Miami Hurricane, October 12, 1971

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For the answer to the question: Will “Sky” King take the Flying Fling? See page 9.
Voi. 47, No. 8
Tuesday, Oetober 12, 1971
Smack: One B
By KENNETH (vffEENLEAP
Reformed Heroin Addict
W hy does a heroin addict trade hit health, aelf reaped, honor, fortune and freedom for the contemn of a small glarine hag?
Why doe» the addict accept the inevitable imprisonment, torture, harassment and decrepitness of body and mind for the power of the poppy?
Narcotics:
Know Them and Their Consequences
tting Off...
On the upswing, this UM coed shows how to have as much fun coming down as
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going up. She's swinging free outside the Student Union as toes stretch and breez.es blow, making it easy to get off. A natural high can be beautiful.
Political
Caucus
Saturday
By JILL H. MOVSHIN
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UM coeds will have the opportunity to learn about their rights for political equality at the first Dade County Political Caucus to be held on the UM campus Saturday.
Th« Dade County political Caucus, the offspring of the Florida Women’s Political Caucus, will offer free workshops in a day-long program beginning with registration at 8:30 a.m.
The workshop, to be held in
LC-160, is entitled “Bringing about Change Through the Political System.”
Resource people to help coordinate the workshops will be: Representative Gwen Cherry, Commissioner J. L. Plummer, running tor assistant mayor. Nikki Beare and June Franklin minority whip of Iowa’s State Legislature.
Registration is free and participants are urged to bring their own lunch.
Open Door Starts Third Year
By KINGSLEY RUSH
Of The Hurricane Staff
October 18 will mark the inauguration of the third year the Open Door, UM’s multipurpose counselling and
crisis center, has been providing services to UM students.
Since the beginning of the semester, staff psychologists have been screening and training volunteers for the student-run program. Those steps were necessary to insure that the Open Door’s staff will be capable of handling any problems students
Homecoming 1971 Begins On Oct. 27
By F. J. MIZZLES, JR.
Of Tho Hurricane Staff
impact ’71, “a homecoming for some,” is two weeks away.
“If you want to get involved you have to act soon,” Bill Hartman, homecoming chairman, said.
Hartman said a brief outline of the activities are as follows:
October 21 and 22 the Student Body will vote on the “Draft the Queen" contest. House decorations must be finished by 1 a.m. along with the poster entries. Judging will take place at 12 noon.
Impact ’71 officially begins October 26, with the ODK, tapping and bell ringing. Alumni-student night will feature a guest speaker in the International Lounge of the Student Union.
The homecoming parade will be held on Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
The Iron Arrow tapping, Draft the Queen semi-finals, pep rally and boat burning will be held on the 28th. The candlelight procession will be featured at this time.
The Miami-Army football game will be played in the Orange Bowl Oct. 29 at 8:15 p.m.
The mystery dance, picnic, and paper refuge campaign will be held on Oct. 30.
The end of the festivities will be a free B. B. King concert on Oct. 31.
Howard Kellner, dance chairman, said.
There will be free beer and wine available at the semi-formal dance, facilities will be provided for those who wish to have other forms of liquor, but they must be a group organization. No one will be allowed to bring their own, since this is a direct violation of university rules, Kellerman said.
“Security, during these proceedings, will be a must. All students who attend will have to show proof of their
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might bring them.
The Open Door provides two chief services for UM students.
First, it serves as a “rap center” for students who have any type of problem. Whether the problem is connected with school, emotional, drug, or any personal problem, the Open Door's staff will try to help.
It also functions as a referral agency. If students have a problem which the staff isn’t capable of handling, they will be provided with information as to where they can go. Tha Open Door has information on legal, academic, drug, draft, and other agencies students can use.
The Open Door stresses that any contact with students seeking advice is completely confidential.
“We don’t care what a student’s name is if he doesn’t want us to know. Files are not kep on students either,” Dr. Mark Otten, Open Door coordinator, said recently.
The personnel of the Open Door will “rap with a student either by phone or in
person.
The Open Door will be opening with new offices this year. They are now located in Building 49, Room K.
Their phone number is 284-2300, if a student cares to talk to one of the staff.
The Open Door is open from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. every night of the week.
Dr. Otten said that the Open Door is planning on expanding its services as the year progresses. A great deal will depend on the number of students who are interested in joining the staff of the Open Door. The staff presently totals 48 graduate and undergraduate students.
Prospective students can obtain an application from Dr. Otten at 284-5511. After an interview and a short training session they will be able to assist the rest of the Open Door staff.
Dr. Otteo feels that any student who cares about people and likes to help people will be considered for staff positions. He added that volunteers should realize their commitment. They are expected to work one night a week.
The answers to these questions can only be found in the darkest retreats of a hard core heroin addict’s mind, therefore the Hurricane staff set out to find an addict who had the experience, courage and insight to journey down into the innermost depths of his mind and explore his unconscious in hope of returning with the answers to the heroin slavery riddle.
Not only did we want a man who could explain the power of the white powder realistically, we wanted this same addict to tell the readers of the Hurricane in his own words, in an article entirely edited by himself, why an addict would choose to dwell in the pits of hell forever in exchange for a fix.
We were successful.
We found an addict who was one of the first patients at Florida’s first Methadone Maintenance Program. He is also a senior at the University of Miami and has a psychology major. Here is what he has to say:
“On several occasions during everyone’s lifetime, whether they be a stock broker, priest, addict or college dean, a person takes a good look at his or her life style and contemplates whether or not it is worth the price he or she is paying.
For example; the stock broker may ask himself . . . Has sixty tension-

400 UM Students Shoot Up To Ten ‘Bags' Daily
... the problem is psychological
filled hours per week at the exchange and office, requirements to play golf on Sundays with boring creeps and not being able to spend much time with his family all been worth the yacht he owns, prestige he has and income tax bracket he’s earned?
“Well, this may come as some what of a shock to the all too many Hurricane readers who classify heroin addicts as some species of scum which slithers out of the sewers about midnight to prey on good citizens, but even a heroin addict goes through this same type of cognitive thought process which a priest or that stock broker goes
through occasionally during his lifetime.
“It was a result of my going through this process of evaluation two and a half years ago which led to the discovery of some answers to questions which were of great significance to me.
“The two most important questions which I found answers to, at the risk of being repetitive were: Why does an addict trade his self respect, honor, fortune “good” style of life and put himself into a position of persecution, inevitable imprisonment, torture and death for a bag of heroin? . . . and what are the powers that hero-
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Heroin is my shepard I shall always want
He maketh me lie down in lonely rooms He leadeth me besides the still alleys He destroyeth my soul
He leadeth me in the path of lawlessness for his namesake Yea though I walk always in the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil if thou art with me Thy power and thy needle they comfort me
Thou preparest a fix for me out of the presence of my enemies Thou anointest my veins with joy My blood runneth over
Surely deprivation and suffering will follow me all the days of my life And I will dwell in the pits of hell forever
Don Gibsons
Founder of Narcotics Annonymous
in contains and utilizes which make slaves of giants?
“Some giants have been Edgar Allen Poe, Sher-I o c k Holmes, Lenny Bruce, Doctor De Quin-cey, William Burrow«. Ray Charles and countless others including one per cent of the physi-c i a n s in the United States.
“But getting back On track, I’m sure that yo< have sensed that boft these questions and theit answers are closely it* terrelated. Let me assure now and I’ll show yoe a bit later how distinct and separate these issees really are . . . while still being closely related.
“Let’s tackle the first [question now. I will reveal what I feel is definitely the answer and explain how I began to acquire the answer two and a half years ago. One day in which I had snatched two purses in the same two minute period and had nearly gotten [caught, and of course ran straight to the connections house where I shot [five really nice pound ($5.00) bags, I began to question this decision I had obviously made to ¡adopt a junkie’s life [style.
Although I hadn’t decided as most people decide to become an attor-
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Hurricane Poll la vois Orioles 3-1 In World Series
By KINGSLEY RUSH And ERIC BALOFF
Of Th* Hurricam Staff
If UM students have their way, the Baltimore Orioles will win the World Series.
In our second edition to the weekly feature introduced in the Hurricane last week, 100 UM students were polled on controversial questions. Although we will be mainly concerned with the national political arena and important UM issues, we will occasionally change our format to include any type of question which is timely. Humor will also play a part.
If you have any questions you would like to have polled or any ideas, please stop by the Hurricane Office on the second floor of the Student Union. You can also write to POLL, Box 8132, UM Branch, Coral Gables.
This is how it went this week:
Of the rour leading baseball contenders (San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Oakland), which do you think will win the World Series?
San Francisco: 20%; Pittsburgh: 20%; Baltimore: 40%; Oakland: 10%; and Undecided: 10%

Who do you think will win-the World Series, Pittsburg or Baltimore?
BALTIMORE
M%
PITTSBURG
21%
UNDECIDED
11%
“It’s no longer the I930’s and 40’«, I’m just not interested," one 960 resident said.
Many students blamed baseball expansion for their confusion.
“There are so many teams now," one coed said, “there used to be nine or ten in each league, but now there are four divisions, each with nine or ten. But I’ll pick Baltimore, that's where my boyfriend is from.”
Despite some negative reaction to baseball, most students got into the spirit of the game and the Baltimore Orioles look like winners; at least on campus.
Have you registered to vote?
Yes: 35%; No: 60 %; Ineligible: 5%
‘Psy choneur otic
Pain’
“Impact '71’s mystery dance has surprises for everyone, including the first time that alcoholic beverages will be allowed on campus. It will be held Saturday, October 30, 9 p.m. to I a.m. In the Student Union complex,”
Although this question was polled earlier this week before playoffs had been completed, we thought it might he interesting to see whether our student body could predict the winner.
With the World Series just days away, there appeared to he a lack of interest in the game. Many students revealed they hadn’t been keeping up with the game, and many were unaware that the World Series was coming up.
Prompted by the fine efforts of local groups on campus to increase student voter registration, we thought we'd take a look and see how the UM student body is doing. This poll represents both those students registered locally and in their home states.
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She kiss Him Again?
... only 20% of L W students know