1985_01 The Daily Collegian January 1985

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Health of spirit is important in life
As I was having lunch at Marie
Calender's the other day, the large lettered
PIES on the menu reminded me of a
wellness program I had heard described
recently at a conference on student health.
I remarked to my friend that the PIES for
the wellness program was an acronym
representing the Physical, Intellectual,
Emotional and Spiritual aspects of wel¬
lness. My friend's reaction was one of
shocked surprise that the word spiritual
was used in a program meant to attract
university students. It was an understand¬
able reaction as students and people in
general associate the word spiritual with
piousness, which is defined as showing
religious devotion and sometimes even as
being virtuous in a hypocritical way.
Another of our speakers circumvented
' e difficulty with a simple
stroke of genius. Instead of speaking
about spiritual health she chose to speak
of health of spirit.
We are still not entirely home-free as
spirit is hard to define, but we refer to it as
that part of our being that has to do with
Health
ethical and existential concerns and general
kinds of attitudes toward life. The terms
mean-spirited or high-spirited carry a
wealth of meaning within themselves and
illustrate the general sense of the word.
When we speak of health of spirit then
we are speaking of values and attitudes
which of themselves possess value and
which contribute to our other aspects of
being, namely the physical, intellectual
and emotional.
How the spirit affects the physical was
well illustrated by one of our keynote
speakers of the convention, Norman
Cousins of Saturday Review fame and
presently a professor at UCLA. When
stricken by a serious illness he determined
he would get well. This showed his strength
of spirit. He also decided to use humor as
medicine. With these therapeutic weapons,
determination and humor, he confounded
the prognosis of the physicians.
There is a new field of medicine rapidly
coming into prominence that begins to
explain the pathway of healing from the
spirit to the body. It is called psycho-
neuroimmunology. It has been able to
show how the emotions affect the elements
of our immune response system thereby
affecting our susceptibility to disease and7
our response to it. These findings add new
meaning to the holistic concept of wellness.
Health of spirit as related to physical
well-being may also be related onto-
genetically to our survival and develop¬
ment as the human species. Love and
relatedness are qualities of spirit. Because
of the long period of dependency of the
human infant and child there would be no
survival without the strong'bonds of
parental relatedness and love. It would
seem then that when love and relatedness
are essential elements of our nature we
would flourish best when- our spirit
functions in harmony with them rather
than opposed. Again social medicine finds
support for this as married people and
people with group affiliations tend to live
longer and be healthier than the unmarried
or the divorced or the socially isolated.
The question of health of spirit then
becomes a very vital one. How can we best
enhance spiritual health? I think that we
can do so by taking time to reflect on the
great values of life and seeking to bring
our lives into conformity with them. These
will vary for the individual, but from the
medical point of view it is clear that
optimism is better than pessimism and
love and relationship are better than
isolation. For the healthy functioning of
society and thus for the individuals within
the society, honesty is better than cor¬
ruption and generosity than greed. There¬
fore it may even be a survival mechanism
at work that makes us feel good when we
know we have done the right thing.
Heroin
Continued from Page 1
The Third Floor staff discourages the
40 residents from romantic attachments
during treatment because, as Kathy ex¬
plained, "if one falls, the other falls."
Af_-aIL anachment implies emotional demands.
The couple "beat the odds" however,
and kicked narcotics at the height of their
relationship. "We kept each other strong,"
Fred added, and away from the temptation
"People need to hear that they can
make it without drugs," he stressed. As
children, he and Kathy both witnessed
substance abuse in their families, and the
scars it left grew into their own addictions
as adults. They agree the most Negative
aspect of being a junkie is the horror of
hurting loving ones by deceiving or stealing
from them to get a fix.
Lewis welcomes CS U F social work and
psychology majors to volunteer as interns
at the Third Floor.
The project was founded by CSUF
graduates in 1973 and has been accepting
addicts on referral from courts, hospitals,
agencies and other programs as well as on
a walk-in basis. There is currently a waiting
list of about 40 people.
A reported surge in statewide heroin
and cocaine abuse may be a result of a
recent crackdown on drunk driving, said
addiction therapist Joe Bowem He found'
a tendency among substance abusers to
prefer these drugs to alcohol, as an unde¬
tectable way to drive intoxicated.
Commenting on the Department of
Alcohol and Drug Programs report, Lewis
suoffested the recent proliferation of drug
s featuring nuanced effects may
uv a uiojor cause. In recent years, a
substance abuser "can dial a hi^h" with
the various grades of marijuana, LSD and
PCP available, he explained. Another
explanation for the recent attention to
drugs may be that people are only now
becoming aware, he suggested.
News Briefs
The Jazz Co. incvites its patrons to
"Feel The Music", January 26 at 2 PM
and 3 PM and January 27 at 2 PM in the
Fresno Memorial Auditorium, 2425
Fresno Street across from the historic
Water Tower.
Artistic Director Nicole Savell has
invited some seven additional choreo¬
graphers and a local trio to contribute to
the show which last year was a sellout.
The Jazz Co. invites its patrons to
senior company in the opening Minstrel
Medley set by Donna Weber. She des¬
cribes herself as a "ballet-trained hoofer"
and has taught the company tap. The
Roaring 20's will be demonstrated by the
work of Pam Olds, The Jazz Co., chair¬
man while Julie Andrews will demon¬
strate moves from the thirties. Vanessa
Kachachadurian has chosen the music of
the forties for her section. Company solo¬
ist Eve Smith will remind patrons of Bea-
tlemania while Sue Sampson Dalena,
Deanna Moscr Zobian and Ms. Savell
will hilight the eighties in the second act.
Reserved tickets may be mail ordered $7
each ($1 off for children and senior citi¬
zens) to The Jazz Co., 1432 Fulton, 93721.
Box office hours are 10 AM until 5 PM
each day or two hours before each per¬
formance. Tickets are also available at
Gibralter Savings in Mission Village.
Dr. George B. Kauffman, professor of
chemistry at California State University,
Fresno, has been listed in the seventh edi¬
tion of Who's Who in the World, just
published by Marquis Who's Who, Inc. of
Chicago, Illinois.
Only about six persons in a million are
selected from around the world for this
singular honor. The new authoritative
biographical guide recognizes more than
29,000 individuals distinguished by out¬
standing international achievement in
diplomacy, religion, government, journal¬
ism, science, exploration, education,
entertainment, literature, industry, philo¬
sophy, business, athletics, medicine, law,
Described as "a worldwide biographi¬
cal reference directory designed as an aid
to identifying the men and wo"men who
are shaping today's world into tomor¬
row's future," the compilation of the new
Who's Who in the World involved "exten¬
sive research into every significant field of
endeavor throughout the world before the
final listees were selected. The editors
made every effort to present a balanced
picture of prominent world figures. All of
the listees are men and women whose
position orachievements make them note¬
worthy on the international scene."
A large part of the therapy program at The Third Floor consists of physical contact.
Here a "family" hogs one another during • family group meeting. ^
Boycott
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She said members of the state executive
committee, who have been visible recip¬
ients of other Coors donations, will be
attending the convention.
Coors has donated about $350,000 to
Hispanic businesses in an effort to counte¬
ract a boycotthy the AFL-CIOand others
of Coors beer.
Fresno and California are strategic for
Coors, Navarro said, because their sales
here have been decreasing.
"As people have become educated, they
have been drinking less Coors," she said.
"Every year their sales have been going
The conference is expected to cost
around $50,000. Navarro declined to name
the other sponsors because their commit¬
tments have not been confirmed.' She also
did not want them implicated in the
controversy.
A course on "Contemporary China:
Development Issues and Strategics" will
be offered during the spring semester
through the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning at CSUF.
Baochen Zhu (BOW— OH—CHIN
SHOO), a visiting professor from Beijing,
People's Republic of China, will teach the
course from 7 to 10 p.m. Mondays in
Room 145 of the New Science Building.
The class also will be offered from 9:45 to
11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in Room
19 of San Ramon Building 1. Spring
See News Briefs, Page 8
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