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LehighWeek
Vol. 3, Issue 24
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
March 28 1990
FSAP Offers Counseling In
Employees' Troubled Times
By Suzanne S. Fisher
Many of life's problems can seem insurmountable: the
death of a relative, difficulties with children or spouse,
stress at work, drug or alcohol abuse. If you are faced with
such problems a new program offered by Lehigh to its
faculty and staff may help you find some answers.
The Faculty/Staff Assistance Program (FSAP), a
voluntary, confidential and professional counseling and
referral service provided by The Counseling Program of
Pennsylvania Hospital, has been established by the
university and has been in effect since March 1.
The program provides eligible employees and their
dependents with counseling services, including five free
visits per year to an off-campus counselor and referrals to
specialized programs when needed.
"Every company has employees with problems," says
Rebecca Bowen, employee relations and training manager
at Lehigh. According to the National Institute on Drug
Abuse about 18 percent of American workers are believed
to abuse alcohol, other drugs — or both.
But substance abuse is one of many reasons employees
might seek help. Counseling can be helpful in dealing with
martial or family difficulties, depression and anxiety,
stress, or financial problems.
The Drug Free Workplace Act of November 1988
requires all institutions receiving federal funds to implement a drug free workplace policy and establish a referral
program to help those employees who have problems with
substance abuse. Lehigh's program fulfills that requirement and goes much farther by providing counseling and
referral services to its employees for almost any problem.
"In other companies and universities
EAP's are working remarkably well in
terms of employee health and saving
the institution money."       -Neaisimon
"I was very pleased to discover this type of program
was available." says Neal Simon, associate professor of
psychology, chairman of the committee that interviewed
providers.
' 'We need to take care of our human resources in an
effective way," says Kevin Siddons, Lehigh's drug and
alcohol counselor and committee member. While
See FSAP page 3
need to talk,
there's someone
to listen.
'Liberating The Human Spirit'
Elizabeth Keegan Colley
"You need to know Terence," said the poet. "He was an African, a slave
[who] became the most popular playwright in Rome.... This man, not
born white, not born free, with no chance of ever achieving citizenship,
said, 'I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.'"
Maya Angelou
By Roger Clow
Lehigh Univeristy Writers' Group
Maya Angelou sang to, spoke with,
read to, danced for and thoroughly inspired
an overflow audience of students, faculty
and friends last Wednesday in Packard Lab
Auditorium. The world's most widely
read black woman author was the third
speaker in the series "America and the
Global Wave of the Future: Sink or
Swim?" sponsored by the Visiting
Lecturers Committee and the lacocca
Institute.
Angelou encouraged students of all
races to comprehend their place in the
continuum of human civilization and
culture, to ponder what "education" really
means, and to find in literature all the
inspiration they will ever need.
"You have already been 'paid for,'"
she said. "Whether your ancestors came
from [Ireland, Eastern Europe, Asia, South
America or Africa], they have paid for
you. It seems very clear to me that the
only problem which faces you is how you
can prepare yourself to pay for somebody
who is yet to come....
"The charge upon you is such a
serious one. It is not just how to leave
this institution with enough 2.9's or 3.2's
to get jobs. The challenge is what will
you do to make this country more than it
is today. More than what James Baldwin
called 'these yet-to-be-united States.' It's
no small matter. Onerous, I agree, but
full of glory."
Each young person's success is
everyone's success, she said. "You are
all there is, and somehow, I don't know
why, many adults are reluctant to say to
you how desperately we need you. It's a
shame to admit the world we offer you,
rife with every kind of abomination,
polluted, filthy with hatred and ignorance.
She said she and other adults are
embarrassed about the state of the world,
but she was unequivocal in laying
responsibility for the future on the next
generation. "Here it is, though. It's your
world. Here it is. At least you must
See. Angelou page 3