University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1983
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Plan for bear wrestling match outrages officials in Vermont
By United Press International
BARRE, Vt. — A local bar's plan to put members of a college wrestling team in the ring against a 650-pound champion would be a protest from state and college officials.
John Mattera, co-owner of the Spruce Goose bar, said he scheduled a visit to the mansion.
Mattera said eight members of the Norwich University wrestling team had agreed to square off with Victor, an opponent from Loughborough, whose stone indebted in 10,000 matches.
"We wanted to do strange and different things to get away from the humdum," said Mattera, who plans a stunt in which she dances while feature the legs of female contestants.
to have a shot at his 10.0001st win.
FISH AND GAME Department spokesman Roger Whitcomb said bear wrestling was probably illegal in Vermont because wild animals can be brought into the state only for educational or scientific purposes.
Officials,however,don't want Victor
He said the state might shut down the bar if it insisted on holding the bear well.
An angy Norwich spokesman, George Turner, said the private military college would not allow any of its students to take part in the public stun.
"I guarantee Norwich University would never let a team do anything so gross as wrestle a ... bear in any fight." That's all that is allowed as bad as wrestling a bunch of women in a mud bath, and we're not going to do that either."
United Press International MANILA, Philippines — Protesters march through the Makati financial district here to celebrate President Reagan's decision to drop plans for his visit.
Cartoons help Navaho children learn English
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Many children have difficulties learning, languages, especially when the language is taught in school but not spoken in the home.
But thanks to an illustrated dictionary, at least one such group of children, the Navajo native Americans, may find learning English a little easier.
Roman delo Santos, Mariana Islands, graduate student, has designed a cartoon-filled dictionary that helps Navaho children learn English by using comics of native Americans and by translating Navaho to English.
To explore other ways of helping children with language difficulties, a group of students and professors at the KU Bureau of Child Research has begun a Language Program to research the ways in which children learn languages.
Santos, who is already enrolled in one of the program's courses, will soon join the language program and begin work toward his doctoral degree, said Mabel Rice. the program's training grant coordinator.
Richard Schiefelbusch, the director of the bureau, said yesterday that five pre-dectoral students and two post-dectoral students took part in the program, which began this semester.
"We view this as an experimental
program," he said. "We're developing a field of study."
Most children begin learning a language in their home before they be sent to school.
But some children have language deficiencies and are not prepared to be站立.
If we're going to help those children, we've got to learn how the normal child understands
The Child Language Program cannot focus on English-speaking children in the United States. Scheibebusch said, because the way children acquire language is a work of art and a wonderland.
For example, he said, the researchers will study the types of problems that foreign children might have in an American school.
The Child Language Program is financed by a $229,671 grant from the department of Education and a $661,362 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Rice said the researchers working in the program designed their own research projects and based the results on data that language that most interested them.
One research area is the relationship between oral language skills and reading skills, she said. Another area is the way in which a mother could influence her child's language development.
Schiefelbusch said that the bureau
had done much research in the area of child language in the past, but that this program was the first that combined research in the research of child language.
While in the program, the doctoral students will be able to take course work in child development, experimental psychology, linguistics, education, speech pathology, computer science and statistics, he said.
"In order to address these problems, it's necessary that people from different fields combine their research," he said.
Betty Bunce, Lawrence graduate student, is one of the post-doctorate researchers.
Bunce is already a certified speech and language pathologist. She said she was enrolled in courses that will help her in future research.
"The advantage of this program is that we have access to the professors in our department."
Her past work, which was based on the idea that language difficulties could lead to reading difficulties, included development of programs that helped children with reading problems, she said.
Each program she developed was tailored to the specific needs of the child, she said. After listening to a child speak, she would identify the child's weaknesses and then would design a program to help train the child.
"For example, maybe he isn't saying some of the ending sounds," she said, "such as past-tense endings or plural markers.
"You have to see what the child does before you decide what kind of program you need."
Not all of the students research the problem areas of language acquisition, Bunce said. The program is open to students who research areas such as bilingualism and normal language development
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Reports differ on delay of Reagan's trip to Asia
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A former U.S. ambassador said yesterday that President Reagan's postponement of a trip to the Philippines bought time for all involved, but Reagan told Republican leaders it was based only on considerations at home.
House GOP leader Bob Michel of Illinois told reporters after meeting with Reagan that the president said he was concerned only about the heavy legislative schedule in Congress during the time of his planned Asian trip.
Michel said Reagan told Republican leaders, "Look what you fellows have put on the griddle for us, shooting for that adjournment date of Nov. 18."
Reagan said it was "absolutely imperative" he be in Washington while Congress worked on major appropriations bills.
THE WHITE HOUSE announced Monday that Reagan was dropping the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia from the list of states to which the congressional action as the reason.
He said the delay bought time for Marcos, who has faced violent demonstrations against his government since the AIM's assentation of opposition to the treaty.
William Sullivan, former U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, said it was clear from letters exchanged by Reagan and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos that the trip had been only postponed
Some of the demonstrations were also directed against Rogin's plan to impose a new tax on the city.
The postponement "bought time, above all, for some sort of constructive initiative by the United States," said Sullivan, who was interviewed in New York. "We do have a responsibility in helping to see that they avoid civil war."
Sullivan said he did not think Marcos faced the same fate as the Shah. But he said the current unrest "could lead to a very, very nasty civil war."
SULIANA WAS NAMED by President Nixon as ambassador to the Philippines in 1973. He was later ambassador to Iran during the overthrow of the Shah, then retired from the Foreign Service.
"I think we have an opportunity now to make a constructive contribution to a return of democracy there, not by kicking Marcos in the teeth but by working with him and the responsible opposition."
"I was most disappointed with the press," Reagan said. "We didn't cancel anything. We postponed it."
Reagan said Tuesday night that he was angry about press reports that the trip to the Philippines was canceled, and the marines at least consisted in the decision
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