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Center helps vets cope with stress By JOHN MILLS Of Km ErnaraM "A victim of a plane crash or people who've gone through fires have the same kind of post-traumatic stress It's the same as shell-shock except it’s delayed 15 years," says Vietnam veter an Kim Maynard "Delayed stress is a coping strategy that worked for the highly unreliable situation in Vietnam It was so firmly imprinted that vets still react to the world as if the enemy was crawling in the bushes trying to throw a grenade at them," says Cliff Kaylor, who co-directs the Veterans' Center with Maynard and Vietnam veteran Jim Leavitt "Vietnam was set up as a kid's war It was designed to keep 19-year-olds from breaking down on the battlefield," Maynard says "In other wars you were in for the duration so people broke down with battle-fatigue and were sent to the rear In Vietnam you had a one year tour When you got into high stress situations you told yourself 'I've only got five months to go so I'm not going to deal with this now,' " he says "After a few months you learned to cut down on certain stresses You learned not to get to know people because the closer you got the more stress you had when they were blown away," Maynard says "When somebody new came in you didn’t want to know who they were, where they were from or anything about them You became a survivor, an in dividual,” he says "When you came back and were plunked down here, within 24 hours you were ready to let it out," says Kaylor "But there was no place for that release My family told me to put all that behind me Meanwhile protestors were calling GIs baby-killers " "Any normal person would react in the same way," says Dr Linda Sher man assistant professor of psychology at the University and director of the Community Veterans Employment and Training Service Center The combination of a ' catastrophic war and a lack of welcome'' make vets frustrat ed. isolated and hostile, she says "It don’t mean nothing " Ex-marine Ron Phillips says that's a phrase he hasn’t been able to lose from Vietnam "When we were there it was all lies The South Vietnamese government was one of the most corrupt in the world," Phillips says "You come back to the states and go through all this bureaucracy, and it don't mean nothing It has nothing to do with survival, it's all so some bastard up top gets rich." Phillips says "Then we re portrayed as a bunch of radical crazies " "When we came back we wanted to find out what it was all about, why in the hell we were over there, why our friends were getting killed " Leavitt says "Nobody would give us the answers " "Why did the guy who carried a Bible get shot )ust as dead as the guy who whored around7 Why did I survive when others didn’t7' asks Kaylor "We have to retreat to our own answers to why we did it and why it was — in a society that doesn't help us find an answer You live through a horror story — how do you rationalize it. ex cept that I made it? I must be a lot stronger than I thought I was ” "People think that if the veteran went, then it's his own fault That doesn't take into account that a 19-year-old at that time wasn't even conscious of political things," Maynard says "I was being a good middle-class young man I went into the military and got off on the John Wayne training," Leavitt says "i remember we were landing there in the morning I looked down and thought, Oh my God, they're killing each other down there Then it clicked how I d been duped," he said "From then on I had to say 'this is just a movie ' " If you are interested, call CVETS at 344-8387 MONDAY & TUESDAY NIGHTS BEER & BONES Mug of Beer (Under 21 gets Pepsi) Barbeque Beef Ribs Baked Potato t j o c i j (while they last!) tossed Careen baiad OREGON ELECTRIC STATION SERVING FINE FOOD & SPIRITS 5th AND WILLAMETTE (503) 485-4444 DOWNTOWN EUGENE Summer term begins June 23 A full range of regular Univer sity courses, special workshops and seminars will be included in the University's 1981 summer session, which opens in June About 800 courses will be of fered during the summer ac cording to summer session bu siness manager Ron Trebon Regular summer courses will run from Tuesday June 23. to Friday Sept 4 Registration will be held Monday June 22. at McArthur Court Trebon says this summer's activities are being geared toward the needs of several types of students, including continuing University students people pursuing higher academic degrees or seeking professional updating.' and people who simply want to en rich their lives with knowledge in particular areas The University anticipates a TURN YOUR BOOKS INTO CASH! BOOK BUYBACK STARTS MONDAY, JUNE 8 AND ENDS SATURDAY, JUNE 13. Cash for your textbooks: Our lists for both Summer and Fall terms are longer than ever before This means that students will be paid more for the textbooks they no longer need Have a good summer, and make it just a little better with the cash you can get by selling us those textbooks before leaving campus The best time to recycle them is during Finals Week when the friendly book buyers will again be here to help. They will be on duty during our usual store hours Monday, June 8, through Saturday, June 13 UO BOOKSTORE 13th & Kincaid Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 Textbooks 686-3520 • General Books 686-3510 • Supplies 686-4331 summer enrollment ot b.yuu about the same as last sum mer's enrollment, Trebon says A time schedule of classes is available at the registrar s office in Room 22. Oregon Hall, or at the summer session office in Room 64, Prince Lucien Camp bell Hall Courses will meet weekdays, unless weekends or evenings are noted in the schedule s course descriptions Special workshops and short courses also will be offered throughout the summer to provide intensive accelerated study in various academic and professional fields, Trebon says a rouna oi pre-summer workshops and courses will be offered June 15-19 Special programs include the fifth annual Family Vacation College for children and adults set for July 19-24 and the Grace Graham Vacation College, planned for Aug 16-23 and 23 30 Intent to Register ' cards, included in the summer session catalog should have been filed with the Registrar s Office or the Summer Session office before June 1 to assure that registra tion material is available on June 22. Trebon says Library displays photos Historical photographs of the Pendleton Woolen Mills are on display and available tor pur chase through Friday in the Li brary's main lobby The photographs, dated around 1912, are from the Li brary's Special Collections Made from glass plate nega tives, the prints show em ployees of the woolen mills as well as the interior and equip ment of the building, which was constructed in 1909 The pictures are from the col lection of Walter S Bowman, who was a studio photographer in Pendleton ‘ The collection is significant to industrial history because photographs of business inter iors are uncommon, librarian Phil Zorich says Proceeds from photograph sales will be used to copy pho tographs from aging negatives and to develop an index system for some 70.000 photographs housed in the Special Collec tions. Zorich says For more information, contact Zorich at 686-3068 EVER HEAR THE WORDS UPWARD BOUND"? The Upward Bound program provides high school students with a place to grow, a place to start; helping them sort out who they are and who they wish to become — in their personal relationships, school experiences, and career choices Want to help9 TUTORS NEEDED Volunteer 2 hours/week (minimum) tutoring high school students in the Upward Bound program on the University of Oregon campus June 22-August 14 Tutors needed for math, science, reading, writing, personal finance, English as a second language (Indochinese students) A rewarding experience you won't forget! Call Upward Bound, 686-3501 or drop by 107 Friendly Hall for details. '////'////////V. / W//////W./////''//////'s/K
