Monday, May 10.1976
University Daily Kansan
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Child neglect criticized
By PEGGY BASS
Staff Writer
A cofounder of Project Headstart said Friday that children were his politics.
Edward Zigler, professor of psychology at Yale University, addressed a crowd of about 50 people in the Forum Room of the Kirkcaldy School on "Government Policy and Child Care."
The department of human development and family life sponsored the talk.
Zigler said that he hoped to arouse anger concern or, at least, a feeling of anger toward him.
"I believe the people in the Midwest have a heart for children," Zigler, a native of Michigan.
"OUR GREATEST enemy," he said, "is that we are victims of a myth that we are child-oriented society and are doing so to help them there's nothing to worry about."
Zigler said President Ford's recent veto of a child care bill helped prove this notion.
"We have to get groups centered on
children and so far, there are no such groups," he said. "I'm not here to belittle such groups as the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts, but they're fractionated. I never had any success in mobilizing them around children's issues."
Zigler said that as director of the federal Office of Child Development until 1972, he had to cut across racial lines and usually appealed to women more than to men to get involved.
One program that he is trying to push through, he said is national inoculation and education.
"IT'S A SHAME that we can't find a way to get America's children inoculated," he said. "All it takes is a shot in the arm. If we do not kill them, we be totally shocked by repeated diseases."
Zigler said that the government could "pigg-ky-back the children's effort on the adults' effort" by giving vaccines against poliom and measles to children at the same time vaccines were given to adults against swine flu. President Ford wants America
Another health problem facing children, Zigler said, is maintenance and starvation, which he attributed to world overpopulation.
adults inoculated against swine flu next year.
IN ADDITION TO medical abuse, children are abused physically and legally by "a system that just can't find within a program to care for them," Gziar said.
"Things are not getting better. They seem to forever be getting worse," he said.
Project Headstart is an exception, according to Zigler, because it has public access.
"The evidence is crystal-clear that wherever there is a Headstart program there is a catalyst of change in the community's treatment of children.
SUA service scholarship given
Salvador Gomes Jr., Satatma junior, has been selected to receive the $300 University Grant.
"Headstart isn't a singular program, but involves a series of programs. There is an amalgamation of them."
The selection was made by the SUA Board on the basis of service to the University of Wisconsin.
Cultural committee makes plans for fall
He said that, although some of the problems had been solved this semester, there were still complaints from residents who bought video games and property damage in the area.
The Senate Cultural Affairs Committee outlined its work for the fall semester and elected its summer StudEx representative last night.
Sharon Anderson, Marion sophomore, will be the committee's voting representative during the summer StudEx meetings.
He said Steve Owens, student body vice president, would continue to work with Watson on the problem during the summer and in the fall.
The committee also put off until the election of his representative to the Coalition.
John Catlett, Cultural Affairs chairman, said the committee would submit recommendations in the fall to the Lawrence City Commission and City Manager Buford Watson concerning the crowd problems near the 14th street bars.
Gomez, who is majoring in psychology and political science, has served as a member of the affirmative action and minority affairs advisory boards. As an assistant to campus veterans, he has worked to publish work study programs for veterans.
Zigler said that Headstart provided a positive educational atmosphere, unlike the other schools in the district.
He has also done research on migrant worker housing in Kansas.
Rosalea Postma, SUA president, said yesterday that there were 20 applicants for the scholarship, which was established for the Kansas University in 1870. Kansas Union fire in April 1870.
"It's amazing the diverse ways people have given service and it's really painful to me."
The amount of the scholarship is determined each year by the annual interest accumulated on the $5,000 that was given to the general insurance carriers following the fire.
"I've had a love-hate relationship with the American school system for the past 20 years," he said. Education doesn't have to be dull.
"OUR CONVENTIONAL wisdom is so often just conventional and not wise."
Lack of wisdom is shown, he said, by allowing corporal punishment in the school.
"This legal abuse of children must be overcome before parental abuse can be treated."
Zigler called the $18-million federal allocation to abuse centers "Band-Aid."
He said that there were one million reported cases of child abuse last year.
"You're not going to do very much with $1 a child," Zigler said. "Where are our priors?"
"We must never give up on the child.
Never give up on what you can do for him."
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Fire upstages dance ensemble
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University Theatre in Murphy Haul was smoothly evacuated during a dance performance Friday night when a fire in a lighting board was discovered by the lighting crew.
"The dancers heard it on the stage floor and took off," she said.
Mary Lawson, Topeka sophomore, said yesterday that she had been working the lights for the Tau Sigma Dame Ensemble from the theater's balcony control booth when he heard that the theater was being evacuated because of fire.
She found out later that a "patch panel" had blown three relay switches, she said, which started the fire.
The board where the fire occurred is about 25 years old, according to Lawson, and it has blown relays before.
Lawson said Tom Sherman, Lawrence senior, the lighting designer for the show, received word of the fire and ran to the panel to use a fire extinguisher on it. Lawson said she had turned off the power to the circuits by then. Soon after that the fire was out.
The relays made three separate pops when they blew up, scaring the dancers. Lately they were a staple.
The damage turned out to be relatively minor. Lawson said two of the rails had broken on Saturday and required performance Saturday night for those who didn't get to see t: whole show Friday.
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