Seasonal rush hits Headquarters
Bv RICK JONES
Staff Renorter
During most of the year, business isn't exactly what you'd call brisk at headquarters, a 24-hour crisis center at JPMorgan.
But with holidays and finals just around the corner, the volunteers at the center find that business not only thrives,
"Things definitely pick up this time of year," Alan Johnson, director of the center, said. "The end of the semester can turn into one big confusion, and students need somewhere to turn.
"When people hit a brick wall like finals week, they're naturally going to take some knocks."
*Depression and loneliness are usually the main reasons people call us,* Johnson said. "Right now it's more like a vacation."
The people at the center usually just try to lend a sympathetic ear to the callers, and maybe point out a few snipings.
"When you get a caller asking, 'How do I get from here to '
a week and a buff?', you try to convey to the person
that 'C' is too much."
However, John Vicodimone, a volunteer at the center, said finals might not be the only reason for the recent rash.
"People normally tend to get depressed around the holidays," he said. "They remember the way things were when they were young—turkeys, Santa Claus and all the rest.
"I instead, they have two papers due in the morning and an ugly roommate who wants to go out and get drunk tonight."
Vicidomines, who is also resident director at Hashinger Residence Hall, said he had noticed a lot more stress and anxiety in people's faces and many tempers that detonated at the slightest touch.
"People right now are just going bonkers," he said.
They yell a lot more, then they listen a lot more—the pressure is pushing them.
"I try to convey to people that, as important as grades
"If they step back and take a look at the whole picture, n lot of the time it won't seem so mind-boggling."
are, they're just not important enough to get an ulcer over.
to're give to them to take a little more in stride.
Because many of the volunteers at the center are enrolled at KU, they understand the problems students face this time of year. In fact, many of them are going through the same thing themselves.
"It helps me out to talk to people about problems that I have myself."
"I get as weird as anyone this time of year," Beeky Cushman, a Wichita graduate student and student volunteer, said. "It's good to know that other people react to the fails mess the same way I do."
During most of the year, students constitute only about half the callers to Headquarters. But at this time of year, that figure increases dramatically. Johnson figures that will return to normal in about a week and a half.
"Students are just more vulnerable than other people right now," he said. "When a whole semester hinges on one week's performance, there tends to be a little bit of pressure there someplace."
KANSAN
Monday, December 11, 1978
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 72
Vespers singers
Members of the University choir, under the direction of James Ralson, inset, performed
Christmas carols yesterday during the 54th annual Christmas Vespers presentation in Hoch Auditorium.
U.S. asylum policy called 'double standard'
Staff Reporter
By PHILIP GARCIA Staff Reporter
The U. government has a double standard policy for granting asylum to political activists seeking refuge here. Hector Maran is an student activist from Mexico, said Friday.
In a speech at the Kansas Union on "Repression in Mexico and Political Asylum in the U.S.", Marroquin told a group of about 45 persons that the United States had a long-standing relationship with activists to activists from "enemy countries" but not to activists from "friendly countries".
"The director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service says. We are not willing to grant political asylum to a person claiming that violations of human rights are
being constructed in friendly countries, "Mr Marroquin said.
Mexico is considered a friendly country, he said.
"IF THEY give a Solzhentsyn political asylum they should give asylum to the Chileans and Haitians, to all political activists seeking asylum," Marroquín said.
Marrquino, who has been in the United Marroquin, since 1974, applied for political asylum after the Mexican government charged him with being a member of the Sept. 23 Communist League, which allegedly killed a librarian at the University of Nuevo Leon four years ago. The Mexican government also charges he participated in
A deportation hearing was scheduled for 27 but was postponed. New hearing date is not yet announced.
two gun battles with Mexican police the same year.
Marrroquin said if he were granted asylum, a precedent would be set for granting asylum to activists from friendly countries.
MARROQUUN SAID. "They say that I was an illegal alien and helped to create unemployment, inflation and to disrupt the balance of payments.
Marrouquin said that on Sept. 18, 1977, the INS arrested him in Texas as an illegal alien and placed him in jail for more than three months until his mobile for $10,000 bond could be raised.
"It's not the unemployment, not the Chicanos, the blacks, not the women, that caused the economic mess, it's the absolute work for profits instead of human needs."
It is "political manure" to tell Chiances they are American citizens and tell Mexicans they are Mexican citizens.
He said there was an attempt to divide the Chicanos and the Mexicans.
Marrquin said he knew that if he were to return, to Mexico, he would be subject to travel restrictions.
He said, "I know if I go back to Mexico they are not going to give me one chance to Philadelphia."
Variety of factors lead to deanships
By JAKE THOMPSON
Few professors seeking the freedom of an academic career desire to become a University administrator, shuffling volumes of paper around the University,
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According to some deans of University of Kansas schools, however, many circumstances led them out of teaching and into University administration.
And varied choices led them into academia in the first place.
One man who has talked to all of the deans recently, hired many of them, and says he knows them all well, is Ron Meyer, president of the affairs. He has had budget conferences with each dean this fall to set guidelines for budget requests in the fiscal 1980 budget.
Caligara said recently that the deans had varying roles and were one of the most important groups of leaders at KU.
Calgard said he thought a dean's involvement in academics was important to maintain contact with his profession.
All of KU's deans teach part time or do some research.
The most common answer to the question, "why seek university life in professional career in the business world," was that the deans enjoyed
"ONE WOULD have to say it involves some sort of ego conception that you can do it better than others and have clear forethought." Kahn said. "The most frustrating piece is the lack of what we want when school is and what I would like it to be."
Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture for the last 11 years, said he enjoyed leading the school's programs.
Kahn teaches and does some outside architectural work, which he said was essential to remaining dean.
"If the administrative work precluded teaching and architectural work, I'd get out," he said. "I like teaching too much and the University too much, but I do occasionally regret not being in the professional career."
He said he became interested in an academic career while in graduate school studying architecture.
Joseph A. Pichler, de the School of Business, said he learned administrative work while serving as executive secretary under George P. Shultz, who was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974.
Pichler has been a dean for five years and teaches part time.
"The best part of administrative work isn't paper shuffling, but setting up programs and seeing them work," Pichler said.
He said being a dean was a "time-consuming life-consuming job" and felt that progress toward goals of the University and confidence in the faculty were essential in receiving satisfaction from the work.
"THE ULTIMATE satisfaction is the success of the students who graduate from here and go into the business world," Pichler said. "The principal frustrate is not having the resources to studentize." He added that potential as well as possible.
Pichler said he became a dean partly by coincidence and partly through the influence of two professors.
Choices, not coincidence, influenced Dale P. Scannell to seek the deanship of the School of Education in 1969. He said that he felt the school's direction had been satisfying.
"To be a dean you have to be a masochist because sometimes the petty problems outweigh the rewards," Scannell said.
19 The most satisfying aspect is seeing a beneficial change for the school. The most frustrating thing is persuading the
faculty to give unselfishly of their expertise for a programmatic need."
Scannell said a higher salary was not the primary reason for his seeking the deanship.
"MOST PEOPLE in administration are motivated by the challenge rather than the salary increase," he said. "You must personal freedom and broader influence."
Scannell said he taught, conducted testing programs and wrote books in his spare time to keep in contact with his profession.
Consulting for civil engineering firms and teaching consume David C. Kraft's spare time. Kraft has been dean of the School of Engineering since 1912.
"Each individual has to make a choice where you want to make a contribution," Kraft said. "For me, I enjoy the educational arena. You choose to stay in school, or you decide to trüge you. I discovered, while in graduate school, I truly enjoy teaching and working with students. At one time I gave consideration to going into engineering consulting, but I would have had to come now because I would not be teach'd."
James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts since 1975, said he was frequently tested by the faculty in organ surgery, gives, but the recitals were vital.
"IF I HAD to quit playing organ I'd "quit
Robert Cobb, dean of KU's largest school, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he became dean "from an almost accidental beginning." He served as acting dean twice and then became dean in 1974.
"I like to think this is one of the most important offices on campus because we're so large," Cobb said. "It's not only academic programs and be involved in the maturing of colleagues as academics and students as intellectuals. The increase in the proliferation of committee work is frustrating."
Frustration for Martin B. Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, comes in the form of arbitration between opposing lawyers at the University made since he became dean in 1971.
"THE GREATEST danger is to go along with the status quo after a period of years, but there is an advantage in longevity." Dickinson said. "I often have thoughts of going back into tax practice. My guess is there may be a more ready interchange between a law practice and an academic practice."
A dean who feels he could not go into the professional world is Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy.
"Right now I could not go back primarily because my tools would have to be resharpened," Mossberg said. "I've learned that if you're young, and you enjoy it, because I'm never doing the same thing. The most important thing to me is to see goals we set to achieve 10 years ago taking place on our industrial job I would still be an administrator."
David Hardcastle, dean of the School of Social Welfare, said he was passing up an opportunity to be a research analyst earning $30,000 to $60,000 because he wanted to teach and remain close to his family.
"MONEY IS NOT a primary reason for my involvement. The curiosity factor among students and faculty is better than in the outside world." Hardcaste said. "Salary may be the tip point between professional support and a nice job, but most people in academia don't trust it." The most satisfying aspect is to give some unfying direction to a program in your school."
Speed use unpopular at KU, doctors say
By LYNN WILLIAMS
Staff Reporter
Using white crosses or another form of amphiprene to study into the wee hours is probably less popular at the University of Kansas than it was a few years ago, according to local doctors.
And doing speed just for the fun of it is apparently an even more lonely activity.
"I don't know what a white cross is," one student replied somewhat sheepishly.
"We HAVEN't any cases that involved any of our school started in August." Jallow Mullens, a detection specialist.
Amphetamine abuse is not considered by campus police to be a problem.
According to R. L. Hermes, Lawrence physician, ampatemphasis runs up many of the body processes, putting a strain on the organs. Increased heart rate and blood pressure are its most noticeable effects.
Some students are familiar with speed's power to
destroy badness, although they may not know the
effect it has on their senses.
along with quickened but not necessarily more efficient thought processes.
For tasks involving more than simple monitoring, memorizing or arithmetic operations, ampetamines do not help and may detract from performance by making business or overestimation by the user of his capacities.
ACUTE AMPHETAMINE poisoning may result in coma followed by death, but there are few documented cases of "speed kills" from a single patient to Richard Tessel, assistant professor of pharmacy.
High doses of amphetamine decrease the sex drive, rev up the organs, increase peripause and result in periods up to several days of sleeplessness and loss of appetite.
The possibility of addiction to speed also detracts from its desirability.
"Speed freaks" often stay up for days, lose weight, suffer from heart palpitations, liver and kidney problems, loss of memory and decreased vocabulary and are more susceptible to colds, flu and other communicable diseases. Inveterate users eventually take on an aged appearance.
The Do It Now Foundation, an organization devoted to drug education that is based in Phoenix, Ariz., recommends niacin supplements and doses of yogurt and milk spread out over the day following an episode of pregnancy. In addition, it also recommends that users allow their bodies at least one day to recover from the effects of speed use.
BUT THE occasional use of ampetamines is not considered very dangerous, except when the drug has been cut with a more harmful substance, such as strychnine. And customers of street dealers can never be sure what they are buying, because speed is easily manufactured bootleg in basement laboratories. The dealer himself may not know exactly what he is selling.
Amphetamine may be illegally obtained in several forms, some of which are "white crosses" or "whites," small white pills with crosses; "Christmas trees," green and clear capsules with white and green granules; white capsules with white or off-white capsules; white capsules with white or off-white phetamine, sometimes in the form of a white powder, which may be put in solution and injected or snorted; "bennies" and "Dexies" are slang terms for Ben-
zedrine and Dexedrine, pharmaceutical forms of amphetamine.
"The majority of people in our studio stay up on their own steam," one said. "Wild cross use is the most common."
Often white crosses, Christmas trees and other so-called speed contain only caffeine or "garbage" mixes of little-known drugs that simulate the effects of amphetamines.
Two late night chatterers working on architecture projects in Marvin Hall said they had used white crosses to stay awake only one or two times this semester.
DESPITE THE potential danger of using street drugs containing unknown substances, several KU students still seek out amphetamines when the long nights start to loom.
Students at Marvin are noted for keeping late hours, but apparently most of them are content to rely on coffee, cigarettes and camaraderie to make it through long nights.
"I if wanted to get some white cross it would be through a friend in a whole 'nother school,' one of the students said, "I had a friend in Micro. He used it all the time to finish lab projects and lab reports."
She said she had been prescribed some black beauties, a type of amphiphetine, from a Kansas City doctor about two years ago. But the pills gave her insomnia that she never used most of them, she said.
EVEN AMONG local truckers, speed use on the job is almost nonexistent, according to Daler Garner, Lawrence senior and cashier at the Howard Johnson's turnip restaurant east of Lawrence.
"the ones that do it are the younger ones, the ones that drive across the country," he said. "If they're doing它 constantly, after they've taken it for a certain reason, you can keep it for 24 hours straight so their bodies can catch up."
Aphetamines for partying have taken a definite back seat to cocaine and barbiturates in Lawrence. Cocaine, though much more expensive, provides a safer alternative to heroin, which some users also consider to be more pleasant.
"Speed is not popular to play around with on a social basis," Allen Johnson, director of Headquarters assistance center, said. "I think it's just a preference. It's just not that pleasant of a hush."