Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Gaining Knowledge Alan came home from school, his mother had been drinking. She picked a fight and he argued back. Then she started beating him with a broom. Trying to fend off his mother he dialed his dad s work number. When his dad heard all the commotion, he yelled into the receiver, don't worry she won't remember this in the morning. In an effort to help students become more knowledgeable about alcohol and its effects. The National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week held during the week of Oct. 16-22, focused on safe drinking. Programs were organized that contained ideas on Alcohol and Cocaine, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Women and Alcohol, Helping Someone Who Doesn’t Want Help. and When is Alcohol a Problem?” Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA'S) focused on children whose parents were alcoholics. Information sheets were handed out. The sheets talked about support groups on and off campus, additional reading material and characteristics of ACOA'S. Some characteristics of ACOA'S were they guessed at what normal is. they had difficulty following a project through from beginning to end, they lied when it would be just as easy to tell the truth, they judged themselves without mercy, they had difficulty with intimate relationships, they overreacted to changes over which they had no control, they constantly sought approval and affirmation, they usually felt different from other people, they were either super responsible or super irresponsible and they were extremely loyal even if the loyalty was undeserved. Helping someone who doesn't want help focused on intervention. It was said that people won't get help until they hit the bottom. Intervention created a higher bottom, so the person hit the bottom sooner. The Alcohol Awareness Week was sponsored by the OSCJ Student Health Center, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Office of Housing and Residence Programs. In the past, OSG has won several awards of merit for their programming during the National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. —Cindy Stoorr Alicdndi Awareness KcM M John Copp, a prominent speaker at an Alcohol Awareness rfcscussion. makes students and the community aware of ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics). University Health professor David Phelps explains the characteristics of adult chidrcn of alcoholics ALCOHOL AWARENESS 25

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Krtf i HutU A Remembrance The Military Industrial Complex and Eisenhower Conference examined the 1961 warning by President Dwight D. Eisenhower about the potentially damaging link between the military, industrial and educa tional institutions in our society. Johan Galtung. professor of conflict and peace research at the University of Oslo in Norway, stated that the U.S. political discourse is not adequate to the task of peace. Two reasons were the United States inability to confront the possibility of economic difference and their inability to see their own exception-alism as a problem. Galtung related a reason the United States is failing to possess a non aggressive defense that will pose a visible threat to other countries. The U.S. discourse of economics is a very unhealthy discourse from a peace point of view. remarked Galtung. David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, chose not to speak on the military-industrial conference itself, but rather on the circumstances behind his grandfathers farewell warning. I think it’s important to remember that Dwight Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech was a farewell. said Eisenhower. This is not the kind of perspective necessarily that someone entering power would offer. There may be a conflict between the effectiveness and the philosophical aspects of his speech. The warnings concerning the military-industrial complex were almost outweighed by the warnings aimed at preventing the scientific technological lead in capturing control of public poli- cy. explained Eisenhower. Also speaking at the conference were Seymour Melman. professor emeritus of industrial engineering at Columbia University, and Paul Olum, president of the University of Oregon, who worked on the development of the atomic bomb in the 1940 s. The conference was a part of the Ava Helen Pauling Lectureship for World Peace. The lectureship was established at OSU in 1982 in honor of Pauling, a graduate of OSU and wife of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. The lectureship brought speakers recognized for their efforts in promoting world peace or related concerns. Johan Galtung was a really inspiring speaker. said Becky Brice. I was looking around and people were just enthralled. He was speaking with us. not at us. The conference attempted to answer such questions as the extent industry influences the military, the extent the military influences industry, the extent the military-industrial complex influences education and the rest of society and the alternative understanding of security. national budgeting and the structure of defense. Cosponsoring the three-day conference with Westminister House were the Pauling Peace Lectureship and the Du-bach Distinguished Lectureship. Previous lecturers in the series include Linus C. Pauling. Paul C. Warnke. Helen M. Caldicott. George W. Ball. John Kenneth Galbraith and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. —Qmfy Jtwf Steve Johnson. Mke Kopetski. Cynthia Wooten and Dr Clifford Trovv discuss ' Political Realties ot a Military-Industrial Economy m the MU Ballroom Adjusting his glasses. David Eisenhower answers questions from the Gazette-Times MILITARY LECTURE 27