Therapy students gain experience teaching elderly
Rv.IENNY CARTER
Step into the future and imagine yourself in another 50 or 60 years. Your body moves more slowly and those old joints are a little too stiff for you to bend down and pick up the pencil that fell under the desk. Your mind doesn't always think as clearly and quickly as it once did, but you're still very much alive. At least you think you are; it just seems that people have forgotten you since you
In a growing awareness of the problems of aging, occupational therapy students are gaining teaching experience and a greater understanding of people by teaching crafts to the elderly at Babcock Place, the Ballard Community Center and the Eudora Nursing Home.
"They're letting us use them for teaching experience and we're giving them something to do with their time," Judy Beger, Lawrence sophomore, said Saturday.
Each student in therapeutic media classes goes to one of the centers four times a semester, twice as a guest.
ONCE A WEEK, groups of four students visit the
centers. The two scheduled as teachers select an activity and buy the needed materials for it.
Ray Orth, Sublette sophomore, said this was designed to teach them to use the least money possible to create activities that are satisfying to the necole.
He said he didn't mind the expense.
"go to me expense any day for the happiness those older people got from it," he said. "Each following week there were more waiting and the ones that had come before were back."
One week they made territories, Virginia Daewtier, Herrington senior, said. She and her partners set up the materials step-by-step with cards explaining each item. Colored charts showing how to make sand and pebbles were passed around so the people could feel the materials while they were explained.
**ORTH WAIT ONE of his activities was to cut cardboard backs for pictures. Different colors of burlap were glued to the cardboard and the elderly used them. The second layer was on the board. Macrame cord was used for borders.**
"They really turned out some beautiful things," Orth said.
Other activities included making papier-mache pots for plants, wooden wall hangings and tissue
Beger said, "Until you teach, you don't realize how much you have to think things through, even the simplest activities, to make sure you have the clearest possible way of explaining it."
All activities must be planned with the limitations of the elderly in mind. Sarah Getty, St. Francis sophomore, gave the example of working with arthritics. They can't use scissors, she said, so all materials must be pre-cut or a different way must be found to do the project.
Getty said that all the activities must be simple. "THEY REALLY afraid of doing things on the own; they always want you to help. They're afraid they'll ruin the project themselves," she said.
Terrie Caldwell, Windsor, Conn. junior, said there was one man in the beginning who was difficult to deal with because he would talk all the time but wouldn't participate in any of the activities. She said she day said to him. "We've talked enough. Do that for me, then we can talk about what you want to."
"I'd like to go back and see him," she said. "He knew a little about everything."
Although the projects are simple, said Leah Hoyt, Bartlesville, Okla. junior, the elderly love the project. "It was one of my favorite things," she
"Everything we've done works on the creativity of the elderly, which I think a lot of people ignore."
Orth said that at first he was "turned off" at the idea of working with the elderly.
"BUT THAT CHANGED when I saw the hearts and lives of these people brighten from the short time they were alone."
The teaching experience with the elderly brought new ideas for some and confirmed old ideas for others.
This was the first experience with the elderly for Beger.
"I was never in contact with the elderly; I was a friend and my grandparents. It really gave me a sense of comfort."
For Hoyt, the experience opened new possibilities.
She said she had originally planned to work with
children but her plans might change, depending on what jobs were available.
Getty, on the other hand, said she wanted to work with children so she could feel she would be impatient.
Her experience at Eudora with handicapped elderly was depressing, she said.
'It's sad. You know they're not going to get better and all your activities are going to have to get easier'
BUT CALDWELL, who has worked as a volunteer in cardiac intensive care, said she loved working with the elderly because of the wisdom they have to offer.
Though Katie Schonberg, Wichita sophomore, found the experience fun, she said. "It's not just for me. You have to be totally dedicated to it. I'm just not like that."
For Orth the experience brought "a stronger realization of how we often forget about older people like they don't exist, because they don't carry much force in our world.
"I thought it was one of the best activities as a student that I've had to do all year."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.131
Tuesday, April 27, 1976
Beth Boozer eyes opportunity to join golf pros
CIA still needed, Bush says
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Staff Writer
By JERRY SEIB
George Bush, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said here last night that Americans shouldn't dwell on the CIA's threats against past, but should view the agency as open to new strategies.
"I don't want to spend my time as director of this rather controversial agency logistic unit."
Lecture Series, addressed a crowd of about 1.000 in the University Theatre.
Bush, speaking in the Vickers Memorial
BUSH SPOKE JUST hours after the release of a 615-page report by the Senate and House, which showed the gun violence.
vestigators found "duplication, waste,
inertia and ineffectiveness in the in-
fusion" (McCarthy 2014).
He was greeted as he arrived at the theater by a group of about 50 protesters carrying signs that said "CIA Out Of Campus" and chanting anti-CIA slogans. The protest was sponsored by the Iranian Students Association.
Bush said he had presented the final testimony to the committee yesterday.
He said the report was "one, some of which I'll agree, some not," but he believed the report was on paper or digital.
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Bush did say he be objected to release of the CIA budget, a matter that the Senate
CIA abuses are revealed
WASHINGTON (AP)—Billion of dollars are being spent on U.S. intelligence operations, including some that are self-defeating, have misled the public and have unintentionally killed universities and the press, the Senate Intelligence Committee said yesterday.
The committee, however, backed off from revealing the exact amount of intelligence that would have been collected from CIA Director George Bush saying that disclosure of the figure would damage national security. The panel voted 6 to 5 to let the full Senate decide whether to disclose it.
In a 651-page report culminating a 15-month investigation, the committee said it found "duplication, waste, inertia and ineffectiveness in the intelligence community," but also emphasized that "it found much that was good and proper."
THE REPORT also revealed that the CIA:
—Had conducted 900 major covert projects since 1961;
—Had planted stories in foreign publications that had unwittingly been picked up and circulated by American news organizations:
—Until recently used about 50 journalists and other employees of U.S. news organizations along with a handful of other activists and missionaries as secret agents abroad and
-Is using several hundred American university administrators, professors and graduate students for intelligence and propaganda purposes.
The committee recommended passing laws barring CIA use of American journalists and urged that no scholars be used as examiners. The committee knew of senior university officials.
ALTHOUGH the report didn't reveal the intelligence budget, it strongly indicated that spending for fiscal 1978 was about $4.2 billion for the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and various reconnaissance programs.
Other findings contained in the report included:
The CIA has used philanthropic foundations to pass funds to "a seemingly limitless range of covert-action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses and other private institutions in the United States and abroad." 700 grams of more than 184 grams from 1983 and 1966, more than 100 involved partial or complete CIA funding, according to the report.
IN 1987, covert funding of American organizations was banned following the disclosure by Ramparts magazine of CIA funding of the National Student Association. The new guidelines forced the CIA to withdraw its support from many domestically
based organizations, including Radio Liberty and Radio Europe, but not before the agency advanced them large sums of money that enabled them to continue their operations as much as two years, the committee said.
ACCORDING TO the committee, most of these contacts are "purely for the purpose of asking an academic about his travels abroad or open, informal consulting on subjects of a academic expertise" and of making "dangerous degrees" of American private institutions.
The report also noted that although new guidelines forced the CIA to sever many of its connections with domestic institutions the guidelines placed no restrictions on passing funds to persons associated with those same institutions, and these were in contact with "many thousands of United States academics at hundreds of U.S. academic institutions."
News stories planted by the CIA in foreign publications for propaganda purposes sometimes turn up in U.S. newspapers and websites. One former CIA official told the committee that "if you plant an article in Sunday's paper overseas . . . there is no way of guaranteeing that it not going to be published and published by the Associated Press in this country."
committee voted to let the entire Senate decide
STORIES PLANTED by the CIA in
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Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
A group of about 50 protesters from the Iranian Students Murphy Hall last night. The protesters continued marching and Association greeted those attending George Bush's speech at shouting slogans for the duration of Bush's speech.
Noisy arrival
CIA budgets are given to congressional committees, Bush said, but the budget shouldn't be made public because that would jeopardize CIA sources and would be in conflict with the 1947 law that established the CIA.
"THE CIA REPORTS every penny of its budget to congressional oversight committees," he said. "But I don't believe giving Congress something of that nature is incompatible with not giving them to the public."
Bush said he couldn't promise an end to covert operations by the CIA or to the CIA's practice of employing college students and faculty members to do some of its saving.
"I would not rule out all further covert activity," he said. "We need a covert strategy."
Bush said that the Senate committee hadn't prohibited the use of secret operations, and that the committee's chairman, Sen. Frank Church, D-Daho, voiced approval of some covert activity in his final report.
Covert operations are the only possible action in some cases. Bush said.
"SOMEWHERE BETWEEN sending in the Marines and sitting on your hands you must do something. We probably need some kind of such capability." he said.
Bush said he believed it was the right of college students and teachers to volunteer for CIA service without being reprimanded by academic institutions.
There is no Constitutional barrier preventing college instructors and students from sharing their experiences.
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Defending the CIA
George Bush, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, spoke to a crowd at the University Theatre last night as part of the Vickers Memorial Lecture series. The series was established in 1970 in honor of J.A. Vickers, founder of the Vickers Petroleum Company and a former student at the University of Kansas.
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Classified employs get pay raise
By JIM COBB
About 3,700 classified employees at the University of Kansas will receive estimated pay increases for fiscal 1977 ranging from 3.7 per cent to 8 per cent as a result of closing action Friday by the Kansas Legislature.
The increases were part of a pay raise bill for state employees that was approved just before the 1976 legislative session adjourned.
Also approved in the session's final hours was an omnibus appropriations bill that included provisions affecting three KU programs.
Both bills must still be approved by Gov. Robert F. Bennett before becoming law.
The approved pay raise was a $15-a-month across-the-board increase plus 2.8 percent of the base pay. These increases are separate from annual merit "step" pay increases of about 5 per month.
THE STEP increases are granted to most classified employees each year to keep salaries ahead of cost-of-living increases.
Employees already receiving top-of-the-shelf pay in their job classifications.
Under the pay raise plan, an employee now making $500 a month would make $29, an increase of 5.8 per cent. An employee making $1,000 a month would get an additional $45 as pay rise.
- whose employees also received 5 per cent merit step increases, their total pay hikes would be 10.8 per cent if they made $600 a month, and 9.3 per cent if they made $1,000.
At lower salary levels, pay increases are proportionately higher than for employees.
WAYNE SPELLMAN, manager of personnel transactions and records, said yesterday that he thought the approved pay plan would help lower-income employees.
Spellman said about 1,500 employees at the Lawrence campus would receive the raises.
The KU Med Center has about 2,260 classified employees.
Classified positions at KU and the Med Center include office workers, service technicians, and staff.
B. E. "Pete" Smith, personnel director of the Med Center, said the Med Center had so many classified employees because of the many hospital, clerical and technical jobs
department of buildings and grounds and
University-intake nurses nurses and some
staff members
SUCH EMPLOYEES are hired to do specific jobs and are classified by Civil
Unclassified employees, including most administrators, instructors and research staff.
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Field hockey's fate and funding unsure
Although women's field hockey was cut from next year's athletic budget, the team's fate remains undecided until decisions are made on possible funding.
Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, said yesterday that the administration had promised about $2,000 in funding but that an additional $4,000 was needed.
Jill Grubaugh, Sports Committee co-chairman, said the committee was waiting for Washington's decision about filing a request for Senate funds.
Tasheff said that if additional funds were allocated to the team, they would come from the fiscal 1977 unallocated funds. She said that the money would be available July
Washington said there was a possibility that the money could be obtained through supplemental Student Senate funding. But she said she was waiting to hear from the Sports Committee before making any requests to the Senate.
GRUABUAH SAID she would meet today with Tedde Tashseff, student body president, after Tashseff discusses the sport's funding with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
Grubbaugh said a bill to fund women's field hockey could be presented at the May 5
She said she thought the Senate would be sympathetic to women's athletics.
TASHEFF SAID she was kisplest of the funding because the state might not fund enough money for the team next year and the Senate would again be left with the same
"Is the Student Senate going to get itself in a position of picking up the loose ends of the party?"
Women's field hockey was cut from next year's budget when the total women's athletic budget request to the state and city budget was dropped from $13,980 to $153,105.
In the final budget request, nine sports were allocated $82.793.
The hockey team's original request for next year was for $7,728, which didn't inquire about other funding.
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