Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Lehigh ' s today is radically different from Lehigh ' s yesterday. Drugs account for a large part of this change. The usage of drugs by numerous students has become an actu- ality for a diversity of reasons — to study, to laugh, to experiment, to socialize, to ex- perience, to be. Dexedrine, Benzedrene, Marijuana, Ha- shish, Mescaline, Psilocybin, THC, LSD, Methadrine are obtained with little dif- ficulty. Beer is no longer the unchallenged king on a Saturday night. The personality of the typical college student partially accounts for the phenome-

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L i An era has passed, a world has passed, in which love meant children, and many of them. We are pioneers of a sort, seeking a love which is stronger and somehow different than the love of yesterday. Zero Population Growth, the world decrees, and we realize we must heed the call or die. Perhaps our morals will change in the process; but they never really were written down, were they?

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non of drugs on Lehigh ' s campus, or any college campus. The college stu- dent by nature should be precocious, curious, and open-minded. He yearns to view reality from dif- ferent perspectives, to open his mind to new ave- nues of perception, and to expand his mental experi- ences. Experience is prob- ably the key in explaining the ubiquitous encroach- ment of drugs into the dormitory, the fraternity, or the apartment. But our parents might claim that they, too, seek different experiences, and that the use of drugs is an unacceptable means of achieving this experience. Our generation, though, has redefined what ac- ceptable or unacceptable ' ' is. Various inhibitions are disappearing, peer in- fluence is attaining pri- macy, and drugs have merged into our genera- tional subculture. The ex- perience of drugs is becoming as much a part of our American youth as are hamburgers, trench fries, and cokes.