YEARBOOK_1977

Page 151

TIMOTHY LEARY where

are

"Climb

next?

to turn to

we

of

out

water-

your

beds," he cried

the

in

hope

of recapturing some of enthusiasm of the 60's. But

college

70's

are

in

the

quite different from the

those

of

today

tend

cerned

students

the

60's.

to

be

Students

more

con

with

personal growth growth of so ciety. Changes today are us ually made by going through channels made possible by the than with

youth

the

of the 60's, The channels and perhaps soon

move

slowly

our

natural

and exhausted.

resources

will be energy "Our destiny is to said

Leary and

day

we

will

and how this

place "Timothy the

so

"Have over

Leary's dead, or Moody Blues song

You

and

Heard"

over.

The

repeats

man

is not

dead but the spirit of the six ties that he once represented is.

Leary

on

back to URI 14, this time to

came

October

a new idea, space migration. Edwards Auditorium

promote

filled with people, some who idolized him in his early days and some who were just curious about the man ev was

associates

eryone

with

LSD.

Tyler Moore Show, and his jokes and sarcasm turned his speech into a take-off from Saturday Night Live. S.M.I.L.E.

stands

for

Space

Migration

Intelligence Life The idea was de vised by Dr. Gerald O'Neill, a Princeton physics professor, and Leary is touring the coun Extension.

try promoting the idea. Leary said that because we are using up our natural resources and energy we will have to find a way to support our grow population. His analogy that we are being squeezed off the earth like birds from their nests. forsees Leary that in the 1990's the Ameri can dream will change from having a home in the suburbs new

No

for belief is in science. He is the Mr. Clean of the 70's. Dressed in a white suit arid Puma sneakers he asked us to think of him as a more

His

Leary.

style Ted

But his

was

Zen

new

broadcaster

friendly WDNA.

drugs

or

Baxter's

from

broadcasting

like that of the Mary on

more

ing

was

to having a home in a cylin der in space. "All great epics are migratory," he said, and

is up to

I'm

move sure

have move

us.

on,"

some

Where will take

to.


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