University Daily Kansan, April 6, 1981 ___ Page 3
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KU education department's program impresses award-winning instructor
By DEBBY FOSTER Staff Reporter
Destruction of knowledge is society's most pressing problem, the 1980 National Teacher of the Year said on Friday that he visit to the University of Kansas.
"There is a lack of commitment to education by society both financially and morally," Beverly Bines said. "There also is a lack of respect for education. Society is not seeing it as a value and a priority."
Bimes, 38, is an English teacher at Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis. She is the 29th teacher of the year in a program designed to focus public attention on excellence in teaching.
BIMES ADMONISHED educators for a lack of leadership within the profession and for their willingness to the whims of an ever-changing society.
She blames the press and teachers for not being aggressive enough to get the
"I think society is getting a very biased view of education. We're not getting the good news out," she said. "We're not falling as many as society thinks."
good news about education to the public.
Getting the news out has been her goal as teacher of the year because three years before winning the award, Bimes almost quit the profession when she became frustrated by the common belief that teachers and education were failing. She had what she calls "teacher burnout."
SHE NOW HAS a positive view of education and encourages educators to be more vocal in defending the profession and to get control of the field instead of allowing people outside to dictate what courses it will take.
"We must be leaders and stop this tragic waste, this destruction of knowledge. We can do this by going to school and a lesson on our UBCs." Bibles said.
ceipting the responsibilities of our profession, believing that we are the heroes of our profession and controlling anxiety by communicating aggressively.
Bimes said those ABCs were: "ac-
"We must establish our authority and become experts," she said. "We have to dispel the myth that if you can't do anything else, you teach.
"We are going to have to take some risks and some strong stands."
SHE SAID SHE was impressed by the ability of KU's education department to take risks with the innovation of its five-year program.
"If there is any direct link to the fulfillment of the American dream, it is surely the nation's schools," she said.
"Right now we are reducing learning and the joy of learning to more regurgitation. We are suffering from the brown bag syndrome."
Seminar stresses safe birth control
During her reign as teacher of the year, Bimres has looked for new financial sources for education and has established several new programs and workshops for both students and teachers.
By KARI ELLIOTT Staff Reporter
If a woman can control whether she has children, she can control her life, a representative of the Kansas City Women's Health Collective said.
"Women have been trying to control their reproductive capacity since Egyptian women used crocodile dye to prevent conception," Gail Smith, a member of the Collective, said recently at a seminar on women's health.
"As Darwin said, 'Biology is destiny,' Smith told about 20 people at the all-day conference at the Lawrence Community Building.
IN ADDITION TO Smith's lecture,
seminars on sexually transmitted
disease, women and mental health lesbians and health care, fetal alcohol syndrome and contraception were held.
Women's attempts to control conception have not been emphasized in a male-dominated society which sees women as child bearers, Smith said.
"In colonial times society needed women to help produce large families," she said. "Then in the Victorian Age women were viewed as wives, not mothers, and the childless rate was about 25 percent."
"The major thrust of women then needed to be reproductive health, not the vote," Smith said. "Physicians told them that abstinence was the only birth method. Mom raised their lives by essentially becoming pregnant."
In Victorian society, abstinence, abortion and infanticide were the major forms of birth control. In 1880, two hundred thousand were performed in the United States.
ONE OF THE LEADERS in the women's health movement in the early 1900s was Margaret Sanger, who
wanted some kind of birth control available to women.
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WHEN THE BIRTH control pill was developed, it gave women greater control over their reproductive capacity, Smith said.
"The pill gave women independence, but they carried the whole burden of contraception and the risks," she said. "The Pill is an effective and stable form of birth control if women understand all its costs and benefits."
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