Local agencies give alcoholics help, health, hope
By ANITA SOLTER Health Reporter
Health Reporter
Alcohol is called the most abused drug, and experts say you don't have to be an alcoholic to have a drink.
Sydney Schroeder, psychiatrist at KU's Waltkins Memorial Hospital, said recently that alcohol was a common cause of death.
Drinking seems to be more in style now, he said. Taking drugs was in fashion ten years ago, but the trend has slowed.
Frequently, students with a drinking problem come from families in which there is an alcoholic, he said. Drinking is the style of coping they have learned.
Most students who seek mental health counseling at the student health center have a general problem of depression, anxiety or other internal conflict, and who are unable to cope with counseling that there is a problem with alcohol.
SCHROEDER SAID other traits that might make a person susceptible to alcohol were an immature personality, being overprotected or impulse-ridden, or requiring instant gratification.
Both quantity of alcohol consumed and the reason
for drinking determine whether someone has a drinking problem, he said.
"You'd have to be more than a weekend drink before you have a problem," Schroeder said. "But someone who drinks a six-pack of beer a night most likely does have a problem."
For those who use alcohol as an escape, psychiatrists hope to provide through counseling another less destructive way of alleviating pain, he said. "I think students' problems to change their perspectives."
Schroeder, who has counseled at the University of Kansas for 11 years, said there didn't seem to be an upsurge in the number of students with drinking problems.
MOST OF THOSE WHO seek help at the health center are upperclassmen and graduate students,
"Seeing a full-blown alcohol among students is very unnatural," he said. "Such a person wouldn't be able to commit."
*Certainly a percentage of those who have drinking problems as students will develop a more problem-solving ability.*
Headquarters, Inc., 1602 Massachusetts St.,
a drug and personal crisis counseling center, reports
that about one-fourth of the 100 drug-related cases they get each month are questions about taking medication.
"Some of these inquiries are quite innocent," Evie Unkeeper, director of Headquarters, said. "Someone who is taking a prescription may want to know whether he should have a drink at a party."
OTHERS ASK QUESTIONS about mixing alcohol and depressants of the central nervous system (such as tranquilizers) to intentionally give a "mellow" effect, she said.
Unfeeker warned that mixing drugs and alcohol was risky. The reaction between the drugs "potentiates," resulting in an effect stronger than either drugs and alcohol alone.
Headquarters provides information and counseled about alcohol-related problems and safety issues.
Alcohol is the most abused drug, Unkefer said, and Headquarters is getting significantly more care about alcohol this year than last. She said she has seen an increase in cases of alcohol in the 20- to 30-year-old group.
George Catt, municipal court judge, said alcohol abuse is the no. 1 problem of his court and the basis for the ruling.
related to drinking include driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, assault, riotous conduct, resisting arrest and using profane language.
HE SAID PEOPLE who had been drinking also might commit crimes they otherwise wouldn't, such as stealing or murdering.
The ages of those who appear in municipal court on charges related to drinking range from 17 to 70. Catt said. Some people have a record of drinking arrests "as long as your arm."
Catt said weekends were the worst time for drinking offenses.
Mike Thomas, director of KU Security and Parking, said driving while intoxicated arrests were made.
In 1972, Kansas abolished its statute on public intoxication. Now a person can't be arrested for being drunk in public but can be arrested for conduct严重 while being drunk. Also a person who himself or others may be taken into custody for up to six hours.
LEGAL INTOXICATION in Kansas is .1 per cent alcohol in the bloodstream.
Sgt. Roy Demy, of the Lawrence Police
Department, said that legal intoxication is equivalent of two tall bottles or two ounces of alcohol.
two courses in ancount
the courts do refer probio-
liges agencies for counseling, Catt, the municipal judge.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) has a 24-hour-a-day telephone service and provides counseling for alcoholics as well as their families. People with problems are invited to AA's regular meetings.
The Bert Nash mental Health Center, 4th and Missouri streets, counsels some alcohol-related problems and refers others, depending on the nature of the problem, a spokesman said.
The Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism, $729 \frac{1}{2}$ Massachusetts St. provides referral for treatment and counseling Staff members are David H. Turner, the committee's alcoholic resources expeditor, and Isabelle Schaake.
BECAUSE DOUGLAS COUNTY doesn't now have an alcohol detoxification center, Turner said, and a liaison to nearby centers. These include the Topochapeque and the Administration Hospital, the Meninger Clinic and
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Palestine group legitimized
From the Associated Press
Vol. 85—No.45 Tuesday, October 29.1974
RABAT, Morocco—Arab leaders gave full recognition to Yasir Alafai's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) but left for the Israeli inussein a voice in Palestinians' minds.
countries must support this authority when it is established in all fields and at all levels.
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
A resolution, adopted by consensus, said the summit "reaffirms the rights of the Palestinian people to set up an independent national authority, under the leadership of the National Council of Palestine, the representative of the Palestinian people on any Palestinian land that is liberated. Arab
The moves yesterday followed an apparent reconciliation between Hussein and PLO chief Arafat. Their conflict had threatened the Arab summit with failure.
THE ARAB LEADERS did not speci-
pate who was to represent the West Bank
Palestinians in negotiations with Israel but left it up to Jordan, Egypt, Syria and the PLO "to establish a formula for organizing the relationship between them . . ."
For the PLO, the umbrella organization for Palestinian guerrilla groups, the Arab action was the third major step in two weeks in its drive to achieve universal recognition as the sole spokesman for the Palestinian people.
Israel has occupied the Jordanian West Bank since the 1967 Mideast war.
The United Nations General Assembly has invited the PLO to take part in its debates on the Palestinian issue, and French Foreign Minister Jean Claude Juncker has last week with Arafat in Beirut. Sauvagnargues says the U.N. action was "the right decision."
FOR HUSSEIN, WHO had demanded a clear mandate to negotiate Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank, the summit decision was something less then e vidence.
In withdrawing his objections to PLO endorsement earlier in the day, Hussein told the summit he reserved his position concerning future peace talks with Israel. Conference sources said Egypt's President Anwar Sadat made a similar statement.
Hussein had earlier told the Arab leaders
he would refuse to attend a resumed Middle East peace conference in Geneva if he was obliged to submit to PLO authority over the West Bank.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the summit agreement on the Palestinian resolution eliminated the Jordanian and Egyptian reservations.
From the Associated Press
HOWEVER, THE PROVISION allowing for consultation among Jordan, Egypt, Syria and the PLO could provide a loophole for Hussein to negotiate with Israel on the ground, and maintain it won't negotiate with the PLO for withdrawal from the West Bank
Watergate transcripts spurred Hunt to 'tell all'
Testifying at the Watergate cover trial, Hunt said, "In the spring of this year I began to read and transcripts of the White House tapes. I felt a sense of rude awakening."
WASHINGTON—Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt Jr. admitted yesterday that he laid at least 12 times in appearances before a grand jury. But he said that after reading transcripts of the White House decided to tell all he knew about the break-in.
"I realized these men were not worthy of my continued loyalty."
HE SAID HIS LAWYER advised him to tell everything he knew.
Hunt, a former CIA agent who was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping in the Watergate break-in team, was subpoenaed this past summer to testify with the hard decision of whether to continue to lie to protect others or to tell it.
Under questioning by Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, Hunt admitted that he had laid at least 12 times since being granted immunity from prosecution on the basis of his testimony before a federal grant jury.
He said he lied about his contacts with former White House special counsel Charles Colson and fellow break-in defendant James McCord as well as about his knowledge of the involvement of others in the Watergate break-in.
Defense attorneys will begin their cross- examination of Hunt today.
Prosecutors at the trial of five former Nixon administration and campaign aides entered into evidence an accounting Hunt's office with the U.S. Department of Justice, O. Bittman, of the distribution of $450,000.
"The arrears were steadily mounting," he said.
When Hunt leaves the stand, the prosecution plans to call Stu Jeff Mgruder, former deputy director of the election committee, as its next witness.
But the payments proved disappointingly small. Hunt testified.
Magruder already has pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice and has been sentenced.
EARLER, HUNT DESCRIBED how his
break-in defendants paid for the
break-in defendants.
showed that nearly all the money went for bail and attorneys' fees.
Hunt said that two days after the June, 1972, Watergate break-in, he went to his office in the Executive Office Building next to the White House and "gave a cursory glance around to satisfy myself that nothing had been disburbed."
The accounting, dated Sept. 19. 1972.
THEM HE PASSED a message to
Chuck. The message was lost.
Chuck to you. Is your saturn in charge?
He described the contents as including bugging equipment, faked State Department cables, a psychiatric profile of Daniel Ellsberg and notebook lists people involved in political intelligence activities being detected by the Nixon re-election committee.
"There was only one big man involved in the entire planning episode. The big man involved stature-wise was the attorney general, Mr. John Mitchell."
Asked who the "big man" was, Hunt rebelled.
Earlier, Hunt had testified that he was told that the "Big man" had approved a political intelligence plan calling for illegal break-ins and wiretapping.
CONVICTED OF burglary and See TERMS.
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I can't believe my eyes
By Kannan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
The final closing session of the summit was postponed for the second time. The committee will review the results.
One of the many football fans who and trouble believing they were seeing Saturday was C. H. Branson of Oldehaven Clean
glasses didn't change the situation, however, because the Jaeywens打了 no lose 22 to Iowa State. See story page 6.
Earlier, Arab oil ministers discussed possible use of the oil weapon and how to unify strategy against threats from oil consuming nations.
The Moroccan news agency gave no details of the ministers' meeting, but official statements by President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that the major oil consumers regard the connection of Arab oil a vital national interest.
IN OTHER OIL DEVELOPMENTS:
—An agreement by the United States and other industrialized nations to share their oil in an emergency will take final shape in Brussels on Nov. 18, Etienne Davignon, the chairman of the industrialized nations' group, said in Brussels.
—Financial difficulties in Europe and a lack of confidence in Israel's land base in the $25 million search for oil in the Jewish state, the manager of the oil exploration firm, Mr. Sternberg, said.
Diane in concert
Dionne Warwick proved to the audience at Saturday night's Homecoming concert that she keeps getting better and better. See review page 4.
Library cuts back overdue notices
Every day Watson Library mails out letters to students informing them that their books are overdue. However, before a book is returned, the library may already have accrued a fine of $750.
considered lost. This point comes 30 days after the due date, she said.
Because of the large number of overdue books, said Nancy Bengel, circulation librarian at Watson Library, overdue book notices will be sent out only after a book is
In the past, the library policy has been to send out notices immediately after a book was due. If a borrower returned his book before the four-day grace period expired, he would be charged for it. The period allows a borrower to return a book three days after its due date without being
Tight shoes, frizzy hair indicate nasty weather
If your shoes feel tight and your hair has the frizzes, there's a very good chance that bad weather in on the way, according to Kollmorgen, professor of geobathry.
Kollmorgen said nature provided clues to forecasting the weather and if you observed these signs you could do a pretty fair job of predicting the weather.
"A good way to predict whether a storm is coming is to look at a blonde-haired girl," someone mentions, "or a man in a brown hair, a good bet that rain is on its way. Blond hair works best for predicting weather; in fact, the hygrometer (the humidity) is made from blond, human hair."
Kollmorgen explained that, for reasons
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fined. On the fourth day the fine is $1. For
each additional day it is 25 cents until the
final day of the month.
Roger Standfast, graduate student in physical geography, said farmers and sailors were the greatest believers in weatherlore.
Low pressure often accompanies a storm and this fact can provide many clues to for determining storms.
Because the library has run out of postage money, Bengal said, it is no longer possible to notify students before they accrue the $1 fine.
"Because of low atmospheric pressure, the body will actually become a little larger. It feels cooler and feels feel tight and your clothes seem to fit a little more紧加 than usual, stormy weather can make it uncomfortable."
not yet thoroughly understood, human hair expanded in length when exposed to moisture and that this was the principle that operated a hv-meter.
"It was costing us an astronomer amount of time and money," she said. "It became a burden, and we ran out of money."
Bengal said slower mail delivery has contributed to the problem of notifying
"We just figure that they're adult enough to know that the book needs to be back on the table."
Frances Fischer, library assistant in the Science Library, said she tried to get information about the materials.
She also said the science libraries were trying to conform with Watson on circuitry.
"We are in the process of trying to get uniform methods of procedure," she said. Bengel said some branch libraries had been established in collecting fines for overdue books.
"I am pessimistic enough about human nature to think that if we didn't charge these fines, the books would never be returned," she said.
The Map Library, which is a branch of the Science Library, doesn't follow the Watson
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