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Many of the arguments which are presented against marihuana are specious. It is, of course, absurd to argue that because most users of heroin first used marihuana, marihuana is proven to be a usual preliminary step to heroin addiction. One might as well say that because most users of heroin once imbibed milk, milk leads to heroin addiction. The true inquiry is what percentage of marihuana users become heroin addicts, and as to that we seem to have no reliable information...
...Syracuse doctor has accused college psychiatrists of dispersing information about student-patients "so widely as to make any reference to 'confidentiality' absurd...
...subject even interests them) according to matters of personal taste and condition. The apocalyptic view has, of course, many supporters, most notably those of the newly emergent left who foresee a period of right wing oppression and excess, followed by the triumph of a new ideology. This will seem absurd to anyone who has never visited East Berlin. The more sanguine view will commend itself to those who would like to think it so, and this, as I say, is largely a matter of taste and condition. Such would include, almost without exception, the condition of anyone who in this...
...been proposed for debate in city council five times, and had five times been refused. Action following this could hardly be termed a headlong "leap." Your solution is that either Father Groppi cool off or that the white community become sympathetic. That the latter would happen of itself is absurd; that the former would bring about the latter is equally absurd. Pressure, unfortunately, has been proven effective. "Cooling off" could at most bring a new string of promises to be broken...
...would be absurd to ask the Committee on the Houses to spent its time discussing, again the issues pertaining tot a piecemeal extension of parietals. These issues were examined and considered rather completely in the Fall of 1966. What is a fair topic for discussion, it seems to me, is the larger question of who should be involved in making the decisions affecting the personal lives and freedoms of Harvard undergraduates. In this context, it is high time, indeed, that "we quit asking for just another hour." Craig Stewart Chairman Leverett House Committee