rsity October 18, 1982 Volume 60, Number 4
Violence at home
attacked by WRC
Cal Student Commission
to cut financial aid awards
Costs at both independent
and public California colleges
and universities have climbed
beyond the reach of state stu¬
dent aid programs.
This fall, for the first time in
26 years, the California Student
Aid Commission will be unable
to pay full fees for many of its
most needy Cal Grant recipients.
At independent colleges, aid
for students comparitively is in
even worse shape. The max¬
imum Cal Grant payment will
meet about 55% of this year’s
average tuition charge of $6,000.
Tuition at California’s indepen¬
dent colleges varies con-
INSIDE:
NEWS
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SPORTS
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OPINIONS
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FEATURES
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CLASSIFIEDS
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ENTERTAINMENT
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sidetably, ranging upmto
$7,000-$8,000 at some colleges.
The maximum Cal Grant tuition
award for independent college
students is $3,330 this year,
down $70 from last year’s
award.
According to Arthur S. Mar-
maduke, Commission Director,
in 1970, the Cal Grant tuition
award covered 100% of the
average tuition/fee charges at
the state’s independent schools,
but the difference has widened
steadily over the past ten years.
Public community college
students, who may qualify for a
subsistence grant from the Com¬
mission if they come from very
poor families, are taking a $25
cut in their $1,100 yearly Cal
Grant allotments.
In order to meet its 5% state
general fund budget cut, re¬
quired of all state agencies, the
Commission reduced grant aid
to students proportionally, from
$25 to $75 per student.
The Student Aid Commis¬
sion’s budget for Cal Grants is
$84,536,000 for the 1982-83 year
as opposed to $85,157,000 for
1981-82. With federal funding of
state student grants holding
steady this year at $11 million,
the overall budget reduction for
the agency is nearly 4%.
The Commission can only
award 62,462 Cal Grants (new
and renewal) for student finan¬
cial assistance annually, which
By SHERI KEE
The Women’s Resource
Center sponsored a lec¬
ture/discussion last week on
Domestic Violence. Bernita Mc¬
Clendon, of the Jenesse Center,
(a women’s shelter) was the
guest lecturer.
McClendon „herself a one-time
battered women, discussed at
length the problems of domestic
violence.
“Domestic violence usually
begins when there’s a lot of ten¬
sion in the relationship. It’ll start
as a nagging from men, such as
‘I wish you wouldn’t wear that’
etc. or and insecurity from
women, such as ‘where have you
been’. This tension continues
until it reaches the physical
limits.”
McClendon says many women
who grew up in households
where women were battered see
this as a sign of love. Likewise,
men growing in this atmosphere
accept battering as a way to
“keep women in line.” Because
of these prevailing attitudes,
domestic violence has been seen
"Loyolan photo by Paul Bernal as something the woman
brought on herself.
“Assualt is assualt. Man-
woman violence is a crime. If a
man hits another man it’s
assualt, but law enforcement in
the past usually ignored it. Now
there are special police to handle
assualt cases.”
In many studies of abuse
cases, there has been observa¬
tions of people taking on dif¬
ferent personalities. Abusers
themselves have reported “a
feeling taking over them” that
causes them to become abusive.
McClendon offers a spiritual
reason for this.
“It’s nobody but the devil.
Just like all those cartoons we’ve
seen, with an angel talking in
one ear and a devil talking in the
must be narrowed from the
105,337 students that applied
last year for these grants.
The Commission directs the
state’s financial assistance pro¬
grams for college and postsecon¬
dary vocational school students.
These programs include Cal
Grants, State Graduate
Fellowships, Bilingual Teacher
Grants, and the California
Guaranteed Student Loan Pro¬
gram.
other, life is the same way. I
know some people don’t believe
this but if the devil didn’t exist,
then why da you have people
worshipping him? His main goal
is to destroy us and he’s doing it
through our families, because
we’re not living the way God in¬
tended us to live. In most
families of domestic violence,
Christ wasn’t the center of their
lives.”
McClendon states the Jenesse
Center tries to deal with counsel¬
ing on both the spiritual (Chris¬
tian) level and psychological
level. She notes “not everybody
is ready to accept Christ” and
the Center does offer an alter¬
native. Individual and group
counseling are also offered for
men, women and children.
“Kids hear and see what’s go¬
ing on. Some will grow up and
swear they’ll never do what their
parents do, but because of learn¬
ed behavior and environment,
children from abusive homes will
themselves grow to become
abusive. Eighty to ninety percent
of the convicted felons were
themselves abused or saw their
parents abused.”
McClendon stressed the need
for everyone to become involved
in stopping domestic violence.
She urges those in domestic
violent situations to get counsel¬
ing and/or leave.
“We’ve got to take a stand,
speak out against this kind of
violence. If you have boyfriends
or girlfriends (friends) letting so¬
me one beat on them, stop
them. Urge married people to
get counseling. There are 19
shelters in the County of L.A.
We’ve got to address the pro¬
blem because domestic violence
affects all of us in one way or
another. When someone wants
to talk to you about it, don’t
close you ears, they, are /crying
for help.”
Campus Health Center battles
collegiate chicken pox cases
The Health Center has recent¬
ly seen several cases of chicken
pox. This is unusual for two
reasons. First, chicken pox is
usually a communicable disease
of young children. In fact,
94.5% of cases occur in the
5- to 9-year-old group. An in¬
cidence rate of less than 2.4% of
cases in the 20-year-old or older
group has been reported by the
Center for Disease Contol.
Secondly, chicken pox most fre¬
quently occurs in the winter and
spring months.
Chicken pox is characterized
by the development of vesicles
(small watery blisters) first on
the trunk and then spreading to
the face and extremities. There is
a succession of new crops of
vesicles in 3 to 5 days. The clear
vesicles become a pustule, then a
crusted lesion before dropping
off.
The disease occurs 10 to 14
days after exposure to another
person with active chicken pox
although it can occur up to 21
days. It cannot be spread by a
person who has already had the
disease. The period of infectivity
extends from 24 hours before
the eruption appears until pro¬
bably not more than six days
after the appearance of the first
crop of vesicles. There is a
special, expensive vaccine used
for already very ill people.
However, there is no vaccine
generally available to protect the
susceptible person and no treat¬
ment to lessen virulence.
The treatment for chicken pox
is entirely symptomatic. Besides
isoloation, the patient should
have bedrest and food as
tolerated and plenty of fluids. It¬
ching can be controlled either by
application of a lotion and/or
medication. Itching is more pro¬
minent during the healing stages.
If a fever is present, the patient
should take aspirin every 3-4
hours if the temperature is over
101 degrees. Cool showers will
reduce the itch and provide relief
from the fever.
Serious and rare complica¬
tions of chicken pox include
pneumonia and encephalitis. If
you have chicken pox and 1) a
cough, 2) a fever that doesn’t
respond to aspirin, 3) lethargy or
4) a headache, you should see a
doctor.