One freshman was placed in Stillman infirmary for a night because he took two double-hits of PCP. "All of a sudden," he said, "I started hearing every noise in the University. I was going crazy. I really thought I was going to die, so I called UHS."

After taking her first hit of PCP during the fall, one sophomore woman became very frightened and climbed into a bathtub. She feared standing up and climbing out of the tub. Her boyfriend stayed by her for an hour holding her hand and comforting her.

One sophomore found one of his friends in total disarray this fall after he had dropped acid. "He was having these weird, uncontrollable muscle contractions in his face," he said. "I had to sit near him and calm him down all night, he was so scared. I think someone had slipped him something with the acid."

Grant Bue, like many students, recognizes the dangers of experimenting with hallucinogens. "There are certain things I would not want to do to my body. Some drugs are dangerous to the heart, some kill brain cells, and I really don't want to do that."

Paul is willing to risk certain health hazards in order to take drugs. The biology major "feels things that no straight person will ever experience." He says that drugs have "opened his consciousness" by intensifying his sensual perceptions when he is high, and by making him more "imaginative" and "observant."

"I think Allen Ginsberg summed it up best years ago when he said 'we make criminals and outcasts out of the most sensitive people in society.'"

"You can sip your cocktails and act like a Gatsby all you want," Paul says, "but we're just going to enjoy ourselves, me and my friends."