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Wednesday, March 29, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Writer says her book not novel
Renata Adler
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
By SUSAN WOODARD
Staff Writer
She is a fiction writer for the New Yorker, a law student at Vale and has been a film producer.
Renata Adler's career is almost as varied as her latest book.
Ader is the writer-in-residence for the English department's wk week. She will be reading and discussing her latest novel, *Eleanor of Wakefield*, in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
IN AN INFORMAL discussion yesterday, Adler said that she did not consider "Speedboat" to be a novel and that she was not really sure what type of work it was.
1 guess they put 'a novel' on the cover because things that are not novels don't sell at all," she said. "Some of it is autobiographical, but a lot of it is not." The book has to have a plot and that was a failure, not a decision. I really did want to have a plot.
"I would have edited it in the book shop if I could have," she said.
"I turned in this manuscript of whatever it was and I thought something would happen between then and when it was bound, and a plot would appear."
"Speedboat" is written in a series of interrelated "takes" that range from a single engine to a couple.
Staff Writer
ADLER SAID she edited the book extenuely after it was written an effort to肩
"What happens is, I write short takes," she said, "and then I run down."
THE SHORT sections take on a certain rhythm, Alder said. She said she thought the drum was good.
"For instance, there was this sentence, 'The homosexual across the hall from me always takes Valium and walks his beagle,' she said. "No homosexual lives across the hall from me. I just appy to it, I just liked that sentence and I really wanted to use it in my book."
A U.S. Supreme Court rulong last week on student suspensions is another example of the disparity between the rights and the responsibilities of juveniles, Deanell Tacha, associate dean of the School of Law, said last week.
The name "Speedbot" was taken from a short story published by Adder in the New Yorker and used in the novel. The name for that story came from a single paragraph,
"There is only one paragraph in the story that mentions a speedboat, and from what I could see there was no possible reason to have that paragraph there," she said. "But I grew fond of it. I liked that paragraph and so I figured if that I named the story after it, there would be a reason to leave that paragraph in."
ADLER BROKE into writing in 1962 when
Labor laws for juveniles attacked
By SUSAN MORGENSTERN
Tacha said the Occupational Safety and
The court ruled that public school students suspended from school without a hearing could collect normal damages for violation of their constitutional rights.
The courts increasingly have afforded juveniles the same basic constitutional rights as adults in criminal proceedings, Tacha said.
BUT CHILD labor laws, she said, have not allowed employees to assume responsibilities if they do not know how to perform them.
I acrea said in that Kansas those from 14 to 18 years old had a hard time finding jobs because of strict limitations on the types of jobs available. In 2016, an employer responsibilities for work permits.
IF THE LAWS designed to protect children were made more liberal, she said, exploitation of child labor would not be a problem.
"The state precludes freedom of choice as to whether a child is to work or not," she said. "The state, I don't think, ought to be deciding work or play."
Society has changed, Tacha said, but the child labor laws have remained essentially the same as when they were first passed, about 60 years ago.
Health Act and union regulations were examples of protection for all workers.
As for the possibility of parents' forcing their children to work, she said, "That's the hard question, although I think the answer is easy."
The law traditionally had treated parent-child relationships as being within the private decision-making process, she said, excluding cases of physical abuse.
AND IT IS within the family, Tacha said,
that Jairus' juveniles could prove par-
entage to them.
Children are a drain on the family budget, she said, and if they could contribute to it, she suggested.
"If there isn't that drain, there isn't that strain on the family relationship," she said. Because a paycheck contributes to a person's feelings of self-worth, Tacha said, more jobs for juveniles could mean a lower rate of delinquency.
Forrest Swail, assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare, said that a lack of jobs for young people affected the entire community.
"No one knows whether unemployment contributes to crime, but it seems logical."
SWALL RECALED a 1973-74 of 10 poll that asked high school students in Albany County
*We need to expand opportunities for all youth, whether or not it would affect their own lives.*
He said that the vast majority wanted jobs and that the students cited lack of employment as a reason.
sportation and parental opposition as factors to their unemployment.
"There is no healthy outlet for that desire," he said.
Swall said that communities needed to help create jobs for juveniles.
"It wouldn't represent a money loss to the community," he said, "because the young people were more likely to leave."
she became a reader of unsolicited manuscripts for the New Yorker.
In 1968 she was asked by the New York Times to be a film critic. Adler said she had watched some of her films, but for about a month so she had some experience, but the strict newspaper deadlines worried her. She was assigned to review every new film that was released in New York.
Gregory Walstrom was released from jail Monday on a $1,500 bond following his arrest last week for allegedly writing a bad check to The Town Shop, 839 Massachusetts St.
Walstrom, who lists his address as 1128 Ohio St., is on the advisory board of The Society of Art, a group recognized in March to support the arts and thus eligible to receive Senate funding.
Walstrom posts bail after arrest for bad check
In February Walstorm asked the County Commission to let him rent the county fgrounds for an outdoor art festival. He held a student activity fee money to fund the festival.
Walstrom is charged with a felony for allegedly writing a bad check for clothes
"I kept saying, 'What if I just can't make you say,' and 'And they said, "You will! And did it.'"
After one year with the Times, Adler quit.
"I THOUGHT, 'This is not a life,'" she said. "It is not possible to have an opinion about every movie is inane."
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 30 in district court.
BECAUSE of her experience as a film
actor, Adler was invited to teach the
film workshop.
"I was to teach an introductory film class and they promised that by the end of the semester, every student would have made a movie." Of course, we were flooded with students."
Adler's interests are not limited to film and writing. Now a second-year law student at Yale University, she says she has decided to study law to help her writing.
“IT BECOMES harder and harder for me to be a journalist and to be confident,” she said. “I would like to know the law as some people know wildlife. But I'm having trouble studying. I'm skipping class to be here. I think I'm just too old to be in school.”
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