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Th* Red and Black Thursday, Sept. 74, 1970
PLAYBOY SAYS
Down to
usmess
All is serious as the University System's Board of
HeitenLs ponders a resolution on campus unrest. guide
lines for dealing with drug abuse, and other business
at a regular meeting in Atlanta Wednesday of last
week Above are Regent Roy Harris of Augusta (left)
and Chancellor George Simpson, who is the chief ad
ministrative officer of the University System. The en
tire board i below i sits around a conference table as
reporters line the walls of the room. • Related stories.
Pages 1-A. 5-A and || - A).
Most students non-violent
A recent iu lion wide survey
shows that the majority of
American college students re
jects violence as a political tac
tic
The survey draws a correla
tion between those who smoke
marijuana and those who don't
Pot smokers, the survey shows
“are far to the left' of non-
smokers both politically anc
socially
In a poll that drew 7.300 res
ponses from students on 197
campuses of large and small
colleges, secular and non-secu
lar. Playboy magazine, with a
blind questionnaire, had a sur
vey conducted by the College
Marketing and Research Cor
poration of Indianapolis, to learn
what students believe is the
most serious issue facing the
nation The findings are pub
lished in the September issue ot
the magazine
If urban conditions and the
overpopulation problem get
bad enough, even the wilds of
Alaska and Canada will look
utopian
Countries in the northern
hemisphere around the world
might look to the unused land in
their northern areas for a most
precious assei. That asset is
space
Dr. Kirk H Stone, a Univer
sity geographer, is developing
methods and plans lor the use
of that space
If the current growth in pop
ulations continues he said,
more and more people will be
seeking to build homes in the
now unpopulated areas in high
altitudes around the world
Stone's work is in the active
planning by governments for
settling and colonization in
these areas
STONE SAID the need for
studies such as this is pressing
and immediate The history of
the world has been that no one
has done this type planning at
the time when we were in the
stages of affluence Where
there has been planning, and
there is a deep-seated personal
faith in the operation, there is a
good chance of a major suc
cess.
But." he added, “my own
expericence in working on this
THE SURVEY was conduct
ed in late spring, shortly after
four students were slain at
Kent State In that particular
instance. 43 per cent of the stu
dents blame the deaths on the
Nixon Administration s hostil
ity toward dissent Thirty-
eight per cent believe Kent
State was an unfortunate acci-
,
Other highlights of the sur
vey show
• The most pressing con-
tern is the war in Indo-Ouna;
65 per cent ol those polled be
lieve the Administration should
quickly withdraw all troops. 36
per cent favor ending the war
now.
• The war is the single issue
on which a majority of the* stu
dents takes a seemingly radi
cal stand '
• More than 60 per cent feel
that something other than the
throughout the world has shown
me that there has been a tre
mendous waste because no one
has tried to prepare himself for
this job
Dr Stone said he believes
that settlers should not be al
lowed to settle alone in an unpo
pulated area They must be set
tled in groups of planned size
with planned talents and abili
ties in the members of the
group
FOR THE PAST 15 years his
studies have concentrated on
Finland where successful co
lonization in the northern part
of the country was demonstrat
ed after World War II. The
Scandinavian nation had lost a
large area of land to the Rus
sians and was forced to make
homes for about 400.000 people
It did this bv building
planned settlements in the
sparsely settled northern part
of the country. Completely con
structed farms were given to
carefully selected settlers.
From IMS until 1905, SI ol thm
colonies, with an average of
about 45 farms, were construct
ed
Stone has used the successful
Finn program as a basis for
establishing guidlines in plan
ning and predicting the success
of similar efforts in other
countries
war is most troublesome It
appears that student political
activity is not likely to wane
when the war ends
• Students with no religious
affiliation lean farthest to the
left on almost all issues Prot
estants show least support for
the radical choices Even
among Protestants, however,
more than half <56 per cent!
want the war brought to a
speedy close; 32 per cent sup
port the administrations pro
gram in Vietnam
• STUDENTS ARE wary of
hard drugs with 93 per cent
never using heroin, cocaine, or
other addictive drugs
• A major change in sexual
activity on campus since publi
cation of the Kinsey Report is
clear Kinsey listed 49 4 per
cent of males and 73 per cent of
females as not having had per-
marital intercourse by the age
of 21 The survey shows the fig
ures have dropped to 18 per
cent for males. 49 per cent for
females — with few of those
polled having reached »heir 21st
birthday
• 62 per cent favor unre
stricted abortion
• Among Catholic students
there is clear support for "the
men in the Catholic hierarchy
who are struggling to liberalize
the Church's stand on abor
tion ' Almost 90 per cent favor
abortion of some sort. Nearly
half <48> believe that abortion
“for any reason" should be
legalized
FIFTY THREE per cent
believe violence in demonstra
tions is never justified Forty-
seven per cent condone viol
ence under certain circum
stances
But almost three-quarters
(73 per cenDof the students
who believe the U S. system of
A son's tribute to a wise fath
er and a granddaughter's recol
lection of a nonconforming
grandfather are featured arti
cles in the fall issue of the
Georgia Review, on sale this
week
The literary magazine, pub
lished at the University, also
contains the third of a four-part
series on Georgia mountain
culture by University graduate
government is imperfect also
believe the most effective way
to right wrongs is to work with
in the system Fifteen per cent
opt for a complete overhaul
violent revolution
Although 82 per cent find
serious deficiences in the
educational system. 75 per
cent believe improvement iun
be achieved through dialogut
or peaceful protest Only 7 per
cent say “we must tear it all
down
On the question of drugs,
“students seem to have a
healthy awareness of those
drugs that can put them on
long-term bummers, the sur
vey shows Habitual use of hard
drugs — cocaine, heroin, etc —
on campus "is nearly nonexis
tent." Nearly 90 per cent have
never tried LSD
NEARLY HALF of all res
pondents. however, say they
smoke pot sometimes. 13 per
cent are frequent users, and
the survey indicates that men
are more adventurous pot users
than women.
Not quite half <46 per
cent* of all students feel mari
juana should be legalized, ei
ther without restrictions or
with the same regulations not
applied to cigarettes and liq
uor This figure is almost the
same as the percentage of the
students who have tried pot
The politics of marijuana
smokers show wide divergence
in opinion except in one area;
smokers and non-smokers be
lieve that "working within the
system" is the effective wav to
bring about change But 70 per
cent of frequent pot users be
lieve the U.S. should pull out of
Vietnam immediately, more
than three times as high as
the percentage among non
users
John L. Gordon Jr., now a grad
uate student at Harvard Uni
versity.
Edward Krickel. associate
professor of English at the
University, is the author of an
essay on two American writers
and a former University staff
member. Margaret Inman
Meaders. contributes the inter
pretation of a childhood memo
ry.
Population looking
to Canada, Alaska
Georgia Review set
for sale this week
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