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Wednesday, May 2, 1973
Sixteen pages
in l962, James Meredith exposed
racism at the University of Mississippi.
What's happened since then?
Race and athletics: ll years later
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a
three-part series dealing with intergration
in athletics in the SEC and at [K since
limit. Today‘s story revives the past and
how integrated athletics in the Shit‘ came
about.
By STEVE SWIFT
Night News Editor
Eleven years ago, James Meredith.
w hile facing angry students and citizens.
walked around Mississippi Governor Ross
tarnett and into the doors of the
i'niversity of Mississippi in the fall of 1962.
.-\ few months later. Mississippi State.
the allrwhite basketball champion of the
Southeastern (‘onferenee decidui to play
in the NCAA even though black athletes
were on other teams. Twice before, State
declined to play in the tourney for this
same reason.
And, in between. a Kernel editorial
suggestion that UK lead the way in the
Sl'lt‘ and open its doors to black atheltes
played a role iii initiating integration.
Although the pace has been agonizingly
slow. more and more black athletes dot the
rosters of sports teams each year.
Jack (iuthrie. then editor and now an
acti\e member of the Louisville (‘liamber
of (‘omineree recently recalled the
editorial and its stormy aftereffects
ltii'l‘ll 0F 'l'lIKSl'I EVENTS had aroused
people in the South to the point of rioting or
issuing strong verbal repriniands to the
instigators of the events.
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um-
John De Reamer spins a few during WBKY-FM‘s “After Midnight" Show.
(Kernel photo by John Hicks)
Guthrie said from the Meredith incident
up to March of 1963 the Kernel had been
running an editorial campaign on civil
rights issues. And when the Kernel editors
iound out that for sometime an unwritten
rule prohibiting the intergration of SEC
athletics was keeping black athletes off
southern campuses. they had another topic
for their campaign,
The editors decided if i'K was expelled
from the conference little would be lost.
an independent student newspaper
University of Kentucky
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Some specificsof the editorial said. “if the v
l'iiiversity is to live up to its moral
obligations and make significant progress
as a major institution it must divorce itself
the segregation policy which
dominates the Southeastern (‘onferenee
“HERE .\.\I) Mm “’I'l‘n a withdrawal
trom the SEC or an announcement that we
will begin to recruit Negro players by a
certain date, we have the chance to make a
from
real step forward.
t‘onttnued on Page 8. (‘ol. 1
Watts up
WBKY feels
By MIKE TII‘IKNI‘IY
Managing Editor
Some time ago. a disc jockey on
on WBKYFM's "After Mid
night" show made an off—thecuff
comment concerning the
President‘s views on amnesty.
The response from station
hierarchy came in the form of a
memo castigating the [)J for
using the show as a “50.000-watt
soapbox.
out amn iiiipot!
Well. there‘s always one way to get the
stubborn grime off of a dirty old press.
Ron Mullins has the answer. liver hear
of the yellow press? (Kernel photo by
ltruee W. Singleton)
growing pains
Such political comment—rror
restriction of same «is merely
one example of the growing
responsibility faced by LTK‘s own
radio station, whose 32 years in
existence makes it the oldest
t'niversity-owned FM station in
the country.
Yet until last May. WBKY was
tied down to a 3.000-watt cage. it
was virtually unknown outside of
the UK community.
(‘ontiniied on Page It). (”ol. 3
e to cause headaches
Parking woes continu
By BILL l’INKSTtiN
Kernel Staff Writer
“A day at the t'niversity can be
something less than joyful when
it is preceded by a half-hour
search for a parking stall.“
commented one irate UK
professor to another in the fall of
1970.
In the subsequent two and a
half years there has been little
change in the situation: parking
is still the source of one giant
headache for the hundreds of UK
faculty. staff. and students who
must rely on their automobiles
tor transportation to and from
their jth or classes at the
i'niversity.
And everyone who drives to the
t'niversity has his own pet peeve
concerning the parking situation,
The faculty gripes that it pays for
an A permit but often has to
resort to parking in a B lot, far
from the classroom.
THE STAFF ('(lMl’laHNS that
the choice B lot spaces are oc‘
cupied by the faculty. The
students bemoan their 15 minute
hike from parking lot to class, or
the long, crowed bus trip from
[TK's outskirts to the central
campus.
(‘ollectively. permit holders
wail about non-permit holders
claim‘jumping in space paid for
by the permit holder.
Parking, in short. is a definite
problem at UK and has been for
some time. in recognition of the
problem. the University created
the Parking and Traffic (‘ontrol
(‘ommittee in 1966, a body that
would “serve in an advisory
capacity in formulating and
recommending new poliCies and
All things seem to flow from the capitol.
procedures on parking traffic
control "
'l‘he (‘ommittee was charged
with reviewing and recom-
mending changes in the parking
regulations. when necessary. and
with developing long range plans
for parking and traffic control for
the l'niversity. The (‘ommittee
officially reports to the
University president.
'l‘lll‘l ('(lMMl'l‘Tl‘Zl‘l. then. has
the responsibility to try to come
up with solutions to the parking
problem. So far. it has failed.
The (‘om mittee has discovered
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over the years that there is no
simple answer to a highly
complex problem.and that in any
case finding the solution ranks
low on the University's totem
pole of priorities.
Some (‘ommittees (the
membership of the Committee.
comprised of faculty. staff, and
students. is constantly changing)
in past years have worked
diligently and sincerely. only to
find that their recommendations
have been shouted to the wind
and carried away.
(‘ontinued on Page lit. Col. 1
Blah? That‘s the word for today and
inside:
The Watergate
connection?
The Senate votes to call on Nixon for ap-
pointment of an outside prosecutor in
Watergate. Meanwhile, Ellsberg‘s at-
torney moves for dismissal in the Pen—
tagon Papers trial due to possible link with
Watergate. (Both stories can be found on
page 15).
Outside:
Foul weather,
friends
tomorrow and the day after, at least ac-
cording to the weatherman. The high
today will be in the mid 70's with a 60
percent chance of showers through
tomorrow. it‘ll be getting cooler as the
rains fall, with a low tonight in the low 50‘s.
Established II"
The
Kentucky
Kernel
Mike Wines, Editor-in-Chiet
Mitre Tierney, Managing Editor
Larry Kielkopt. Assocute EditOr
Katie McCarthy Ron Mitchiil
Dan Rhea. Day News Editor
John t-ticlis Photography Editor
Charlie Dickinson. Sports Editor
Joel lakem. Arts Editor
S'cue Swift, Night News Editors
Editorials represent the
Cleaning up 56 elections...
Student Government President-
elect Jim Flegle is happy. Student
Government vice-president elect
Peggy Pearson is happy. Student
Government presidential candidate
John Pirolli is not happy. but he has
dropped his plans to complain to the
governor.
And for what we hope is the last
time for years to come, the annual
protestation of the Student Govern-
ment elections is over.
This has been a year of irrationally-
contested student decisions, from the
SG elections to the LKD bicycle
race. which has reached the Dean of
Students‘ office and threatens to go
further. Nowhere is the tradition of
sour grapes more evident than in SC
elections, however. where at least
four presidential and senatorial
elections in the past three years have
gone to the judges.
Sadly enough. we suspect there is a
method to the madness of defeated
candidate Pirolli‘s protests. which
seem well-taken if rather technical.
The point, of course. is that two
student judicial bodies have now
ruled essentially that the regulations
governing Student Government
elections are just so much window-
dressing, and that candidates who
flout those regulations will receive no
more than a verbial wrist-slapping.
Sounds to us like it‘s time for a
senate committee to draw up new and
enforceable rules governing election
campaigns-stiff rules which will
prevent even technical abuses.
The present system of overseeing
elections only contributes to the
circus-like atmosphere surrounding
the spring vote. And the quick
legitimation of the student election
progress should be of top priority for
the new SG administration if it hopes
to pick up any kind of support in the
coming year.
...and correspondence courses
The announcement by President
()tis A. Singletary at Monday‘s Senate
meeting that he will direct a com-
mittee to investigate I’K‘s
correspondence course system is a
welcome move toward cleaning out
one of this institution‘s dirtier
academic closets.
The widespread and easy abuse of
correspondence courses has been an
open secret among UK students for
years. and the courses have served as
a funnel for some students seeking
extra hours during tight semesters
Less heartening is the an-
nouncement that NCAA investigators
have visited and left the campus.
making as yet no apparent move
toward a full investigation of UK
athletic procedures.
Our view than an “in house” probe
cannot fully remove the tarnish from
Kentucky athletics remains as strong
as ever. We hope that soon the NCAA
will take steps on its own to erase that
tarnish.
Letters
An error
of omission
May I point out that the figures in the
May 1 editorial regarding UK salaries
were not salaries. They represented both
salaries and benefits. i.e. retirement.
social security. and other fringe benefits.
The correct figures for UK salaries are:
professors. $20,327; associate professors.
$15,140; asistant professors. $12,426, and
instructors. $10,548.
May I also point out that UK‘s median
salary for 197273 now places it ninth
among our eleven benchmark institutions.
Last year it was eighth. UK‘s median
salary was $14.600.
()nly ()hio State ($14,300). Tennessee
($13,700) and West Virginia $13,600) were
below UK. Purdue ($15,500). Indiana
$15,200). Illinois ($15,600), Missouri
$14,800). North Carolina at Chapel Hill
($16,200). North (‘arolina at Raleigh
($15000). Virginia ($16,500 and Virginia
Polytechnic t$lS.100) were all obviously
above I'K
Joseph Krislov
President. AAl'P
(Editor‘s note: We're guilty of an error of
omission by not specifying that the salary
figures included . benefits above the
standard l'K salaries. and apologize.)
Letters to the editor should be
typewritten. triple-spaced. and should
be accompanied by the sender’s
name, address. telephone number.
and classification and major. All
letters should not exceed 250 words.
Send correspondence to “Letters,”
The Kentucky Kernel. 114 Journalism
Bldg, CAMPUS. All letters received
by 4 p.m. Thursday will appear in the
May 4 Kernel. the last issue of the
semester.
SG president
disavows quote
I must correct a statement attributed to
me in a story written by Ms. Bette Pearce
and printed in the Leader on Thursday.
April 26, 1973. In the story. Ms. Pearce
quotes me as having said: “The
University is not a place for partisan
political ideas."
I never made such a comment and
certainly I do not subscribe to such a point
of view. Quite to the contrary. a University
campus is an extremely appropriate place
for the discussion of partisan political
ideas and indeed any and all ideas. An
institution which does not encourage the
examination and discussion of these ideas
does not merit the title of “University."
“University."
In the context of my interview. my
position on partisan politics was the same
as during my campaign: The Student
Government office should refrain from
engaging in partisan political activities
and should not be used to promote any one
political ideology. Neither should the
l'niversity as an institution engage in
partisan politics,
Instead, both the Student Government
and the University as a whole should en.
courage students of very diverse political
persuasions to participate in any and all
activities. But. by all means. on a
liniversity campus. the constant scrutiny
of ideas must be encouraged,
.Iim Flegle
St; President-Elect
Commends interest,
not endorsement
I would like to commend you on the
interest you have taken in the coming
election of the new Urban (founty
Government. particularly your editorials
of Thursday. April 26. Unfortunately, you
endorsed the wrong candidate for the 8th
District. but that is your privilege. Indeed
we are fortunate in having such a number
of well qualified candidates. This situation
justifies a considerable degree of hope for
a smooth transition to an effective merged
government.
James Y. McDonald
l'rban (‘ounty ('ouncil
('andidate—xth District
Editorials
opinion at the Editorial Board. not the University.
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Write
to the
bitter end
Iiy ltl('ll.\ltl) RAQl'II‘IR
and l’.\l’l..v\ Itltitil‘IRS'l‘AFF
Several years ago. the Kentucky Kernel
began leaving the womb of dependence. It
has been a painful birthing The
newspaper left the amniotic waters of the
journalism department. and then was
weaned from the university‘s bosom All
the financial apron strings were cut
(me and a half years later and the
Kernel. supposedly a student newspaper.
is being laughed at. called a "Joke Sheet."
and left unread by the students. faculty.
adriiinistration and anyone else who knows
the Kernel is a newspaper. not a synonym
for “seed "
Perhaps this lamentable situation exists
because the paper has not yet ventured to
spread its wings Iiut surely by now
childish curiosity would have wondered if
there was anything outside room 114 in the
Journalism building A few nudges might
help
First of all. the Kernel staff is made up
largely of people who couldn't be anything
but journalism majors These people. like
Florida’s love bugs. seem to swarm only
with others of the same species This give
Isici a scent to the paper that reeks of
narrow interests
To combat this malodor. one day a week
could be set aside for university com
munity interests The Kernel could open
its doors to many groups of people that
seem not to exist in its coverage. Like
.\lro~;\mcricans. native Africans. Indians.
community colleges. communities outside
the university. women. professors. The
list goes on ad infinitum
Another factor that contributes to the
gap between the student newspaper and
the students is the stupid errors that never
fail to mar each issue. Sloppy editing and
careless production are distinctive pim
plcs that people always notice and point to.
The pity 1S. they're so unnecessary.
()l course. it tnusl be realized that the
paper is run by students. not by
professionals Mistakes are bound to
come. Yet somehow. it would be nice to
know that the Kernel is not bounded by
restrictive peripheries. inside of which lie
prejudices and outside of which lie benign
neglect
The student newpaper (sic) should be a
powerful voice through which the
university communitv speaks. not just a
tooter born for a bunch of sawcdoff. half-
pint. hard-to-getalongwith journalists.
With this, the Kernel will earn some
respect from the students. faculty and
administration. Perhaps then the Kernel
will get credit for columns that appear in
papers like the Lexington IIeraldLeader.
It seems to be up to the new staff in 1973—
74
Kernels
“Every fool can find faults that 0
great many wise men can't remedy. "
-~Anon.
“When he killed a calf. he would do it
in high style. and make a speech."
,. Wm.Shakespeare
a page for opinion from inside and outside the university community I 09 E I I '1
The price of progress
may be your
By NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
When thalidomide, the drug that
deforms fetuses, was taken off the market,
the news of this dramatic act by the
Federal Drug Administration was
presented as a rare and unusual oc-
currence. The impression the public was
given was that there had been a strange,
tlukish, oneof-a-kind accident.
It would be closer to the truth to say the
thalidomide incident was more of an or-
dinary occurrence than we’d like to
believe. New drugs with awful con-
sequences artfully called “side ef-
fects“ — are pumped out on the market all
the time. When the people and institutions
responsible for them are questioned they
answer that this is the price of progress.
Itl'T ARE we making any progress or
has medical research run out of ideas and
fruitful hypotheses? The efforts in areas
like cancer and arthritis look more like the
search for the philosophers stone than
they do science. While medicine c6ntinues
to do new and better things with traumatic
injuries, with diseases like cancer and
arthritis and even heart trouble- the
doctors have plainly run out of gas. For the
most part they can't define these disor-
ders, they have no blinking idea what their
causes may be, and they can’t even begin
to explain why one person gets them and
another. living in much the same en-
vironment. doesn‘t.
r
Noholas
Ianoffman
(me man who does have some ideas
about where to start looking is Roger J.
Williams, a professor of biochemistry at
the University of Texas. Williams has a
string of credentials to show he's no
quack a president of the American
(‘hemical Society, a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and the
President's Advisory Panel on Heart
Disease. In addition, he’s spent a career
working in vitamin research and studying
life at the level of the cell.
He thinks: “The most basic weapons in
the fight against disease are those most
ignored by modern medicine: the
numerous nutrients that the cells of our
bodies need.“ (Quoted from “nutrition
Against Disease: Environmental
Prevention“ by Roger J. Williams, Pitman
Publishing Corporation, New York, 1971,
$7.50) Now, don't go running to your doctor
to ask him if he agrees. There is a good
chance that you know as much as your
doctor about the field.
“THE VERY PEOPLE who should have
been able to give expert guidance. . .about
nutrition have, in fact, virtually aban-
doned the field. If more doctors really
were experts with respect to nutrition and
heredity, they would be able to give their
patients sufficiently intelligent advice so
that quackery and faddism could have
very little scope. A depressing aspect of
the situation is that the laymen’s in-
tuitions, uninformed as they may be, are
more often justified than the physician‘s
neglect."
Thus your doctor, your advertising
agency and the guy who fixes your car will
heaHh
tell you that avoiding polyunsaturated fats
will keep your heart healthy. The same
three savants will also tell you that
cholesterol is what gives you hardening of
the arteries. They don‘t know what
Williams, the biologist, could tell them:
“Cholesterol is an absolute essential for
our bodies all through life" and that if you
eat less of it, your body will manufacture
it, but that if you don‘t want it building up
and clogging your arteries, you‘d be better
advised to consume a scarcely known but
inexpensive substance called lecithin.
All of this is by way of illustrating
Williams‘ main point, which is that we are
all a unique combination of heredity and a
complex nutrition involving vitamins,
minerals, hormones. enzymes and some
yet«to-be-isolated substances; and it is this
complexity and interaction of many
biochemicals that determines why one
man will contact tuberculosis and another
man won‘t, why one person will get cancer
and another person won't.
\\'II.I.IA.VIS IS THE first person to say
that the hypotheses he‘s advancing are yet
to be proven out, but more and more
evidence of a more and more persuasive
nature is accumulating that it is in these
directions that medical research should be
moving. Read his book and learn what is
already known about the etiology of
nutrition and alcoholism or arthritis or the
mental retardation of unborn babies, and
the least you‘ll say is that obstetricians
without up-todate knowledge of the field
are hardly better than quacks.
American medical science is, as
Williams points out, the captive of its own
doctrinaire orthodoxies. and it isn‘t going
to change without a boot in the tail from
lay people. We can‘t keep on letting the
doctors say. “Shut up, we're looking for a
cure.
We have to bound our personal
physicians, too. If all they know about
nutrition is to say some inanely ignorant
thing like. “eat a balanced diet," we‘ve got
to tell them they should turn off Marcus
Welby and read a few books, starting with
Roger Williams.
(Copyright. I973. The Washington Post)
‘ Howzzat again? Dept.
If you’ve got' the answers,
we've got the iob.
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THE ANSWERS:
Part I: We agree.
correct answer.
line Y?)
beginning. . .“
”Want to have some fun?” asked a rogueish chemical engineering
major in a letter to The Kernel recently. ”Let your readers lake the en-
closed quiz from Popular Science (April, 1973) to see it they’re ready to
Okay, readers. Take the test, check your answers with the Air Force’s,
and then double—check them with our reader’s answers. below.
Part II: Both blocks "A“ and ”C" have equal claim to the
Part Ill: “8" cannot be correct. "C” is the best answer. with
“A" a possible one. (lncidentally, why doesn’t line X equal
"Two‘out of three wrong? Not bad. This could be just the
Or, how do Air Force planes manage to fly?
Reader makes a case for ‘good government'
It was Tuesday, April 24 that my faith
was renewed in Jim Flegle as the up-
coming SG President. As many students
may recall, I had written a letter to The
Kernel stating how Mr. Flegle had ten-
dered over his “Presidential” application
late. At that time, l believed firmly in my
accusations. Requesting that my
testimony will go no further than that
same letter, I informed the Elections
Board that Mr. Pirolli might use my letter
in further accusations, i.e., the J-Board,
but that l wished not to attest any further
to what Mr. Pirolli might disclose. In a
sense, then, I was “edging out" in favor of
Mr. Flegle and the good government which
I thought he could create after this whole
mess was cleared up.
But then came the J~Board appeal. Mr.
Pirolli presented his case beautifully, I
believe, and Mr. Flegle countered in the
epitome of legalistic excellence. The case
presentation itself lasted about two and
one-half hours. Then came time for the J—
Board ruling. Mr. P‘legle awaited the
decision in the manner of “sweating
bullets." Pirolli, I believe, was beginning
to make sense to the highest judicial body
at UK.
However, deliberation went longer than
expected and anyone “interested“ was
requested to move to Mark Paster‘s
apartment and await the decision there.
Everyone made it to Mark Paster‘s but
Mr. Flegle. After about one hour after the
rest of us (including the JBoard) were
already at the Maxwell St. Courthouse.
Peggy Pearson showed up.
Now it appears obvious that Miss
Pearson had been chosen to do Mr.
P‘legle‘s “dirty work." I just wonder if the
same thing will occur after Scott Wen-
delsdorf gives up his post.
Being an innocent bystander, I asked
Miss Pearson why Mr. l-‘legle had not
shown up to await the decision regarding
his own defense. Miss Pearson answered
that Mr. P‘legle “thinks this is a big farce.“
But if it was, indeed, a “farce", why did
Pearson manage to await the ruling?
The student body. I think, can see that
Mr. Flegle is apathetic to Student
Eovernment. Miss Pearson will be SG
President “incognito" while Mr. Flegle is
off on debate. If this is good Student
Government, then the University ought to
take a closer look at itself. And it is you.
the students, who are “the University." To
let this incognito Student Government
persist. students, is only a way of suc-
cumbing to your own apathy. It is time to
rise up and take a closer look at Student
Government. Become involved. But, most
of all. do not let SG go on minus the
President which you elected. If Mr. Flegle
continues to concern himself more with
debate or whatever than with student
concern, then it is your duty as concerned
students to ask for a reevaluation of
Student Government. One concerned
student. I feel. has already gotten the ball
rolling.
Wm
John J. Kurzel is a senior majoring in
history.
mam:
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EPA representative
disappointed by meeting
It) ('ll.\l{l.|‘IS WOLFE
Kernel Staff Writer
Thomas E. Fielder, Kentucky's
representative to the En-
vironmental Protection Agency's
Regional Youth Advisory Board,
said he was “terribly disap-
pointed" upon his return to
Lexington from Saturday's board
meeting in Tampa. Florida
It was Fielder's first meeting
with the board since his ap»
pointment last December. and
last week he expressed optimism
for the meeting. stating that he
was honored to represent Ken-
tuck}
An architecture senior. Fielder
said he also holds a deep personal
interest in the environmental
problem His professional goal is
environmental design. con
cerning cities and man‘s
everyda) environment
Thus. it was with a sense of
purpose that he left for Tampa.
eager to meet a group of like
minded young people who could
turn their energies into con
structive action
instead. he encountered not a
team. but a disoriented group of
individuals. most of whom he
feels have little or no genuine
interest in environmental
problems
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Fielder added. while there are
a few who share his concerns for
the environment. the board as a
whole is "non-functional and non-
achieving“, and more closely
resembles a government
financed social gathering.
Fielder said he does not feel the
board's impotence can be at
tributed to interference or sup
pression from government or the
EPA In each of the ten national
regions, the regional ad
ininistrator directs the actions of
his regional board.
In the case of region four, of
which Kentucky is part. the
administrator has given the
youth board freedom to write its
own programs and offer an}
proposals to the EPA
According to Fielder. however.
in the two _\ear period that the
board has been in ex1stence.
nothing of an} value has been
produced A land use stud}
completed last year was. as
Fielder described it. "a useless
piece of information "
Fielder said he feels the board
has great potential and talent.
but a change in board leadership
in needed for a concerted
program
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Slim chance of funds
for mariiuana study
Ii) RONALD I). HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer
Dr. William Drew, UK
department of psychiatry, has
been trying to find out how
marijuana acts on the nervous
system since 1969. Now it appears
the funding for such research
may be ending.
Since 1969. Drew‘s research
has had a “direct cost" of
$130,000. “I don‘t know the final
_cost." Drew said.
The studies of the effects of
marijuana were being done with
the assistance of a grant from the
National Institute for Mental
Health. Drew said appropriations
for basic drug research have
increased from $11 million to $18
million.
“WHEN “I: RI‘IAPI’HED for
a grant we were told our grant
had been approved and ap-
parently we had a high priority.
Yet, our chances of being funded
are one in six." Drew said.
Drew specualted one reason for
the lack of funding was a
multitude of “life scientists"
were claiming they needed
money to study the effect of
marijuana. He said he un-
derstands there is little money
being delegated to research and
consequently such a move to
“where the money is“ does not
surprise him too much.
“THIS (‘OUN'I‘RY is engaged
in the most massive study of
drugs in history, yet the ad-
ministration can't see fit to give
but a miserable $17,000,000 when
the spend billions on defense,
Drew said. “We‘re being put out
of business because of the bullshit
between Congress and the
President."
Drew's research has been
concerned, primarily. with how
marijuana affects memory.
Drew says a doctor in 1932 had
patients come to him with
complaints of “thought
fragmentation." Research
completed in 1969 indicated this
was to due to impaired recent
memory.
"WE'VE BEEN WORKING on
this for three years." Drew said.
“We have good reason to believe
marijuana impairs functioning in
the hippocampus as revealed by
results of six or seven studies or
rat behavior. THC (the active
chemical in marijuana) impairs
the blood flow in the hip-
pocampus and affects the
electrical activity.
“We've also reported THC
impairs selective uptake of the
adrenal gland hormone on the
hippocampus which means THC
has affects which can disturb
higher centers of the endocrine
system of the body," Drew said.
DREW‘S STI'IHES HAVE
included human subjects in
addition to rats. Studies of acute
and chronic users have been
made. The studies show
marijuana affects the memory
for a period after use with
chronic users being more
severely affected than occasional
users. Chronic use has about the
same impact as being “really
drunk." he said.
“As far as we know the loss of
memory is temporary.“ Drew
said. “We have tested people
who have use it every day for up
to five years and we have found
that if they go a couple of days
without smoking they still show
impairments.“
Drew gives his human subjects
tests to see what affect
marijuana has on memory.
“THEY‘RE PAID TO DO the
best they can," Drew said. “So
there is difference between what
happens here and at their home
or their pad or whatever they call
it.“
Drew hypothesized on a scale
of ten (ten being the state of
memory of someone who had
suffered a massive stroke) heavy
users of marijuana would run ” as
high as 4-5 with the majority
registering 3'2-4.” Low
frequency users would register
around a two on this scale.
“We bias our studies against
ourselves,“ Drew said. “We
make it extremely difficult to see
impairment. We find more im—
pairment if they aren‘t paid.“
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