stale press thursday Arizona State University Vói. 54 No. 17 October 14, 1971 Tempe, Arizona K u sh s a y s Players quit team James Baker because of changes in social environs Following the temporary departure of four top ASU gridders, head football coach Frank Kush gives Monroe Eley reasons for college athletes leaving their teams. By BARNEY HUTCHINSON Woodrow Green The problem of sudden departure of players from ASU’s football team can be traced to a change of social environment says Frank Kush, head football coach at ASU. Kush was referring to the developments that led players Grady Hurst, Monroe Ely, James Baker and Woodrow Green to quit temporarily. “The competitive situation of a college football team is a shock the athlete isn’t expecting,’' Kush said. He added that the shock is good preparation for the realities of the world, but that it affects each player differently. “Second, the high school environment is deceiving to the prospective college athlete,” Kush said. “Most of the athletes we get were superstars in high school mid did not receive competition for their playing time. “In our program,” Kush continued, “all of the athletes are equally good. They can’t all play a t once.. . In this way pressure builds on the individual.” Not new experience Although the problem of athletes quitting the Sun Devil squad seems spectacular to those outside the team, itisn o ta new experience to Kush. “This has frequently happened in the 17 years I ’ve spent here,” Kush said, “and kids will go on quitting 30 years from now.” Kush said the pressure to quit affects individuals more than people realize. He said the press pays a t­ tention to players considered newsworthy and ignores marginal players. Referring to the Woody Green case, Kush said he wasn’t concerned a t the start of the season that Green was separated from his family. V Green, the team’s top ground gainer with 440 yards in 77 carries through three games, left Oct. 6 to return to his Wife and child in Portland, Ore. He was ac “Bad attitudes are a kind of disease,” Kush said. “If unchecked, they can grow among ball players and totally undermine the morale of the team.” t Page 2 — T hursday, O ctober 14 6 Unknown illness: H igh percen tage of students suffer discom fort from dinner By TOM JOURNEY Staff Writer At least 50-60 per cent of th e s tu d e n ts who a te Tuesday night in the MU’s Club s u ffe re d “ so m e d isc o m fo rt” y e s te r d a y , according to Club M anager Michael Stroud. B ut c a u se of th e d isc o m fo rt, w hich one student described as “ ex­ trem ely bad c ra m p s,” is unknown, pending results of lab tests. $agaFood Service D irector Buck Cessler estim ated th at 420-425 people w ere served in the Club Tuesday night. All of th em h a d e a te n M exican food. The food is sim ilar in type to th a t served by Saga Foods in other p a rts of the. MU and Stroud said all the food was fresh. A sanitarian supervisor a t the M aricopa County Health D e p a rtm e n t s a id ASU’Sj S tu d en t H e a lth S e rv ic e contacted the departm ent yesterday m orning. Food sam ples w ere taken by the health departm ent, and Dr. R ichard Jones, director of the U niversity Health Service, said stool cultures a re being collected. But results of the cultures will not be known until “ early next w eek,” Jones said. because the sym ptom s do not ap p ear to be related to food poisoning. He said the organism th at causes food poisoning is “ explosive as hell” and c a u s e s im m e d ia te s y m p ­ toms. Spicy foods, Jones said, can affect a larg e num ber of people if the organism th at causes the discom fort is already present. It m ay n o t' be S aga’s fault, he added. Saga Food officials a re puzzled by w hat happened, a c c o rd in g to S tro u d , because the sam e type of food is served everyday in the Hub, on the second floor of the MU. . But Saga Foods is not try in g to c o v e r up th e situation. Saga Foods, but w ere afraid th at unless the problem is corrected they won’t know w hether they will be sick again a fter eating in the Club. The food service officials said they w ere ju st as in­ terested in getting to the cause of the problem . Saga Foods, Cessler said, is an “on-going, everyday thing” and they would like to correct the situation a s soon as possible. The Club, located in one of th e MU c a f e te r ia s , w as initiated this year. An eighty m an board of directors, co m p o se d of s tu d e n ts , s e rv e s a s a n a d v is o ry c o m m itte e th a t h a n d le s criticism s, suggestions and entertainm ent, Stroud said. DROP IN! Coin Operated— Self Service Highest Duality Gasoline 915 East 8th Street Y e s te rd a y S tro u d a n d Cessler m et with a dozen students in Best Hall to explain the situation. There w ere reports th a t students affected by the j illness w ere circulating a petition to force Saga to refund their money. But the “ petition” turned out to be a list of ill students. Stroud and Cessler hoped the students would not take an y a c tio n , su c h as distributing a petition, until the lab results a re an ­ nounced. Students m eeting in the dorm itory room expressed little d is s a tis f a c tio n w ith Don’t Drop Out 1 RECORD * Jones said the sym ptom s, from the cases he has seen, a re sim ilar to intestinal flu. T he h e a lth s e rv ic e d ire c to r d is c o u n te d suggestion of food poisoning STMTS TOMORROW STUDENT OVER 12WAlMMS MEDICAL INSURANCE * w e * LABELS! Enrollment Deadline Extended To Oct. 22, 1971 AT FANTASTIC LOW PRICES 49° & UP G raduate A ssistants and Teaching Assistants re eligible for this Program . DON'T WAIT! SPECIAL LOW M IE S FOR STUDENTS WITH DEPENDENTS APPLY IN M U Room 222- O R CALL 965-3239 ° « UNIVERSITY D00KST0RE M.U. BUILDING Sto 37 Thursday, O ctober 14 — Page 3 Pressured students counseled by service By GABIE GREEN Staff Writer (Second of Two Parts ) In part one, academic dif­ ficulties and inadequate a c a d e m ic a d v is e m e n t procedures were discussed as factors behind University dropout rates. These causes were indicated in a study by sociology professors John Hudson and Leonard Gordon. The professors’ study results acknowledge that “familial difficulties” and “prwamres of Dr. Lawrenee Cummings the m ilitary d raft” are associated with the dropout rate. Personal problems causing a student to withdraw from school m ay not be within the University’s domain, Hudson and Gordon believe, while academic counseling is within the controlling influence of the college, they said. However, Dr. Lawrence Cummings, director of the Student Counseling Service, stressed that his office “does work with a lot of students contemplating dropping out” One organization backs moratorium A University is by nature interested in the cognitive, or thinking areas students are involved in, he said, but also needs to be concerned with the student’s affective life. Students who come to the counseling center con­ tem plating leaving school usually cite finances, poor study habits, lack of motivation and unhappiness with their major as reasons. ‘‘Many students consider only three or four areas of study,” Cummings said, “While there are many areas he can , be directed into.” At die' counseling center, students work with counselors who can administer interest inventories or help them use the service’s occupational library. The counselors also help stu­ dents form a positive attitude toward study and educational goals. The counseling process can lessen the transition from high school to college for some students, he said. Dr. Leonard Gordon A nation - wide moratorium on the war in Southeast Asia attracted little campus a t­ tention yesterday and was supported by only one local organization. The Tempe Peace Center was the lone group to sponsor the m oratorium , which had originally been planned as a part of the United Coalition fall offensive. Joe Gerson, director of the Peace Center, said the organization didn’t plan a large demonstration because public support generally was lacking. Unlike most past m ora­ toriums, no general strike was called for and there was no mass meetings. Instead Peace Center members spent the day passing out literature on the Mall. “The main purpose of the moratorium was to point out that the war is still costing lives. In fact, more Asians are dying per month now than during the height of American involve­ ment a couple years ago,” Gerson said. Members of other anti-war organizations in Tempe ex­ pressed surprise that any local group sponsored yesterday’s activities. “It was supposedly called off in September by local organiza­ tions,” said a Radical Student Union spokesman. Political course offered by Blacks A course in political education will be offered to Blacks at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Black Cultural Center. ■ “Marxism and its Effect on Blacks in this Country”, will be the first in a series of classes designed “to enlighten Blacks as to the political and economi­ cal inequities inherent in capitalistic systems,” said Ken Williams, a graduate student who will teach the course. The classes, sponsored by the Black Student Union, will also explore alternatives to economic and political problems which confront Blacks, said Williams. mm V æ WED-SWT 9 00- 1-00 WT . +40U10RD' JoHn*on? ■ mrttr M tM mONOAY S ü n C M D tr MOWJC *nm p« mm ho«*ES Dill C M ^i|-M U |V K IIL )HnMW«(