The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, April 29,1983 Vol.93,No.145 USPS 650-640
Study shows heavy drinkers suffer less from hangovers
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
One eyelid slowly pulled open and the other reluctantly followed. Never again, he thought.
The clothes he had slept in smelled like every cigarette ever smoked in the world and his feet hurt almost as badly as his head. He looked down and saw he had forgotten to pull off his boots.
In the bathroom mirror, he saw a pale face and eyes that resembled a couple of road maps.
PROBABLY HUNDREDS of party-goers will wake up tomorrow feeling much the same way, after closing bars around town tonight in celebration of the end of classes.
Those hangovers are awful, but they might be telling you something more than just that you
A study was released last month from the University of New York at Buffalo that showed that people who woke up with hangovers were likely to become problem drinkers or alcoholics.
"This is not just a bloop. Other people are finding similar results," said Cedric Smith, a professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the university.
The test results were not surprising, he said. Heavy drinkers do not seem to experience the kind of severe hangovers that tend to curb other people's drinking habits.
GIVE OF THE many factors involved in people avoiding getting drunk may well be hangovers," he said. "There has been very little study in the field of hangovers."
However, the test did not provide an excuse for drinking more alcohol than the body can normally remove from the system over an extended period of time. Smith said.
In other words, those hangovers should be
telling you something about the amount you drink.
Smith's conclusions about hangovers came after a survey of more than 1,000 households in Buffalo over the past five years to study the level of hangover among groups in relation to Buffalo's general population.
Most of the people in the survey were beer drinkers, he said.
DURING THE SHEV survey, Smith collected information on withdrawal symptoms suffered by patients with OCD.
The severity of withdrawal symptoms they suffered varied greatly. Smith said, depending on how recently the person had been drinking and how much the person had drunk.
From his study of the general population, Smith concluded that nearly 20 percent of the people who had been drinking the equivalent of at least a six-pack a day had never had a hangover. And 50 percent had not had a hangover in the past year, he said.
"They had every opportunity in the world, it would appear, to get a hangover, but didn't."
Contrary to beliefs among some drinkers, the tests produced no evidence that suggested that liquor, such as scotch or bourbon, left a worse blower than beer, Smith said.
RAYMOND HIGGINS, KU associate professor of psychology, said he was not familiar with the research, but said Smith's observations were backed by a basic psychological premise — people are inclined to seek pleasure and avoid physical or emotional discomfort.
"That observation on his part certainly squares with my experience," he said.
For the past 10 years, Higgins has researched the motivations of social and problem drinkers. He has also counseled problem drinkers.
'People who are heavier drinkers tend to get a
Vote on Nicaraguan bill delayed
Tonight will be cloudy with a 10 percent chance of thunderstorms, and a low in the low 50s.
chance of thunderstorms,
according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high will be in
the northwest from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
from the northeast at 3 to 15 mph.
This weekend will be mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. This week's report is from super sores.
Today will be cloudy, with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders, a day after President Reagan's appeal to Congress to back his policies, predicted the House Intelligence Committee would approve a bill to cut off covert U.S. operations against Nicaragua.
"My own judgment is that there were sufficient votes on our side to pass the bill out," Chairman Edward Boland, D-Mass., said of the vote. "I think it was a final version of the bill in a closed meeting."
BOLAND SAID the vote was delayed until next week, however, at the request of Republican members. Once the bill is approved, he said, the committee has closed session to consider its recommendations.
The bill does not affect the president's request for military aid for El Salvador. Reagan has asked for $110 million in addition to the $2.5 million already approved for this year and $86 million in 1983.
WRIGHT SAID he did not think Reagan's speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night caused the committee to delay action on the bill.
But Boland said the bill would provide $33 million in aid to nations in the region to help rebuild the country.
A House subcommittee Tuesday cut in half the $60 million Reagan sought to shift to El Salvador from military aid already approved for other countries. The House Committee voted April 19 to deny Reagan th
Reagan meanwhile named former Sen. Richard Stone, D-Fla., former registered agent of the Guatemalan military government; to be his special ambassador to large Central America.
other $50 million in sought in new appropriations.
Stone's nomination could stir controversy in the Senate because of his ties to Guatemala and his outspoken criticism of the revolutionary state in Nicaragua and other leftist movements.
Magana warned that a cutoff in U.S. aid "would deliver this country to international communism, because that is what we are fighting."
"With sufficient military aid, we would now be finished with this war," President Alvaro Magana said in an interview in the Prensa Grafica newspaper. "We are going to win, although aid continues arriving to the subversives from Nicaragua."
EL SALVADOR's president said yesterday that his nation's war would be over if U.S. aid had been sufficient, but Salvadoran rebels joined Cuba and Nicaragua in denouncing President Reagan's plea for more assistance for the region.
U. S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton called Reagan's nationally televised speech a "turning point for the American people and the Congress to understand the issues."
REAGAN WARNED that communist subversion was a threat to the "security of all the countries."
Salvadoran rebels joined leftist-ruled Nicaragua and communist Cuba in attacking Reagan's call for bipartisan support of his requests for
increased military and economic aid for Central America to stave off the communist
Reagan's speech "reflects the worry and despair of the current administration ... (and) expressed the difficulties encountered up before the labels said in a broadcast on Radio Venercosen.
In a dispatch monitored in Mexico City, Cuba's official news agency Prensa Latina said, "Without contributing any new element to his well-known intent to blame Nicaragua, Cuba and the Soviet Union for the serious conflicts that afflict the isthmus, the leader extolled the presumed goodness of the regime in El Salvador."
A NALVADOKAN guerrilla spokesman in MIA city also challenged Reagan's portrait of democracy in his country, saying the "government was elected through a fraudulent mechanism and is viewed by many progressive ones of the bloodiest dictatorships of these times."
In Nicaragua, supporters of the Sandinista government called a "March of the Fighting Spirit" through the streets of Managua yesterday afternoon to protest Reagan's accusations that Nicaragua was spreading revolution in the region.
A communique from Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova said Reagan "has understood with incredible clarity the nature of democracy and the growing seriousness and the threat to the future."
"If Reagan wants to destroy Nicaragua, he will first have to finish off all the Nicaraguans," said Dora Maria Tellez, a sandinista commander, on a radio broadcast.
Hayden says '80s time for getting by
By DIANE LUBER
Compared to the 1908s, the 1970s will seem like "the good old days," Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden told students and faculty yesterday.
Staff Reporter
"The 1980s will not be a repeat of the 1970s," Hayden said. "The recession has put state government in a completely different mode in relation than it was in the 1970s. We'll be trying to reel by."
If the economy continues to be tight, Hayden told an audience in Green Hall, future law-makers will ask, "Can we support the law school here and the law school at Washburn 20 miles away?" Do we need to train 400 more attorneys every year?"
STATE REP. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, joined Hayden, R-Atwood, for the Noon Forum at Green to review the 1883 Legislative Session, which ended Sunday.
Hayden had barely thanked the audience for the opportunity to be there when he stepped out from behind the lectern and positioned himself along the front edge of the speaker's platform. His booming voice filled the large auditorium as students and professors seated in the back rows.
And he asked those present to make the sacrifices that would be expected of them during the next decade.
"It's not something that you can't handle," he said. "It's not something the people of Kansas can't handle. It's not something the Legislature can't handle — we handled it."
People's views of state government change as their role in relation to state government affect them.
changes, the law.
UNIVERSITY students have been on the receiving end of government programs most of their lives, he said.
"When you join the work force, you'll be on the other end," he said. "You'll be a provider. You'll be a supervisor."
Hayden pointed to Green Hall as one of state's many achievements at Regents institutions during the more prosperous 1970s. But the federal revenue-sharing money that contributed to the building of Green Hall is no longer available, he said.
"More people in the state are unemployed than there have been for 30 years," he said. "Farmers
As a result, he said, sales tax and income tax revenues have not been as high as expected. Kansas lawmakers were faced with what Hayden called "a politician's nightmare" -- raising taxes and cutting the budget in the same session.
"BUT THE KANAS Legalist didn’t finch in the face of the biggest problems in state government," he said. "We did what we thought was right."
The Legislature approved the biggest budget
cuts and the biggest tax increases in the history of the state, he said.
Solbach said that the Legislature had increased taxes by about $198 million, which averaged to about $83 a person.
The only tax increase that would affect almost everyone is the increase in the gasoline tax, he said.
THE LEGISLATURE approved a highway finance plan that includes a 2-cent-a-gallon increase in gasoline prices on July 1 and another 1-cent increase on Jan. 1.
But Solbach criticized the Legislature for allowing corporations and some individuals to buy $38 million that could have gone to the state. But the governor's introduction schedule, not the federal government's.
If the Legislature had voted to stop using the federal schedule, taxpayers would have had to pay for it.
And corporations would have owed about $33 million more in income taxes, Solbach said. Wealthy individuals would have owed about $5 million more.
"That $33 million is more than a 2-cant gasoline tax will raise," he said, "and that $38 million is more than a 3-cent gasoline tax will raise."
THE SEVERANCE tax will be absorbed by the oil and gas producers, he said, and the income-tax increase applies only to the 42,000 Kansas taxpayers in upper-income brackets.
Local fans go head over heels for latest fad
Bv SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
with his ankles strapped into thickly padded metal cuffs, he gingerly pressed backward on the sloping board and see-sawed back and forth before coming to a stop, hanging upside down.
As the blood rushed to his head and his face turned scarlet, David Milstein, owner of Sunflower Surplus, 804 Massachusetts, said, "I'm addicted to inverting. It's almost a
MILLSTEIN WAS indulging in the latest health and exercise fad to sweep the country — inverting.
Inversion equipment was invented by an orthopedic physician named Robert Martin, who graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine and the California University of Medicine in 1962.
He developed the "gravity guiding system," as he calls it, to help take pressure off people's spines and strengthen their backs.
A recent article in People Magazine stated that about 200,000 people around the country had
started putting on inversion boots and hanging upside down machines, as Millstone does. metal poles
Inverting, many people say, helps them relax and improves their circulation and posture.
"LAWRENCE DOESN'T really get taken away by trends," he said. "We haven't seen a giant surge in the popularity of inversion boots. But more and more young people are buying
Milstein said he had hurt his back in a bicycle accident a couple of years ago and had started cycling again.
Spock criticizes logic behind U.S. nuclear weapons build-up
By MICHAEL BECK
Staff Reporter
THE MAIN WORRY for children less than 6-years old is that something bad will happen to their parents, he said. The children pick up on the bad news and become aware and afraid of nuclear war.
Before a near-capacity crowd yesterday in Battleton Auditorium at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Speck lambasted the Reagan administration for the lives of students especially its youth.
For most of his nearly 80 years, Benjamin Spock has lingered in the midst of controversy. And now, the famous pediatrician has lodged a campaign against the build-up of U.S. nuclear
The solution to these children's problem includes making the parents aware of the danger of nuclear war so they can attempt to stop the build-up. he said.
Spek has written several books on child care, one of which sold 28 million copies and was translated into 26 different languages.
"We've got to build an anti-war campaign."
he said, "We've got to curb the nuclear build-up by lebbing Congress".
The situation should not be overly simplified, though, he said. The Reagan administration wanted support for more nuclear weapons, he said, and it was making the public paranoid by saying the Soviets' goal was to take over the world.
"THE REAGAN administration thinks that a nuclear war can be won," he said.
"Just because the government says the state's veil doesn't mean you should run altogether."
"Industry supports the Congress," he said, "And industry wants more contracts."
Industry is another reason why the government supports the arms build-up, he said.
"And industry waits more contracts. Speck said people should not trust everything the government says, because the government can also make mistakes.
"Government leaders are just as prone to insanity as the rest of us," he said.
"When the government says their is no danger of an accident, you don't have to believe them."
PEOPLE SHOULD inform their congressmen of their opinions on nuclear war by writing
letters, making phone calls, sending telegrams, writing letters to the editor and voting.
In some instances people can demonstrate, he said, but media coverage, necessary for a positive effect, is never certain.
Informing congressman may stop what he called the imperialism that has gone on for decades, he said.
The fear of communism extends from the imperialism concept, he said. The Reagan administration thinks that communism is the root of all evil and that by the accumulation of arms the United States can stop the Soviet Union, he said.
Spok, who was convicted about 15 years ago of conspiracy to aid, abet and counsel young men to avoid the draft, said that U.S. involvement in the war was wrong and should be prevented at all costs.
"THEY BELIEVE that if the United States can rapidly out-pace the Soviet Union in arms production, it will simply throw up its arms and surcender," he said.
Spock said he supported a nuclear freeze for both the United States and the Soviet Union, and though reduction of arms would be preferable, it was not feasible.
Calling for nuclear disarmament, Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted pediatriean, spoke before a standing-room-only crowd at Battenfield Auditorium at the University of Kansas Medical Center yesterday afternoon.