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The Red and Black Thursday, Sept. 24, 1970
HAIR LOSS?
'Sensitivity' begins
By SHARYN KANE
Associate news editor
A series of programs offer
ing individuals an opportunity
to select and participate in ac
Uvities concerned with under
standing will be conducted
this quarter under the sponsor
ship of thr Mental Health Divi
sion of the University Health
Services.
Dr Fred Axelberd psycholo
gist at the Health Services and
coordinator of the program
describes the new series as
Awake Growth
Axelberd said the program
grew from experiences last
year with students and faculty
We decided there was enough
interest on the part of students
to provide a group experience
that would concentrate on Uae
positive's of growth he said
AWAKK GROWTH, he said
is designed to offer members of
theUniversity community op
portunities for expanding and
enhancing personal and social
sensitivity, sensory awareness,
vitality and growth
When deciding upon how a
community shall live, values
must he proposed, discussed,
integrated with function, and
evaluated for relevance and
effectiveness, the 27-year-old
psychologist explained
What is frustrating for
many college students is that
they recognize a tendency of
institutions of higher education
to disregard and devalue* indi
vidual needs and personal de
velopment. in spite of adminis
trative proclamations to the
contrary "
Last year six "Growth
Groups" were sponsored by the
Mental Health Division of the
Health Service Axelberd led
these groups which 55 people
attended Dr Phillip Lewis of
the University Psychology Clin
ic led a group of 16 along with
Axelberd
"Thus far. research conduct
ed concerning the effects of
these groups on the self con
cepts of participants is encour
aging.” Axelberd said "[Essen
tially. growth group partici
pants exhibited significant
improvement on various scales
measuring facts of self con
cept ’
Growth groups can be com
pared to encounter groups and
sensitivity groups, he said
There has been an emergence
and proliferaton of various
group procedures associated
with humanistic or third force
psychology The encounter or
growth group experience is fast
becoming a contemporary hap
pening on many American
campuses
“INTERPERSONAL com
mumcation among members in
a growth group would ideally be
characterized by openness,
honesty, communication on the
level of hox feelings, and be fo
cused on the here and now,
rather than on the past or the
future "
Three series of Sense Aware
ness Sessions will be* held this
quarter. These sessions are
'•oneemed with expanding and
sharpening a person's ability to
release, relax, refresh' and
keenly experience and under
stand his sensory-reality," Ax-
leberd stated
A complete series of the ses
sions involves five one-hour
meetings An introduction to
the Awake Growth program,
these meetings are designed
for a large group of 50 to 100
people Axelberd stressed that
attendance at the first session
of the senes does not obligate
anyone to complete the entire
senes
The Growth groups meet for
about 12 hours during one day
Ten to 16 people are involved in
the group which is aimed at
facilitating personal develop
ment. authenticity and expand
ed awareness of self and oth
ers "
EMPHASIS IS on the present
rather than on analyzing past
problems and personal histo
ries. the psychologist said "It
is desirable that individuals
who wish to participate in
Growth groups have prior expe
rience and involvement with
the Sense Awareness Ses
sions." Axleberd said
Another aspect of the pro
gram is organized consultation
"Awake will provide consulta
tion services for organizations
such as fraternities, sororities,
and clubs which are interested
in planning growth type pro
grams with the intent of im
proving their group effective
ness. cohesivene«s. interper
sonal member sensitivity, and
other areas of organizational
life."
Instructional consultation
will be available tc faculty
members Since Awake is a
program primarily concerned
with growth, development, and
personal education. Axelberd
said, "it is important that crea
tive programming be offered to
instructors and instructional
units.”
"FACULTY MEMBERS will
be encouraged to utilize Awake
consultants and hopefully this
will yield unique, imaginative,
and relevant learning experi
ences to those involved '
Consultants for Awake are:
Dr Wally Ends, associate pro
fessor of Curriculum Dr Phil
lip Lewis. assistant professor
of Psychology; Dr. Phillip
Moyer, assistant professor of
Counseling and Student Person
nel Services; Dr Waltraut
Stein, assistant professor of
Philosophy and the staff of the
Mental Health Division of the
Health Services
The first Sense Awareness
session will be Oct. 12 Regis
tration forms are available at
the Health Services or by call
ing Axelberd at 542-4715 Stu
dents. faculty, adminsitrators
and their spouses are eligible
for participation in all Growth
Program activities
Pot pollutes glands I
Pistols use drug darts
Seven mechanical engineer
ing students at Carnegie-Mel
Ion College in Pennsylvania
have designed a "non-lethal"
dart gun to replaee the police
man s pistol
The plan calls for a modified
357-magnum revolver that
(ires a special three and three-
fourths-inch. (intailed drug
dart whose needle is encased
until impact
The dar reportedly has been
tested successfully up to 60 leet
using a thick paper barktop
The needle, encased in a metal
tube which is inside a plastic
outer covering, is released on
impact with a target
At least one national police
organization is interested in the
plan, and the dart gun and dart
designs have been sent to sev
eral de(ense contractors (or
consideration
SOT. JAMES HAU
Sgt. Hall
found dead
James Lowane Hall, a ser
geant on the University campus
security force, was found dead
floating in the Middle Oconee
River near Rambling Road
August 19 by three Athens'
youths on a raft
The coroner's jury has not
yet made a ruling in the death
of Sgt Hall as the state crime
lab in Atlanta has not returned
all of its findings to Clarke
County authorities
However, it has been deter
mined that Hall was wounded in
the back of the head by a small
calibre handgun Efforts to
locate the weapon have proved
fruitless thus far.
Hall, promoted to sergeant
in June, had been missing from
his home at 255 Beulah Ave
since Aug. 10
When found, Hall had on the
same clothes as he did when he
was last seen by his wife He
was carrying his billfold with
full identification, and his auto
mobile was found inthe Russell
Hall parking lot a week before
his body was recovered from
the river.
Smoking pot may lead to a
bad complexion or hair loss,
according to Dr Irwin K Lu-
bowe. a leading New York
dermatologist
Lubowe has found that a girl
who develops a bad case of
acne or a hippie who finds his
cherished lochs falling like au
tumn leaves are much less apt
to argue that drugs are benefi
cial.
The argument that pot smok
ing drugs are harmful to the
body may carry more weight
with young drug users than the
pleas of anxious parents and
public officials.
In a chapter written for a
new book. "A Teen-age Guide
to Healthy Skin an Hair," Dr.
Lubowe. addressing the young
writes:
"Regardless of what you
may have heard, drugs, includ
ing marijuana, do have specific
pharmacological effects on the
internal systems of the body as
well as on the skin and hair
In our own practice we have
seen more than 100 cases of
excessive hair loss among both
boys and girls
"ACNE ALSO IS caused by
drug use. particularly among
girls Why? Our research sug
gests that drugs affect the func
tion of the sebacedous glands
and the physiology of the hair
structure
"Recently a young girl visit
ed our office, frantic about her
severe loss of hair and exces
sive dandruff Her appearance
and her clothing were a mess
A college dropout, she was liv
ing in a communal pad in New
York's East Village When we
questioned her carefully, we
found she was a constant user
of pot. speed and bennies, a le
thal trio What could be done to.
save her hair, she begged 1
"We told her to stop taking-
all drugs immediately. We in-?
structed her on proper scalp.'
hygiene, prescribed a scalp ki-*
tion. an antiseborrheic sham
poo and vitamins taken inter-?
nally "
♦
DR. LUBOWE SAID it took
eight weeks to restore the girl's;
hair to normality
Another interesting case,"?
he wrote, "was the result of?
marijuana addiction The pa-;
tient. a movie actor in hie twen
ties. had suffered from severe
hair loss and dandruff for two
years. His face was blotched
and pimpled and his cheeks and .
back were covered with cysts ?
You ran gather he was not star
ring in anything at the moment ' -
Coke initiates program
for Fla. migrant workers
After an NBC television White-
paper report during the
summer, a great deal of atten
tion was directed to the plight
of the migratory workers in the
orange groves in Florida
Some of the nation's largest
companies were named as
being in violation of human
rights concerning their employ
ees in the groves The Coca-
Cola Company. Atlanta, one of
the prime targets of the report,
said recently that plans were in
action to alleviate the problems
of the migrant
The Coca-Cola Company
employs about i.000 migrant
workers to harvest fruit for the
^omgjn^^o^jvjsion^^uc^
produces Minute Maid Orange
Juice
COMPANY President J.
Paul Austin said in testmony to
a Senate Subcommittee on Mi
grant Labor that his company
is intiating a program designed
to help the migrants
The program includes full
time employment of the mi
grant to the degree possible:
improved housing and im
proved transportation to the
groves: health facilities, both
fixed and mobile, for service in
the field; improved recreation
al facilities; information cen
ters on local state and Federal
aid programs; and better Irols
for field work to simplify har-
vesting procedures.
"These men and their fami
lies have been too long neglect
ed by the entire nation in which
they live and work." Austin
said. "Only a massive and con
centrated effort by federal,
state and local government can
root out the subculture of pov
erty in which they barely sur
vive."
“WE ALL REALIZED that
if the Company's programs
were to be a success, it was
necessary that the migrant
workers themselves partici
pate in the development of
a solution to their own pro
blems." Austin continued
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