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Stroke, who is now on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is nearly ready to make good on his promise. Next week, in The Netherlands' prestigious Physics Letters, he tells how he has used holography (TIME, March 18, 1966) to produce relatively clear images from badly blurred photographs...
Directed by England's Peter Brook (Marat / Sade) and acted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tell Me Lies comes to the screen with impeccable artistic credentials. But the movie has barely begun its protest against the Viet Nam war before its righteous indignation dissolves into chaos...
...thoughts of a university president these days are no longer limited to such lofty matters as improving the curriculum or such necessary deeds as raising funds. Not with students and drugs to worry about. Last week President John Toll of S.U.N.Y.'s Stony Brook campus ruefully told a joint New York legislative committee on crime that "I've probably talked more about this than any other single topic since I've been president...
...sure, Toll probably has a bigger problem than most campus presidents. At a hearing of the committee-convened in the wake of the predawn arrest at Stony Brook last month of 38 people who were charged with sale or possession of drugs-he admitted that perhaps 20% of his 5,200 students have used drugs, mostly marijuana. Toll assured the committee that "we cannot tolerate illegal activities," warned that students involved in the arrests can expect expulsion...
Double Jeopardy. Stony Brook officials insist that they were well aware of the pot problem all along, although they deny estimates that more than half of the students have taken marijuana at one time or another. The school has distributed medical articles about drug dangers to all students, installed anti-pot posters in campus buildings, set up an advisory committee to deal with the problem. In the wake of the arrests, President John Toll announced that he had hired a full-time consultant on drugs, Lutheran Minister Dean A. Hepper, who in turn said that he would employ a former...