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The paintings were observations of loneliness: a man reaches out for a mate to complete himself; a figure leaps on another in a fenzy of lust. Pander’s concern with man’s alien­ ation was expressed through his use of vivid colors. “My paintings are not intended to be violent, really,” Pander observed. “I always leave a door or a window open in my paint­ ings so one can escape.” 106 “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” “Turn on and reach a new level of experience,” Timothy Leary, LSD Messiah said. “Tune in and find the key within yourselves. Express the discovery in acts of beauty. When the structure gets too complicated, drop out.” “The only meaning in life is to be found in the religious quest. Start your own religion—you’ve got it in you. The new sacrament is LSD and the psychedelic drugs. “But the sacrament is dangerous. It has to detach you from the beat—the one, two, three, A, B, C, red, white, blue—and put you in the ancient rhythm.” Leary called himself a visionary . . . a Christ, a St. John of the Cross, a William James, a George Fox, a William Blake. The public called him a nut. 107 On the heels of Leary came Stokeley Carmichael, 26, head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. His credentials: born on the island of Trinidad, one of the first “freedom riders” in the South, jailed 27 times for his role in demonstrations, advocate of Black Power. “Right now this nation is racist from top to bottom,” Car­ michael told a crowd of 1484 packed into the PSC gym. “If whites don’t come through on civil rights,” he said, “Negroes aren’t going to remain civil about it.” “Black power means an end to police brutality when a Negro is elected sheriff in a small southern town,” Carmichael said. “I t means the creation of power bases from which the black people can reach out. I t means coming together to elect rep­ resentatives to speak for the black people. We must close our ranks to gain admission into open society.” 108 State Representative Leo Thornton (R-Milwaukie) would have banned Leary and Carmichael from the state’s colleges and universities. Such “barnstorming professionals” and “known advocates of lawlessness and anarchy” should not be allowed to speak in tax-supported institutions, Thornton said. Thornton has his own three R’s philosophy: Rights-Respon- sibility-Restraint. “I ’m for a revolution of restraint based on responsibility that has to do with the rights of the individual,” Thornton told a Portland State audience. 109 Then came journalist Barbara Doming, just back from a visit to North Vietnam. She told of the “war of terror” which the U. S. government was waging against the Vietnamese. “The fact is that for every guerrilla killed, we kill six civilians,” Miss Doming told an overflow audience in College Center. “We have already killed one-quarter million Vietna­ mese children with napalm bombs.” She reported seeing a baby wounded by a “lazy-dog” bomb while still in its mother’s womb; a child whose limbs had been melted together by napalm; and a man who lost his vision through defoliation spray dropped by American planes. Others spoke, right, left and center. They told of the many things experience, study and self discovery had taught them. The world came to PSC and asked to be recognized.