Show Page 4 Suicide epidemic continues to grow The epidemic has grown so large and so swiftly that by now it’salmosiccnainyourlifchasbccn touched by suicide Either a friend a friend of a friend a young person you know or a member of your family has turned the will to live back in upon itself They have killed themselves They have left us When they go however they go they leave us with a terrible grief We feel loss We feel sorrow And there is no consolation because the cold ugly unalterable fact is that they arc no more When I was a junior in high school and a friend of mine hanged himself just a week after we'd been out ground hog hunting together the death shook die entire school He was a honor student a model of deportment There was nothing to say we grieved and it still haunts us Twenty years later when a friend of a teenage friend of mine hanged himself out a sccond'story window it was the same Wc feel so many things all at once when a young person takes his life Anger How could they do this! Fear Wc thought wc knew them but there was obviously a lot we didn't know What else don’t we know—about ourselves about young people about the stresses and strains of life today? And because we feel so much and arc so baffled we run away Psychiatrists call it "systematic denial" Wc find ways to keep our distance from the growing reality of suicide Wc frame it in numbers: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among American adolescents Suicide is too savage too Since 1950 tlic suicide rate for this age group has tripled repulsive to confront directly It makes us feel power- Nearly 1700 kill themselves each less year But we are not powerless - During the 1970s 42496 Americans between IS and The credo of education is that wc can learn from our experience — 25 killed themselves Instructor gets state award ACollegcof Eastern Utah Mexico State University and Veninstructor has been elected president of the Utah Association of Academic Professionals for the 1987-8- 8 academic year G Dan Wissmar who teaches in the trade and technical program will head the 800 members of the state edica-tio- n association Die Association of Academic Professionals is an organization representing the faculties of the nine public institutions of higher education Wissmar said his goal for the year is to increase membership in the organization "We can be more effective if our numbers continue to grow" Wissmar holds a masters and bachelor's degree in industrial education from Brigham Young University He has also completed course work at the University of California at Santa Barbara New tura College He current heads CEU's trade and technical department where he has taught drafting power mechanics surveying hydraulics basic electricity electronics de- scriptive geometry blue printreading and shop math He belongs to the Utah Vocational Association National Education Association Utah Industrial Association American Vocational Association and received the Board of Regents Excellence in Teaching Award in 198S His community interests include membership in the Price Community Progress Committee National Rifle Association American Motorcycle Association National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association and commissioner on the Coal Country Housing Board and sadly wc have much now of suicide expier-cnc- c Wc know that more males destroy themselves than fc- - and that their rate of is increasing The suicide rate for males between 15 and 24 rose 50 during the 1970s but only 2 self-destructi-on for females We know that nearly 20 of suicides among college students take place in March We know juniors ant graduate students arc at the greates risk Wc know a lot of things There arc warning signals of sui cidc Wc can learn them But first wc know that wi care that we must care Suicide hurts us all When a students kill himself in a dorm the whole campus is affected His fellow students his teachers his resident advisor all feci the loss in some way or another It challenges each of them each of us Clearly wc must work suicide not just for the sake against of the victims but for all our sakes We call it an epidemic but suicide is not like thcdiphthcria that took away so many children at the beginning of this century There was one cause for diplhcria and when it was found the disease couldbestoppcd Suicide is harder there are many causes To fight it perhaps we must go much deeper to the causes not of disease but of health to the simple place that admits as fundamental and of paramount importance simply being alive We start with that gift The rest the joys the possibilities follow Wc know and wc must teach the young that for them suicide is notaproblcm-solv-ingstateg- y Concerts The following concerts have been scheduled in Utah Dates are courtesy of the Mad Platter in downtown Price George Strait October 22 in the Salt Palace REO Spccdwagon October 31 BYU Marriott Center ConwayTwitty a Randy Travis Loretta Lynn a triple bill on October 3 1 at the Special Events Center at the University of Utah Great White Whitcsnake November 22 at the Salt Palace Five week plan offered in cafeteria Sec Food Service Man- - purchase your Tim Baker in the cafeteria to October 20-2- 3 ager American Food Management Offers faculty staff and students living a NEW cal plan between for only $112 Reduced rates will be available starting each Monday thereafter off-camp- us plan starting Tuesday Octobcr20! 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