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Monday, September 15, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Schools to get drug handbook
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education joined in President Reagan's war on drugs yesterday with a handbook on how to drive the drug problem out of the nation's schools.
The department has printed 1 million copies of "Schools Without Drugs," and the handbook already is in the mail to every public and private school and every school superintendent in the country. The department also is setting up 20 toll-free phone lines that people can call starting today for free copies of the guide.
"We have to get tough and we have to do it now," said Education Secretary William J. Bennett. Drug and alcohol use is the most serious threat to the health and well-being of children, he said.
The problem cuts across class lines and
geographic boundaries, Bennett said in his introduction.
"In some schools, drug deals at lunch are common. In others, intruders regularly enter the building to sell drugs to students. Even schools with strict drug policies on paper do not always enforce them effectively." he said.
The handbook tells how drug use starts, how it progresses and how it can be identified.
"Most important, it tells how it can be stopped." he said.
First lady Nancy Reagan, who joined the president last night in a televised address against drugs, said in the foreword, "Schools must protect children from the presence of drugs, and nurture values that help them reject drugs. Only if our schools are free from drugs can we protect our children and insure that they can get on with the enterprise of learning."
The 78-page booklet is aimed at educators.
parents and students themselves, laying out basic facts about drugs and providing a detailed explanation of educators' rights to search students for drugs and suspend or expel offenders.
It also lists telltale signs of drug use: bloodshot eyes, possession of large amounts of money and distinct downward turns in student's grades.
The Education Department spent $440,000 to print the handbook — 44 cents a copy — and will spend up to 30 cents more to mail each copy to people who request one.
The handbook offers 12 recommendations that emphasize education at home and in the schools. It also contains a section on law enforcement.
The handbook recommends that schools keep duplicate or master keys for all student lockers and reserve the right to inspect the lockers at any time.
Volunteers attempt to save sea animals
The Associated Press
YAKUTAT, Alaska — Animal rescuers camped yesterday along a lake formed when a glacier closed a fjord's outlet to the sea and hoped to attract trapped seals and porpoises with handouts of frozen fish.
Six rescuers and a monitor from the National Marine Fisheries Service set up camp on the gravel outwash of the Variegated Glacier, one of the few sites that is inhabitable along the flooded shores of Russell Lake.
The volunteers hoped to make saries across the lake in inflatable boats to try to feed the marine mammals trapped last spring when the
Hubbard Glacier dammed the fjord, which is being filled by glacier runoff.
The group was flown to the lake from a base camp in Yakutat, 25 miles away, after a survey flight spotted 16 to 18 porpoises and seals in the lake, discolored by silt in the runoff.
The capture team was expected to be out of radio contact with the base camp for a day or two. Rescuers are short seven boats and other equipment that was expected to be donated, but team members said they still would try to capture some animals by the end of the week and move them to the Pacific.
Study of emotions planned
United Press International
CHICAGO — Emotions are tricky. Few people understand their own. For scientists, trying to explain why certain people feel certain ways at certain times, the questions are multiple.
If man is injected with a drug that makes him look anxious and makes his body feel anxious, is he really anxious?
Is happiness to be found in the heart, the soul or the frontal lobes of the brain?
These questions, more scientifically formulated, will occupy an unusual gathering of professionals from several medical fields at a symposium this week on the "Psychological and Biological Processes in the Development of Emotion."
The three-day symposium beginning today, sponsored by the Harris Center for Developmental Studies at
one University of Chicago, also will tackle tough questions about how mothers and their babies communicate emotions, how people become hopelessly depressed and how people become fully developed emotionally.
The answers are by no means obvious.
"When you say emotion, people say 'Oh, I know what that is. I know all about that,' but the fact is it's something that is so pervasive and it's something we know remarkably little about," said Bennett Leventhal, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics and director of the symposium.
"We know nothing or very little about what really causes emotions or how children acquire them or how people learn to manage them." Leventhal said. "And these are very important parts of people's lives and they have important social implications as well."
The Harris symposium marks the first time scientists, biologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and psychologists have gotten together to discuss emotions.
"This group of people getting together is an accomplishment in itself," he said. "If we can't get them to agree, maybe we can just get them to agree on how to approach the problem or what the problem is."
One interesting problem, Leventhal said, is determining where emotions are located. Biologists and psychologists disagree along fairly predictable lines — the brain vs. the mind — but agree there may be actual places in the brain where emotions reside.
Scientists think that the right-front portion of the brain, the lobes, may be a governing force in emotion, Leventhal said, but when specific emotions are being discussed, the matter can get quickly complicated.
On the Record
A 1975 Ford pickup, valued at $4,000, was taken at about 9:30 p.m. Friday from a field in the 1500 block of Third Street, Lawrence police said.
A ham, valued at $21, was taken at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday from a grocery store in the 1700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said.
A stereo, valued at $200, was taken Thursday night from an unlocked car parked in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, Lawrence police said.
A 1979 Ford Fairmont, valued at $2.500, was taken at about 10 p.m. Wednesday from the 300 block of Florida Street, Lawrence police said.
A Radar detector, valued at $350,
was taken sometime between 10:30
p.m. Thursday and 6:30 a.m. Friday
Denmark tops study of best places to live
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA - Denmark is the best place in the world to live, according to the results of a recent survey done at the University of Pennsylvania. The survey, designed to rank the best and worst places to live, rated the African country of Angola as the worst place.
Richard Estes, a professor at Pennsylvania, based the rankings on a country's ability to provide for its citizens, economic development and the quality of life.
The United States finished 27th out of the world's 124 countries, a
relatively poor showing due primarily to a high level of military spending.
Nine of the worst 10 countries in which to live are in Africa, he said. The 10 worst countries were Angola, Ethiopia, Chad, Guinea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Mali, Mozambique, Malawi and Mauritania.
The top 10 countries were European. Estes said European countries progressed socially because they were "under the United States" nuclear umbrella."
The 10 best were Denmark, Italy, West Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, Norway, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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