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■**••*—THi NORTH TIXAS DAILY
Tuesday, Saptambar 18,1873
Counseling Center Eases Weight
Of Students ’ Personal Problems
the psychology department. A minority
counsel has also recently been added to the
staff.
“The problems we see are comprised of
personal frustrations, which make up about
30 per cent of our work, vocational counsel-
ing and marital problems. Marital prob-
lems are increasing quite a bit,” Dr. Dilley
said.
BECAUSE OF the rise in marriage
problems at a campus where a third of the
student body is married, the center has be-
gun a group studies program under the
leadership of Dr. Tom Overton, assistant
director. The program includes encounter
groups and group discussion. There is also
audio lab material available to couples if
they desire.
The confusion over a college major and
decisions regarding one’s future plans are a
great concern to students. The center con-
sequently uses an array of testing devices to
help students choose a direction.
The tests include the Graduate Record
Examination, National Teacher Examina-
tion and the College Level Examination
Program tests for advanced standing.
“WE DON’T make value judgements
here, rather it is an attempt at helping the
student see the reason why he or she cannot
become adjusted well,” said Dr. Mary
Elmendorf, a counseling psychologist.
“Many times we are faced with the ex-
By JACK FLANDERS
Special Writer
The words continually attempted to sur-
face through the clouds. “Give me your
tired, your poor...” The rest remains there
in New York Harbor on the big iron lady’s
scroll. There should be a plaque on the wall
here that reads something like that. Per-
haps, give me your tired, your frustrated,
your sincerely confused.
For those who fall into these categories
and for all who find North Texas something
less than a continuous keg party, the Coun-
seling Center can become, and often is, a
silver lining in the sometimes dark cloud of
academia.
Unfortunately, few students realize the
purpose of the center or even know it exists.
HOWEVER, DR. Terrell Dilley, direc-
tor of the center, cited figures that suggest
an optimistic outlook.
“In 1970, when 1 first came to North
Texas, we worked with less than 300 stu-
dents. In the 1972-1973 school year we had
over 1,300 cases which figures out to be a
500 per cent increase. This is still reaching
only 10 per cent of the student population.”
When Dr. Dilley arrived on campus, he
was the only counselor available to stu-
dents. The Counseling Center now em-
ploys seven doctoral interns who work an
average of 15 hours a week. Six of these are
from counseling education and one is from
Requirement Valid
Language Has
Its Supporters
As long as students complain about foreign language requirements, they
should also complain about political science requirements, American history
requirements and income tax requirements.
Requirements, alas, are here to stay and there seems to be no escaping
them. Since students are assumed not to have the intelligence or maturity to
take those courses that are “benneficial,” “they” make up a game plan for
giving the best of all possible educations.
And the first two years of college are spent in the invigorating, thought-
provoking activities of memorizing facts that will lead to a new understand-
ing of foreign cultures like Lophophora williamsii, the Puritans and our own
political system.
While two years of college-level foreign language courses cannot be ex-
pected to make a student a professional translator, neither can two semes-
ters of biology make a biologist of him. Two semesters of history won’t pro-
duce a group of historians and two semesters of political science can’t pre-
pare one for a career in that field. No one has claimed that they will.
The point of these requirements actually is to give students a broad educa-
tion. If any one of them fails to do so, they must all fail. Concentrating on
the foreign language requirement as the sole culprit is patently unfair.
The aim of these requirements may be to circumvent a “specialization” of
knowledge in the society or merely to help defray the costs of each depart-
ment and perhaps neither goal is valid. But to knock one requirement and
none of the others is to invalidate the argument against requirements by
sounding like mere sour grapes.
The foreign language requirement is not a state requirement and on-cam-
pus pressure might at least result in the administration looking into the
question. Political science and American history are state requirements and
would require state-wide pressure to be re-evaluated.
Actually, the foreign language requirement is not that far off base. No,
two years of foreign language won’t help anyone negotiate a world peace
treaty and it may not give any insight to the mother tongue, but if the United
States had a second-language requirement from grade school through high
school, as do many foreign countries, perhaps the citizens could deal with
the fact that there are other languages in the world. There are some 300 peo-
ple on campus who have taken the trouble to learn a second language the
foreign students on campus. It can’t be asking too much of the Ugly Ameri-
cans to do the same
GAIL GILMORE
The North Texas Daily
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tremely bright student who only needs psy-
chological support to accomplish what he
or she is pursuing,” she continued.
The Counseling Center refers many stu-
dents to the University Hospital for psy-
chiatric help. The working psychiatrist
there often sends students to the center for
the aid they can receive through a counsel-
ing program.
The personal problems the counselors are
faced with induce the closest interaction be-
tween student and counselor.
“The ‘system’ is producing a negative
reaction in our student body here and else-
where,” Dr. Dilley explained.” They are
tired of being merely Social Security num-
bers and want to interact with each other
more freely than their counterparts of the
1950s and 1960s.
“SEXUAL FREEDOM is one aspect of
this yearning for more open lines of com-
munications with each other. The rise in
religious sects will continue to rise because
of this also,” he said.
Dr. Dilley believes this revolution in
morality is not going to have an entirely
geneficial effect on the young person, stu-
dent or not.
“Womens Lib is putting pressure on the
male who was insecure with women in the
first place,” he said. “Consequently there
will probably continue to be a rise in homo-
sexuality on college campuses. The young
person who is tired of competing with
others is a very frustrated person. Hope-
fully, we can help these people find a direc-
tion and see that he or she is not perfect or
infallable. We don’t ‘baby’ them but help
them accept their mistakes and let them
know they are people and not merely num-
bers in a computer,” Dr. Dilley com-
mented.
LEGALIZED ABORTION has brought
to the center a certain type of young woman
who is unique to earlier college years.
“For the girl who is going through post-
abortion, many times things seem closed
to her at every turn,” he said. “Although
before the abortion took place she might
have considered herself a very stable per-
son, certain guilt feelings inevitably creep
in and the girl feels as if she has sinned to
such a degree that she cannot be accepted
by society again.
“We don't tell her everything is going to
be all right and pat her on the hand but
rather attempt to get her to face herself and
what has happened. Then, hopefully, she
can find direction,” Dr. Dilley said.
The Counseling Center is located on
the second floor of Terrill Hall on Syca-
more Street. The center awaits those with
the insight to go and “spill their guts.” It’s
not a crying towel or necessarily a quick
solution, but it does help students find al-
ternatives that are invaluable.
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Problem Solving Session
Dr. Terrell Dilley, director of the Counseling Center, converses with one of
the many North Texas students who have personal problems of some kind.
These problems can range from general frustration to an inability to deal
with peers. The center is located in Room 225A of Terrill Hall.
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Terry Box
k Jesus, Elvis Presley Provide Escape
* As Opiates For The Realities of Life
Sweet Jesus and dusty nostalgia—spiri-
tual cure-alls to soothe a nation of Water-
gate-battered Americans, mild depressants
for a country clattering toward a collective
nervous breakdown. Sipping religion with
out meat-free meals, we thumb through
yellowed copies of Life magazine, searching
vainly for a glimpse of the security and
smiles that disappeared with the Eisenhow-
er era.
Not that I have anything against the
Bible or bobby socks. Both have their al-
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Law Makes
Tie-Downs
Mandatory
HARLINGEN (AP)—More than 50
per cent of the mobile homes in hurricane-
prone South Texas are not adequately tied
down, an official of the Texas Mobile
Home Association estimates.
W.R. Keyes of McAllen, vice-chairman
of the association, said in an interview the
situation will improve by next hurricane
season because of a law passed earlier this
year requiring tie-downs for all new mobile
home installations in Texas.
THOUSANDS OF South Texans reside
in mobile homes and many others use them
at beach resorts along the Gulf of Mexico
from Brownsville to Galveston.
The law was passed as a result of an
estimated $18 million damage to mobile
homes in the Corpus Christi area alone
when Hurricane Celia slammed ashore
there in August 1970, Keyes said
The association scheduled a meeting
Austin Sept. 20 to approve specifications
for statewide tie-down requirements.
Under the new law, all mobile homes
installed in the first two counties along the
gulf coast must be tied down to withstand
hurricane force winds of 75 miles per hour.
All other mobile homes in the state must be
tied down securly enough to withstand gale
force winds of 39-54 m.p.h.
KEYES SAID the law will not regulate
mobile homes now in place although all
insurance companies require tie-downs for
mobile homes located in the first tier of
counties along the Gulf of Mexico.
A tie-down adequate to meet insurance
requirements and the state law cost about
$125-5175, Keyes said. Insurance com-
panies inspect each tie-down before issuing
insurance. Keyes noted that all mortgaged
mobile homes must be insured and thus
tied down to meet pending company re-
quirements.
Mobile homeowners who wait until a
tropical storm or hurricane pops up in the
Gulf of Mexico before getting insurance are
just “out of luck,” a Harlingen mobile
home dealer said.
HE NOTED that insurance companies
suspend the sale of such insurance from the
time a storm is designated until 24 hours
after the all-clear is issued.
Keyes said many mobile home part op-
erators require that all homes within the
park be tied down.
The cost of the tie-down was cited by
Keyes as the factor keeping many persons
from anchoring their mobile homes.
lotted niches in our fad-hungry society.
But taken in large doses, both seem to have
a numbing effect on our sense of outrage.
We are gently rocked into apathy by the
sounds of the Platters and the reassuring
words of Billy Graham.
MAYBE THE foundation-jolting ’60s,
with their barrage of assassinations, demon-
strations, bombings, the Vietnam war and
racial conflicts have beaten us into a weary
state of shock. Being constantly prodded to
give a damn about this movement or that
crusade, we seem to have exhausted our
supply.
Enter the nostalgia craze and Jesus
freaks, nonmovements custom-tailored for
the tired '70s. The involvement, frustration
and bitter disappointment of previous
movements are not a part of today’s pop-
crazes. Instead of having to grapple with an
uncertain present, we wallow in the dull
’50s or worship the clean stability of the
Bible.
It’s easy to get lost in the past, a time,
we are told, when the air was free from
smog, the government was lily-white and
Ike could do no wrong. High-schoolers got
gloriously drunk on Saturday night, but
carted their hangovers to church on Sun-
day. Sock hops and Elvis Presley reigned
supreme, young men enthusiastically joined
the army or college fraternities and women
pursued only husbands or home economics.
Businessmen were respected and the police
were friendly uniformed men who brought
lost children home.
IT’S EVEN easier to get lost in the Bi-
ble. The pure, flowing phrases of the “Good
Book” and its assurance to the faithful of
life eternal are anesthesia to a society
gripped with insecurity. Enveloping our-
Feedback
selves with religion gives us some place to
rest.
Being a skeptic, 1 have only my type-
writer to hide behind. And the big, bad
world was still starving, stabbing, smoking
and blasting itself into oblivion, the last I
saw. If resurrecting the past or awaiting a
utopian future could cure the present, we'd
probably all be religiously nostalgic.
But it just doesn’t work that way.
Reality is a drought in Africa and Elmer
Wayne Henley; it shakes us with earth-
quakes and poisons us with smog. Reality
is cancer and diabetes, gasoline shortages
and high interest rates. Reality is drug
addiction, crime, racism, poverty, urban
decay and most of all, it is life today.
Like getting high on a lazy Sunday after-
noon, escaping into religion or the 1950s
may be therapy for our frazzled nerves. But
Monday morning is still inevitable.
Bored Sailor Requests Letters
From Intelligent College Women
SKSN Duke Mosteller, 174-40-4678, USS
Kalamazoo (AOR-6) S-l Division FPO New
York, New York 09501
Dear Sir:
I am writing in hope that your paper and
students will be able to help me in my fight
against lack of mail. This dread disease
hits most servicemen very hard and such a
thing shouldn't have to be borne by any of
us, especially those out at sea for six months
at a time. So, therefore, I am writing to you
in the hope that some of your intellectual
females will drop me a few lines to help take
some of the daily bore off my shoulders and
cheer me up.
My name is Duke Mosteller and I’m a
24-year-old single male in the U.S. Navy. I
stand 5 feet 10 and weight 145 pounds, with
brown hair and green eyes. At present, I
am stationed on board the USS Kalama-
zoo, which is an oiler for the fleet. We will
be in Cuba for several months going
through many drills and such to get our
newly commissioned ship ready to serve the
fleet in every way. Some of my main in-
terests in life are: all sports, singing, danc-
ing, music, reading, living life to the fullest,
playing drums for a hard rock band, female
psychology, handwriting analysis, parties
and meeting new people.
I sincerely hope that you will print this
letter in your college newspaper, so that
many females will write to me and help
make my days a little less boring and lonely.
Thank you very much for your time and
cooperation.
Labella Prefers Idealism
To "Traffic's" Realism
John LaBella, Bruce Hall, B 302
To Scott Parks (re “Heavy Traffic”):
Since when has realism become such an
important criteria in determining the quali-
ty of a movie? Naive as I am, I was under
the opinion that any movie, if it were done
well, created its own reality and that this
reality was just as valid as the one outside
the theater. I thought that people went to
the movies to experience thoughts and feel-
ings that in their real lives they might not be
familiar with and that those experiences
would be of a generally beneficial nature,
self-understanding and self-improving
things like that.
When I took my kid brother to see
“Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs” a few
years back, the movie struck me strongly,
as it had the first time. Under that film’s
influence, for a few hours I was able to ex-
perience “really” idealistic love and ro-
mance. 1 left the theater cleaner, refreshed
and recommitted to helping people move
forward. You sound as if you left “Heavy
Traffic” depressed and cynical, but glad to
have your pessimistic opinions about life
reaffirmed.
The reason I am making so much of your
remarks is that, lately, I’ve been hearing
too many people, in criticizing a movie, say,
“It just wasn’t realistic, you know?” So
what? Does logic dictate such a necessity?
As far as I can tell, I would have left
“Heavy Traffic” feeling offended, disgusted
and bitter. In short, I would be useless to
anyone else and personally stagnant.
And finally, who are you to say what’s
real? Is your body more real than your
ethics. Is what is real half as important as
what should or will be here? Why should I
care how Ralph Bakshi lived .’ 1 do care how
he should have lived.
Note to the Daily staff: If you print this
letter (I hope you will) please do not edit it.
The style is already rambling- cut any part
of it and you’ll destroy it as you did my last
letter. Better not to print it than to ruin it.
Thanks.
Letter Policy
The North Texas Daily welcomes
and will print all letters from readers.
ALL letters must be signed. Because
of limited space, letters should not
exceed 200 words The Daily retains
the right to edit, if necessary, for
length and for libelous or obscene
material.
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