At Andover there was quite a bit of smoking of marijuana but most of it was earlier this year. "We knew we had it," said Dean Richards, "but didn't know how much there was." He added that students had told him there was less of it in the spring.

Students who claimed to know said that almost all the marijuana on campus during the winter term came from one student who brought back 30 ounces of "California stuff." This was said to be sold in ounces and half ounces for $15-20 per ounce. This one person is reported to have stopped his business leaving very few people with any drugs.

THE DEAN, who says he is kept informed by students who don't give him names, estimated that there were "25 hardcore users."

Both schools have informal working agreements with the police about drugs on their campuses of the same nature as the one Harvard has with the Cambridge police. The way it works is that the Dean of the school reports to the police if they catch anyone for drugs. The police ask if the student got it in the town. If the answer is no, they don't prosecute.

Dean Kessler pointed out that "the most effective evidence we have (against a student) is confession." Generally, he added, there wouldn't be enough evidence for a court case without self-incrimination.

A story among students at Exeter says that one student was turned down by all his colleges because the Dean told them the student was strongly suspected of drug traffic. Dean Kessler said, however, that they wrote to colleges "only when a student has been expelled."

Drugs at Exeter have spread to become part of someone's identity in the students' social hierarchy. For a while most students were considered to be divided into the "drug agg" (abr. for aggregation) or the "jock agg." Athletic ability, at a school where sports are required, and masculinity, at a school where most boys enter just before or after they reach puberty, are two psychological hangups that keep the jock cliques on top of the social hierarchy for the first two or three classes. The "drug agg" was a social reaction against the athletes. Drugs were their most salient, if least typical, characteristic.

There is a new hierarchy at Exeter that divides people into the intellectuals, the straight grinds, and the jocks. The terms are loosely applied and mostly theoretical; but the intellectuals are typified by New Left politics, writing poetry, blues records, and drugs. Drugs stay pretty much within their group; and unlike Andover, they have numerous and individual sources for buying them.

A student at Andover described the hierarchy at Andover as once being, "jocks, jet-set (very preppy socialites), and non-entities." Now, he says, there is a third and dominant group which could be classified the "hip people." But drugs are not the trademark of the hip people, he explained. The hip people share "the love ethic."

"The love ethic" is as good a phrase as any for the air of optimism and ease that has appeared on the Andover campus in this spring. Those who use drugs do so in their rooms. The administration will kick them out if they're caught. But the school isn't trying to catch them as they are at Exeter.

Andover has put all the seniors together in a new dormitory complex and has instituted and is planning several reforms in the regulations and curriculum. Next year scholarship students will no longer be required to hold jobs in the old scholarship work program.

But students aren't happy with the administration. They almost had a quiet student power demonstration last week to get a student representative into faculty meetings. But plans were cancelled at the last minute. Students haven't been allowed to smoke cigarettes since the Surgeon General's Report. They are allowed to smoke pipes.

ONE student said that he first tried marijuana because someone in his regular illegal cigarette smoking clique introduced it one week. Virtually all who would smoke cigarettes legally still do so anyway. And pipes are sometimes used to cover the smell of drugs. Incense has been banned by the administration because it can be used for that purpose. And there is a move afoot to get rid of pipes for the same reason.

The faculty finally gave in on long hair last winter. And the president of the senior class, Alan Oniskor, wears his very long. The whole student body looks different. Their hair is long. They wear corduroy jackets instead of madras, work shirts instead of Arrow, and boots instead of loafers.

Drugs spread horizontally at Andover because all four classes share dormitories with only other members of their class. There is a minimum of socializing between different age groups. As a result, each class comes up with strange new drugs of their own. For the sophomores it is Romilar. Romilar is a cough syrup, $1.50 without prescription. Drink a whole bottle down to get high. One student said, "It doesn't make you throw up like Lavoris (another high). It stiffens you up so you can't move."