The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 60, Issue 4 - October 18, 1982

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 Page 2 SPORTS Page 10 OPINIONS Page 4 FEATURES Page 8 CLASSIFIEDS Page 9 ENTERTAINMENT Page 6 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.