University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1983
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Brinkman invited to conference in Paris
Del Brinkman, dean of the KU School of Journalism, is one of two U.S. representatives invited to a UNESCO conference on world communications April 18 to 22 in Paris.
Thirty representatives from communications training institutions throughout the world will be at the conference, which is sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Brinkman said participants would discuss the rapidly changing communications technology and the possible
He also said participants would share ideas on preparing students for future jobs in the journalism field.
exchange of communications specialists.
The other U.S. representative will be the director of the East-West Center in Hawaii.
Center in HAWAII Brinkman has been dean of the school for nine years, including a four-month term as acting dean.
"The United States is a little reluctant to support efforts by some countries to impose the accurate flow of information through press controls," he said. "I'm sure this will be an underlying issue at the conference."
IN 1972-74 HE served as associate dean of the school, and from 1970-74 he served as director of the Midwestern Journalism Camp.
In 1972-73 he was chairman of the Journalism Faculty Committee and the news adviser for the Kansan.
He said the United States was different from most countries because it had journalism schools instead of training institutions.
"Some people say that the United States is taking up all the satellite
space," he said. "But with the changing technology, smaller satellites are doing a lot more than they used to. I'm sure this topic also will be discussed."
BRINKMAN SAID THAT he was asked to participate at the conference because he had served in 1981 as the president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
"UNESCO is one of the world's most influential organizations advocating freedom of the press and free flow of information," Brinkman said.
IRA customers pack banks as tax deadline nears
By United Press International
NEW VORK — Racing to beat the April 15 tax filing deadline, Americans are flocking in record numbers to open Individual Retirement Accounts as a last-minute ploy to cut their income taxes while putting money aside for retirement.
Financial institutions across the country are reporting land-office business in the final days that most taxpayers have to set up an IRA and deduct the payment on their 1982 tax return.
"It's incredible, they're coming in droves," said Don Underwood, manager of retirement plans at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. The agency home has been signing up as many as 9,000 new IRA accounts each day.
THE FIDELITY GROUP, a mutual fund based in Boston, says it is receiving more than 8,000 IRA calls to up 12,000 new accounts a week.
The nation's two largest banks, California's Bank of America and New York's Cibbell, reported twice
The 1981 tax law expanded IRA eligibility to all workers and allowed those who were covered by a pension plan to deposit up to $2,000 a year in earnings ($2,250 for a one-income couple, $4,000 for two-income couples) and to deduct that amount beginning on 1982 tax returns.
Helping to stimulate interest in IRAs have been heavy promotional campaigns by financial institutions and corporations to open an IRA for the tax deduction.
"ALMOST EVERYBODY should have an IRA," said Keith Rollins, a partner with the national accounting firm of Ernst, and Whinney.
IRA opens have risen dramatically from last year, although fewer than one in five taxpayers are taking advantage of the new account.
According to Internal Revenue Service figures, 17 percent, or 5.6 million, of the 1982 federal tax returns reported in that year were withdrawn. With many returns yet to be filed, the
figure is 65 percent ahead of the 3.4 million 1981 returns filed last year with IRAs.
Federal Reserve figures show $55.4 billion in IRA and self-employed Keogh retirement accounts at banks, thrifts and money market mutual funds at the end of February, a 73 percent increase from a year earlier. Thrifts had 54 percent of the total, banks 37 percent, and money funds 9 percent. Other institutions were not included in the Fed figures.
Many Meril Lynch offices have been staying open until 9 p.m. weekdays and opening on Saturday and Sundays. In the Chicago area there is a two-week period to indoctrinate potential IRA customers.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS have been eagerly willing to accommodate the last-minute IRA rush.
Citibank is planning to keep its mid-Manhattan x-shelter center open until midnight Friday to accommodate the last-minute procrastinators.
returns Friday night," said Teddy Marie Sitter, director of the tax shelter center.
"There's a post office right around the corner that will be postmarking
In Memphis, Leader Federal Savings is making house calls. Brad Champlin, senior vice president of marketing, said a customer can call the bank in the morning and the bank will deliver a completed IRA application form to his home or office that night.
"FOR BUSY PEOPLE, it's accommodating their needs quite nicely," he said. "Business is up 100 percent from a year ago."
IRS spokesman Ellen Murphy said taxpayers must set up an IRA by the April 15 filing deadline to take the deduction on their 1982 return, except those who requested an automatic filing extension by Friday. Those who have already filed their return can still take the deduction by opening an IRA by Friday and filing an amended tax return.
Besides the tax deduction, interest in an IRA is not taxed until it is withdrawn. If funds are withdrawn before the age of 59%, there is a 10 percent penalty, plus applicable tax.
Med Center team works to prevent child abuse
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
Every day, an average of about 2,800 children are reportedly abused in the United States. And five of those children die as a result of the abuse.
Ann Routh, head of the Child Protection team based at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said Monday that she and members of the commission were trying to curb those numbers by preventing additional abuses.
Routh said that in Wyandotte County alone, 1,000 of cases of abuse were reported each month. And the Protection Team, which was formed in 1971, tries to investigate suspected cases of abuse, prevent them if possible and make recommendations to an agency that could help.
THE TEAM IS MADE up of members of various disciplines of medicine and social work, as well as representatives from the courts.
Each week, the team meets at the Med Center to discuss cases of abuse and to determine whether the child should be placed in a foster home or stay at home.
When the team has made a decision, it presents its findings to the judge in the particular case or to the office of Social and Rehabilitative Services in Kansas City, Kan.
But before the decision is made in a case, the team must first determine and supply adequate proof that the case is one of abuse.
One way of telling whether the case is a result of abuse, Routh said, is to check whether the injury of the child matches the story given by the parent when the child is brought to the hospital.
ONE CASE, INVOLVING a small child who was brought to the emergency room with burns on the lower
half of his body, was obviously a case of abuse, Routh said.
The parents said that the child had fallen into a tub of scalding water, she said, but the hands of the child were not in her grip when the ploshing of the water evident.
"It was obvious, and it came out later that the parents held the child in a basket."
Another way to tell whether the injury is a result of abuse is to see how far the parent had come for medical treatment.
She said that if the parent had driven the child several miles, and other hospitals were closer, the parent could be avoiding going to a hospital where he had gone for the child's other abuse injuries.
But if the parent does come repeatedly to the same hospital, she said, he might be wanting help with the problem.
"You can't forget that these people love their children and that they can't be like them."
ROUTH SAID THAT cases of child abuse came from all socio-economic classes, and that most people who abused their children had been abused by their parents.
Although no guidelines to check whether a parent is prone to abusing his child are foolproof, she said, members of the team rely on several other factors that often lead to someone abusing his child.
Marital problems, a death in the family, a handicapped child and unemployment of the breadwinner are all factors that can contribute to child abuse.
Also, if a child is born prematurely, she said, parents have to wait sometimes six months to hold their baby, a situation that hinders the parent from becoming close to the child and is conducive to child abuse.
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