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Volume XXI Number 9 Lassen Appointed Executive Assistan To The C r Paula Richardson Staff Writer Lassen began hIS studies a Coas at In the 1979-80 school year and gradua ed in 1983 wi h a B.S. '" bIology. As a Philip R. Lassen, a Coastal Carolina undergraduate he served as '981~2 College alumnus, has been appointed by Student Government ASSOCIatIon wce­ Chancellor Fred Hicks as Executive president and preSIdent in 1982-83. He Assistant to the Chancellor, effective holds the Rogers Service Award a According to F~bruary 13, 1984. Coastal and is a member of he Socle y 01 Chancellor Hicks, "Philip Lassen is an outstanding individual wi h exceptional the Undersea World (SUW) and he abilities. I am delighted to have him as a SIerra ClUb. Since graduation lassen ha close associate." held a pOSItIOn as superVIsor at Untted Immediately after graduation from high Parcel Service. school Lassen spent 4 months at the In August, 1982 Mr. lassen marned University of Alaska in Anchorage. Six Kevin Munn of Sumter, S.C .• a Coastal years in the U.S. Navy followed this: 3 student. The couple met a a prevlou years active duty in California and 3 years CI 0 DAY. Smce December the Las ens reserve duty in Charleston, S.C. Lassen's father was in the Air Force, so have lived In Forestbroo TheIr he Isn't really a "native" of anywhere; he household consists of 8 cats 1 dog a has traveled in 13 countnes and 50 states. bIrd and an aquarium tul of f s a • Coastal Carolina College has just be neflt a foreign student from an ISE~ become a member of the International tn stitutlon who comes here to study. Studen Exchange Program ISEP. This is \",hile you get what someone else a very easy way to complement your prOVIded abroad. There are many ways 0 education at Coastal WIth a sophomore or arrange your input. Besides using your junior year abroad. You pay what you financial aid, you may offer your home to would pay for your tuition, room, and satIsfy the room and board part provided board here, using all financial aid that that it is within reasonable commuting you are elIgible for--but get the benefit of distance. If you are a very good student all these things at one of the three to four an International Program travel agent dozen institutions all over the globe wh may also be available. are ISEP members. You can study at English language institutions abroad or Even if you cannot go abroad this year instance Development Policy at the you can start planning for the next. University of Oar-es-Salaam in Tansania, 'nstitutlons in French, German, and or Shakespeare at the University of Spanish speaking countries will expect Alberta in Canada. You can study you to have knowledge of the respective German literature in Germany or fashion language sufficiently so that you can design in France, provided you have follow their classes. To qualify. you may enough language ability to follow a class. wish to put some emphasis on foreign You can take Chinese at the Chinese language skIlls in planning your University of Hong Kong, but you must coursework for this coming year. take Spanish at Coastal first before going to the Universidad de los Andes in For details on how to apply. where to go, Colombia. the transfer of credits, and all other questions, see Dr. Bruno Gujer at AC Your payment to Coastal will actually 103-A. Coa by Sherri Johnson Featur Editor • Every year I every day, every min u e, and every second. our society exper­ Managing Editor •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Karen L. (Bugs) Hill iences changes. We can see these Copy Editor ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• , Ann Sanders changes as the future unfolds before our very eyes. We need to mdivldually as Features Editor •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sherri Johnson ourselves, "What am I dOing to prepare Sports Editor •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Teresa Richardson myself for the future?" Most of us co lege Photographer •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Katie Kelly students would answer thIS question by Staff Writers •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• lisa Kline saying. "I am gOing to college to prepar Dawn Flowers myself for the future. It But are e really Production Assistant ••••••••••••••••••••••••• Roxy Sullivan domg this? Most of us ould fall short of Advisor ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "-Inaa Schwartz the true answer to thiS question. But Coastal's students may soon answer thi pro po sa question with truth and urance. peets. Cultural Arts Activities March 11 - 3:00 pm - Pianist - Eugene Barban 5-9 - SPRING BREAK 10 - Sat. - Last of the Red Hot Lovers - GST 10-18 - Can-Am' Days 12 - Choir Sing Myrtle Square - 6:30 pm Sometimes I wish that I could explain to home crying. They sat me down and 16-17-18 - Camelot other students what I've been through asked to see my arms. What could I do? 22 - Thurs. - Sara Johnson, violinist - Wheelwright over the past few years The use of I felt trapped, so I showed them. They 25 - 3:00 pm - Studen Recital marijuana and harsh narcotics have were deeply hurt, but more concerned 29 - Thurs. - 10:30-11 :30 - Faculty Recital scarred me for life. I can only hope that in with helping me. 30 - Fri. - 9:30 - Susie's Show - Wheelwright the future students will avoid what I refer 30 - Fri. - 12:30 - Choir Sing for Arts - Wheelwright to as "the highway to hell." Maybe the Soon I began visiting a pyschiatrist. She 28-31 - SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL knowledge of my past will enable helped me a great deal. I don't really students to avoid the use of drugs think I would have ever stopped using April entirely. drugs if it had not been for my shrink. 8 - Brookgreen - 3:00 - 25-30 Brass and String Choir Sing She made me realize that I did indeed 11 - Wed. - 8:00 - Glenn Miller Orch. Convention Center My involvement with drugs started have a seriOUS problem . Often she made 14 - Sat. - Colliegiate Choral Festival - Furman • when I was fifteen years old, and only me so angry, but actually I was mad at 13-15 - Godspell because someone said , "try some, you'll myself. After six months I stopped doing 10 - 8:00 - Faculty Recital - Methodist Curch • love it." After all, marijuana is not that drugs and finally started making 18 - 1 :30 - Maybe student recital strong a drug. It doesn't even compare to progress. I learned to like myself and feel 19 - last Class Day the use of pills. Though many people had security in reality. lowe a lot to my 23 - Exam Week previously told me that one thing leads to psychiatrist. There's no way I can ever 28 - Sat . - Smell of the Greasepaint - GST another. like any other naive teenager, I repay her for the devotion I received. thought this could never happen to me. May But it did and it can happen to you. Drug abuse affected my in many ways. 5 -m GRADUATION - 10:00 - Choir Sing Before using drugs, I was a straight" A " 14-20 - Theatre trips to New York After marijuana t~r 1ed taking student . Now, I have to work three limes Quaaludes, Valiums, DemerJl. mor­ as hard to be average in school. When I pnine, and herorn. Why? I guess because read something, I always have to go back I felt secure in my world of drugs. Al first and reread it in order to comprehend the I fel t really great, maybe even proud, meaning. As a result of drug abuse, I still about my drug use. But the daily routine hallucinate and it scares me to death . But of getting up to search for money got old by far , the worst thing is my loss of fast. Stealing, fighting, scheming, memory. Three years of my life is a total whatever it took, I did it. Suddenly I blank. What did I do? Where did I go? started getting depressed. After severe Only God can answer those questions. £lmerican ~ollcgiatc taorts ~ntbolog!' periods of depression there were many times I thought of suicide. Luckily they Today I feel very good about myself, but ~~ were only thoughts. Next, I even lost my like a smoker craving for cigarettes. I sense of value and belonging. I often know I could easily backslide and take International Publications wondered what purpose I served through that first drug. I owe my life to many is sponsoring a my existence on earth. However this was people and there's no way I could ever only the beginning of my problems. begin to repay them. I know I'm not the only student at Coastal Carolina that's ~ationaI <!.Collrge laoetrp <!COllt'CSt The biggest ' shock came as a total been through drug addition, and I don't surprise to me. A very dear friend of want your pity.