Former alcoholic offers advice to peer counselors
Lecture teaches how to properly deal with student drinking
By Johannes Tesselaar
Staff Writer
“I knew I needed help when I woke up one morning and started throwing up this chalk-like substance, which just happened to be my intestines. I thought to myself that if I fall out of this third floor window I’ll never have to hurt like this anymore.
“I hated myself. I lost my self-respect, and I didn’t want to be a friend to myself. I swore to myself that if I ever got help. I’d go back to the community and tell kids they don’t have to get this far with alcohol.”
Tim Hoover made good on his selfpromise that one morning in a Pasadena YMCA. As director of Youth Services for the Pasadena Council on Alcoholism, Hoover now spends his evenings with people on the telephone instead of with a bottle of booze.
Hoover appeared in front of about 30 student peer counselors Tuesday evening at the Religious Center, offering advice on handling alcoholic students.
The Student Health Center Task
Force on Alcohol sponsored the discussion “to provide university peer counselors with basic information on alcohol, to provide them with the skills needed to work with alcoholics and to inform them about the resources available,’’ said Amy Dale, director for health education for the health center.
There are an average of 113 liquor advertisments per day, Hoover said, which stress the good times liquor offers.
“Not too many people know who the attorney general is, but how many people know what makes a weekend?” _2ioover_asked_^hetoricaH^;___^_^^^_
After a Row party one night, Hoover, a Pasadena City College student at the time, drove his father’s car to another party across town. Hoover crashed into a parked car, smashing his face against the window and forcing the car engine back into the passenger seat.
The student counseling organizations represented Tuesday included: Health Advocates, Helpline, International Peer Advocates. Office of Handicapped Students, Joint Educational Project, Black Student Services and Residential Advisers.
Hoover, who has lectured in more than 600 classes at high schools and universities, said society programs people to drink.
"What is the longest hour of the year: w'hy, it’s Happy Hour.”
Hoover stressed that learning to drink starts at an early age, as children see parents offer visitors a drink the minute they step in the door.
Teenagers are especially vulnerable to start drinking during the dating years. “It hurts to be rejected,” said Hoover, w'ho started drinking at age 14. “and we
make it easier on ourselves by drinking.”
Hoover discussed the learned mood swing, a curve between being sober and feeling euphoric because of alcohol. Swings toward euphoria lead to harmful consequences which must be recognized before a person will stop drinking.
Some of the consequences are not perceived as being dangerous.
“That warm sensation you get when you take something straight is the alcohol eating away your tissues,” Hoover said.
“I used to judge how much fun I had at a party by the size of hangover I had the next morning,” Hoover said, adding that a hangover is nothing more than a withdrawal from a drug.
Humans operate with intelligence over emotion, the 30-year-old Pasadena resident told the students, but the addition of alcohol inverts that.
“Usually when emotion governs over
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Administration backs BSS office, director
By Eric Onstad
Staff Writer
Jim Dennis, the administrator who was previously in charge of Black Student Services, asked the Student Senate Wednesday to support the BSS even though “turmoil and conflict” have recently prevailed in the office.
Dennis, associate vice president of Student Affairs, emphasized the administration’s support for the office and asked the student senators “not to give up on the office.”
“There’s a commitment to make this thing work. Someone will make it work,” he said in response to a question concerning a rumor that BSS was going to be dismantled.
Dennis said the turmoil in the office was the result of a change in its concept. “There are philosophical differences, and its needs should be addressed. There’s been a change in the philosophical approach.
“If Pam Porter can’t (make it work), we’ll find someone who can,” he said.
James Appleton, the administrator who is now responsible for BSS, was contacted at his home for comment on Dennis’ words.
“Dr. Porter is the director and is going to be director. There is no change anticipated,” Appleton said.
“What he meant was that the office extends beyond all of us. He was trying to express the commitment of the university. That’s the spirit and tone of it (the statement),” he said.
Appleton, vice president of Student Affairs, detailed the ways in which the administration has increased its commitment to BSS.
“Just by appointing a director has increased its (BSS) importance,” he said.
Before last October, the office had two assistant directors but no permanent director.
“We have increased the wage budget for student workers and increased the salary dollars for the office,” Appleton said. “And in next year’s budget, these is no retrenchment.”
Appleton’s assistant, Valerie Peyton, echoed the administration’s support for the office.
“Our commitment is as deep as it can be. We have high hopes (for BSS) and they’re all positive.”
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Volume XCI Number 32
University of Southern California
Monday March 1, 1982
Survey ranks tuition costs low
Show smalles price increases
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
Although university students face a possible 11 percent rise in tuition next year, they will fare better at this university than they would at many other private institutions throughout the nation.
In comparison to 24 other private universities holding membership in the Association of American Universities, this school ranked 16th in the amount it charges undergraduates for tuition and mandatory' fees, according to comparative data in a report compiled by the Office of the University Budget.
By examining the data in the report released Feb. 10, the Resource Management and Planning Committee found that the university will charge students 51,095 less in tuition and fees
than MIT, slated as the nation’s most expensive private university.
“Among those universities we studied, USC ranked the lowest in terms of dollars charged to undergraduates and the overall tuition increase from the 1980-81 academic year to the 1981-82 academic year,” said Robert Linnell, director of Institutional Studies.
He said that most of the universities studied charge twice the cost of Consumer Price Index prices for attending their universities.
In an attempt to counterbalance the university’s tuition increases, the administration has nurtured an overall increase in financial aid over the past 10 years, Linnell said.
As listed in the report, Stanford University, at $7,140, costs $835 more per academic
A DOG’S VIEW — The Palos Verde Peninsula can be seen from Dog Beach in Malibu. See photo essay on page 5.
Photo by Adelaide Andrews
year than this university. Stanford, however maintains a “blind admissions” policy which ensures all incoming freshmen that they will be admitted to the university on the basis of their academic standing, rather than their financial status. The students are financially supported by the university through aid, jobs or other assistance.
“According to our reports, Stanford students receive $26 million of financial aid and. of that amount, $10.7 million comes from the university in the form of loans, grants and scholarships,” said Joan O’Connell, editor of the Stanford Daily.
Although the university faces a sizable 15.1 percent increase in tuition and fees, Stanford undergraduates appear to be pleased with what they get per tuition dollar.
“So far. we (at the Stanford Daily) have not heard about any organized criticism regarding student services, classes or faculty,” the editor said.
“The only criticism students had regarded limited university housing because it’s been a real problem.” she said, adding that the Palo Alto area, which surrounds the university, offers limited apartment housing at expensive monthly rates.
“This year, our administration made university housing a priority and plans to raise room and board fees by over $1000 a year in order to build new housing units.”
Jerald Stevens, vice president of Financial Affairs and Admissions, said that the university intends to increase tuition and fee costs by at least 10 percent after two consecutive years of 14 percent increases
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