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PAGE 2—THI NORTH TEXAS DAILY
Thursday, January 21.1071
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The North Texas Daily
North Tixm Stat* llnivaraity
Danton. Taxaa
ALL AMERICAN
and
PACEMAKER NEWSPAPER
Produced by North Texas State University Printing Office
TERRY KELLY
Editor
TOM KELLEY
Business Manager
Editorial statements of the North Texas Daily and readers' letters reflect the
opinion of the individual writer and not necessarily that of the Daily, its
adviser or the North Texas State University Administration.
Restore Balance
Unhappy Country
Lacks Direction
Americans are in an unhappy mood. National polls taken in the past
year have consistently revealed discontent from the average man-in-the-
street. There are complex reasons for this mood.
One obvious contribution to our gloomy national disposition is modern
news communication. Americans receive almost instantaneous news cover-
age of all world and national events through the electronics of television.
People are simply becoming more aware of news than ever before and this
daily barrage is disconcerting to the common man. Also, legitimate prob-
lems threaten this country and are a cause for concern. But the thread of
discord runs much deeper than an awareness of problems and a desire for
solutions. The unrest is a result of a national psychological disturbance
borne out of the tumult of the sixties.
America has lost her sense of balance and is striving desperately to re-
gain it. The sixties, with all its raw violence and social upheavel, dealt the
national psyche a severe blow from which it is still reeling.
Balance is the common denominator of the cosmos. All of nature and the
universe centers around a natural balance or order. Without that balance,
man or nature ceases to function properly. The result of our national psychic
strain is that Americans have become polarized and irrational. We have
turned on our neighbors and substituted hate and fear for a difference of
opinion or a difference in values. It is a malaise which could destroy our
national character.
America needs a new sense of direction and purpose above all priorities.
We need to replace fear with reason and restore our natural balance and
order. Americans must also look for a new national leadership -a leader-
ship dedicated to developing and encouraging a national cohesiveness which
will help America face the problems of the seventies.
- BOB CAMPBELL
Newly Found Disease
Fatal to Speed' Users?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eight doctors
reported Thursday a newly discovered,
sometimes fatal disease among users of
dangerous drugs -especially Methamphe-
tamine, know to drug users as "speed" or
"meth."
By conservative estimate, 10 per cent of
"speed" users will get the disease, one of the
doctors said
"Deaths occurring in young'people using
a large variety of drugs have often remained
unexplained," the report said.
The disease destroys arteries leading to
major organs—kidneys, stomach, small
intestine, liver, pancreas and other organs,
the doctors said.
The doctors, who published their report
in the New England Journal of Medicine
said they observed 14 patients with an aver-
age age of 25 who had used drugs for periods
of three months to five years.
THEY SAID four of them died of the
disease, which they call "necrotizing angi-
itis," meaning the death of an organ from
inflammation.
They said they were releasing their report
because of its "potential importance and
broad implications," and to alert other
doctors to the disease.
"The occurrence of necrotizing angiitis,
which resulted in the deaths of four pa-
tients reported in this study, brings into
sharp focus the lethal character of this
disease." they said.
The doctors are from the Department of
Medicine, Radiology and Pathology, Los
Angeles County University of Southern
California Medical Center.
THEIR REPORT said because so many
drugs were used among the patients, in-
cluding heroin, hashish, LSD and amphe-
tamines, it was not determined which drug
specifically caused the disease.
But combination use of LSD and meth-
amphetamine was most common in the
group Doctors said methamphetamine had
been used in all but two cases.
But even in those two cases, Dr B Philip
Citron told a newsman, "neither was sure
of the drugs they had taken." He said a
total of 50 young drug users have now been
studied and added:
"I THINK we can now be a little stron-
ger than we were in the report and say that
methamphetamine probably is the cause
of necrotizing angiitis. We think it most
likely is."
"We also studied patients who used only
heroin, and they don't get the disease,"
he said "We studied users of barbiturates,
and they don't get it.
"You might consider LSD we have seen
vascular changes with LSD And because
of the widespread use of marijuana, it also
has to be suspect, but we have no data."
Vp With People Communicates
Education Comes In Unusual Ways
THE DOCTORS SAID the disease
resembles another called periarteritis nodosa
also a disease of the arteries. Citron was
asked if the 30 patients who apparently
had necrotizing angiitis—among the total
of 50 studied—would die.
"If it's like periarteritis nodosa—and I
think it is—they probably will," he said.
"With treatment we can control many of
the symptoms, but we think it probably
will be fatal to them.
"With the classic form- periarteritis
nodosa—about half will live five years.
It's too early to start speculating about
how long these people are going to live.
"PERIARTERITIS NODOSA has
been known for over 100 years. It involves
people in their 40s and 50s, the ratio of
males being four to one. It is a progres-
sive disease with a high rate of mortality:
over 50 per cent in patients who are treated,
87 per cent in patients who are untreated.
However, the most recent article states it
is a uniformly fatal disease.
"In drug-abuse patients we see they
have identical lesions changes in arteries
on autopsy. The clinical appearance is iden-
tical.
"The major difference is in the age group.
Instead of 40 and 50-year-olds we're dealing
with teen-agers and 20-year-olds."
WHAT DO AUTOPSIES on victims
of the newly found disease show?
"The kidneys are usually small and heav-
ily scarred," Citron said, "There's usually
blockage of the arteries, the blood vessels
leading to or inside the organ.
"There's also an appearance like strings
of sausages in some vessels, on both X-ray
and autopsy, The vessel narrows so much
as to occlude the passage of blood."
OF THE TOTAL of 50 patients now
examined, approximately 30 have evidence
of changes in their arteries, Citron said.
Does that mean they have the disease?
"Most likely, yes. That's 60 per cent inci-
dence. But even with 50 patients it's dif-
ficult to say what the incidence of this di-
sease will be among drug users generally."
Citron, who wrote the team's report,
continued:
"One ol the most disquieting things about
this whole study is that in the original
14. five patients had no symptoms related
to this disease. They came to the hospital
with other problems One had a broken
thumb. Several had taken overdoses of
barbiturates.
"It's disquieting because here we have
patients without any symptoms who do have
severe disease They have gone on to deve-
lop symptoms."
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People Who Care'
Jennifer Rodgers, top,of Kansas, is one of the "Up With People" cast merri
bers and a soul soloist. A swinging, singing show is being presented below
Buki Wright, below, show director, leads the cast in one of their hundreds of
performances. The group will present an 8 p.m. show Thursday and Friday in
the Main Auditorium.
By Rose Sharp
Dally Editor
"Up! Up with people!
You meet 'em wherever you go.
Up! Up with people!
.. If more people were for people,
1 here'd be a lot less people to worry about,
And a lot more people who care."
One 1970 high school graduate from
Anchorage, Alaska, said goodbye five
months ago to her what-do-l-do-now world
and stepped into a most unusual oppor-
tunity. During the last three months she has
toured 14 cities in Mexico and is beginning
a United Stales tour and she is singinj
all along the way.
A Spanish university graduate and for-
mer draftsman from Barcelona, Spain,
Mercedes Marcet, put aside her blueprints
five months ago for a new lifestyle. Since
then she has toured her native country,
Mexico and is also beginning a tour of the
United States and she is singing all along
the way.
"A lour group stopped in Anchorage
on their way to Japan, and I thought they
were really together," said Margo Bell,
a former singer in Alaska. "They seemed
like one big happy family."
"Up With People" could very well be
called one big family. Since 1965 some
2,500 young men and women have written
the music, designed the publicity, admin-
istered the tours and produced the shows
for four international "Up With People"
casts. Over 50 states and 30 countries have
been visited from Carnegie Hall and the
Hollywood Bowl to Italian opera houses
and African villages.
"It has all been a two-way street for
me," said Pat Ector who left her home in
Monterey, Calif., four years ago to travel
with ihe cast. "The cxpcriu.vw aa.c been
unvelievable. But I have tried to commun-
icate everything I have learned to everyone
I meet."
"I he turn-about education offered the cast
members is only as limited as the individual
allows it to become. There's a special feel-
ing to being the first American to stay in
a certain Mexican home, to perform for
North Vietnamese students in Paris or to
be a houseguest of a poor family in a small
Texas town.
"It all teaches me a little more each day
and makes me want to give a little more of
myself," explained one girl.
"After a show and about an hour out of
town you begin to wonder where you're
headed next, whom you'll meet. But then
you think about it and realize what a wealth
of experience you're getting," said another
cast member.
"Up With People" a non-profit, educa-
tional organization travels via bus and
trailer truck. All staging equipment light-
ing, sound and other technicalities travel
with the show.
Cast members may find themselves work-
ing on costumes, stage make-up, chore-
ography and other staging technicalities,
transportation, promotion or even the food
committee.
One of the organization's four easts
involves only high school juniors and
seniors. Students study during the day
with the group's traveling faculty and leave
the show to afternoon rehersals and even-
ing performances. Accredited by the Okla-
homa State Board of Education, standard
classroom procedure is usually replaced
with seminars and community involvement.
A similar program is conducted lor uni-
versity-level students in conjunction with
the University of Hartford, Conn. Emphasis
is on a liberal arts program, and profes-
sors travel with the casts.
"Up With People" will perform at 8 p.m.
today and Friday at the Main Auditorium.
Admission is $1 with NTSU I.D. card or
$2.50, general, and $3.50 reserved.
Chairman
To Laud
President
WASHINGTON (AP) Sen.
Robert I Dole went to work as Re-
publican national chairman Satur-
day with a pledge of unyielding loy-
alty to President Nixon and a warn-
ing that he will not abide in silence
"slurs and slanders" of the admin-
istration.
The Kansas senator said he will
be a missionary, and when asked what
religion he will preach, he replied in
a word:
"Nixon."
"As a missionary, I intend to carry
the story of the President and his
accomplishments to the far corners
of our nation," Dole said in his in-
augural speech to the Republican
National Committee.
Dole said one of his first acts as
chairman was to telephone Senate
Minority Leader Hugh Scott of
Pennsylvania who had opposed his
selection as national chairman
to assure him of cooperation in efforts
to help Nixon and the administration.
"THERE IS NO difference of
opinion," Dole said.
Dole told a news conference he does
not intend to mute his voice in the
Senate, but neither will he upstage
the party's floor leaders there.
"We have 45 Republicans in the
Senate, and it's my hope we'll all be
speaking for the party and for the
President's programs," Dole said.
At the same time, Dole urged the
party to unite and to overcome petty
differences. He said he will support
Republican nominees whether or not
they have differed with the President.
NONETHELESS, Dole said the
administration decision to renounce
former Sen. Charles E. (ioodell in
New York in 1970 paid off in the
election of James I- Buckley, the
conservative nominee, to succeed
him.
"That wasn't a purge, that was
strategy," Dole said.
Zodiac
Expands
By Two
Libra, Taurus, Aries and all those
others are you certain which sign rules
your life?
With the addition of two new signs to the
zodiac, even the most devoted astrology
"freak" may be uncertain what sign rules
his life. A recent article in Time magazine
told of the two new signs added by Steven
Schmidt in his book "Astrology 14."
Two new signs, Cetus and Ophiuchus,
were recently added to the accepted zodiac
signs. They supposedly were ignored before
now because an even dozen was convenient
for reckoning points on the compass and
months of the year.
Cetus (the whale), now located between
Aries and Taurus, and Ophiuchus (the ser-
pent slayer), located between Sagittarius
and Scorpio, have caused a shift in the
constellations. This shift assigns each con-
stellation 26 days instead of 30, making
each of the previous signs lie between dif-
ferent days.
I o the delight of some people and the dis-
may of others, this shift has given people
new signs. Those previously unhappy with
their astrological sign may now delight in
having a sign more befitting their person-
ality.
Under the new system, "Astrology 14."
the signs are:
Sagittarius, Jan. 1-26; Capricorn, Jan.
27-Feb. 21; Aquarius, Feb. 22-March 20;
Pisces, March 21-April 15; Aries, April
I6-May 11; Cetus, May 12-June 6; Taurus,
June 7-July 2; Gemini, July 3-28; Cancer,
July 29-Aug. 23; Leo, Aug. 24-Sept. 18;
Virgo, Sept. 19-Oct. 14; Libra, Oct. 15-
Nov. 9; Scorpio. Nov. 10-Dec. 5; and Oph-
iuchus. Dec. 6-31.
1970-71 Teacher Strikes Less
WASHINGTON (AP) Teachers
are striking less often this school year but
when they do walk out, it's for a longer
time.
With the current school year half over,
teachers have struck 66 times, well under
the pace that brought a record 180 strikes
in 1969-70.
"But strikes used to last one, two or
three days. This year our 2 I sinkes have
ranged from three days to 12 weeks,"
Robert Porter, secretary-treasurer ol the
215,000-member American f ederation of
Teachers (AFT) said.
Al l strikes at Chicago Community Col-
leges and in Scranton, Pa., public schools
are still unsettled. John Converse, M I
director of information, said strikes are
possible this month in Newark, N..I., and
Warwick, R.I , and could occur later in
Los Angeles and Minneapolis
ROBERT C'HANIN, general counsel
for the I.I million-member National I du
cation Association, ihe other big national
teacher organization, sees three reasons
for lengthening strikes:
Teachers arc more knowledgeable
about strikes, better prepared and better
financed.
Schoolboards no longer capitulate in
the first day or two, or rush to a court for
an injunction.
Courts no longer quickly issue injunc-
tions against strikers, hut try to put pres-
sure for settlement on both sides
"LOOKING AT these factors," Chanin
said in an interview, "strikes will last longer
when teachers walk out over legitimate
substantive differences."
Chanin said there are 18 to 20 slates
where strikes are anticipated each year.
He cited Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Maine as states where walkouts
would be no surprise.
SPOKESMEN FOR both teacher groups
agree that the most common cause of strike
situations is economic but not necessarily
salaries.
Nonsalary economic issues include edu-
cational programs, teacher-pupil ratio,
supplies and working conditions.
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lights to gain recognition are "two dying
causes of strikes."
Both teacher unions claim "fantastic
success" in bringing more and more of the
nation's 2 million teachers into the labor
movement. They point to rapid growth of
teacher agreements and the number of
educators covered by them.
BUT THEY DISAGREED whether
this indicates a growing militancy among
teachers
Until this year violence had not been
associated with teacher strikes. Hut in
a 12-week strike in economically depres-
sed East St. Louis, there was violence both
against individuals and private property,
Porter said. The union lost the strike.
Converse estimates that at least c)0 per
cent of AFT's 215,000 members are pro-
tected by formal agreements.
THE NEA ESTIMATES that there-
are currently 2,500 procedural agreements
that call for teachers and school board
to meet and negotiate, but do not spell out
specifically what must be covered. An es-
timated 1,500 comprehensive agreements
are w ritten contracts covering salary, teacher
leads and other working conditions
Two years ago there were only two-thirds
as many, NLA, said
Some of Ihis year's strikes have brought
significant pay gains to teachers, who have-
long complained they are far down the
economic ladder in comparison with other
professions.
THE PHILADELPHIA strike hroughl
a S54 million package including salary
increases of $800 to $1,000 in the first year
of a two-year contract and a total of $2,100
in the second year.
In Pittsburgh, a new agreement calls
lor a teacher holding a bachelor degree
at the low end ol the scale to go I'rom $7,600
to $8,500 by 1972, and at the top end, from
SI 1,600 to $13.600.
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