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University Psychology Clinic
treats students, community
By BILL DAVIS
Contributing Writer
Mention the University's Psy
chology Clinic, and dark visions of
Ken Kesey and Sigmund Freud
jump to mind. That isn’t even close
to the reality of the modern,
friendly facility.
Located on the bottom floor of
the Psychology Department, the
University’s Psychology Clinic
serves the community and student
body alike in a bright, clean,
friendly environment Monday
through Thursday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.,
and Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“We will see roughly 180 clients
a month with about 30 being stu
dents,” said Clinic Director Ste
phen Beach.
Just after winter holidays and
on key days during the quarter, the
clinic sees an increase in visits.
“Like around midterms and fi
nals there is an increase,” Beach
said.
The clinic uses a sliding scale to
determine charges. The most a
client will have to pay is $60 for an
hour of therapy. The least, as
suming the client’s income, is less
than $300 a month and has 10
family members, is $5.
‘The clinic generates between 80
and 85 percent of its monies from
services rendered," said Beach.
Psychology Department Head
Roger Thomas said, “In addition to
the $6,090 in state funding allo
cated to the clinic by the Univer
sity, the clinic also receives from
the University three full-time and
one part-time secretaries, and
services from Physical Plant.”
Psychology graduate students
pursuing doctorates are therapists,
with faculty as supervisors.
“Some of the staffers carry a
bigger client load — say five to six
instead of three to four — than do
others,” said Leslie Love, clinic
therapist and assistant.
‘The faculty acts as advisors in
court cases,” Love said. “Only
rarely will the faculty supervisor
step in and intervene.”
The client pool ranges from
young children to the geriatric.
‘There is some overlap with
other mental health facilities in
the area, but we seem to be more
diversified than most of the other
clinics on campus. We also have
faculty that specialize. For ex
ample, one of the faculty special
izes in sexual offenders,”said
Beach.
“Here at the clinic, we use the
Freudian tradition of analysis,”
Love said. “Whereas some of the
other mental health facilities in
the area don’t."
The clinic hasn’t been without
drama.
“The clinic had a client involved
in a murder a few years ago,”
Beach said. “He had made
statements about hurting another
person, he was hospitalized, and
after hospitalization never re
sumed treatment with the clinic.
Presumably it was due to the hos
pitalization.”
Despite the bleak week of exams that lies ahead,
Julie Laird, a junior art education major, is getting
ready for the holidays. She did up her door in
Payne Hall to share a little holiday cheer.
Dieticians give tips to avoid freshmen fifteen
By MICHELLE DIAMOND
Contributing Writer
Many freshman come to col
lege with the attitude of broa
dening their horizons. However,
what they don’t realize is that
they also stand a chance of broa
dening their waistlines — partic
ularly in the first two auarters.
“Freshmen usually gain
weight because they've left their
structured environment,” said
Sloan Cagle, a senior dietetics
major working in practicum with
Marie Castagna, a nutritionist at
the Gilbert Health Center.
Competition is another reason
for freshman weight gain, Cagle
said. Adjusting to the stress of
new competitiveness causes
freshmen to overeat.
“Alcohol has a lot to do with
weight intake,” she said. “When
one drinks more than he eats, the
excess is stored as adipose tissue,
which is fat.”
Another problem some
freshmen experience is devel
oping an eating disorder.
According to studies, approxi
mately 25 percent of University
women are bulimic.
Late night food, more freedom,
studying and the availability of
vending machines are other
causes for freshman weight gain.
“Whenever I would go to the
meal hall 1 would always go back
up for second and third helpings,"
said one University student who
gained 12 pounds her freshman
year. She requested anonymity.
“Also if I was up late at night
studying for a test 1 would always
order late night food.”
To avoid such habits, Cagle
suggests students eat more fresh
fruits and vegetables and stay
away from sugar and soft drinks,
she said. She also suggests main
taining a balanced diet as much
as one can.
“Many students think that be
cause diet drinks don’t contain
sugar they won’t gain weight, but
that isn’t true,” Cagle said. “Diet
drinks contain other ingredients
that make people gain weight.”
She also recommends a better
application of nutrition
guidelines in order to stay
healthy.
Safe Campuses Now
preventing crime by
promoting awareness
Student staff helps Tate Center run smoothly
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
Take a stroll through the Tate
Student Center on any given day
and you are bound to see them.
Even if you don’t talk to them, you
see them.
Actually, it’s impossible not to
see them. They wear red everyday.
No, they’re not members of a
communist student group trying to
take over the University, but
they’re the students who help
make the Tate Student Center op
erate smoothly each day.
The red-vested staff is a diverse
bunch, but they all work together
to do one job.
Walking through the center, the
first thing a visitor notices is the
information desk at the north wall.
Every morning, five days a week,
Tim Keane will be there.
Coordinating events like Earthweek is a duty of Tate
Center student-employees.
Keane, a sophomore history
major, started working at the desk
in September and said the job of
manning the “info desk” is full of
tasks.
The duties include preparing
rooms at the center for organiza
tional meetings, putting up posters
about meetings and events, and
giving out general information
about campus events, he said.
Despite having to do these
things, and sometimes more,
Keane said he likes his job.
“It’s really a good place to work,”
he said.
Co-worker Nona Allen, a
freshman pre-journalism mtyor,
agrees that the job can be relaxing
until she receives a strange or un
usual request.
Allen had an older alumnus ask
that a lost and found request sheet
be made out for the hearing aid he
lost at a football game.
“He lost it in Sanford Stadium. I
couldn’t tell him that he would
f >robably never find it," she said,
aughing.
Keane said dumb questions are
asked all day, every day —but
there is one in particular that gets
on his nerves.
“We have people call and ask
what time the midnight movie
starts,” he said.
Vince Abrams, a sophomore bi
ology major, said working at the
center means one good thing —
seeing different people come and go
everyday.
“You meet and see a lot of dif
ferent people here," he said.
Donna Talley, a junior
hotel/restaurant administration
major, works at the information
desk in addition to ushering at par
ties and lectures in the Tate
Center.
“It’s a job that’s helped me meet
a lot of my friends,” she said.
Talley has been working at the
center for a year and a half.
Most students move around
from job to job as they are needed
so that all duties are covered. Some
workers schedule classes inbet-
ween shifts, she said.
The Office of Student Affairs is
in charge of Tate Center opera
tions, and the student jobs fall into
its activities list. Most students
who work there are placed through
work study, Talley said.
Working at the Student Center
can also be a family affair. Sisters
Anne and Allison Lowery, a junior
environmental health science major
and a geology major, were hired in
the summer and continued to work
into the fall. Both give the people
they work with credit for making
their jobs fun.
Anne works at the message
center, taking phone calls for stu
dent organizations. She calls the
people she works with “a great
Dunch of young people.”
Jeff Igo, a junior finance mqjor,
does something a little different
from most of the students who
work at the Tate Center. Instead of
working directly out front, he’s be
hind the scenes in the Student Af
fairs banking office.
Igo said his duties include deliv
ering checks and handling ticket
sales at the Tate Theater.
He said the jobs he and other
students do are “essential.”
“I’m contributing to the process
of a big operation,” he said.
Igo said he can’t remember a bad
experience working at the office,
and it’s better than working at K-
Mart.
By ANGELA HORNSBY
Staff Writer
A little over two-and-a-half
years ago, Dana Getzinger fought
for her life after a brutal stabbing
attack by a University student in
her off-campus apartment.
Now Getzinger, a senior commu
nications major, is fighting for the
rights of other victims through
Safe Campuses Now.
The non-profit organization,
started by her parents in Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla., in April,
1988, was initially created to help
pass the Clery bill, which made it
mandatory for schools to report
crime statistics on campus, she
said.
The University is the first school
in the nation to receive a prototype
of the group, whose purpose is to
increase crime awareness, she
said.
“I realize that there iB a
problem,” she said. “Students come
to college with a false sense of secu
rity.”
SCN is divided into three parts:
Students Against Campus Crime,
Parents Against Campus Crime
and Businesses Against Campus
Crime, she said.
She wants to implement two
programs: a safety house-rating
system which would rate apart
ment complexes on a scale of one to
10 and a crime watch publication
that would compile crime reports
and indicate where high crime
areas are.
Georgia House, a senior organi
zation management mqjor and par
ticipant in the project, said she
stands behind Getzinger’s efforts.
“I’ve known other friends that
have been victims of crime,” she
said. “Someone needs to speak out
about it.”
Getzinger said she also plans to
sell safety kits to students.
She said the kits will contain
such items as an air horn, mace
and a wedge device equipped with
an alarm.
Long-term goals of the organiza
tion include providing a course for
students about crime and a fund
raising contest for fraternities and
sororities, she said.
“Whoever raised the most
money, we would pay for their
house security,” she said.
Ultimately, Getzinger said she
wants the organization to go na
tionwide.
However, she said the group’s
main emphasis right now is raising
money.
“We’re trying to find a corporate
sponsor,” she said.
Getzinger said the program has
received support from the Athens
Police Department, the University
administration, student organiza
tions like the Student Government
Association and the community as
a whole.
“We’ve been swamped with let
ters. Parents have sent donations,”
she said.
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