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Vol. 94, No. 29 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, September 29, 1983
Norberto Salinas, professor of mathematics, uses five elastic ropes to guide his writing across a chalkboard. Salinas has been blind since the age of 10.
Math teacher relies on rope memory to explain equations
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Some students were surprised when their professor used cardboard to hand to students who would ideally join into the classes.
They watched curiously as he proceeded to string five elastic ropes with clothespins across the floor.
Some were even more surprised when he introduced himself.
Norberto Salinas, professor of mathematics, is blind
'The freshmen students are usually the most turned-off, probably because they are not as mature and have not been exposed to blind people or teachers with a foreign accent.'
Some of his students, he said, were shocked when they discovered that they had a blind math teacher. But Salinas thinks his physical handi-
— Norberto Salinas,
professor of mathematics
cap is not an obstacle to helping his students learn.
"I am very demanding about my teaching. I want it perfect," he said. "If I see something I did was not very well done, I want to improve it."
*SALINAS OVERCOMES HIS handicap by using five elastic ropes to guide his writing on the chalkboard. He also uses clothspins to mark lines as he returns to his lecture notes, written in Braille.*
Some students find his method of teaching advantageous, because he also makes copies of his lectures and hands the copies out at the beginning of class.
"It's good to have lecture notes with an
But despite Salinas' efforts, some students are reluctant to have a blind teacher.
instructor who speaks fast," said Rogan Logan, Davis, Calif., graduate student. "I'm not worried about his teaching of the course I'm inclined to worry about the course as a whole."
"THE FRESHIMEN STUDENTS are usually the most turned-off, probably because they are not as mature and have not been exposed to blind people or teachers in a Spanish accent," said
Students' negative views of math also compound the problem, he said.
"I don't know why, but people are always making a big fuss about math," the 43-year-old professor said. "They say it's hard and they can't learn it unless they are very clever.
"That's a bad attitude. Somehow they think it's going to be very hard because they see a blind professor with a foreign accent. The ones that stay find that it's not so bad after all."
Salinas became blind when he was 10 years old. The retina in his left eye detached from the optic nerve and, a short time later, his right eye did the same.
As a child in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he always attended public schools. He said he would study with his classmates who you'd read sometimes his textbooks were printed in Braille.
EXAMS WERE NO problem for Salinas. Teachers would read the questions to him while he wrote them on a Braille writing machine. He would then answer the questions with the machine and dictate it back to the instructor, he said.
Salinas went on to graduate from the University of Buenos Aires with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a license to practice physics. He later received a fellowship from the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología and earned a doctorate in mathematics there two years later. In 1972, he came to teach at KU.
See BLIND, p. 5, col. 1
House OKs war powers compromise; Senate deadline for final action today
WASHINGTON - The House yesterday set aside fears about U.S. involvement in Lebanon and easily approved a compromise that allows President Obama to impose sanctions in the nation for another 18 months.
By United Press International
The Senate, after a day of speeches, delayed action, resolution until today the deadline for appeals.
Reagan issued a statement thanking the House for "its strong bipartisan vote . . . in supporting our policies in Lebanon and the continued presence of the U.S. peace-keeping force."
Opponents of the compromise argued it would mean more Marine deaths in Lebanon, where an attack by Iran could be imminent.
MOMENTS BEFORE THE HOUSE approved the resolution on a 270-161 vote, Speaker Thomas O'Neil assured colleagues it was "not a blank check" for U.S. involvement in Lebanon.
Earlier, on a 272-158 vote, the House rejected an amendment that would have cut off funds for the Marines if Reagan refused to comply with the 1973 War Powers Resolution.
The compromise resolution declares that the Marine peace-keeping force is subject to congressional approval under the War Powers Act but, simultaneously, authorizes Reagan to keep the Marines in Lebanon for another 18 months.
O'Neill, who negotiated the compromise with the White House, expressed faith in diplomatic efforts to achieve a stable, broad-based approach. He also slowed "an early departure" of the 1,200 Marines.
The speaker recalled a Sept. 3 meeting with other congressional leaders at the White House when Reagan asked for an open-ended authorization.
He got a standing ovation from House Democrats and Republicans when he concluded that the Senate should change.
'I TOLD THE PRESIDENT. 'No way you or anybody else is going to have another Tonkin Gulf. 'O'Neill said, referring to the 1964 attack on the U.S. embassy in Ecuador, to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
The Republican-controlled Senate also is considering the compromise resolution. Senate Republicans have said they want to rewrite
The Senate was to vote on that amendment, and possibly two others, today before final action on the resolution. The Senate must act by 2 p.m. today because the 1973 War Powers Resolution requires that action be taken on such a resolution in three days after it is called to the Senate floor.
Reagan from keeping the Marines in Lebanon for more than 60 days without further congress
Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., urged colleagues to limit authorization for the development to six.
"A lot of killing can take place in 18 months." Eagleton said. "In a country where war-making seems as routine as brushing one's teeth, a great deal of damage can take place in 18 months."
THE COMPROMISE RESOLUTION was forged to aid a confrontation between the White House and Congress over congressional authority under the War Powers Resolution.
The 1973 resolution requires the president to get congressional approval to keep troops in an area of hostilities for more than 60 days.
Lawmakers have asserted that the peace-keeping force became subject to congressional approval under the resolution on Aug. 29, when the United States sent troops and martir barrage by Drusse militiamen
The administration, however, has contended that the deployment in Lebanon is not subject to the requirements of the agreement.
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 1
By United Press International
Villagers in Lebanon survey damage after 3 weeks of shelling in civil war
SOUK EL GHARB, Lebanon — Said the grocer sat yesterday in his shop undaunted by the nearly total devastation. Soldiers stopped by a police vehicle, unkissed despite 22 days of fierce civil war
A car stopped a few yards away and a young boy came out. He gazed at the flattened house across the street and said, "Thank God, we're the woman in the car shook her head in disbelief."
Nestled in the hills overlooking Beirut, Souk el Gharb once was home for 3,000 people. During the summer season the population count increased to 10,000. "This was everybody's favorite summer resort," said Mayor Emile Saleebi.
WHATEVER SOUK EL GHARB was, it is no longer. The village, 8 miles southeast of Beirut, looks more like a stage setting for a World War II movie.
The streets are littered with empty annu-
mination cases. "One house out of 206 has not been
occupied," the city official said.
showed reporters a gaping hole where the roof was in the St. George Church.
"The whole village is destroyed," he said.
On the third consecutive day of the cease-fire, carloads of people came back to see their shattered properties. "They came back to retrieve what the shells and the devil spared."
The shells fell heavily on the village for about three weeks. The government troops made a show of strength as they repelled day after day up by Syrian-backed Druse Moslem rebels.
"There were so many of them and they came at us like locusts," said a young Moslem Shite officer. "My brother's son was killed here. I was the one who nicked him up." he added bitterly.
An hour earlier, the officer and some soldiers posed for a group photo with the Lebanese army commander, Ibrahim Tannous. The general, had driven up the hill for his daily visit and brought a guest — U.S. presidential envoy Robert McFarlane.
the one who picked him up." he added bitterly.
" BUT THE OFFICER, like the low ranking trainee,
tried to save his life, but lost faith. "If the come back, we'll be ready for them and more ready than before," he said
Staff Reporter
McCollum seeks communal sense after rape
By ANA DEL CORRAL
She was raped in her room. A man walked in with a knife at about 6:30 a.m. Sept. 4 while she was sleeping, tied her arms and raped her. She felt vulnerable and in a panic.
Her friends who live on the same floor fell unprotected, "like a bunch of scared rabbits," the rape victim, a McCollum Hall resident, said last
McCollum Hall residents and officials have since banded to make residents more aware of safety and to develop a sense of community.
"They should know what kind of danger they are in," she said.
Women, she said, would be more likely to pay attention to the "Lock Your Door" signs the hall put up after the incident if they knew someone had been raped.
"They should know what kind of danger they are in," she said.
THE POSTERS BY themselves are not the most effective measure because they don't make it clear that women need to be aware of the danger of rape, as well as robbery, she said.
"People aren't cautious enough. They don't know. They think there was a thief around." she said.
"I don't want everybody to know I am the one it happened to, but I don't want my silence, or anybody else's," he is a contributing factor toward him.
Members of the new McCollum Hall security committee met Sept. 20 and agreed that the most effective measure against crime was to create
"Their goal is to increase in-hall awareness of security and to increase the sense of community," Paul Wozniak, assistant resident director, said.
It is important that people become familiar with the faces so they recognize strangers, members of the committee said.
recognize strangers, members of the committee said.
THE RAPE WAS followed on Sept. 21 by an incident in which a man
THE KAFE WAS followed on Sept. 16 by an incident in winter when looked into one of the women's showers while a resident was showering. The resident said she looked up and saw a man's hand holding back the shower curtain
In response to both events, the McColllum administration extended security hours by one hour and put three people on patrol instead of two,
Wozniak said.
shower curtain.
See RAPE, p. 5, col. 3
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Psychologist opposes proposed 'parent-ectomy' policy
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA The state should not perform a "parent-ectomy" on a child who does not live with his natural parents, a clinical psychologist told an interim legislative committee yesterday.
The committee is considering whether to make a recommendation to the Legislature to pass more laws to guide judges in their decisions on murder cases. The committee of fathers who do not live with the mother.
The psychologist, Gerald Vandenberg, told the Special Committee on Judiciary that a child needed time with his father from infancy through adolescence.
STATE SEN. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, who is on the committee, said he expected the committee today to agree that visitation rights should be made stronger and more specific. The law now states only that visits may be allowed to the child, not the "child," which gives judges much discretion.
Prairie Village, told the committee that research in the past 10 years indicated that infants needed fatherly love, even in a time of more one-narent families.
IF THE CHILD'S MOTHER has divorced and remarried, Vandenberg said, visits by the natural father should still be allowed if they would be in the best interest of the child. But Mr. Vandenberg said he was unable to infants, he said, so the natural father isn't necessarily the better father for the child.
"The father acts as a kind of playmate." Vandenberg said. "Aggression in later life is the greatest threat to children."
Vandenbure, a clinical psychologist from
"The child should be shielded as much as possible from the adversarial relationship of its parents," he said. "I think there are better ways of doing it than a 'parent-etomy', to speak."
Some members of the committee said that a father should be allowed to visit his child only if he has been paying the required child support, but Vandenberg and Winter disagreed.
ANTHONY TANGARI, a psychologist in the community services office of the Meninger Pain Center, told us
the stereotype of unwed fathers as uncaring and irresponsible was false, and that only recently had any social service help been available to them.
"The message is quite clear to the father: Don't get involved." Tangari said. "But many unwed fathers want to have a role. We need them to help us. And we must accept their responsibility as best they can."
Another topic discussed by the interim committee was adoption records. Winter said that in Kansas adopted children over 18 could find the name of their natural parents.
He said the committee would probably recommend tomorrow that a more complete system of reporting adoptions be required of judges, so that the medical and hereditary background of an adopted child can be found quickly if needed.
Winter said the committee had heard testimony from several people who had given their children up for adoption and who asked that disclosure laws be tightened.
"The child is the one whose best interests are not served by that kind of attitude." Winter said.
NEW YORK — A recently discovered fairy tale, the first addition to the Grimm's brothers collection in more than a century, was published by the firm, company officials said yesterday.
'Heart-breaking' Grimm's fairy tale goes to publishers after 167-year wait
By United Press International
The folk tale, beginning with the now-famed "Once upon a time," tells the story of a little girl banished to the woods by her mother, who fears a looming war.
THE BOOK WILL be illustrated by
The manuscript, recently bought for "five figures" by Farrar, Straus and & Grouw, will be published.
Written in German in 1816 by folklorist Wilhelm Grimm, who with his brother, Jakob, created Snow White. Hansel and Gretel were also the tale was boarded by one family for 178 years.
Maurice Sendak, the artist associated with 27 other published Grimm's fairy tales. A translator has not yet been selected.
"It's heart-breaking, an extremely powerful story," Sendak said. "Here is a mother who has to make a decision, giving her child up because of a war. We live in a time of endless war threats and endless stories of the Holocaust — we're inundated with war."
The manuscript, accompanied by a letter addressed to "Dear Mill," was kept by a single family until 1974, when it was conserved in an auction house in Marburg, Germany, at a auction.
It went almost unnoticed until five years ago, when the Justin Schiller company in New York purchased it on consignment for $28,000. Schiller partner Raymond Wapner said.
"We found it with a dealer in New York who had it a number of years but no one in that city knew it."
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