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...wide-ranging analysis of alienated students-the bored, the unhappy, the apathetic-University of Wisconsin Psychiatrist Seymour L. Halleck told a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit last week: "Smoking marijuana has become almost an emblem of alienation. The alienated student realizes that the use of 'pot' mortifies his parents and enrages authorities." Unable to change a flawed world, the alienated also seek a quick, "autoplastic adjustment" in themselves: "They can create a new inner reality simply by taking a pill or smoking a marijuana cigarette...
Statistics seem to support Halleck. A recent poll indicated that 15% of Princeton undergraduates had experimented with drugs, and that a surprising two-thirds of these were on the dean's list. The Crimson figured that 25% of Harvard students had smoked marijuana at least once. On the basis of a survey that he has just completed, Yale's chief psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Arnstein, estimated last week that 20% of Yale students have smoked pot, half of them four or more times...
According to Wisconsin Psychiatrist Halleck, one of the root causes of student alienation is isolation from adults: 'A student can spend months on a large campus without having a conversation with a person over 30." As a result, students develop "subcultures dedicated to the rejection of adult values." When it comes to drugs, though, the ironic fact s that often the adults with whom alienated students do establish contact are themselves narcotics users. Example: ast month Yale's popular Art History Instructor William Woody, 30, was arrested by New Haven police for possessing marijuana. At the State University...
...lavish parties. Paid hotel suites, rides in company planes, weekends or vacations can be a little trickier. Practically every member of Congress has some wealthy friends and acquaintances, many of them with country houses where a legislator can recuperate from the Washington wear and tear. Indiana's Charles Halleck, onetime Republican House minority leader, judiciously chooses speaking dates in localities near hunting or fishing lodges owned by his longtime friends, to which he can slip away once his political appearance is done with...
...ranking Republican on the House Appropriations committee, said the budget is "an enigma proposing, on one hand, something for almost everybody, and on the other hand, moves to gobble up our economic resources and dull the will of private enterprise." In the same vein, Republican Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana described the budget as "guns, butter...