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Problems Of - Editors Note: The following arti cle is reprinted from the February March edition of CarolinaType. Becoming a college student, and remaining a successful one for four years, is not so simple as many. people might think. Today's col lege students have more problems, says the University's Committee on Counseling Services. Just what kinds of problems? The committee agrees that a major one is the student's having to make the transition from his home envi ronment, where there is parental guidance or authority, into a soci ety (the college campus) where he is suddenly on his own, making decisions by himself about crucial questions--what major to enroll in, how to reconcile whole new and .n perhaps contradictory value sys tems different from those which he has been taught for the first dents than third of his life; whether or not to where she i buck the selective service system women's lib; gay lib; and many hAnd whati others. that his roo Students today, says the commit- that there if tee, have more choices, and clash-this c wherever there is choice, there is full and in conflict until the choice is dents living resolved. They may in fact be Ied couples beset by what Alvin Toffler in If a USC Future Shock calls "overchoice." or has a pro They must make decisions on what course to take from a mind-. There are boggling selection. There are andmanydi many more majors available it. today, and many more careers .iFor exam from which to choose. When the tons, inclu other side of the generation gap are prescr went through college and left the Health Ceni campus with their diplomas snugly two consult under their arm, they were fairly are in attent certain of getting the jobs they had Tuesday mo been working for. In contrast to te noons. this, points out one committee member, the picture has changed referral ti today. Many students are training ter's medici for careers in which there may be A few hui no openings available-a par- Russell Hou ticularly anxiety-producing situa- line" or Hea tion. mation Serv The size of the campus environ-- dents and p ment probably has more of an from the stu effect on some students than most Hotline will people realize. One of the two in aNew Yoi student-members of the commit- tion clinic f tee points out that the town from .to have a leg which she hails has fewer resi- as $230 incli We Have Your Size! We Have Your Si~ Blue or White Ci~hamnbray Bag gies by ........................ Regular or Wide Denim Bells by ..................... Corduroy Bell Bottoms by ................ Blue Denim Jackets by ....................... MOE LEVY'S AND BRITCHES BREV~ Corner Lady & Assembly Foday's Stuc S transportatioi S checkups are p health servi4 through the u e nels. While pregrn problem which dents, it is an O at the same tir University sou dent need;, psychiatric, v( academic, spiri social--are disp tant, all sourc fully known an, faculty, studen John Gardne the College of chairman of 1 IN GARDNER Counseling Ser ng the confidence' we talk about dents, then fa the residence hall ey. Each stud s now living! in one of the se bers who teac pf a student who learns whom he can r inmate is on dope? Or can trust. The simply a personality members who ibedou atttheStuden an be just as distress- f capacitating for li - and who can gi together as for mar- dance by sendi who are incompatible, professional student is in trouble, help solve the lem, where can he go? whatever it mi Gardner exp many sources for help, on of th com vergent approaches to students on ca saved from va ple, indicated medica- ficulty (perhap ling birth control pills, ling an English ibed at the Student rating into a er at the discretion of could simply f ing gynecologists who college enviroj lance on a regular basis advantage of1 rnings and Wednesday able. m Appointments with In an effo [tants are scheduled by counseling ser, ,,ough the health cen- the committeej ikl staff. increasing the students in pro 1dred yards away, in in counseling. se, the "Abortion Hot- about getting tth and AbortionInfor- counselors." i ice, is directed by stu- is still suspicio, aid for through funds students aboui r a regantwomn nWhlepgnea den aotiont fora tee. The questioGadn dtidngat is a nr : University u stdent noed Burehatr, t aCaeter, or: Cnt, lseekc fadctio, tden Part Timde 1211 College oS ents Discussed i. Post-abortion no obligation, according to State rovided within the law to divulge this information.) e as indicated dardner, as chairman, ual referral chan- emphasizes that the committee wants counseling at the University icy is not the only to develop into something "far :onfronts USC stu- more of a preventive nature, dea mportant one, and ling with situations and emotions ie illustrates that before they become problems ces of help for stu- -developmental crises prog -psychologic al, rams, workshops for student coun cational, medical, selors in residence halls to help tual, financial, and them keep an eye out for students wate. More impor- who may have adjustment prob is of help are not lems, or work with University I-or understood by faculty on how to recognize stu :s and parents. dent problems and how to refer - of the faculty of them to proper sources of help on General Studies, the campus." ie Committee on In addition, more specialists are rices, feels that "If needed. There is a consulting getting to the stu- psychiatrist who comes to the cam ulty has to be the pus one evening a week, to see stu nt is bound to find, dents, and who is available on an veral faculty mem - emergency call basis through the ihim, someone to Student Health Service. In August, ilate and whom he the Infirmary will have a full-time e are many faculty gynecologist and a full-time particulary care psychiatrist. md their problems, The committee also emphasizes re them proper gui- the importance of parents as ig the student to a perhaps the country's most unsung ounselor who can counselors. One University chap student's problem, lain says that in ten years of ght be." counseling "I've seen boys desert resses the convic- their girl friends right and left iittee that there are when they get pregnant. But, I ipus who could be have known of only one case in ying degrees of dif- which the girl's mother and father anything from fai- didn't stand by her. course to disinteg eed freak), or who nction better in the ntern Program ment, if they took Imer he services avail- Planned For BA t to coordinate rices, Gardner says Business Administration students s "concerned about now have an opportunity to make confidence of the money, gain experience and earn cre essional personnel dit hours during the summer in a We are concerned Summer Honors Internship Program. greater number of The program* sponsored by the Col i addition, "There lege of Business Administration and ion the part of some Delta Sigma Pi is planned for the sec going to a coun- ond SummerSession, July 11 to August r points out. "For 18, 1973. ident may ask him- The first week of the session will be I go in and ack- spent in preparing for field work. For [ am a drug user?' the remaining five weeks the students will work in a business in an area of confidentiality related to his interest and major, five one, Gardner days a week for eight hours a day. . . In return for this work, the intern polcy is that if the will receive a $250 scholarship and six to the Counseling hours of credit to be used as upper B. rchological Service A. electives (B.A. 399). 3 Student Health For applications or more informa rig treatment for tion call John Blackshire at 256-7856 counselor is under or Fred Brune 777-2741. PEasy To Open TED 0 -2:00 *0 u.w BRITTONSE