Wednesday, May 1, 1974
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University Daily Kansan
May Month for Elderly, But No Oldsters Here
John Eimick, city commissioner and twice mayor of Lawrence, said last week that as a joke he received from Mayor Jack Rose the honor of coordinating the activity.
May was proclaimed Older Americans Month in Lawrence by the city commission last week, but few employees at the University of Kansas want anything to do
"I piped up and said something and the mayor said, "We will turn that to over you," Emick said. "He was kidding me about being old and I'm really not old."
Ennick said that the commission decided to do something nice for the elderly in Lawrence but that he couldn't elaborate on what would be done.
Few KU employees had any intention of participating in the festivities.
Asked what he planned to do to celebrate the occasion, Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, replied, "I'm not an older person. Don't ask me. How do you define old?"
"Do you think I'm an old person?" Marion Holmes, employee of the Oread
Bookstore asked when questioned of her plans for the month.
After hestating, she said, "I guess I'd go to Europe on a trip."
George Smith, professor of education,
said, "I'm busy working with the young
children."
Asked what he would do for the celebration, Franklin Shontz, professor of psychology, said, "I have no plans and I don't plan to have any plans."
"That's like setting up a day in June as Kansan day and asking how you would celebrate it", said Roy Lachman, professor of neurology.
Margaret Beer, employee for the Society for the Study of Evolution, said that she wasn't an older American and that she was just at KU with the students.
"I'd like to have a month's vacation"
Mrs. Harold Dreunon, Bookstore
Associate
"I'm a young man at heart," Ken Anderson, professor of education, said.
Most MU employees questioned seemed to agree with Pickett, who said, "We don't want you to be so aggressive."
Unrealistic College Goals Lead Students to Suicide
Suicide, the third leading cause of death among college students, has claimed three University of Kansas students' lives this year.
There usually are two to three suicides as year at KU, Dr. Sydney Schroeder, a psychiatrist at Watkins Mental Health Clinip, said yesterday.
According to Charles Neuringer, professor of psychology, college students are more likely to commit suicide than are others of the same age group.
"It's rough if they don't expect anything out of college, or if they have magical extracurriculars."
Those who are suicidal often have low self-esteem and are too sensitive.
"They don't have the usual resilience to blows and sights that are a part of living and are often quite gifted," Schroeder said. "He said Christmas and spring were
Evie Unkeeper, director of Headquarters, said that on holidays people often felt the cold.
Schroeder said that until this year most student suicides had been committed by people with whom the clinic had no previous contact.
He said that those who sought assistance usually hadn't decided that suicide was an option.
"If they have resolved in favor of suicide, they'll do it," he said.
He said suicidal gestures such as overheating or cutting wrists were pleas for help and would be punished.
"With an occasional exception, it's relieving for the individual just to have someone to talk to about it," Schroeder said.
Unkreef said she thought the seriousness those who sought help was often underestimated.
"The most serious condition exists when someone has a definite plan by which to commit suicide in mind, and something of a crisis nature has happened to them," she
Both Unkefer and Schroeder said that counseling was the method they usually used to deal with those who felt suicidal rather than hospitalization.
"We don't get uptight about people who can talk about it," Schroeder said. "We convince them that there are other ways out of an undesirable situation."
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