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THEVISTA The Student Voice Since 1903
THURSDAY December 6, 1990
CSU could face fiscal cutbacks By Mark Schlachtenhaufen Staff Writer Gov.-elect David Walters has requested Oklahoma public higher education institutions to seek ways to streamline fiscal year 1992 budgets by 15 percent.
Striking a dramatic pose on the stage at Mitchell Hall, the Kaleidoscope Dancers perform original choreography to a Billy Joel song, "We Didn't Start The Fire," during the recent Centennial Pageant. (Photo by Dan Smith)
CSU drug abuse program starts By Karen Adkins Student Writer Students helping students is the basis for a new program at Central State University that trains volunteer students to educate fellow students about substance abuse. Helping U; Giving Support (H.U.G.S.) was formed this semester as part of CSU's Campus Organization for a Substance Free Environment, a substance-abuse program for students, faculty and staff. "It is the first time a program of this type
has been activated on campus," Jan Chapel, substance abuse coordinator, said. H.U.G.S. is recruiting student volunteers to serve as peer facilitators for the spring semester and is asking faculty to recommend students for the program, said Wendy Kidd, program assistant. The idea behind the peer-facilitator program is that substance abusers often prefer to talk to a friend or someone their own age, Kidd said, rather than an authority figure. Sixteen students have applied to be peer facilitators and six students are already
working with H.U.G.S., Kidd said. Volunteers will be trained throughout the spring semester to provide education and support for problems involving substance abuse, co-dependency, adult children of alcoholics or dysfunctional families, and personal emotional concerns, Chapel said. COSAFE will be conducting classroom surveys during the spring semester to research how many students are using drugs, what types and how often, Chapel said. Students interested in being peer facilitators can call Chapel at Ext. 2581. V
If cuts are forthcoming, specific Central State University programs could be eliminated, said Joyce Mounce, administrative vice president. A 15 percent state budget reduction would mean millions of dollars less for CSU payroll, programs and facilities. CSU's FY 1991 budget was $26.1 million. Using the 1991 figure as an estimate, a 15 percent reduction would be $3.9 million less, or $22.2 million. Walters' information-gathering effort is due to several factors, said Bill Crain, Walters' press secretary. Grim economic forecasts, the threat of a U.S.-Iraq war, and a need to determine which state agencies could receive funding reductions will be examined by the governor-elect, Crain said. However, such measures are common during transition phases. "At first, the governor-elect sent a letter to all state agencies asking them to find ways to cut 15 percent from their budgets," Mounce said. Walters' transition team broadened its request last month to higher education. • See FISCAL, back page.
Cheney said U.S. shouldn't rely on economic sanctions
Environmental resolutions to open arctic oil fields
WASHINGTON (AP)—The United States cannot be sure economic sanctions will ever force Iraq out of Kuwait, and waiting for such an uncertain outcome would risk erosion of the international coalition behind military force, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Monday. Cheney, laying out to the Senate Armed Services Committee the administration's rationale for building up a military force for possible attack in the Persian Gulf, gave the most pessimistic view yet on the potential of sanctions to work. "Given the nature of the regime, given Saddam Hussein's brutality to his own people, his very tight control of that society, his ability to allocate resources for the military, their ability to produce their own food ... he can ride them out," Cheney told the committee.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)—The federal government and oil producers have resolved an environmental dispute that had stalled production at part of a vast Alaskan oilfield near Prudhoe Bay. The Army Corps of Engineers, the main opponent of the project, agreed Friday to a plan in which Arco, BP Exploration and Exxon would spend an estimated $50 million in the drilling area to ease fish migration in the Beaufort Sea. The agreement clears the way for production to begin within two years at the Point McIntyre field, where the oil companies own rights to an estimated 300 million barrels.
Walters seeks prison reform OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)— Gov.—elect David Walters said Monday he would give high priority to providing substance abuse treatment and literacy training to all state prison inmates in need of those services. Walters asked Department of Corrections officials to estimate how much it would cost to provide such treatment and schooling to all qualifying state prison inmates. He speculated that treating inmates for drug and alcohol abuse, plus cutting down on inmate illiteracy, could reduce the recidivism rate by 20 percent, based on success the system has had with its vo-tech program.
V See WORLD WRAP, back page.