Prof sees no demise of Taiwan
Red China replacing Taiwan in the United Nations will not mean the end of Taiwan or of the U N., said Theordore Chen, professor of Asian studies.
“Taiwan will not be swallowed up by Red China right away,” he said. Chen said that the prestige of the U.N. has been hurt by expelling a nation that had been a member for 22 years.
“I have no objection at all in bringing Red China into the U.N.," said Chen. He added that this should not have been done by expelling a long-term member.
The United States' relations with Taiwan will not change quickly, Chen said. He feels that the United States should simply continue its friendly relations with Taiwan and continue to honor all commitments.
Chen has been with the USC Asian studies Department since 1937 except for two years after World War II when he returned to mainland China to serve as a university president. He also helped establish Tunghi University in Taiwan in 1954.
The morning after the U.N. vote Chen was constantly busy being interviewed by reporters from newspapers and television.
Ta Kuo. professor of Asian studies, said that the people of Taiwan will accept the situation philosophically and will not view the United States as weaker.
He said that the United States tried hard to keep Taiwan in the U.N. and cannot be blamed for its expulsion.
Kuo would have preferred seating both Chinas in the U.N. so that they could exchange their views. He said the current situation will make the Taiwan people uneasy and. in a way. more threatened.
Kuo feels that the role of Red China in the world situation will be strengthened. Whether it is for the good or bad. we can anticipate some change in the near future, he said.
Kuo said that, with the anticipation of increased relations with Red China, there has been a significant increase in enrollment in Asian studies courses.
University of Southern California
DAILY S TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 25
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1971
Debaters sweep tourney
The debate squad accomplished something last Saturday that no other squad in the nation has ever done. It swept a national qualifying tournament. The Trojan debate teams of Ron Palmieri, Dennis Winston. Geoff Goodman and King Schofield won in the semi-finals, thereby closed out the tournament and were declared double champions.
The tournament held at Kansas State Teacher's College, in Emporia, Kan., was the first of the year for national qualifying, and has been won by USC for two consecutive years. Both of the winning
teams qualified to compete at the National Debate Tournament to be held at the University of Utah in April.
Despite the magnitude of the victory at Emporia, the success of the debaters was not limited to one tournament. In the first major tournament for western schools, the Trojan team of Brad Ziff and M i c h e a 1 Higelin defeated Whittier College in the finals to win the second-annual Sacramento State Invitational Tournament.
The victories on Saturday meant that USC remained undefeated in invitational
Noon concert features 1971 Songfest winners
Buster and the Penetrators, last year’s sweepstakes winners at Songfest, will play Wednesday at noon on the Student Activi-tes Center patio.
Terry Tabor, “Buster” in the group, said his all-USC group started early last year as a casual singing get-together after a basketball game. They had such a good time that they decided to form a group and play at parties.
The group, which started with five Stonier Hail residents, has since grown to ten members, including one girl.
debate tournaments this year, winning all three of the tournaments thus far.
Success, however, is nothing new to Trojan debaters. They have qualified for the National Debate Tournament for the last ten years, and for 22 of the 25 years in which it has been held — more often than any other college or university.
The double victory also continued a personal string for the director of debate, John DeBross. DeBross has now qualified at least one team for the National Debate Tournament in each of the 9 years he has coached at USC. DeBross has coached his teams to 115 tournament championships. He was recently voted one of two coaches of the decade by his colleagues.
The national tournament will be nothing new to the two teams that qualified at Emporia. Goodman and Schofield competed in 1970 while Palmieri and Winston placed fifth at the tournament last season.
Mannes rejects appeal; runoff still in question
Robert Mannes, dean for student life, has rejected an appeal made to the university administration to intercede in the freshman representative runoff controversy.
His refusal to consider the appeal may give the ASSC executive council final responsibility to settle the question of Bob Glushon’s eligibility.
Glushon has been charged by the ASSC elections commission with overspending campaign funds, but the Student Court acquitted Glushon of the charge at about 1:30 Friday morning.
The elections commission then appealed the court’s ruling to Mannes. He made the decision not to consider the appeal Friday and announced it Monday.
Mannes did recommend that the Executive Council consider the case, however, and the council may deal with the controvesy— including malfeasance of office charges against court—at their next meeting, 5 p.m., Thursday.
Offices decision withheld by Student Union Board
The Student Union Board voted last night after hearing final appeals from groups contesting for the limited office space on the third floor of the Student Union. However, the board refused to make public its decisions until this morning.
New developments at the meeting were that the Asian-Americans had withdrawn their request for office space yesterday, and that the ASSC had requested an additional room to be shared by its Executive Council and Student Court.
Three spokesmen for MECHA briefly clarified their group’s stand on minor details of its tutorial project but otherwise let its case stand.
The other groups who briefly pleaded their cases were Songfest, BSU and the Indian Students’ Association. PROBE was not represented but was still in contention for an office.
“The decisions we make tonight will be final,” Gary Wayland, chairman of the Student Union Board, said. “Tomorrow we will notify Dean (Robert) Mannes of our decisions and they will be released through him.”
Last night’s meeting was the last in a series of meetiugs and hearings that started a week ago Monday after MECHA took over the third floor of the Student Union Building in protest of being denied office space.
Alcoholics helped at detoxification center
By MARILYN MERRITT
He who drinks, gets drunk;
He who gets drunk, goes to sleep;
He who goes to sleep, does not sin;
He who does not sin, goes to Heaven.
So let’s all drink and go to Heaven.
This humorous proverb on the wall of Ward 10300 in the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center hangs in sharp contrast to the living hell of the men and women who are patients there. These patients are alcoholics being detoxified in the Alcoholism Detoxification Unit.
The unit began operation about three years ago when doctors realized that 30 to 40% of the patients being admitted to the center were alcoholics, said Dr. Basil Clvman, chief physician of the unit. “There was a need for a special ward to free other beds,*' he said.
Typically, after passing out somewhere. patients are brought in by the police. This is luck, because about three to four hours after their last drink, delirium tremors, commonly known as the D.T.'s. set in. Characterized by profuse perspiring, shakiness and hallucinations, the D.T.'s are to alcohol what withdrawal is to drugs.
Helping ease the withdrawal period with a mild tranquilizer is the main concern in the detoxification unit. Before this service was available. “You d just end up on the street, crazy with sickness to suffer it out." said one patient.
Patients also drink juices to combat dehydration as a result of vomiting and diarrhea, and are examined closely for heart and liver ailments and for injuries caused by falls.
Detoxification requires about 24 hours, and after about three days the alcoholics are discharged.
But discharged to what? Other drinking binges that will lead back to Ward 10300 or eventually to the graveyard?
Hopefully .not, for even though there is no cure for alcoholism, the outpatient clinic of the detoxification unit provides ’ help for staying away from the bottle.
As a physical motivation, patients take the drug antabuse. which makes them violently ill if they drink alcohol. As Dr. Clyman explained, in the system, alcohol first breaks down to acetaldehvde, a harmful chemical similar to formaldehyde.
“Normally there are enzymes to break that down immediately to another substance, but antabuse makes it stay ace-taldehyde. Nausea and headaches result. which make the patient sick-sick if he swallows a drink." he said.
This motivation is supplemented with weekly group therapy sessions in which alcoholics substitute each other for the bottle by discussing their problems.
For alcoholics <well on their way to rehabilitation, the detoxification unit also provides vocational counseling through the Human Resources Agency.
“But we can't really force a patient to accept rehabilitation unless he accepts his need for a change," says Dr. Carl Schroder, medical social worker for the unit who speaks to new patients about the available opportunities. “Most of them do not, because when an alcoholic becomes sober, he misleads himself into thinking he can just stay sober." he said.
One elderly patient, for example, said he had just been admitted for a fall. Had he been drinking? “Oh no,” he declared. his bony hands trembling. His was the typical reaction of a first-timer. He did not consider himself an alcoholic and was not ready for rehabilitation.
Remarks from old-timers on the ward revealed a different attitude. “I’ve been' an alcoholic for 21 years and it's ruined my life,” said one man. “Eight or 10 years ago, I found I couldn’t control my drinking, and I've since lost every job.”
“And I've been drinking for the past 30 years,” another one added. “I’ve gone through I don't know how many businesses. three marriages, five children. Why do I drink? God. I wish I knew,” he shuddered.
The 20 to 25 alcoholics admitted to the Medical Center every day though, are just a small number out of the estimated 15 million alcoholics in America.
Within that group, the percentage of young people is rising. “Many of the young alcoholics are on other drugs too, like speed, they use alcohol to come down.** Dr. Clyman explained. “Besides, more and more people are being introduced to alcohol at a young age. he added. “It s cheap, it's fast: it s around."
However. Dr. Clyman feels that the reason so many people come to use the bottle to resolve their problems is because alcohol has become such an ingrained part of our culture.
Citing such things as cocktails over the business lunch and cocktail parties, he said. “Almost every mode of social interaction is aided with alcohol. People don't know what it is to greet each other without being half gassed."
Thus, many of the alcoholics are not on skid row as is commonly believed, but are running businesses, teaching and making more than $20,000 a year, said Dr. Clyman. “They can get away with it, because alcohol is such a great thing.” he said.
Only when people start receving negative reactions to their drinking instead of approval will the social drinking pattern change, Dr. Clyman feels. “If. for example, you go on a date and your date gets drunk, you should get angry, he declared.
The important thing for everyone to remember, especially young people who are just being introduced to alcohol, is that alcoholism can happen to anybody.
Warning signs of alcoholism as listed by Dr. Clyman include needing a drink to clam nerves, to get started in the morning and to relate to other people.
As a 30-year alcoholic veteran put it. “When I was young I wouldn't have given up drinking for anything. Now I really can't stop."