THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015
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Associate professor researches Latino child welfare
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
Associate professor of social welfare Michelle Johnson-Motoyama has been conducting research for nearly three years on the needs of Hispanic children in the U.S. child welfare system. Last week, she hosted a webinar based on this research and offered training to better serve these children and their families.
KANSAN:
Why did you choose to begin researching?
JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA:
For the past two decades, my area of research and practice has been child welfare, and I was interested in knowing how Latino children of immigrants involved in the system were
faring developmentally. In the United States, 90 percent of Latino children of immigrants are U.S. born and U.S. citizens, but their families may be of mixed statuses, and immigration policies can impact their ability to access needed health and early intervention services.
KANSAN:
What did your research conclude?
For starters, in 2003, there were a set of policy' changes that were made to increase collaboration between child welfare and early intervention systems, and required children under three to receive referral to the intervention system if they had been abused or neglected. After evaluating these changes, the study
showed while 100 percent of children should have received referral, only a mere 18 percent did. Also, Latina children of immigrants demonstrated the greatest developmental need but were the least likely to receive services.
KANSAN:
How can these problems be fixed?
JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA:
We plan to continue conducting research that helps us better understand these challenges kids are facing. We also want to develop the capacity for technical resources and assistance services to help agencies identify problems.
What did the Webinar cover?
KANSAN
JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA:
We provided research and offered different promising practices in order to combat some of the problems with the current system. Some of the topics included brain development, education and the highly specific and unique needs of Hispanic children of immigrants.
Why do you think this topic is important for people to know about?
KANSAN:
JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA:
By 2050, Latino children will make up one-third of the U.S. child population, which is about the same proportion as non-Hispanic whites. These children represent an integral part of our nation's shared future, so it's important to
identify barriers that may be disproportionately impeding early childhood development along with solutions.
KANSAN:
How will you continue to draw attention to social welfare issues?
JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA:
The KU Center for Public Partnerships and the Center for Children and Families actually just held a screening event for the film, "Raising of America." This documentary will be released later this year, and it highlights the strains that young families face as they juggle unpaid parental leave, a lack of universally offered high-quality child care, and growing rates of poverty in the U.S. that make childcare difficult, if not impossible, for some families
to pay for.
KANSAN:
Aside from your research, what are you passionate about?
JOHNSON-MOTOYAMA:
The U.S. is plagued by increasing income inequality. My dream is for children to begin life and experience childhood on a level playing ground, so that every child has the opportunity to succeed no matter their race or ethnicity, social class, religion, or any other form of diversity. I want to see our society become a "smart society," that invests in the future through minimum living standards and through high quality educational opportunities starting in early childhood through adulthood.
Victims to relive horror of Boston bombing as trial begins
Edited by Victoria Kirk
DENISE LAVOIE
Associated Press
BOSTON — In the two years since twin bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon finish line, the case against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has focused on arguments over where his trial should be held, who should sit on the jury and what evidence prosecutors should be allowed to use.
But starting Wednesday, a day after a jury was selected, the focus will shift dramatically from the legal process to the harsh reality of what happened that day: the explosions, the
screams, the chaos and the blood.
Prosecutors are expected to present graphic images of the carriage caused by the bombs, including a surveillance video that authorities say shows Tarsnaev placing a backpack just feet from 8-year-old Martin Richard and his family. The boy died in the explosion.
The bombs set April 15, 2013, killed three people and injured more than 260. At least 16 people lost limbs.
"When people start streaming into that courthouse many with missing limbs and the prosecutors get up off their chairs and start talking
about this again, people are going to relive the enormity and the awful nature of this," said Gerry Leone, a former state and federal prosecutor who led the prosecution of shoe bomber Richard Reid but is not involved in the Tsarnaev case.
"It wouldn't surprise me to see the young boy's parents as the first witnesses. Offentimes, in a homicide case, you humanize the victims right away, and you're brought right back to that day." Leone said.
a blast from the second bomb killed Martin and tore off his 7-year-old sister's left leg. Lingzi Lu, 23, a Boston
University graduate student, was also killed by that blast. Krystal Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, was killed by the first bomb.
Authorities say Tsarnaev, then 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan. 26—ethnic Chechens who had lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the volatile Dagestan region of Russia—carried out the bombings to retaliate against the U.S. for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The brothers' came to the U.S. with their parents and two sisters about a decade before the bombings.
STFVEN SFNNE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston Police Special Operations officers use a bomb-sniffing dog while searching a vehicle on a street near the federal courthouse in Boston Tuesday. A panel of 12 jurors and six alternates was seated Tuesday after two months of jury selection for the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
lamertian Tsarnaev died following a shootout with police several days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 21, faces 30 federal charges in the bombings and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days later. Seventeen of the charges carry the possibility of the death penalty.
Some bombing survivors have said they plan to attend the trial; others say they have no desire to be there.
"It's not something I feel I need to do," said Jarrod Clowery, who suffered burns and shrapnel wounds. "I have closure in my life. I'm happy. I have a second chance at life, and I'm living it."
Clowery was watching the marathon with his friends, Paul and J.P. Norden, when the bombs exploded. The Nordens each lost a leg.
The Norden brothers also plan to stay away from the trial, but their mother, Liz, plans to be there every day. The trial is expected to last three to four months.
"It's important to me. I take it personally, what happened to my family," she said.
In addition to the video, prosecutors also plan to show jurors what they call a confession Tsarnaev scrawled inside the boat he was hiding in.
"The US Government is killing our innocent civilians but most of you already know that. ... I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished. We Muslims are one body, you
hurt one you hurt us all," the note allegedly says.
"Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop."
Tsarnaev's lawyers have made it clear that they plan to depict Tamerlan Tsarnaev as the mastermind of the attack and a powerful force in his brother's life.
Legal analysts say portraying Tamerlan as a coercive influence will likely not be enough to win Dzhokhar an acquittal but could be a significant piece of the defense argument against the death penalty. After the guilt phase of the trial, the same jury will decide whether he should be sentenced to life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
The jury was chosen Tuesday after nearly two months of jury selection. The all-white panel consists of 10 women and eight men, including a self-employed house painter, an air traffic controller, a former emergency room nurse and an executive assistant at a law firm.
Tsarnaev may also get some help from his family. One of his sisters, Ailina Tsarnaeva, plans to attend at least part of the trial.
Liz Norden said she can't quite put her finger on why she feels such a strong need to be there.
"It's not about going and looking evil in the eye and seeing him. I realize I will never get the answers, but it's just very important to me that I go and see."
Dining Services Director receives Silver Plate award
The Silver Plate award recognizes the most outstanding operators in the entire food industry.
the University's Dining Director Nona Golledge has been awarded a Silver Plate in the colleges and universities category by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA.)
KU Dining held a ceremony and news conference Tuesday to honor Golledge's achievement, which was officially announced by the IFMA at 1 p.m. that day.
Golledge is one of seven leaders selected for a Silver Plate award and she will receive recognition from the IFMA on May 18 in Chicago. There, one of the seven finalists will receive a Gold Plate award.
"It's truly humbling to be recognized in this manner," Golledge said. "I consider the Silver Plate a team award. It has been the leadership team that has made this possible. They are outstanding professionals in all areas of dining."
Golledge has been director of KU Dining since 2006. She said that KU Dining's efforts in sustainability and food allergies were factors that led to her receiving the award.
"I think the honor of this is that in our everyday experience with her and her work, she has shown an honorable commitment to good value, good practice, and good service with an emphasis on serving the larger community," Mucci said.
"We know that we are being consumers of resources so we do what we can to create a sustainable future for future generations," Golledge said.
"I think her KU service achievements will make her a campus icon not unlike her venerated predecessor Mrs. [Lenoir D.J.Ekdahl] I think we have someone of that caliber of achievement."
— Skylar Rolstad
For the future. Golledge mentioned new residential dining projects and continued sustainability and food allergy efforts.
David Mucci, Kansas Union director, presented the award to Golledge at the news conference.
SSAB searches for funding, fights for safety fee
After funding debates, the Student Safety Advisory Board considered a 25 cent fee raise that could bring in thousands per year to fund safety projects.
The advisory board debated funding for several different projects on Tuesday, including the repaving of a sidewalk leading to scholarship halls and installation of security cameras around the same area.
SSAB is now looking to the Finance Committee to amend the bill and hopefully still raise the fee by 25 or 50 cents. Garrett Farlow, chair of the board, said a 25 cent fee could bring in $20,000 a year to fund additional safety projects.
SSAB proposed to the Student Senate Fee Review Committee in an attempt to bring back the Campus Safety Fee for undergraduate students. The fee was cut in 2009 and the proposed $2 was turned down by Student Senate.
"it's important for everyone to have a little bit of a buy in. The rec center is all student dollars, and that's over three million," Farlow said. "We need
The board also discussed the funding for the All Scholarship Hall Council's rain garden that plans to repave the sidewalk that goes from campus to the scholarship halls. SSAB originally planned on splitting the cost of the project with the Office of the Provost, but the group was turned down.
Despite the rejection, the advisory board plans on returning to the provost and asking the office to split costs for the lighting portion of the project, rather than the entire garden. The cost for the two new light poles will be $14,163 compared with the $53,773 total cost.
SSAB will also speak with Design & Construction Management in hopes of reducing the contingency fees.
The Louisiana camera project is also moving forward. The board voted on the $26,700 plan, which will be funded by the Public Safety Office. The project will include the future installation of three security cameras along Louisiana and 14th streets down to the scholarship halls.
To account for another portion of the cost, Student Housing will pay $23,400 for the sidewalk and stairs.
to get this established now."
Allison Crist
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