Amcult 208 1st Edition Lecture 15Outline of Last Lecture I. The Surge of LSDOutline of Current Lecture II. LSDIII. Free SpeechIV. Vietnam ProtestsCurrent LectureThe Late 50s Thumb its Nose at the Beats- Coinciding with the end of the 50s was the idea that students and young people could have a good time, sometimes even in excess. The Beats had fun but they were explaining their own bedrocks. The hippies were more about fun, period- Ken Kesey working in VA hospitals discovered that the army was running experiments onnew drugs meant to incapacitate the enemy. He quickly volunteered and started tripping on weird drugsSan Francisco State1) at least one teach brought pot to class and made his class smoke. When told to stop, he didn’t.2) Seymour Locke in 1958 taught a class in Light and Art. This was to give rise to light shows when one of his students, Elias Romero, started putting on public showsBerkeley and Free Speech - At this time the Haight-Ashbury was being populated by San Francisco State weirdos, Berkeley just across the way was continuing its tradition of political free speech- Student protest began in 1964o Demanded lift of school ban of on-campus political activities1962: Timothy Leary tries psilocybin mushrooms and returns to Harvard to start IFIF: The International Foundation for Internal Freedom- Is given the Hitchcock estate in Millbrook New York when he starts the Castalia Foundation These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1964: The Beatles show up and dominate everything. Their influence is tremendous and everyone wants to go electric- Long hair- Short songs, but perfectly madeStreet Theater: San Francsico Mime Troup: Bill Graham and Peter Coyote- Would eventually become the diggersVirginia City, Nevada- No places to perform in San Francisco bc rock n roll was made illegal- One of the groups called the ‘Family Dog’ decided they wanted a place of their owno One of the members decided to buy an old saloon called the Red Dogo They renovated it to look like it did in the 1890s and made the waitresses dress like thato Guns were legal, women had little pistols in their garters, bartenders kept a loadedshotgun behind the bar- Everything was like it was in the 1890s excepto There was a stage for a bando There was a screen for a light showo Everyone was always trippingTimothy Leary: becomes LSD guruKen Kesey: hold the first “private” acid testsSan Francisco Mime Troup: set the stage for a new kind of community sensibilityLSD25: by its nature creates a “secret” societyBerkeley: on May 21st and 22nd, a 35 hour protest is held at Berkley with 35,000 people showing up- The Vietnam Day Committee (VDC) planned another march- Kesey gave this rambling speech about how the antiwar movement was similar to the military (he was on acid)o Plays home on the range on his harmonicao Says “there’s only one to do. There’s only one thing’s gonna do any good at all. And that’s just everybody look at it, and turn your backs and say…fuck