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Rivals meet to raise fund for Poverello
•Army ROTC to face Air Force
ROTC in football game Sunday
By Yu Ting Huang
DC Staff writer
The CSUF Army ROTC
"Scabbard and Blade" will battle
the Air Force ROTC "Arnold Air
Society" this Sunday at 1 p.m. in a
flag football game to help raise
funds for the 4th Annual Poverello
Project.
This will be the only event the
Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC
are doing together for this year's
Poverello Project The game will
be played in the South Gym Field.
"There will be bins put outside
of the field for donations of canned
food and clothings from
spectators," said Mark Sanders,
coordinator forrthe Jgpverello
Project from Campus Recreational
Services. "Monetary donations are
welcome, too."
For the past three years, the
Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC
have been p la ying football against
each other to raise funds for the
Miami Project, a reseatffrt^nd
rehabilitating program at the
Universityiof Miami for spinal
chord para lysis, said Captain John
W. Weiser of Air Force ROJfC^
The sponsor, an firtjirance
company named USF&G, stopped
sponsoring after three years
because the money raised for
charity was notenough to account
for, said David Didonna, cadet
captain of Army ROTC.
"What happened is that for
every dollar we raised, USFAG
would putina dollar," said Kevin
Brooks, cadet colonel of Air Force
ROTC "Last year we raised $750,
and USF&G put in $750, so we had
a total of $1300."
However, since USF&G
believed the money going to
charity was too Utile it stopped
sponsoring ROTC games and
started sponsoring concerts Which
raise more money for the Miami
Project, said Sanders.
The two ROTC branches have
always volunteered to help the
Poverello House by providing
counseling and fund raising, said
Sanders, soitWHS a logical decision
to get mem involved with the
Project
"Another good tWngis that the
money goes toa local organization
to help local people," he said.
This year, the game is
sponsored by- the University
Student Union, Campus
Recreational Services, Wendy's
and Goomba's Pasta Bar. -
The target is to raise over $3,000,
said Weiser.
The aim of the game is to raise
money, so there won't be any hard
feelings, said Didonna. .    ..
"We have always had a friendly
rivalry between us," he said.
But of course, the pressure to
win, however slight, is still present.
"We won the past three games,
and we are confident about this
game," said David Kwalwasser,
cadet third class of Air Force
ROTC
Besides the Poverello Project,
the Air Forte ROTC is involved J
with the national organization
POW/MIA which seeks an
accounting of the remains of 2.300
U.S. service men lost during
conflicts in Asia; and raises the
public awareness, said Brooks.
Another project they are involved
in, he said, is the Comprehensive
Youth Service which helps
problem children by providing
counseling and raising money.
• House needs money to
continue providing
services for homeless
The' 4th Annual Poverello
Project is being held to raise
money and awareness for
PbvereOoHouse.
The House provides meals,
reading and writing faculties,
mail service, counseling and/
referrals for the poor and the
homeJe% ' \
It also provides dental and
medical care funded by St
Agnes Medical Center.
Founded by Mi keMcGarvin,
wr»o started the Poverello
House by providing soup arid
sandwichesirom the trunk of
his car, the House rwil provided
483,996 meals by 1990.
Hispa'iKlcs' and African
Amcrk^(h^re1fciarges(tefhnic
groups of the poor and
homeless population going to
fthe House, comprising of 42
' and 36 percent respectively.
Those going to the House are
younger each day. *
Last year, the average age
/was 375. Thisveaf'the average
age is 27&.
On May;)5, the Poverello
House began its expansion
plans which are scheduled to
be complete by early spring
1992.
Expansion plans include a
larger kitchen, additional
dining area, a new washer-
dryer facility and stall showers.
Events contributing to the
Poverello House project are as
follows:
• A four-person volleyball
tournament scheduled from 8.
aan. to dusk Saturday.ajfwe.
North Gym Field.
• The *Big Game"1 placing
the Army ROTC vs. Air Force
ROTC at 1p.m.
.» A sorority "Bowl-aHshorTr
at the University Student Union -
Recreation Center, times to be
announced.
• Frozen Turkey Bowling
sponsored by KXDJ scheduled
from noon to 1 p.m. on the USU
baJ««ryNov.20.
Doctor, comedian cures
audience with laughter
Internship credit
guidelines renewed
(CPS)- "A fellow comes up to
me at a party, and he says, T
understand you're a doctor - do
something medical."' Pause. "So I
made him wait" Laughter. "And
then I billed him for it" More
laughter.
When if s a good night on the
comedy club circuit America's
Laugh Doctor is knocking them
dead. Cliff Kuhn is
giving the audience
a cure for their blues.
If s magic, almost
chemical. They love
his jokes! They love
him!
And then there
are bad nights when
the   audience   is
unresponsive, too
embarrassed for him
to even titter. He is
stumbling in blind
panic, trying to come up with a
feeWejoke,anythingthatwillmake
the act okay again.
Flopsweat if s called. A standup
comic's worst nightmare.
But the bright nights in
comedy clubs are more than just
gigs to Kuhn, who went on the
standup circuit this year to do in-
depth research on laughter and its
role in healing.
His specialty as a professor of
a community psychiatry at the
University of Louisville School of
Medkineis finding out why mind-
body interaction is so important to
people withchronic ailments, such
as arthritis,and life-threatening
illnesses like cancer.
So, with the blessings of the
school, he went on sabbatical to
study laughter, which has been
proven to be good medicine.
"I was always a frustrated
comic in one way or another," he
said.
Kuhn said he actually started
working with standup comedians
to learn the tricks of the trade when
he  began  holding  laughter
"1   flimhtpr workshops     for
L d U g n l e r  patients       with
raises     the chronk conditions
0000 lM^ that defied
tOleranCe   fOr treatments       of
, . modem medicine.
pain.     It    alSO In recent years,
stimulates the ^SSS^,
immune "^"r   he'p"
relieve        some
SyStem." symptoms.
Cliff Kuhll raises the tolerance
for pain. It also stimulates the
immune system," said Kuhn.
Laughter boosts T-cells, nature
kills cells. "They're in more
abundance in those who laugh
more. If s been well documented
that laughter is a valuable tool for
eliminating stress and tension."
In order to present live
comedy material at the workshops,
Kuhn started hanging around
comedy clubs.
"I asked so any questions
about the techniques of comedy
that the comics threw the gauntlet
down ai4d said, "You've got to get
up there.'*
Gulp. So he did.
"It was a kick. I thought I was
the best comic since Bob Hope. It
was the second time that was
bad," Kuhn said.  -
"Ifs a terrible feeling to
stand up there and hit them with
a joke... and you get silence," he
said. "Ifs totally embarrassing.
You panic and feel silly and
stupid. It takes a long time td get
rid of the feeling to just run off
stage." \
Kuhn said he has found a
new respect for the business.
"The people who are good
make it look easy. It takes an
awful tot of energy," he said.
The secret he said, is letting
the audience know in the first 10
to 15 second that if sokay to laugh
with you —oratyou.
There'sa certain inhibition
to laughing in public," said Kuhn,
who noted that it was not
acceptable in Western culture to
laugh out loud in public until the
past 200 years or so. Even now,
here is a certain uneasiness and
suspicion about people who
smile a lot or laugh easily. They
tend to be viewed as goof-of fs or
frivolous, he said.
Kuhn said he planned to
keep a diary while on his 18-city
tour, take notes and interview
fellow comics. Once he is finishes,
he plans to report the findings in
a book.
The lure of the road is strong,
bu t Kuhn plans to hang up the
microphone.
"I do love it, out I really love
my work in psychiatry too. I have
a serious commitment to bring
this back to the medical
community."
By Catherine Jiguet-Jiglaire
DC Contributing writer
Renewal for the 1976 guidelines
for granting credit for internships
was approved by the Academic
Policy and Planning Committee.
The guidelines for granting credit
for work experience and intemshi p
courses were created in 1976 and
were approved every two years
following.
Since then, the same guidelines
have been serving as "a basis for
judging the acceptability of such
courses in the university curriculum
and for establishing standards of
accountability in term of student
time commitment faculty workload
and units awarded."
This semester the Academic
Senate is looking to ratify the policy
on a permanent basis.
"Nothing is going to change very
much," said Jim Smith, chair of the
Academic and Planning Committee.
"For the most part, people were
satisfied since 1976.
"The guidelines are primarily for
the departments who want to give
credit for internship and establish a
way in which students can be
evaluated and credited," he said.
At an October meeting, the
committee discussed financial issues
related to supervised travel, the
student-faculty ratio for improved
supervision and reviewed making
the policy applicable to all field
experiences.
"The primary thing is to see if the
faculty is in charge to evaluate and
check the work. This involves a
contract. On the whole, the
departments think the rules are
burdens," Smith said.
Smith said he hasn't heard any
complaints from staff, faculty or
students.
9 "What we've heard irom
supervisors or directors, (is that)
the students who want internships
were always able to find them; we
didn't hear any complaints," he
said.
Intemshi psarerequiredinmany
departments as prerequisites to
graduate. Some offer a great
number of choices and
opportunities.
The deparnrtentof criminology
offers two sequences for its major,
law enforcement correction, and
a third new sequence in
victimology will be starting in the
spring semester. The interns have
to accomplish 135 hours of
volunteering service during a
semester.
"We require every student to
take at least one three-unit course.
We place them in local agencies,
there is no pay compensation,"
said Max Futrell, chair and
professor of the criminology
department
"Our basic feeling is that in a
disciplinelikeoursitdoesn'tmake
any sense to offer three or four
years to go and be hired without
internship experience.
"Webelievethatexperiencewill
make them a more marketable
product" Futrell said. "Students
who graduate will seek jobs. Most
of our students go into the field as
opposed toother students."
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