Page 2--Thursday, February 1; 1979-The Michigan Daily ADVOCACY GROUP FORMED: Students worried about suicide Soviets accuse Teng of lecturing U.S. By MARIANNE FGRI Pointing to a recent bookstore adver- tisement depicting a student holding a gun to his head, Skip Linn, Co-ordinator of Students Concerned About Suicide (SCS), said suicide is either thought of as a "sarcastic joke or a hush-hush af- fair." Linn, an LSA senior, and Susy Elder, a Residential College senior, organized SCS to function as an advocacy group that will try to improve and coordinate the suicide prevention effort. "WE THINK there are inadequacies in the system for dealing with suicide and depression," said Linn, "and we want to get student input on what can be done about it." At its first meeting last night, SCS discussed the importance of getting the facilities out to the students instead of the students having to look for them. Chico Rosemond, a peer counselor at Counseling Services, who is also an organizer of SCS, said the first move would be a brainstorming session with staff members of Counseling Services that will help define specific goals of the group. "IT SEEMS the agencies available deal with more severe cases, and depression is a much wider spread phenomenon than that," said Linn. However, Linn stressed SCS would not try to run the actual programs it wants to start because the "students aren't experts on the subject." It will function instead as an organizational group. SCS is a Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) Special Project that falls under its services category. According to- Chairman of Special Projects Joe Pelava, this makes it a part of MSA and gives it access to MSA resources. THE UNIVERSITY and the com- munity are well saturated with crisis and mental health centers. According to Jay Callahan, staff member in emergency psychiatry at University Hospital, "There are more (mental health) facilities in Washtenaw County than anywhere in the state per capita." These agencies include the Univer- sity's Counseling Services (CS) 76- GUIDE (which is part of CS), the University Counseling Center, the Emergency Psychiatry Room at University Hospital, and the Crisis Walk-in Center (part of the county Community Mental Health Center). "Part of the problem is that there is an overlapping of services," said Linn. "It's all so confusing.. how is a student supposed to know where to go? Services like these should be clear cut." Director of CS Harold Korn said there was a need for "greater cooperation between the various agencies on cam- pus" and more effective publicity would also help. HE ADDED that CS and the Coun- seling Center are very similar agencies and said, "It's a matter of historical accident that they are separate agen- cies." Korn said some consideration is currently being given to combining the agencies. THE MICHIGAN DAILY / Volume LXXXIX. No. 102 Thursday, February 1, 1979 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail, outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7,00 by mail-outside Ann Arbor. One of SCS's major goals is to make students realize suicide is a problem. "We want to 'get everyone to be openly aware of the situation and thereby help bring down the number of. suicides," said Elder. However, according to Linn, this will involve a "massive educational outreach."- BOTH RESIDENT Fellows (RF) in East Quad, Linn and Elder said they want to start with specific education programs for dorm staff, faculty, and academic counselors. "I don't recall anything that had to do with suicide during our (RF) training period," said Elder, "and I think this is very important." "The programs won't, just be workshops," said Linn. "We want to- bring in professionals who will teach techniques to help recognize the problem and what to do about it." IN ADDITION, SCS will try to organize depression workshops for the general campus and require freshper- son orientations to be introduced to counseling agencies. "It's important to realize that we're just as concerned with depression as we are with suicide," said Linn. "That's where we think 'we can make the difference. Students react to events without knowing that depression is a normal thing and there are other ways to pull through," he said. Expressing support for- SCS, Dr. Peter Davol, the psychiatrist at Health SErvice said SCS will be effective if it will help "in spotting people who ap- pear troubled and bothered and direc- See STUDENT, Page 10 ------....---.....--.---.---- SUMMER I SUBLET' SUPPLEMENT 1 I t . v l i . I t I I 1 1 NAME * I l ADDRESS I PHONE __ I COST: Only $5.00 before t ~5:00 p.m. March 2, 1979. I t (March 3-March 19, cost is $10.00) 1 Make checks payable to the Mich- igan Daily. I Mall or bring in person to 420 Maynard Street. I I 1 (actual size of ad) Absolutely no ads Please print or type legibly in will be accepted the space provided, as you after March 19. I I would like ad to appear. S Sunday, March 25, 1979 I---------------------------- MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union accused Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping yesterday of 'impudently lecturing the Carter administration" through his outspoken opposition to a new U.S.-Soviet strategic arms treaty. The official Soviet news agency Tass carried the text of a major commentary set to appear in today's editions of the Communist Party newspaper Pravda. THE COMMENTARY by Alexei Petrov attacked Teng's comments recently published by Time Magazine, saying the interview "shows well with what sentiments the deputy premier of the State Council of China arrived in Washington." Meanwhile, Teng, who is on an of- ficial visit to the United States, urged the United States, Japan, Western' Europe, and the Third World yester- day, to join China in "solid, down-to- earth united action" to thwart Soviet aggression around the globe. "We hold the view that the danger of war comes from the Soviet Union," the Chinese leader told a group of American reporters. Althoughhthe vice premier said yesterday b did not oppose a new Soviet-American strategic arms limitation agreement, he added, "the- people of the world should not have illusions. They should not be lulled by such agreements. What is needed is more practical steps." TENG CALLED for "unity" among the United States, Western Europe, Japan and the underdeveloped nations. "Each should make efforts for restraint" of the Russians, he said..- Asked if he were calling for collaboration, Teng replied: "I think. this is a good thing." He added: "If the Soviet Union inten- ds to start a war, it must first seek strategic resources and dependable bases." THE PRAVDA commentary asserted that Teng's interview with Time was "permeated.' with rabid anti- Sovietism." "He ascribed to the Soviet Union a striving for 'military superiority' and in doing so, he used mythical data which even rabid anti-Soivetsers in the West do not resort to," the article said. It said Teng "vilifies the idea of the conclusion of the SALT 2 agreement between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A., saying such an agreement is 'of no use.. The new strategic.arms pact, now in the final stages of negotiation, would limit the number of nuclear missiles and bombers the United States and Soviet Union could deploy. PRAVDA DECLARED that "while openly playing up to those.circles in the U.S.A. which oppose the conclusion of SALT 2 and impudently lecturing the Carter administration, Teng Hsiao-ping alleged that such agreements should not be relied upon." Pravda said that in the Time inter- view, Teng ''attacked everything which lies at the basis of the efforts of states to ensure a stable and lasting peace. Teng-struck at the Russians anew at a luncheon meeting with American reporters at his guest quarters and at midafternoon with television inter- viewers, shortly before joining President Carter in the White House East Room to sign scientific, cultural Uand consular agreements with the United States. Engineering & Computer Science Majors BEFORE YOU PICK UP YOUR DEGREE, PICK OUR INTERVIEW. 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