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Wednesday, April 26, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Achievement Place Aids Six Juvenile Offenders
By CHRIS MILLER
Korean Staff Writer
In a white frame house at 1320
taskell Ave. there is a unique
building, the E. L. Phillips, his wife Elaine, their
small daughter Catey and six
children.
The house is called Achievement Place. The boys have been placed there by the Douglas County Juvenile Court for various offenses, ranging from to mind their parents to rape.
*Acmevement Place is supported entirely by the community and offers a restful vestment to establish the home in 1967, came primarily from conventaries.
FUNDS ARE provided by the Douglas County welfare department, on time, on behalf of those living at a given time. Phillips said
"The major goal of
abandoning kids back into a family, either their own or a foster family, as
quickly as possible. Phillips
He said they preferred to return the boys to their own homes within six months.
Achievement Place is operated under a system of "token reinforcement." A film depicting life at the home, available through the University of Kansas audio studio system and the theory behind it.
"THE BEHAVIORIAL management system is designed to supervise the boys in supervision." Phillips said. "The idea is to help the boys change behavior."
The program of treatment is based upon a family-style study in the live home 24 hours a day, enabling them to interact closely.
Achievement Place is not an institution. The boys remain in the same community, attending at various schools; however, is monitored closely. When boys first arrive at Academy, they are placed on the point system. Under this system points are assigned to students and taken away for unacceptable
Voter Board Explains How Mistake Made By ANITA KNOPP
By ANITA KNOPP
Kansan Staff Writer
University of Kansas faculty invited last month to join the National Voter Advisory Board of the American Security Council were among several million people to receive the invitation. John M. Fisher, president of the University in a telephone interview.
The Kansan contacted Fisher at the council's headquarters in Washington, D.C. after a complaint was made by Juan Squaresco, who said that since he was not an American citizen and couldn't vote, the invitation was an insult to his intelligence and an invasion
HOWEVER, FISHER said the majority of the KU faculty had been involved in the Fisher also said the lists of names for the mailings were rented from a brokerage firm. "We are going to America," contributors to the Democratic and Republican parties and officers of civic clubs.
Fisher said his organization had to depend on the assurance of the broker that the lists would reach what he called "opinion data." It was impossible to check every name to insure citizenship.
In response to the complaints about the organization at KU, I must say that my organization must be doing something worthwhile if it struck such a nerve he said there are a lot of differ and still communicate.
Fisher said the council's research on America's international security was not covered in the treaties but included treaties and agreements with other countries. Voting records of U.S. Congressmen are compiled and sent to council members.
In the area of internal security, Fisher said the organization collected data on the various organizations within the United States.
"We investigate communist parties we are either Moscow or Peking orientated, working for the Communist Party. Our instances we have investigated the leadership of particular mass actions and demonstrations."
**TYPES OF BEHAVIOR** that earn points include watching television news reports, reading articles about current events near room, reading appropriate books, helping with household jobs and performing well in school.
behavior. Points purchase privileges such as allowance, watching television, snacks and permission to go downtown.
"WE DON'T POINT an accusing finger at groups. These kinds of groups are proud of the criticism they don't denit it." Fisher said.
Fisher stressed that the organization dealt only with facts in their research. He said that he wanted to get these facts to the public.
Types of behavior that cost points include failure at school, bad grades, aggressive speech, disobedience, tails back to the house parents, stealing, lying, cheating and stealing. From the point system, the boys advance to the merit system. Under the merit system, they are awarded a "moral responsibility. Only one "moral warning," however, is allowed a boy each week. After the second, it is returned to the point system.
"If I got, say, a bad schoolwork and a bad homework in the same week, that would put me off the merit." he said.
structured. Under it, Phillips, said the boys spend nearly as much time at home as they do at Achievement Place.
Randy, another boy, described the function of the nightly family conferences.
we decide like, if somebody was kicked out of school, we decide what happens to him and we give him can get him back into school.
The honor system is the least
FRANK SAID the boys may appeal any judgment which they felt had been made unjustly at the family conference.
The boys said they had some say in changing the house rules. Some rules, such as the one that required them to wear shirts, they said cannot be changed.
Phillips said the Lawrence area needed two more homes like these, a younger boys and one for older boys. They can accept, he said, only one of every seven apples in the store, which he handle only 12 of a year.
Several things, Phillips said; may happen to those boys turned away from Achievement Place.
"They're referred to us again, or they go to Boy's Industrial School to work in a probation, or they go to the BERT Nash Mental Health Center or another place, so they turn adult, and get into trouble and go through an adult school."
Juliet Shaffer, associate professor of psychology and chairman of the University of Kansas Affirmative Action (AA) Advisory Committee, said Tuesday that progress in the
By ROBERT E. DUNCAN
Hyperion Staff Writer
Action Program Awaits Rulings
Debate Team Ends Season With 95 Wins
The team members were Lydia Beeber, McPherson sophomore; Joel Goldman, Shawne Mission sophomore; Bill Webster, Carthage, M. freissman, and John Werner, Falls Church, Va. junior.
A University of Kansas debate team won KU's 86th victory of the season in the Big Eight-Missouri tournament at Vernison. S. D. April 20-23
Heeble and Webster won first place for the negative team. They compiled a 6-1 victory second place for the affirmative team. Together they compiled a 7-1 record.
This is the third time in four
weeks that Houston has won
Eight Missouri, Valley
ference sweepstates title. Tom
Goodnight, Houston graduate
The tournament was the last activity of the year for the squad.
Shaffer, who attended a conference for affirmative action in Chicago last week, said she was surprised by the lack with a representative of HEW.
development of an AA program has been delayed because of the lack of guidelines from the AACN for Health, Education and Welfare.
The lack of guidelines has only allowed the committee to discuss general plans and has caused a distressing situation," said Shaffer.
The spokesman for HEW, a participant in the conference conducted by William Karp of Covenant College, told reporters the guide when the guidelines for AA
programs would be released, according to Shaffer.
She said she would discuss the new ideas she had learned from the committee with the committee in its meeting and committee plans to develop an overall structure for the impact action at K庐, Shaffer said.
Part of the structure the committee hopes to develop will include a complaint procedure for minorities and women may use.
Chancellor E. Laurence
Chalmer Jr., who will review all proposals made by the AA committee, is expected to announce the new complaint process early after his return out-of-town conference later this week.
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