bard College in New York police stormed onto the campus cam-pus at 1 a.m., setting up road blocks, searching dorms and rousting roust-ing students out of bed. They arrested ar-rested 34 students, 14 on drug possession pos-session charges, the rest on charges from drunk driving to harrassing an officer. Two New Hampshire colleges, col-leges, Franconia and Keene State, have felt the brunt of the pre-dawn tactics. So has American University in Washington, D.C. Even Lyndon B. Johnson's alma mater has been busted. In January seven Southwest Texas State College Col-lege students were arrested for possession pos-session of marijuana after a month-long month-long investigation in which college officials co-operated closely with federal narcotics agents. Busts Are Frequent Although pre-dawn raids at small |