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Wednesday, July 19, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Orientation Center
This week 76 foreign students came to our campus to participate in the 22nd Orientation Center, a six-week course that prepares international scholars for advanced study in the United States. The course was originated to help students to adapt to American civilization, to introduce them to American history and culture, their English proficiency and to acquaint them with the American people. These goals will be carried out through means as diverse as lectures, films, homestays in Kansas City and Paola, folk singing, square dancing, reading American magazines and newspapers, and taking field trips. Students will improve their English through these activities and will be encouraged to use the language by being introduced to people with experience from other countries. They will also meet faculty members and guest lecturers from KU and Lawrence. After the six-week session, most of the scholars will go to other universities across the nation; a few will stay at KU.
The Orientation Center is financed by the U.S. State Department through the Institute of International Education, Dean J.A. Burzle, who founded the Center and has directed it each year since, deserves much credit for the preparation the students need to prepare their term of American study. He has been a key method of providing diversity, and content, for the students. They will not be subjected to American propaganda but will be able to form their own opinions about America and its people. In the process, they will learn something about other foreign countries as well as something about themselves. Most importantly, they will be prepared culturally and educationally for the advanced courses they will begin with. Welcome, members of KUOC, to our campus, and may you in your short stay come to know our campus and city and become loyal members of our Jayhawker family.
-Rita E. Haugh Editor
Doctor Weighs Results Of Football, Little League
NEW YORK—Little League good or bad?
The question has been tackled by psychologists, doctors, and players. Depending on the aim one takes, the answer is either-
Psychologists don't like Moms and Dads who push their kids to tears before, during or after a game. The game's supposed to be
Physicians often don't like the stresses put on developing bones, especially those involved in the nipple of a curved ball.
Parents usually are wild about the game, especially seeing their son win out over some other cousin's child.
LEADERS OF women's liberation hate the all-male practice to abhor until the stereotyping of sex roles ends.
W. Diesley W. Hall, who is in business for 28 years, has been a part-time high school and college team physician for most of his professional career, is one sports player he doesn't count Little League out.
The ex-president of the American Medical Association, Dall has served as Boxing and Wrestling Commissioner in Boston and played in some changes to make sports safer, not just Little League.
"I love to see youngsters play in the field, or teach them for them—if their coaches are wise people, and the mothers (and fathers) don't push too hard."
"BUT I think coaches should know that when they allow or encourage 10 and 11 year-olds to throw curve bails, they're runners-up. And giving that yugruster a sore elbow for the rest of his life."
At Little League age, the bones aren't developed yet. To accommodate the growth of the shoulder are attached to the shaft by cartilage which with maturity will disappear as the joints become permanently leached.
But the motion used to loss a curve is a twisting one and that, in combination with the leverage of the wrist, can produce a future trouble for a young pitcher.
whose bone-ends are not anchored permanently.
"For a period," Hall said, "I was taking care of the Reno Silver Socks. That's a class of professional ball players who have chewed trouble and all three had played Little League ball.
"The craft have a longer range and more varied ordinance and a new radar system that allows it to track American missiles," he said. Stroman's plane, designed by him as SR-1A4 is a delta-wing helicopter with enormous speed capability would come from "turbo-fan engines."
Stroman, who will be a nine-h
grader at Valley Forge Junior
High next fall, said his plane was
intended to replace the 1,500-
m.p.h. Phantom F-4. America's
dropper jet in the Vietnam war.
"I ASKED them: out of every 10 balls that you pitched when you were in the Little League, they put them on a rack of 10. Now that's too much of a strain on a mature pitcher's arm, let alone on a kid's. No wonder all these guys were so afraid."
"A Little League football circuit was started in Reno not a few years ago. And they year there three fractured legs. Those kids simply aren't fast, they're not shiny and they look like bamboo. The kids are still pretty tender."
"I've been interested in planes and astronomy for five years," the boy said Monday at his home here. "Originally, I wanted to be but because of my sight I now want to be a aircraft designer."
"John said he has had no formal training in his work, but has done extensive reading and
The company's Wichita data center and John Stroman his former Stroman "fliyable" and sent him a job application form for when he gets
Pint-sized football, meanwhile, draws nix notices from Hall.
Hall contended boys nine years old were too young to suit up.
What about high school foot-ball?
WAYNE, Pa. (AP) — A teenager model airplane wizard has designed and submitted to Boeing Co. a plan for a fighter jet that will fly into space.
Teenager Designs Fighter Jet Model
has built 40 model airplanes from scratch."
"WHEN MY boy started to pay football high school he had a teacher who was a senior, after a few years of blocking with his headheal, his son became a star.
Richard Holloway, Boeing's chief of technology research at Wichita, was impressed with the boy's letter and drawings.
"Reading his letter, you see he has the two things you need to get across: 'I am an enthusiast,' Holloway said. "'It's all reasonable. It is a truth."
"We get designs all the time but they aren't really practical. Such things as four engines, but a few cars or buses shown, or a 1,000-passenger supervised transport that is very important in everything this kid did added up."
Holloway wrote back that *these were勇士们 than anybody else had* II, but since then it had attempted to capitulate on its *attempt* to capture it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans could work toward finding or changing their careers by taking advantage of a tradition to just short of the grave under a program being put together with the federal government.
In the letter, John advised Battie to stay away from strategic bombers. ICBM is what the Air Force wants, and to get into versatile combat aircraft.
"In the future, however, we hope to be able to change that situation," and the fighter does look attractive in "he said."
at it works well, it means school children will have a fairly good idea of what they want to do in life by the time they're in the
"Now I'm not about to criticize the way kids are taught to block. The way we do football godfawal hard helmets there wouldn't be as many ruptured splells and bruised kidneys in football. The helmets are just made of rubber."
U.S. Education Commission
Sudney P. Marlard Jr. said
these two programs are the
artificial separation between
things academic and things
It also means that young adults, people automated out of their current job or the retired will be able to return to an education program, perhaps to charge their entire direction in a work of skill.
"THE STUDENT," said Marland, "would be equipped occupationally, academically and emotionally to spin off from the system at whatever age he chooses, when he graduates or apprentice or age 30 a surgeon or age 60 as a newly trained practical nurse."
"When I was in my last year of medical school, we did a series of tests on them. Seventy per cent of them had microscopic blood in their stools and could color it.
The body is resilient and kidneys heal, but what concerns me is the total effect after a few bruises on the kidneys being bruised regularly.
Brain damage doesn't show up immediately on an electroencephalogram but makes up a lot of the signs before it can be detected. In the meantime, if a player is sent back with even a slight tearing of the brain tissue, it will be slowed just enough so that he is open to still more injuries. Violent jars in itself will cause further tearing of the brain.
HALL WOULD like to see the soft plastic helmet become a standard part of the football uniform. The new helmet protects the cranium but is not a mask, mainly guiding missile.
Career education should not, officials say, be confused with vocational education, which is not as broad.
For instance, a child might be interested in the "world of tech" and want to learn whether to be an architect, engineer or skilled craftman would involve more travel trips to talk to people on the job.
Early Career Education Planned
All students would still get preparation in the basic subjects. Eyesight and dexterity, and the fine arts, sometimes (aught in a way helpful for their reading) are a way helpful for their
Students planning professional careers would follow a high school curriculum that would prepare them for college but which also would give them some planning work. Students would plan work after high school would receive additional work experience while in school.
"It's a game, Hall said. "Don't endanger a boy's life."
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DURING THOSE first years of school, each student should find something in two or three clusters that interests him or her. In junior high, grades 1 through 9, they explore these careers in depth.
Under the career education program, children entering kindergarten will be exposed to
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20,000 jobs into 130 clusters.
The government has broken
such as the "world of
industry" or the "world of
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the world of work under a "career awareness" program that would continue through the sixth grade.
Road to Mandalay Route of Smugglers
MANDALAY, Burma (AP) - The paddle steamers are still changing along the Irawwaddy River on the road to Mandalaay. That's about all Rudyard Kipling would recognize in this cross-roads town in unear Burma.
Seat of the last Kingdom of Burma, and an important administrative town of the British, who toppled the Burmese monarch, Mandala is now a major trading point for smugglers. They are doing great business under chairman Ne Win's 'way to
It is easy to believe. The nationalized People's Shops are almost bare of goods. But walk down to Zegyo market and you can buy almost anything you want, from imported cigarettes to black market Coca-Cola.
"SMUCGGLING keeps this country going," said a veteran observer of the Burmese scene.
Many Burnes have subserved state socialism on a grand scale. Rice, cattle, teakwood, metals like wolfram and gold and precious stones are smuggled into Thailand and sold for hard currency for a fraction of their value.
WITH THIS currency, the smugglers buy goods unobtainable in Burma—quality cloth, watches, plastic products, soaps, perfumes,
They sell these in market towns like Mandala at 100 per cent profit to finance the next cycle of the smuggling.
The smugglers run risks, mostly from the Burmese army troops who may stop them, seize the contraband and sell it themselves.
The Burmese smugglers hire security guards from the Karen and other ethnic minorities who are in rebellion against the central government. The Karen charge 5 per cent tax for goods crossing the border. They also pay a small fee to pack elephants, popies and protection through their territory.
MANDALAY IS a relay point for goods coming from India, Laos and northern Thailand. Moulmein in lower Burma is another major
The smuggling has given Mandalay an atmosphere of prosperity that the capital, Rangoon lacks. There are few motor vehicles, but transportation is provided by horses and buggies equipped with bandsame tassled harness and oil lamps.
Mandalay is also a Buddhist center of some importance. The peak of Mandalay is one giant complex of temples and monasteries.
THE BIG stern-wheel paddle stormers, some of which date back to the prewar days of British administration, take their weeks to go on training before they head home.
The walled and moated royal palace is now military headquarters for the region.
The only sign that the British were here for 63 years is a shuttered edifice of the Church of England.
one federal official, is the greatest he has ever witnessed
"I've never seen so little federal money trigger so much interest and has supervises the U.S. Office of Education, career education programs in this area."
A spokesman said the federal government spent $14 million in federal funds to train a head of heading of career education and expenditures of $18 million were used for building new schools.
The federal program is broken up into three units, which High administrators, and four major career models: School-based Employer-based. Home-based Employer-based.
THESE MODELS cost a little over $2 million in fiscal 1972 and are designed to develop a solution that will be useful to students leaving formal
education systems each year without adequate job preparation.
Residential. Funded at $4 million, it is to provide career education with supportive services for the rural disadvantaged.
The Center for Vocational and Technical Education of Ohio provided training in the school-based model, with help from six school district across the country. Each district is served by a core cluster. The Ohio State facility received $ 2.1 million during the program for administering the program.
HOME-BASED: To develop some or designated community activities as learning centers. The company is located in Development Company, Newton, Mass. will be 18-25 year-old still unemployed and in need of employment. Students go to ourselves going back into the abor pool; and persons 55 or older are invited.
The other models.
The experiment will be conducted at Glasgow, Mont., on a former Strategic Air Command base.
Twelve families already have been moved to the base, and eventually will be 200. As the family head is trained for a career over a period of six to eight years, children also are given training.
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to harm the fire, the wretched wreckage of your Wallace cause.
to breathe fire . . . the wretched wreckage of your Wainace cause
Send these the homeless, disgruntled Democrats to me ...
Stones Concert Tickets Sold Out Across U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) -Hoping to prevent disorders, outwit scaiper and allocate seats as a hospital in New York, a post-cardiology system was "set up."
Golden Gate Bridge Rates Favorite Spot for Suicide
the powerful span, which has inspired songwriters and composers like 1875, has allowed 464 persons to their death.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—For those who want to die, the Golden Gate window spits in this city. The golden gate is a symbol of San Francisco.
The 230-foot plunge over the burn- orange railings lasts about three to five seconds.
Six persons have leaped and survived.
"THIS BRIDGE is the most frequently used self-destruction site of any place outside the Orient," said Richard H. Seiden, a University of California clinical psychologist and suicide expert.
It's an available, quick and sure means of death which requires no preparation or expense. Siden
"MOST PEOPLE who kill themselves are never reported on," Seidan said. "But if you jump off the bridge, you make the news. It's a great thing." Another one that seems obscure. This way, you're going to be noticed.
But the publicity angle may be the major reason, he says.
Why is jumping off the bridge such a popular way to end it all?
"With the bridge's mystique," he added, "some people consider it a oligarchous way to die."
Between 1962/1967, an average of 13 persons a year leaped from the bridge. Seidel said. The yearly average doubled, to 26 persons, between
The suicide rate has fluctuated yearly since the bridge opened, but it's shown a dramatic increase in recent years.
SO FAR this year, 21 persons have jumped, according to California Highway Patrol statistics.
Golden Gate Bridge jumpers are predominantly white, male and tend to be younger than those who take their lives by other means, Seiden said. The average age is in the early 40s. More than 90 per cent of the victims come from San Francisco, he added.
The number of persons prevented from leaping off the bridge is about five times more than the number who succeed, said bridge general manager Dale W. Luehring.
"We've stopped literally hundreds," he said
TELEVISION cameras, mounted on towers, scan the bridge 24 hours a day. They are monitored by bridge personnel, who watch constantly for potential suicides.
Roving patrols, trained by suicide prevention
staff, stop and question
persons lettering on the bridges.
Those suspected of contemplating suicide are aken off.
These prevention measures are effective to some degree, but they're not enough, insided Seiden.
HE AND other suicide experts have been pushing hard for the replacement of the present low railings with eight-foot-high, pencil-thin steel barriers, which they said would completely prevent further
The bridge board of directors, which must approve the barriers, has not acted on the suggestions. It's a question of money and bridge safety, the directors said.
Engineers estimate barrier wages would cost between $500,000 and $1 million to install, a stiff price for a bridge that is subsidized entirely by toll revenues, Luehring said.
A careful study also must be made of the effects on bridge safety if barriers are put in place, he said.
"WE MUST make sure that the bridge isn't ionanized."
An ad hoc Committee for Suicide Prevention on behalf of the National Guard last month in an attempt to bring the issue to a head.
It's a blue-ribbon panel composed of prominent residents of the San Francisco Bay area and headed by Judge John Molinari, California head appellate justice.
to fill ticket requests for the Rolling Stones rock concerts here this month.
The Stones, considered by many to be the world's greatest basketball team, are an eight-week North American tour with four shows at Madison Square Garden.
Sellout crowds greeted the British superstars in 30 cities across the United States and Canada. In some places, their appearance sparked violent outbursts by fans who could not be found or found that ticker they bought from scamper们 phoney.
"At times the computer was so overloaded that it took five minutes for the Tickettron computer system to catch up," said Richard Serpe of the agency and handled the Chicago ticket sales.
EXCEPT FOR THE New York concerts, tickets were sold by bookings order by order reservation with post-marks, which were filled first.
But in Chicago, lined begins
in the early morning before
before tickets went on sale and all
35,000 seats. for three June
concertes and 3 to 8pm. May 20
In Detroit, where tickets for two concerts at the 11,897-seat Cobo Areana sold by mail the first day, only one of every 10
requests was filled. That left a lot of checks to be returned.
Peter Graham, operator of the San Diego Sports Arena, where the Stones played to a 16,000 capacity house June 13, called the mail order operation he used completely satirically stopped the presses at the box on line all night," he said.
Moreover, promoters said mail reservations could be used to advantage by customers. They pointed out that although the top ticket price for any Stones concert on the tour was $125, they offered them for $50 to $7 each.
IN NEW YORK, where ticket scaping is something of fine art,
scrapers need to be trained for the first time on a scalper for selling an undercover policeman
With the anticipated demand for the New York concerts threatened to put thousands of young people on box office days in advance, promoters and marketers have tried to留住 something different.
They run only one newspaper ad and send an announcement to a person they know. They explain that those who wanted tickets should send in postcards to their local newspapers.
MORE THAN $500,000 postcards came in and were dumped into two huge vases. Each vase held two cards, each good for four tickets, were picked. An accounting firm checked for the missing cards eliminated, and then winners were notified to pick up their cards beginning this next Monday.
Among the first to arrive were
you wooleen women who appeared
two hours before the box office
was to open.
"We understood that our tickets were reserved, but we didn't want to take any chances," they said.
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