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Tuesday, March 21, 1978
University Daily Kausan
Kids benefit from older friends
Bv BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Writer
About 70 Kansas University students leave behind the busy life of classes, living organizations, sports and other campus activities for a few hours each week to share their time with Lawrence children who need an older friend.
The students are participating in the Big Brother/Big Sister Program that is sponsored by the organization.
Steve Baska, Olathe state, has been involved in the program for three years. Last year he was coordinated by the Guild of Boys and Girls and he has a 10-year-old Little Brother, Angus Coral-Maher.
"It's good experience for both of us," Baska said Sunday. "It's good for Angus to have a role model to follow and it gives me a lot of satisfaction in knowing that I've helped the growth and stabilization of his personality."
BASKA SAID many of the children's parents were divorced or separated and some of them were dead. He said the children were sometimes only children or members of very large families, but they all needed attention from an older friend.
The activities include parties that are held several times a semester for everyone involved in the program. But most of the time is spent with the children in one-on-one relationships.
When a Big Brother or Sister takes a Little Brother or Sister out, they may go bowling to a museum, to the library or just spend time together.
"One of the best times we had is when we went to the library," said Pam Rodick, Leawood junior, whose little Sister is Alice and really helped us form a closer relationship.
Rodick said yesterday that Hall was quiet and shy the first time they went out together at her house.
"THINK it just took her a while to build up her confidence in me, but now we're..."
She said she thought the program was
J-school dean among finalists for CU position
Staff Writer
By PAM MANSON
Debert Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, is one of three finalists for the position of dean at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Brinkman said yesterday that CU had not informed him he was a finalist.
"All I know is that they contact me last fall and ask me to submit a resume, which I did," he said. "I know the committee ran a study, and I know that I didn't know I was selected as a finalist."
The three finalists were chosen from a group of about 35 applicants who were invited by a search committee to apply for the position.
BORCHERS SAID CU had not made an official announcement of the finalists.
Robert Borchers, vice chancellor for academic affairs at CU, said the search committee had written letters to those not selected as finalists and should have written the finalists inviting them to Colorado for interviews.
however, information about the finalists was leaked from the university.
Russell Shain, acting dean of Colorado's School of Journalism, is another finalist. Borchers refused to identify the third finalist but said he lived on the West coast.
The search committee chose the three finalists and submitted their names to the vce chancellor's office. The office conducted a background check on each finalist.
On the basis of the checks and interviews with each candidate, a committee composed of the chancellor, the vice chancellor, the presiding judge, and the search committee will select the new dean.
Brinkman said he probably would go to Colorado for an interview but it was unlikely that he would accept the job if it was offered to him.
"IT'S LATE IN THE year to accept a new position," he said. "I really don't know enough about the situation to say if I would seriously consider taking the job."
Brinkman has been dean of the KU School of Journalism since 1975 and a member of the faculty since 1970. He graduated from Kansas State College, Emporia in 1984 and received both his master's and Ph. D degrees from Indiana University.
Dole addition to canal treaty fails in Senate
Treaty supporters said the amendment was unnecessary and could cripple the pact. The Dole amendment was one of the few that came to a vote on their merits as Senate leaders opted for a tactic of tabling most proposals offered by treaty fees, rather than letting them be considered on substance.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Panama Canal treaty proponents defeated two potentially crippling amendments to the accord yesterday but were frustrated in working out a timetable to produce a final vote within three weeks.
The Senate, by a 45-39 vote, killed an amendment送官 by Sen. Bob Bole, R-Kan, which sought to bar Panama from inviting any foreign troops into the country before the year 2000, when the canal would turn over to Panama by the United States.
worthwhile and contributed to the growth of the children.
"But I probably get just as much out of it as she does," Rodick said. "It marks you realize that children are people, too. And it is more able to make their days more enjoyable."
Mark Pruitt, Overland Park senior, is one of the coordinators this year for the Big Brother Program. We all there had been some challenges in participation or changes in the system.
In previous years a social worker helped by recommending children to the program. But this year it is up to parents to contact the program if they are interested.
Louise Cook, a social worker for the Lawrence school district, said the school administration wanted parents to assume more responsibility in the program.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT was serving as a middemon for the program and there were no volunteers.
parents," she said. "We also ran into some problems with privacy laws."
She said that disclosure of a child's family information to the program in the reimbursed program is not permitted.
Cook said the school district also had encountered some problems when Big Brothers on Big Sisters left the program and the parents would blame the school for their
"But we still think it's a terrific program and strongly support its continuation," she added.
The program at KU originated in 1965 as the Youth Friendship Program. Tom Moore, who was executive director of KU-Y, began the program, Cook asked. Then Volunteer Clearing House incorporated it into their program.
Cook said that there had been consideration of affiliating with the national Big Brother-Big Sister program but that the KU program, which is financed by the Student
Senate, didn't have enough money to join the national group.
'THE NATIONAL organization would force us to create a paid executive director's role.'
Cook said that even though she no longer referred school children to the program, she and several other administrators served on an advisory board to the program.
Jodi Lewy, Abilene freshman and coordinator of the Big Sister Program, said that about 20 KU women participated in the program, out of about 50 men in the Big Brother Program.
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Shricken with flu and battling a persistent fever, 80-year-old Pope Paul VI canceled most of his Easter week activities yesterday.
Flu forces Pope Paul to cancel Easter plans
It is the first time in his 15-year reign the pope has skipped most Holy Week activities. He has referred in several speeches in recent years to approaching death, but the Vatican has on each occasion denied he was ill.
The Vatican announced yesterday that
the pope was being treated with antibiotics and was making progress but said his doctors advised him to reduce his commitments for the next few days.
The frail-looking pontiff has been spending much of his time in bed recently, according to Vatican sources. He missed Palm Sunday Mass, although he appeared at his window and gave his usual noon blessing.
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TV Trivia
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dressed as the charwoman, the charman woman, an evening stage to a sign reading "The Carol Burnett Show" and flipped it over to read.
After 11 years, 1,500 comic sketches, 500 musical numbers and spoils of virtually every old movie, Carol Burnett was closing shop.
Later, after flipping over the sign
Much of the show consists of sketches from the shows with Harvey and Rachel McDowell, and the show, Dick Van Dyke, a regular earlier this season, and numerous guest performances.
She tapped showcars at CBST
Television City on Friday night. It will be almed as a two-hour special at 7 o.m. CST. March 29, 2014
"We've been on a roller coaster for 11 years," Carol said during a rehearsal break the day of the taping. "We've done about everything we could in prime time. It wasn't ratings. It was failures, it was that the show three or four years ago. We were lower then we are now."
she sat on a bucket on the edge of the stage and told the audience, "I have very mixed emotions. This is like it is. It's a sad time and a happy time.
'CBS wanted us back, but I think it's classy to leave before you are asked to leave. I'm proud of our show. I'm no dummy. It's time to put it to use.'
"The end of "The Carol Burnett Show" is the closing of another chapter in television. She is the last one to appear on a variety show, and hers was the last offering live entertainment before an audience without electronic glimpses.
"I think this is the end of an era," said Bob Wright, one of the show's producers. "You won't see any other movie like it." Moore goes that way next year. If Carol comes back to television with a new show, this will be like this. I hang together kind of show."
Carol said she would do several specials, another film and would think about what she wants to do in the future.