University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 1, 1972
9
Local Bartenders See Widespread Drinking, Claim It is a Part of College Life for Many
Kansan Photo by DAN LAUING
By DIANE YEAMANS Kansan Staff Writer
Much attention has been focused recently on drug use and addiction, but the most common and legally safe drug, alcohol, seems to have been ignored.
No studies have been conducted on student drinking problems at the University of Kansas. Very few administrators and professors contacted were willing to talk about these problems. The school said that students had not been drinking long enough to have an alcohol problem.
"The Alcoholic American," published by the National Council of Blue Shield Plans, states, "Adults tend to ignore the seriousness of abusing alcohol and pass it off by saying that alcohol does not lead to stronger drugs as does marijuana."
The National Council on Alcoholism defines an alcoholic as, "A person whose drinking seriously alters his normal living pattern."
Alcoholics Anonymous says alcoholism is a physical compulsion with a mental impairment.
An alcoholic is someone with a regular drinking pattern, Dr. Byron Walters, health service physician, said. The tests for an alcoholic, he said, are if he can go without alcohol or if he can break up his drinking pattern.
"Would you consider a person an alcoholic if he went out and drank every weekend without exception until he was drunk?" Walters asked.
Kirby Drayer, bartender at the Bierstue,
he agreed with the definition given by the
Psychiatrist for a psychiatric patient.
"An alcoholic is one who drinks 20 bottles of beer or one half a quart of whisky a day."
Other bartenders said they thought an alcoholic was someone who needed a drink, or who drank every day until he was intoxicated.
"An alcoholic is someone who needs a drink every morning," said one liquor merchant.
When asked about the person who drank every afternoon he said, "I don't think they're alcohols. If you can make it that far into the day, you are okay."
Alchoholism Could Be a Student Problem at KU
No study has been conducted to find out . . .
"Student drinking really isn't a problem," Drayer said. "Students drinking really are. You become a problem when you beat up your boyfriend car into someone's front yard." he said.
Mike McGinn, bartender at the Jayhawk Cafe, said, "It's a small problem now, but it could lead to another problem when they get out of school."
to have a problem
He said he thought that most of the students hadn't been drinking long enough
"Students are heavy drinkers," said James Connell, bartender at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, "but they usually have a reason, like a party."
weekend, without fail." Dr. Walters said.
He said that it was possible to become an
military commander in the U.S.
Drayer said that the Biersturb had about 50 customers patronized the bar often. A
Bob Case, bartender at Mount Oread, said that although drinking was widespread among students, he thought that the number of students dependent on alcohol was small.
Dr. Walters said that as he looked back at his fraternity parties held every weekend, he would have to call many of his friends alcohols.
"We'd go out and get a keg every
"About 200 to 250 students come to the Wheel on Wednesdays," Connelly said, "because it's kind of the breaking point of the week."
group of them are "regular as clockwork," he said.
Case said, "About half of our customers drop by every day, but only about 35 do any heavy drinking."
The Jayhawk has about 15 customers that come in every afternoon and every night, said David Garretson, bartender at the Jayhawk.
Each of the bars goes through an average of five kegs a day. There are about 35 to 40 pitchers to a keg. This amounts to about $216 to $255 a day for each of the four bars.
One member of Alcoholics Anonymous said that an alcoholic might spend between $5 and $a day if he drank at home, and he might spend more if he went to bars.
Students usually drink because of their boredom, insecurity or for the social reasons.
Connell said that he thought most of the people came to the bars for comradehship. Garrettson said he thought students drank for a good time or to "blow it all out."
"A guy can be mentally dependent on alcohol." McGinty said, "because he knows what wants to, he can go down to the bar, find a drink, get drunk and forget what's bothering him.
The college years are a time when a person is responsible only to himself, never said. He said he thought a person's work was part of the outfit of school and married, bad children.
McGinny said he thought that the problem could get worse when a person got out of school.
It was speculated that, since a person builds a lifestyle from scratch when he gets out of school, he might create a lifestyle after his drinking habits in college.
"The Alcohol American" said that there were 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 alcohols in America.
"This means that at least one in every 20 and probably one in every 12 people over the age of 18 is an alcoholic," the pamphlet stated.
Simply as could the pamphlet describes the typical alcoholic as "a bright middle-management executive in his 36s, married with his family in a nice neighborhood."
"The Alcoholic American," published by the American Medical Association, will be distributed at Watkins Memorial Hospital, according to Dr. Walters.
Senate Plans to Pick Treasurer This Week
By PATTY JOHNSON Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate plans to select a new senate treasurer by this weekend, according to Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo., senior and current senate treasurer. The search for a new treaser began Sept. 13 when O'Neill submitted his resignation to the senate.
The senate has advertised for students interested in the position and also contacted those whom they were qualified, willed or awarded to. O'Neill and David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and student body President. The treasurer will be selected by Dillon, but his choice must be approved by the Student Senate. He was an assistant professor who was conscientious and who could assume a great deal of responsibility. He said the treasurer needed to keep abreast of the problems of the University ad- dresse and would be able to handle several problems at once.
The senate treasurer approves every expenditure that comes from the student
activity fund making him personally responsible for more than half of a million dollars, O'Neill said. The treasurer must be able to handle a huge load of paper work, be quick and have an enormous knowledge of accounting and business management, he said.
During his term of office, which began in April of 1971, O'Neill he had to learn much about Kansas administration and University procedures.
O'Nell resigned from the position he had been charged because he said the job was too much for him.
"As it is currently operating," he wrote in his letter of resignation, "I have had to supply amounts of time and effort. I have spent a lot of my time working with the student activity fee."
O'Neill now has a full-time assistant who works as a secretary to help with some of the paper work and the typing of financial documents. He suggested to the senate when he resigned that two or three assistants to the treasurer be selected to share some of the work load.
LAW WITH JUSTICE— A BALANCED APPROACH
The DOUGLAS COUNTY PROBATE JUDGESHIP is three judgeships in one. As well as handling probate matters, the judge serves as county judge in criminal and civil matters. He also serves as Juvenile judge. In this third capacity, he is responsible for supervising probation and correctional programs for delinquent Douglas County youth.
ELECT HERMAN K. REED
Democrat for Probate Judge
Paid by The Committee to Elect Reed Co-Chairmen Tom Moore and Dr. R.O. Nelson, M.D.
ELECT VOTE
LLOYD BUZZI
A MAN WHO CARES ABOUT YOU
House of Representatives
45th District
45th District Poll Locations: Allen Fieldhouse
• Schwegler School • Centennial School
• American Legion • Rusty's Grocery (south)
• National Guard Armory • Pinckney School
• West Jr. High • West Wakarusa School
Pd Pol. Adv.-Students for Butzi Committee, Tom Oakson, Chairman 162 W. 15th
Re Elect ARDEN BOOTH SENATOR
SENATOR BOOTH WORKS FOR YOU ON:
Significant input into HB 2030, reorganizing our penal system. This must be implemented and financed in the next two sessions.
PENAL REFORM
Significant input into legislation providing thru bonds a 40 million dollar fund to help cities solve problems of sewage treatment.
THE ENVIRONMENT
OSHA, Workman's Comp., extension of unemployment benefits.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Ratification of equal rights amendment and extension of civil rights to include women.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY
The legislature must provide better support for Higher Education.
Paid for the RETURN BOOTH TO THE SENATE committee, Travis Glass Ch.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUD MAILLIE, You Handsome devil
Regardless of what
Regardless of what your degree is in . . . if you're ambitious, people-oriented and eager to carve a good future, we're interested in speaking with you about a career in SALES LEADING TO SALES MANAGEMENT
Chesebrough-Pond's Inc.
Our products include some of America's basic household standbys - Pond's Cold Cream, Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, Q-Tips, Ragu Spaghetti Sauces & many others. Interested? Our representative will be on this campus.
November 8, 1972 Contact the Placement Office to set up your personal interview. An equal opportunity employer m/f Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. 33 Benedict Place Greenwich, CT.
Use Kansan Classifieds