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Page 2/The Batta I ion/Tuesday, July 12, 1983 Summer school blues hit So when does the fun start? Summer is here, the weather has been great and I’m away at college. I would swear that everyone told me summer school would be the time of my life. I’ll say it is. During the first session, I took two classes — a nice, reasonable load. Or so I thought. Every minute that I wasn’t trying to keep up with the reading, I was trying to get started on the papers and speeches that were almost due. At the same time, I was trying to get settled into my new job here at The Battalion. Skiing, sailing, the coast — even lying by the pool — never seemed to fit into my schedule. But I didn’t give up hope. I was deter mined to make it through the session and still have fun. I didn’t count coming down with a lung infection. Thai took care of a few precious class days. But still no big deal. There were two weeks left for me to catch up. Then there was the high school com munications workshop the department sponsors each summer. There went two more days, spent helping high school stu dents put together a couple of pages of The Battalion. Finals arrived and I still hadn’t man aged to buy a new swimming suit, much less take a trip to the coast. After finals, another tragedy struck — I had to register for the second session. That hurt. Half of the time of my life gone, and I didn’t have a single photo graph or sunburn to prove I had lived it. What would my grandchildren think? Since my one and only class this ses sion doesn’t meet on Fridays, I decided to leave town after registration and go do something. So I went home to go sailing. Have you ever sat in a sailboat and wished for a battery-operated fan? I did. Sailing didn’t turn out so great, so I decided to spend the evening at home shooting fireworks for my preschool-age brothers. So what if I was a week late, I wasn’t home for the Fourth of July. My brothers loved it, but after 12 dozen bot tle rockets (yes, I counted them), I got a little bored. Sunday was the first hint at real excite ment and adventure. I went with my little brother’s Sunday school class to the In ternational Wildlife Park in Grand Prairie. An afternoon with 11 5-year-olds definitely added something different to my summer journal. I have only a few weeks left for the time of my life. I wonder if my fondest memory of this summer will be of chasing ducks in a paddle boat with two little kids. Cold-shouldering new fashions by Dick West United Press International WASHINGTON — The female fashion news this season includes the tid ings that bare shoulders are making a comeback. It’s a matter, apparently, of designers creating garments with oblique neck- holes. Whereas necklines once plunged forward, exposing vast amounts of cleav age to the naked eye, now they sort of veer off to the side. The veer neckline, like the V- neckline, permits much more than the neck to slide through. But there the simil- iarity ends. This summed as the shoul der’s turn to shine. There is enough room in many of this summer’s necklines for an entire shoulder to emerge — sun burned bra strap and all. As to what this might bode for the economy, I am not prepared to say. The stock market, Wall Street histo rians tell us, tends to take its cue from hemlines. The Dow Jones averages tradi tionally go up when skirts are short, and fall during periods of relative modesty. I, however, have never seen a compa rable analysis done with necklines. So I can’t say whether the bare shoulder phe nomenon reflects the employment out look, interest rates, or what. Purely from a spectator’s, as opposed to an investor’s, standpoint, it is better to have necklines going sideways than dropping to the rear. I can remember a time when backless garments were all the rage, and I can tell you they didn’t do in toward enhancing a person’s faith the human spinal column. As we discovered that season, verteb rae are even more individualistic than bellybuttons. Some protrude. Others re cess. Many list either to port or starboard. Or both. Often at the same time. As for the scapulae that flank the up per part of the spinal column ... well, words fail me. Let me just say that iden tical shoulder blades are extremely rare, even on the same back. It is true the most famous pinup photo of World War II featured Betty Grable densely packed into a backless swim suit, but she was a rule-proving exception. The popularity of her pose stemmed in large measure from the novel fact that Miss Grable had symmetrical veterbrae and matching scapulae. Generally, how ever, anytime there is a neckline spa cious enough to accommodate more than one part of the body, it is better to have it slide over one shoulder than to take a direct dorsar. What then, precise ly, is a shoulder? Scientifically speaking, I mean? Anatomical specialists tell us a shoul der consists primarily of the clavicle, or collarbone, and the deltoid muscle. Shol- ders customarily come in pairs. That, un fortunately, means the average person has two clavicles, which don’t match up very well either. But, fortunately, most necklines can be designed so that only one shoulder at a time is exposed. The human brain being what it is, the assumption then is made that the other shoulder is a reasonably accurate facsimile. Anyway, the return of the off-the- shoulder look somehow seems symbolic of Reaganomics. I can’t wait to see what the Gross National Product does next. by Helen Thomas United Press International House during the Watergate scandal re mains a secret. Backstairs at the WASHINGTON White House: Some of President Reagan’s aides are kicking themselves over the Carter brief ing book controversy. Aides say they could have done with out the documents from the Carter cam paign staff that were passed on to the Reagan political advisers before the big Carter-Reagan debate in 1980. “I wish we hadn’t had it,” said one aide. “It wouldn’t have changed any thing.” Others were somewhat abashed at the way they kissed off the first revelations and then had to backtrack. Whether there were any “Deep Throats” in the Carter White House re mains to be seen. The identity of the real “Deep Throat” in the Nixon White Carter aides believe the Reagan cam paign received more inside information than the documents they had prepared for the big debate. They said there were only 10 closely held copies of the debate briefing mate rials. “They had access to a lot more infor mation,” one Carter aide said. Wayne Valis, a former Reagan cam paign aide, told interviewers, “I’d be dumbfounded” if the debate memos were the only papers the Reagan camp got its hands on during the 1980 cam paign. House correspondent, who revealed in his new book “Gambling with History” that the Reagan administration had been slipped inside information during the campaign. Barrett says he wrote it during the campaign, but it landed on his maga zine’s editing floor. Having a news peg is not bad when you’re trying to sell a book. The most surprised man in the whole story is Laurence Barrett, Time’s White Rumors persist that Jim Rosebush, Nan cy Reagan’s chief of staff, may be moving on. Rosebush may have his eye on a diplo matic post in Paris. He has headed the first lady’s staff for more than a year in the East Wing and some sources say he believes he feels he will have a better chance for advance ment elsewhere. World hunger The silent emergency (Editor’s note: Children’s Express, a pri vately funded news service, is real world journalism reported entirely by children 13 years of age or under whose tape- recorded interviews, discussions, reports and commentary are edited by teenagers and adults.) by Children’s Express United Press International NEW YORK— It’s a silent emergency. Not enough people know. About 40,000 children a day lose their lives to malnutri tion and don’t even grow up to be able to read or do anything. They’re still babies, infants and they should be able to livejust like anybody else. If people were to really think about that, they would think, “One of those people could be me.” It’s the same thing when you eat your dinner and you leave all your food on the plate and it just goes in the garbage. All these other people would eat anything just to be able to sur vive. Children’s Express wanted to know what UNICEF was doing about world hunger, so we talked to Dr. Joe Wray of Columbia University and Dr. Susan Cole- King of UNICEF. We asked them how come, even with UNICEF doing so much to help, there are people dying of mal nutrition. “UNICEF is only a tiny contribution,” Dr. Cole-King told us. “I can’t emphasize that enough. We don’t have enough money to make a big impact. If you com pare what UNICEF spends on this with what the U.S. or Britain spends on arms production, for wars and development of nuclear weapons, it’s less than one per cent of what’s spent on arms. So it’s very small in comparison with the needs.” Someone said that if everyone stopped arms production for a day, that money could completely solve world hunger. The problem isn’t that the parents of those hungry children don’t care. A lot live in poor countries and are illiterate. They don’t have enough money, enough food, enough things to help the children grow. They don’t have enough milk, and they’re not getting the proper vitamins. They just don’t know how to help their children. “World hunger is a very complex situa tion,” Dr. Cole-King said. “It has to do with poverty, wars and political instabil ity. You can give supplementary food and give some assistance to these fami lies, but you can’t do that on a wide scale. So we try to educate. That’s the strongest argument here.” The major cause of malnutrition is someone being breastfed overlong and lacking the other food that’s necessary. “Most babies are breastfed by their mothers,” Dr. Wray explained. “Breast milk has enough to provide everything they need in order to grow and develop normally for the first few months, healthy baby outgrows his mothenl production capacity.” We asked about when the breastfed and just takes a bottlevil or she is born. “Stopping breastfeeding vet) disastrous for the child,” Dr. Colt replied. She explained that breas carries antibodies, whiteblood ceil immunities to the child. It’s better! lepresentatn town meetin the Brazos and more protected from contamiifljl I 1 V/ r than powdered milk which can’tG*' those nutrients. Once children anB nourished, they don’t have as mar# by Angel S lenses because the white bloodce« Battalion; They could die of a common diseil| umana 5 ,os P l measles, anything which mightlfe e harmless. Station pplication this nr tii , las Health Facil Because many children arent«i on p or a pp rova i ated against common diseases, tli;|ii ef T t . station, much more susceptible to diseaseHf the pre-appl kids are in America. Now, moreepresents a certif i approved by th< es commission, I 'roposal, complel ’ its and operatic . hospital, m The major cause of /nainufrfcct mber 31, sai is someone being breastfed t! ^pj^i etutive long and lacking the other I* that’s necessary. ape sessions Wee Sen. Kent Cap< stable vaccines are being devel IPresnal will pi which don’t require to be heldats ^ °* fhis y ear low temperature. So they’re cask transport. “Some of the fundamental profc are poverty and the problems of injn and the wrong distribution of re$« of the world in most countries,” Dri ‘ King said. “We are trying to assistin' ever way so that we can alleviate dial until the basic social changes takeplaj the countries, the problems will i solved.’ We wondered how a regular ohj dle-class person living in an advai country like America can helpUNI| and try to stop world hunger. “UNICEF needs a lot of supp terms of individual contributions, Cole-King replied, “but also in ten publicizing what we do. We have at packages and information about win do, about the problems of malnuin and the problems of children in dev® ing counktries. 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