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University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1981
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Alcoholic
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She weighed more than 200 pounds in the fifth grade. She started drinking at 15 and continued drinking heavily every night or every other night—until she joined AA last January.
"But I had a few close friends who drank as much as I did, so I didn't think drinking could be as bad."
"My reputation had gotten bad," she said. "I felt embarrassed and guilty as hell about things I would do while drunk. And the guilt only made me drink more.
ANN CAME INTO contact with AA through her sister-in-law, who also was an alcoholic, she said. Since joining the program, she has grown less shy and compulsive, Ann said.
"AA works because it is impossible to say to another alcoholic. Well, you don't understand
Not all alcohols need help voluntarily. Jack, a 20-year-old freshman, received orders from a judge to ask counseling after he was invited last November for driving while intoxicated.
"I went to meetings for two months before I could admit I was an alcoholic and pot addict," he said. "Everyone else at the meetings had tried to commit suicide or done something I hadn't done. All I knew was, once I started drinking, I couldn't stop."
Jack, like Ann, thought he didn't have a problem because his business companions kept pace with him. They still drink as much as I do, but I'm not even sure that I've always had an alcoholic personality.
"I always had to be the best in the crowd, the funniest, the class clown. But through it all I felt terribly lonely—more so in a crowd than by myself."
Jack said the spiritual aspect of AA worked for him. The first step in AA is to admit that you are powerless over alcohol, that your life has grown unmanageable, he said; you then turn your problems over to a higher power—as you envision him.
"Before I started drinking, my spiritual life was good," he said. "AA has restored that. This is completely individual—some AA students." "But I couldn't live this calmly without God."
TIM, a 32-year doctoral candidate, said he could not have imagined almost mystical, but effective AAA could be created.
"I think it's the total honesty. It's very hard for the alcoholic, who usually is a showman, to do this," she said.
Tim said he became an alcoholic in one week. Six years ago when he was an undergraduate at KU, a personal problem led him to drink every night for a week.
painful shyness." He also no longer worried about his problems.
"From that point, I quite literally was not sober for four years," he said. "I moved to Denver, hoping for a geographical cure, and saw a psychiatrist there for nearly two years. She could never do anything for me. In fact, she advised me not to join AA."
Tim said that after two years in AA, he was relieved of his uncertainty, insecurity and "a"
"What I've learned is that my attitude toward life is much more important than the status quo."
Fran, a 27-year old senior who joined AA seven years ago, said a psychiatrist did not work for her, either. She sought counseling and received an LSD trial had left her in a state of depression.
THE PSYCHIATRIST put her on tranquilizers for five years, she said, which, along with drinking, induced psychosis when she was 20.
At that point, she was admitted into a hospital, with mA volunteers there, and did not drink again for seven years. Last month, however, she drank twice and then returned to AA meetings—a practice she had given up, she said.
Fran said that constant contact with other alcoholics was important because "it's hard to survive at college without knowing some people who think it's valuable not to drink."
A common denominator in many alcohols is a history of alcoholism in the family. Chuck, Jack, Tim and Fran all reported growing up with at least one alcoholic parent.
ALTHOUGH specialists in the fields of medicine and alcohol disagree on whether the addictive tendencies are learned or inherited, the National Council on Alcoholism reported in 1979 that "every problem drinker adversely affects an average of four other
persons in his family, and more than 16
members and business associates in the
community.
One KU student drank with her father last summer even though she had been in AA for two years. Sheila, a 20-year-old sophomore, said, "I had this idea in my head that我 will check my check for school unless I drank with him. So I did, and he wrote the check."
When she returned home later in the semester to obtain more money, her father again asked her to drink, she said. But this was not a good idea and came back to school without the money.
At school, these students are constantly faced with drinking situations.
"There's only one thing to drink at the Friday night big game." And the team has an awful of pressure to handle.
Because of this, the problem is greater at the University than in society at large. Chuck tae
LORNA ZIMMER, director of the Student Assistance Center in Strong Hall, said that the Center scheduled forums and distributed response to bullying but that student response was poor.
Any student who thinks he or she, a friend, or a family member is suffering from alcoholism can receive confidential advice, treatment and counseling by calling AA, the Student Assistance Center, or KU Information at 864-3506.
Missouri
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Bowl. Marcum said, however, that if the Jayhawks were defeated, their chances to play in a bowl game could be ruined. The outcome of this game this weekend could also affect KU's bowl status.
KU has squashed potential bids from the Independence and Garden State Bowls because of a University Senate rule that prohibits teams entering a college athletic events during final exam weeks.
CHANCLELLOR Gene A. Budig said that the rule also applied to bolt games. The athletic division is using the rules.
Koemer said that if KU accepted a bowl bid, the game date and location would determine *N*=24. Koemer said *N*=24.
"We'll be allotted a certain number of tickets and then we'll have to sit down and figure it all out," Konzem said. "It will really depend on what we get."
Right now, however, Konzem is concerned about selling tickets for Saturday's game. The ticket office in Allen Field House will be open on Friday to announce both basketball and football ticket sales.
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