4 Tuesday, February 5, 1974 University Daily Kansan KANSAN Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Institutional Blues Adjusting to life within the shelter of the University isn't always easy, but some students have it tougher than others. I was on my way to Strong Hall when I ran into a friend who seemed to fit into the hard luck category. "just tell me one thing," she said. "Will the rest of the next seven semesters be like this last one?" "Oh, I suppose so." I said. "Why do you want to know?" "Well, Patty, I'm glad to see you're still around after your first semester. How did you like it?" I asked. "it's just that there's so much to learn," she said, sighing deeply. "It wasn't until last week that someone told me you don't have to dial the '8' and the '6' of a campus when you're calling from the dorm." "That's an interesting little bit of knowledge." I said. "Another thing. I never have found my adviser. Do you happen to know where Wescoe Hall is?" she asked. "It's right over there," I said, pointing it out. "I thought that it was a parking garage," she said, her eyes big with surprise. "But believe it or not, I have to lie down in the hang of things around here." "Oh, really." I said doubtfully. "Uhuh. Last fall I worked out my enrollment schedule by myself and signed my adviser's initials. And although I was in the last group to enroll, I managed to attend a very interesting classes," she said. "You did?" I said. "I'm amazed." "I took Elementary Plant Survival, Candmaking I, a class on reading "Finnegan the Wake," Topics and Problems of Adoption in History, history class", she said, as she counted them off on her fingers. "Hmmm," I murmured. "What an interesting combination." "Well, my history class turned out to be especially good," she said, "after they finally found an instructor for it." what do you mean?" I asked. "It turned out that although my class was listed in the timetable and students were allowed to enroll in it, the history department hadn't scheduled a class at that time. When they found someone to teach me, I missed the last 20 minutes because I had to go to another class but I really learned a lot," she said, nodding her head vigorously. "What was wrong with you and me?" he looked, not really wanting to know "Oh, nothing much," she said. "One of my classes wasn't listed at all, I got an incomplete in a class in which I did everything required and I got an A in a class I wasn't taking." "You know," she said. "I'm glad I talked to you. Now that I think about it, my semester hasn't been too bad. Of course they still haven't straightened out my grades yet, but I'm sure they will." "That shouldn't be too much trouble to correct," I said skeptically. "No, I'm sure my adviser will take care of everything, as soon as I find him," she said as she walked away. "You know, this certainly isn't like high school. Here, you're on your own." "I guess so." I muttered. I began walking back to Strong Hall. I knew it wouldn't be easy to drop and add enough classes to come up with a good schedule. Maybe I should have talked to my adviser. After all, surely there must be some other freshman-level class I could have taken without having to re-read "Finnegan's Wake." —Linda Doherty Guest Editorial Slurs Spur Interest The Western world is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Alexander Solzhentysn's documentation of Soviet slave-labor camps, "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956." The book is based on Solzhentyn's experiences as an inmate in a labor camp from 1945 to 1956 and information from 227 other ex-orisoners. Pravda, the official newspaper, recently discredited the book as "slam-making," and called it a treasonable in an attempt to protect Russia's image as a progressive society. These condemnations only augment in Solzhenitsy's indictment of the Soviet Solidarność calls for the punishment of the more than 250,000 people responsible for the killings. In the book, Solizhenitsy, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for literature, reportedly reveals the diabolical conditions and terror in slave-camps under Stalin and Lenin. Solizhenitsy estimated that in any one year during the Stalin era as many as 12 million prisoners were held, half million political prisoners were shot during the Red Army murders of 1937-38. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Kansas Telephone Numbers Newroom—UN L-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4358 NEWS STAFF MARIE HANSEN New Advocate Suzanne Shaw Editor John Ritter Associate Editors Chuck Keller Brantley BUSINESS STAFF Initially, the Russian totalitarian world responded inductively to "The Gulag Archapeglapo." It was a only matter of days, however before a diatribe in the guse of Soviet press was made against Alexander Solzhenitsyn. When Radio Liberty announced its decision to broadcast the entire edition of the book, the Soviet police state immediately jammed the airwaves to thwart the dissemination of the Gulg Ar-chaos" to people within Russia's domain. trymen. His demand for punishment extends to members of the Poliburo and hierarchy "stained with our blood." The charge embraces such leaders as Foreign Minister Andrea Gromyko and Vyacheslav M. Molotov, foreign minister under Stalin. Adviser ... Mt Adrian Business Manager ... David Hankie Advertising Director ... Diana Schmidt Accountant ... James Schoenig Classified Adv. Mgr. Manager ... Bruce Regonicki Advising Manager ... Mark Brennan Assistant Advertising Manager ... David Ahlström Assistant Advertising Manager ... David Ahlström Nationwide telecasts accused him of a "Malicious slander against our socialist state." Tass, the Soviet news agency, and others have called for relying on distortions and prevarications. The agitation of the Soviet regime will toment in the next few months when "the Guilai Archipelago" appears in translation with the term "peaceful co-existence" may reevaleunt their positions. Empathy for the unfortunate peoples behind the Iron Curtain will be tested. The Soviet Union insulted the intelligence of the Western world with the contrivance that Solzhenitsyn authorized the publication of himself merely to jeopardize East-West relations. "I have fulfilled my duty to the dead, and this gives me relief and calmness," he once said. "Once the truth seemed to die. It was beaten. It was drowned. It had turned to ashes. But now the truth has come alive. No one will be able to destroy it." Meanwhile Alexander Solzhenitsyn awaits his fate courageously. Stephen Buser Belleville, Ill., junior Clinic Treats Tobacco Cravers Smokers Electrically Shocked, Gassed for $375 By CHARLES FOLEY The London Oh SAN FRANCISCO- An hour's drive from San Francisco, deep in the beautiful Napa Valley wine country, lies one answer to cigarette smoking. The St. Helen Health Center, a luxurious hotel-like clinic with a swimming pool and a large staff of physicians, psychiatrists, social workers, physical therapists and clergymen, is doing a splendid business curing nicotine addicts at a $350 anice. Treatment at the center lasts from Sunday to Friday, and although the doctors guarantee nothing, they claim that the odds of quitting are the best available in the nation. Despite the massive assault on smoking since 1964, when the U.S. surgeon-general's report warned that cigarettes were linked to lung cancer and heart ailments, some 50 million Americans just cannot give it up. In fact, they're smoking more than ever: each year, domestic tobacco consumption rises by 2 per cent, and the barrage of anti-smoking commercials on television and radio increases. Curtis' sex life improved when he quit the weed—apparently does little to stem the tide. says Dr. Alan Rice, the program director. "We help people over the worst of their addiction, but they still have to work to combat their neuromuscular smoking habits"—by which he means that automatic buttons on his phone that's become an internal part of existence. About 40 per cent of St. Helena patients are cured, and if you think that is low you are unfamiliar with the addictive capacities of tobacco, which some experts have described as harder to kick than benzine. The body cells make a working agreement with their刹车, tolerate, then access and finally demand their daily dose of poison. "Surveys have shown that we do have one of the highest success rates in the U.S." How is the craving beaten? A stay at this clinic, one of scores across the country, begins when the patient dumps his cigarette at the door, under a notice reading: "You are re-entering a non-smoking area: deposit smoking materials here." Their day starts with a 6:30 a.m. call and pre-breakfast exercise—cathlethenics in the gym, or a brisk walk through the woods. Then come lectures and films describing the fearful nicotine does to the body (one movie shows a mouse being killed by a single drop), and providing information on techniques to combat the craving. The threat of the program is three-fold: a protective environment where nothing can interfere with the goal—no family crises, no work problems, no parties, and no trace of tobacco for miles; medical care from experts in the field; and the pressure of a likeminded group going through the same suffering. its use is increasing rapidly here against a range of mental, and drug addiction. The first major commercial apperance of aversive conditioning comes courtesy of Schick Laboratories, a division of the Los Angeles-based Frawley Enterprises, which has dotted the west with anti-smoking clinics. Without a tobacco fix, there are withdrawn symptoms—headaches, a feeling of exhaustion, a fierce craving for food, which leads to beating by plenty of fresh fruit around. Doctors at the center explain that the craving, like pain, comes in waves and usually lasts for about three minutes. If you do something practical for those minutes, the craving will subside, and the smoker is over one more hurdle. If you're a believer, try to buy a fire a stack, fiercely at your watch for these three minutes; master your fate. The crucial test, of course, is one's reemergence into the everyday world of tension and stress. This is especially true that you avoid a drink, coffee, over-eating and over-working, since these are associated in the mind with smoking. A different regimen will help you to overcome this. Should you fail, there is an even harsher "cure," to which more and more Californians are turning. Aversion therapy is highly controversial in medical circles, but The Schick technique is simple and nasty: hard-core火雾, puffing away in a fadet haze of fire雾 fumes, are given repeated electric shocks every time they reach for another cigarette; next they gather in a small, sealed room full of fellow-addicts and together an atmosphere so dense as to make them rasp. Finally, there is expert conditioning, and a course of extra shocks for those who fall from grace within a year. The cost, for five one-hour sessions, is $325, and the Schick people claim that 65 percent of the clients become non-smokers after the year, a figure regarded with skepticism by some doctors and behavioral psychologists. "It really works well only when the patient is highly-motivated to stop performing the unwanted activity," says one of the surgeons. "And even then it tends to wear off in time." Colombian Cocaine Traffic Thrives By STEPHEN KLAIDMAN BOGOTA, Colombia-An American was arrested recently by Colombian authorities in the steamy provincial capital of Cali. He was indicted for 89-per-cent-pure cocaine in his possession. His future is now uncertain, but the future of his cocaine is not. It will be destroyed and become part of the still-sketchy statistical record being compiled on cocaine traffic through Colombia, virtually the only transshipment point to the United States from the coca-growing areas of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. The traffic involves thousands of persons and millions of dollars. According to U.S. officials who keep close watch on narcotics trade, it rivals heroin in volume, with 700 to 1,500 pounds a month being shipped into the United States. In some ways it is harder to control than the more publicized heroin traffic. Turning poppies into heroin is a fairly complex process involving relatively sophisticated chemical know-how. But refining cocaine is much more than a bunch of bottles in a kitchen. Partly because of its price and quality, cocaine has become something of a status drug. Its growing use among the affluent may be because cocaine users, unlike heroin users, don't become physically addicted to the druid. Cocaine isn't a narcotic, and the unwieldy injection paraphernalia of the heroin addict is unnecessary. "Coke" is just sniffed up the nostril for an instant high. It acts as an extremely powerful stimulant to the central nervous system; heroin is a depressant. But large cocaine dosages can be lethal. They often induce uncontrollable, paranoid behavior, and cocaine's long-term effects are unknown. Because the process is simple, the "BUS SERVICE IN MOSSON IS LOOSE, SOMEDAY I'M GOING TO WRITE A BOOK." business has attracted large numbers of free-lance operators, thus making it difficult to keep track of the proliferating trade is dominated by organized crime. Cost is another factor that makes cocaine trafficking easier for the freelancer. The paste made from coca leaves, which is to cocaine what morphine base is to heroin, is relatively inexpensive. A small-time operator with a few thousand dollars can set himself up in business. This isn't the case with heroin. Another advantage for the small cocaine dealer is the availability of carriers in Colombia, a poor country where most workers earn less than $100 a month. Most Colombians can make more as dishwashers in New York or Miami than they can at home, regardless of what they do. So they try to get to the United States. Hundreds apply daily to tourists visit at the American embassy in Bogota and at the consulates in Cali and Medellin. The Colombians hope to reach the States as legal tourists and then disappear into the Latin barriers of big cities and find work. Colombia has considerable geographical and logistical advantages for smugglers cocaine to the United States. To start with, Colombia is one of the world's leading sources of the raw material. In Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru—the supplier countries—Indians have traditionally chewed the plentiful coca leaves, breaking them down chemically with lime juice, to relieve colds and fatigue and to supplement inadequate diets. Peruvian Indians use the word "ocada" to measure time and distance: It is the length of a ocacia "high"—about 40 cm. They can walk while a couple of miles. When it arrives at its U.S. destination, the cocaine is cut to between 20 per cent and 60 per cent pure and sold on the streets for $10-$20 a unit. It is then mixed to about 2 per cent, is sold for $6-$8 a bag State of Union To the Editor: Readers Respond Listening to President Nixon present his State of the Union message, I was encouraged to hear that this was going to be a prosperous year. It was so comforting to hear him tell how many new jobs were created last year. It was reassuring to know that our money bought more now than it ever has. However, some of you may not have heard him speak. So you may still think that It was promising to hear the President exclaim how important education was to this country and how much money was available in federal funds to our universities. There won't be a recession and we Americans needn't worry. President's Speech, Film Censorship Disputed Griff and the Unicorn by Sokoloff You may still think that student wages of $1.60 to $2 an hour, which haven't increased in years, don't compete with the rampant price inflation usuring your check. You may still think that you can't afford to buy eggs at the supermarket, and that bologna costs more than steak did awhile ago. You may still think that it is more difficult to obtain federal loan money for education than to borrow it is harder to find a job now than it has been in several months. If you didn't hear Nixon's address, then you are probably as depressed as I was before I heard it. May I suggest that you write the Library of Congress for a copy of his speech so that you, too, need no longer worry. In the meantime, however, you may remain concerned about the inflated costs of education, food and rent, and paying for them with your student wages, if indeed, you have been fortunate enough to obtain employment at all. Darwin Eads Meade graduate student Darwin Eads Porn: British Poll To the Editor: In view of some recent correspondence in connection with the enforced withdrawal of certain indecent films, I thought one of your readers might be interested in passing from a letter published by Mary Whitehouse, Hon. General Secretary of the (British) National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. The information is contained in "Sunday Times" in its issue of January 27, 1 "At least twice last week we saw in your paper the pelagic generalization at work. First, in Alan Lawn's self-pitying letter in *The American Week*, he said that the 'majority of the voting public believes that ... an adult should be able to vote' for the abolition of all obscurity laws." under the heading "Porn: the articulate majority." "In neither case is the generalization based upon fact or research. Alan Lawson accuses those who believe that pornography should be controlled of being 'elistit' and 'reactionary.' But the pressure for total license comes primarily from ellist, self-interested groups, many of whom have vast interests in pornography, only acquire in, but actively exploit, the degradation of humanity which is the essence of pornography; is a measure not only of our corruption, but of the truly reactionary nature of our society. . . . "We have carried out research—probably the most comprehensive of its kind—involving well over one and a half million interviews of every age and background, which showed that 85 per cent of citizens wanted tighter obesity laws." Herbert Galton Professor of Slavic and Soviet Affairs Nagging Questions To the Editor: I applaud your worthy expression of opinion regarding the SUA film matter and your comments on pornography. I think that a more important matter to the University, however, has yet to be resolved. The question, which has still not been answered satisfactorily by any of the people involved in the budgetary considerations in Topека, can be directly or indirectly influenced by state legislators at their whims. University, however, has yet to be resolved. The SUA board very honestly said that it did not consider censorship in its decision to cancel the films. The board did not say whether it should have had two students, not two state senators, objected to the showings. It is a question that should be answered frankly by the board, by Kansas Union employees informed by our university administration. The implications of the situation, if they are not fully explained and if all doubt is not removed by the parties involved, will remain until) the complete story is told. Bill Redlin Lawrence graduate student letters policy The Daily Kansas welcomes letters to the editor, but asks that letters be typewritten, double-spaced and no larger than 120 characters, subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment, and must be signed. KU students must provide their name, year in school and hometown; faculty members must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address.