Monday, Oct. 21, 1985
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Depression
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committed suicide and 24 people attempted it, said Maj. Ron Olin of the Lawrence Police Department. This year there have been 14 attempts and 75 fatalities in 21-year-old KU student whose body was found last week in Holcom Park
Greist and Jefferson reported that 75 percent of suicide victims were depressed. But there are no patrols able to prevent a plea attempt, suicide or others doing so.
"I look at any suicide thought, threat or action as ultimate cries for help," said Richard Nelson, a counselor at the University Counseling Center in Bailey Hall. "It is a myth that suicidal people really want to die.
"The majority are facing a crisis in life. If we can help them through the crisis, the urge to commit suicide will diminish."
Karen Ushman, a licensed specialist clinical social worker at the Bert Nash Center, said she thought suicide among depressed people happened when options were obscure.
"When you're depressed, your vision tends to narrow," she said. "You can't see the options that may not be obvious."
Jones, too, said depressed people might not see other answers.
"A significant part of depression is not being able to look at options in a realistic way," he said.
"It is imperative that no one make important decisions while depressed, especially the decision of whether to live or die."
Depressed people need a support network, Nelson said.
That support can come from friends, clergy, family members, a residence hall director, a crisis intervention center or a professional counselor.
Counseling centers at the University are the Mental Health Clinic at Watkins Hospital; the Counseling Center, 116 Bailey Hall; and the KU Psychological Clinic, 315 Fraser Hall.
Other services in Lawrence include the Bert Nash Center; Headquarters, 1419 Massachusetts St.; Catholic Social Services of New York; the Christian Counseling Center of Lawrence. 1000 Kentucky St.
Marcia Epstein, director of Headquarters, said a person who was contemplating suicide was most likely to turn to a peer for help.
"It's important to have someone who can determine how dangerous the situation is," she said. "Sometimes that's hard for friends to do. They might not think the person is really serious."
Nelson said anyone who had a friend who was talking about suicide should discuss it openly.
"Don't say, 'You don't feel that way,' he said. "Don't say, 'Everybody feels that way.' Don't say, 'You'll feel better tomorrow.'"
Friends shouldn't try to cheer up a depressed person but should listen instead, Ushman said.
"If someone says he feels awful, he thinks he's rotten, and you try to cheer him up," she said. "He feels worse because he wants to be cheerful for you and can't."
Ushman said a depressed person should try to talk — either to friends or to a counselor.
"If you're worried about bringing your friends down, the counselor is getting paid to listen."
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highway. He can't remember how many times it's been broken.
'Bulldog'
He's lost all his front teeth, here and there.
His ears look like cauliflower. They've been bitten, torn and abused.
He has had broken bones and torn muscles but, Brown said, he was fortunate.
"Everything has mended. I've been very lucky," he said. "Some guys only last a year before they really getBUSTed up. I was smarter. I didn't take a lot of chances."
Brown lives for wrestling. Four days a week, 11 months a year he climbs into the square ring to give professional wrestler's punishment.
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"I've got to go in the ring," he said. "That's my living. When I hit the ring, I'm a different person. I'm out there to win."
He said the National Wrestling Alliance, the oldest wrestling organization in the country, used to be the only governing body for wrestlers.
The new organizations, such as the World Wrestling Federation, and the new wrestlers, such as the ones that been bad for wrestling, he said.
"Take 'wrestling mania,' for example," Brown said. "You got a guy like Liberace at ringside. He never saw a wrestling match in his life, and he's out there playing the piano in the ring.
'It isn't the old school against the new school. It's just that these new guys are in the entertainment business. This is a sport.
"If they want to be in the entertainment business they should join Johnny Carson at night. They made a complete mockery out of the sport."
The crowd, packed into the Kansas Union Ballroom, taunts wrestler "Bulldog" Bob Brown after he was thrown out of the ring, early in his match with Rufus R. Jones. Brown lost the match with Jones on Friday.
His brush-cut hair is grayer, and the lines around his eyes have softened the Bulldog's glare. But Brown said he had at least four more years of wrestling ahead of him.
"I feel just as good as I did 10 years ago," he said.
As he put his worn leather boots away in his small steel suitcase, he said, "People save all their life to go on a holiday. I get it every day of the week.
After his match Friday night, Brown was tired.
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Rooms
"We're gathering some from the games." Johnson said. "They say everything in Kansas City is filled."
Barb York, desk clerk at Best Western Meadow Acres, Topeka, said baseball fans had spent nights there last weekend.
The Ramada Inn, Topeka, also housed a few fans Saturday night. Glenda Hefty, front desk clerk, said more were expected last night.
"There were quite a bit yesterday," she said. "There are not as many for tonight."
Many of the lodges near Royals Stadium were booked during the weekend.
Karen McManamin, switchboard operator for the Adam's Mark Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., said the 374 rooms were filled because of the Series, conventions and the Kansas City Chiefs football game.
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malpractice insurance has risen rapidly since 1983, when the Med Center paid $237,000 for insuring the residents. Officials predict that insurance for fiscal year 1987 could cost as much as $2.5 million.
The Legislature passed bill 362 in the closing hours of its spring session. After the bill left the Senate, underwent changes in the House that caused confusion about what the bill would accomplish. Some Legislators said they were unaware of the bill's effect on the Med Center.
The bill, which made the Med Center responsible for supplying its own malpractice insurance to its residents, did not provide money for legal defense or settlements in case of malpractice suits.
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