His prophecy bore fruit. In the Sep 26 issue of The Nation, Alexander
Cockburn writes:
Under the influence of his family's political passions and vast
fortune, George Bush's running mate may have enjoyed other influences
as well. While pursuing his amazingly undistinguished intellectual
career at Indiana's DePauw University, young Quayle had lodgings at
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house. In the fall of 1968 the
Deke house was, in the words of Milwaukee's weekly alternative
newspaper, _Shepherd Express_, "unleashed to party without a house
mother for the first time and sponsored a frat party known as 'The
Trip'. According to a caption above Quayle's photograph in the
_Mirage(, the DePauw annual yarbook, 'The Trip' was 'a colorful
psychedelic journey into the wild sights and sounds produced by LSD.'"
So maybe Quayle, who berates some of his coevals for escaping from the
Vietnam War across the Canadian bordewr, did share with them another
escape through the doors of perception. _Shepherd Express_ quotes a
former college mate of Quayle, now living in Milwaukee, as saying,
"LSD was not served directly by the fraternity, but it most certainly
would have been taken by the members."
Well, so much for the reputed mind-expanding powers of psychedelics.
