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Speed a FOR MORE IN WRI Do It P.O. Be Phoenix, A IT'S AN If you're now using whites, < be noticing that your friends E are usually driven out of their of a heavy speed user. Speed or little nervous habits (some in that drive people up the wall. So, say you change friends. Sa freaks. Experience has shown speed users like other speed uE jar runs empty, you'll be surp place. PAR) Paranoia is the really fun par least expect it, late at night o been up anywhere from one to s a speed freak is to tell him the Prot Is Ri The University's Law School has encountered a problem with a group of its students who happen to be black and who happened to be placed on academic prob ation. But it is difficult to isolate a situation concerning only blacks and conclude that their being black has no bearing in it. These law stu dents are seen as a disadvan taged group who entered the school under special criteria. However, the fact that they are all black plays a heavy part in the issue. Because things don't happen to groups of people who hap pen to be black. Things hap pen to black people-most times because they're blac k. The group of students are freshmen who comprise 15 of the 17 black freshmen law students. All black freshmen have been placed on academic probation, but two of them are not being considered part of the prob lem because they entered the law school under normal admission criteria. The other 15 attended a preparatory program for minority students con ducted by the law school this summer and were admitted on a probationary basis. Their probation has been extended because the school's faculty has becided they need more than the average amount of time to perform as they are expected to. Dean Robert Foster of the school says that the issue is not a racial one, and he denies that his faculty mem bers could have been dis criminatory. He says the \nd Whites , FORMATION TE: Now x 5115 riz. 85010 TI-SOCIAL ir other types of speed, you may re changing. Quiet, calm people minds by the continued presence loes tend to cause babbling, and 'oluntary, like muscular twitches), y all of your people are now speed is that the only thing that makes -ers is the speed itself. When the rised how fast the exodus takes NOIA t about speed. It comes when you in broad daylight, after you've everal days. An easy way to scare it his paranoia is justified. Once )Iem aciaI students were deficient, and they were according to tests and other entrance criteria. But how can anyone say an issue is not racial when it has such racial connotations. That is not to say that racism was a direct cause of the problem-that faculty mem bers were definitely pre judiced. But when 15 blacks are classified as deprived, a person must why. Is it because of some common condition they share? Yes, blackness. The conditions which caused these people to be deprived is blackness. They resulted from schools with outdated books and inferior facilities. These schools, which were to be separate but equal, were definitely separate but totally unequal. $o now this group is seen by the faculty as a deficient group, but their deficiencies aren't linked to theirs. It's good that these students can be treated as a group and can be given special priviledges, such as the extended time to make their grades, but why is it so bad to recognize this issue as a racial one-that is,one where race is the cause of the problem. 9erhaps we should accept the fact that there are racial differences and vary ing cul tures and that sometimes problems stem from these differences. If we can accept this and learn to com pensate for them when com pensation becomes neces sary, as it did with the law students, then perhaps the word racial will cease to mean discriminatory or pre judiced and perhaps that word can take on the mean ing of different. opinions Are The Same Thing paranoia starts, it gets more intense as the run progresses, until faces start popping into windows and mirrors inspire adrenaline rushes. Many experienced users of speed make a real effort to maintain their bodily regularity while stringing whites or crystal. They eat despite the fact that food is a drag to get down, and sleep despite the fact that they don't feel tired. On speed, food does you little good, as the action of the drug itself reduces digestive ability, and thus nutrition is not absorbed properly. The added intake of vitamins helps, but will not nearly compensate for those that are taken out. . Sleep, when it can be accomplished, gives little more than super ficial relief, and does not help the body restore itself. Under heavy speed use, deep.sleep is impossible and it is this that produces the recuperative effect. The dream cycle is also interrupted, and true dreams are not experienced. COMING DOWN If you are a speed user, you realize the problems with coming down. Lots of people will knock themselves out with a barbiturate, particularly Seconal. This is a very stupid thing to do, as the physi cally addictive qualitites of this drug often leads you to a heavy dependence.. If you must use a downer to come down, try to stick with lighter drugs not prone to addiction, such as Valium or Librium. Experi ence has shown that Niacin (Vitamin B3) will help restore energy levels when coming down- and help you avoid a hard crash. In addition, Niacin is a "mopping up" agent, which helps the blood stream rid itself of any remaining impurities. (Usual dosage: 2000 to 3000 mg., taken with equal amounts of Vitamin C stretched out over the day, preferably after meals. Caution: Niacin produces a harmless heat flash like a mild sunburn lasting 15 to 30 minutes, The flush is considerably reduced by taking the vitamin after meals with milk.) Other aids in coming down: Milk or yogurt will help absorb remaining quantities of the drug from the body. A good B-complex is reCommended, especially if you use the niacin treatment, to assure that you are not deficient in any one of the B Vitamins. And, as always, lots of Vitamin C is a necessity. Remember with all vitamins, that they should be taken along with food to assure better digestion, and to help avoid getting an upset stomach. Remember: It's a good idea not to take whites at all, and to find some other non-drug form of stimulation if you really need it. But if you must use on occasion, remember that it takes your body a full day to recuperate from each day of speed use. If you are now taking diet pills or pep pills (prescription) with an amphetamine base, remember that Vitamin C, B complex, milk (calcium), and other nutrition must be taken in regularity. Do not fall into the uppers-downers syndrome for sleep and alertness, or you will find it nearly impossible to get out. Remember that when you use speed, you are not getting anything from the drug itself, and are merely liberating stored resources which may be needed later to ward off diseases or infections. That's all. (Isn't that enough?) MacKinnon makes friends, r By BOB CRAFT your spot. There's a place at Before Raun MacKinnon home,andthere'sachairbythe started the last song of her last window and I just don't feel set in the Golden Spur she said comfortable there and it's not "I really have enjoyed being tecar o' iestigb here and that's not a line or any-wid s. thing, I really have."U eod n eodn .The remark was nice, but cnrcs h a u w uncalled for. Anyone who had abm,nihro hmcm been there for the smallest mrilscess n o amount of time in the Spur knew CmoPrhl n n o it. She knew many of the peoplequtdasyigIdo'thn by name and between sets she te unda l ieIwne would go and sit down and talk te. with people in the Spur. She not Nw Wl,w aeacul only took requests from the audience, she asked for them. o fesfo eodcm "I don't know what I can tellin.Shsadttsewol you," Raun said as she sat down lk orcr u h agpi on the stage apron, "I mean I've ta ih o opne o' never been in trouble with thegiehrpo tonlcsdea law or anything," she phrasedtinnacorc. it as a question, not sure. She stated that her hobbieshur.Sesoefrcrdn were cooking and sewing and a oehn htwudb that her husband, Jeremiahniebuwhnteim ca, Burnham, who backs her onnobghry bass and flute liked carpentry, Awmnapoce s O "Oh yes, we read a lot."whtapeybg,Runsi This led to a tributary conver-oftewmnscthpr. sation about Carlos Casteneda, Ys o ttdy twso "It's really true what he says sl tBl'.I' n ic,i aboua sot i theroombein wouldn' be hdo mke,tin she IX - Y ' Tom Darcy The Nation's Number One Cartoonist Starting April In The Gamecock. nusic in Spur said as Raun examined the bag. All out of questions and the guitars were all packed up. Time to go off to a new restaur ant with some friends. We stood up. Jerry Burnham came over ''If you want to ask a bout people in rock, he's the one to talk to," she listed a few of his credits which included among others, the Flying Machine. "He knows everybody," she said softly. He had put on glasses and I laughed and asked him why he looked like Mike Dreyfuss of McKendree Spring. He knew him. Raun had told me I looked like John Prine "and that that was good." Raun asked Orlando, the sound man, if he was going out with them and she asked Jule if they were going to meet them there or what. As I walked out of the Spur she advised me of a book to read. A lovely person, friendly, interested, not in a hurry. Beautiful music and friends made along the way. Raun MacKinnon beautiful music, beautiful pernm..