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University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1983
Program on handicapped focuses on KU
Smiling with confidence, Jay Turnbull, a student at Cordley Elementary School, watches as his teacher, Maxine Gover, corrects him on his class assignment.
By LADONNA LONGSTREET
Staff Reporter
Jay Turnbull is a blond, curly-haired teenager whose parents are professors at the University of Kansas. The three of them inspired a CBS camera crew to come to Lawrence in March to film their family.
ANN TURNBULL, acting assistant director of the Bureau of Child Research and a professor of special education, wrote the chapter about the shock of becoming a parent of a retarded child.
Rud Turnbull, chairman of the department of special education and a courtesy professor of law, said that a chapter written by his wife, Ann, in the book "Parents Speak Out," had brought to the attention of a CBS producer.
"It was a book written by professionals in the mental retardation business about what it was like to deal with other professionals," he said. "The people who wrote the book were the parents of handicapped children."
"The effort in the filming was three-fold. One was to demonstrate how the University of Kansas makes students feel." The film also practice for handicapped people.
"The second was to indicate what life with a handicapped child is all about. And the third is to try to give a message to the viewing public that being handicapped or working with handicapped people is really a very exciting, rewarding and fulfilling life."
The CBS PRODUCER called asking if they could film the Turbullabs as a typical family with a band. I thought it would make a good story for
the CBS show, Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt.
"We wanted to be able to highlight some of what the University of Kansas has in the area of the field," said Richardson, who really nationally superior programs."
"We were not typical because we're both professionals," he said. "We began to negotiate with them as realists, but we did not want to be seen as the central folks."
Turnbull said he hoped to show the viewers that handicapped people
were very much like non-handicapped people and were also quite competent.
"That was the message we tried to get across," he said. "Now, whether we will get it across after three days of filming, I have no idea."
Turnbull said that the program would probably be eight to 12 minutes long but that CBS officials did not understand when the program was shown.
He and his wife selected a preschool, a parent program, a public school and a group home for CBS to feature. TURNbull said.
They filmed some programs at the University that he wished Jay could have participated in as a child, he said. They photographed what Jay is doing now and where he probably will live and work as an adult.
"So it's sort of a past, present and future view of mental retardation and families of mentally retarded people," Turnbull said.
The preschool that CBS filmed is operated in Haworth Hall by Nancy Peterson, associate professor of special education, he said. It integrates schooling with home-based handicapped children who are preschools or of early school age.
"THE IDEA IS that if the handicapped and non-handicapped children can get some training together, the handicapped children will begin to learn from the non-handicapped children and then the handicapped will begin to learn to accept and to have an appreciation for the handicapped."
Jay had been in a nursery school where he received good baby sailing,
"But there's a world of difference between training and good care," he said. "His early years were wasted."
France expels Soviets to reassure West of loyalty
By United Press International
In Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said the expulsion was made under "obviously fabricated pretexts totally at odds with reality" and warned relations between the two countries would suffer.
Mitterand, since taking office, has
PARIS — The expulsion of 47 Soviets from France proves the Socialist government has not become the "soft-bellied" link in the Western alliance, a spokesman for President Francois Mitterrand said yesterday.
tried to ease Western fears that the presence of four communist members in his cabin has not increased the threat. The US is now technological data to the Soviet Union.
GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN Max Gallo said the departure of 40 Soviet diplomats, two journalists and five commercial representatives from France Tuesday "shows it is not soft-bellied."
The expulsion "washes Mitterrand of any suspicion that his liberty of action would be limited by his alliance with Germany," the newspaper said, saying Mitterrand also.
"intended to prove his country remains a faithful ally" of the West.
The pro-Socialist Le Matin newspaper said Mitterrand's right-wing predecessors would never have dared such a wholesale expulsion.
The expulsion was the second by a Western nation in five days. Britain expelled two Soviet diplomats and a journalist Thursday.
ASSISTANT AIR ATTACHE Col. Gennadi Primakov and the London correspondent of the Soviet magazine New Times, Igor Titov, left for Moscow yesterday denying they were spies.
The Soviets were expelled from France for repeatedly seeking out classified military and scientific information, the interior ministry said.
The second secretary at the Soviet embassy, Sergei Ivanov, was out of the country and not allowed to return.
French Communist Party leader Georges Marchess said the expulsion would not lead the Communists to quit the government. The Communists announced they would join the Socialists in a vote of confidence in the government after debate on France's new austerity program Wednesday.
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Officials hope for funds from state to do repairs
KU officials hope that money to replace heating and air conditioning masonry at Bailey Hall and to repair masonry at Murphy Hall will be approved by the state Legislature, several of the officials said yesterday.
However, money to renovate other buildings and to plan for new ones was trimmed by the Kansas House Monday from the $3.7 million requested for capital improvements at the University of Kansas.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee discussed the requested improvements Tuesday but has not made a final recommendation.
KU'S TOP PRIORITY is $230,000 for a new heating and air conditioning system for Bailey Hall, said Warren Woods, the head of board of Roegna Facilities Committee.
"It has a 90 percent chance of passing the Legislature," he said.
Tom Anderson, KU director of facilities operations said the 30-year-old system at Bailey Hall was rusted out and beyond repair.
"It would be impossible to repair or rebuild." he said.
Hannes Combest, assistant to the dean of education, said that Bailey had problems with temperature control.
Classrooms were often uncomfortable, and some music instruments have been damaged by temperature fluctuations, she said.
GEORGE DUERKSEN, chairman of art and music education and therapy at The University of California.
50 instruments — including pianos, guitars and cellos — in Bailey had suffered over the years from the instabilities in temperature and humidity.
Another $85,000 is needed to repair damaged masonry along roofline of Murphy Hall, which was discovered when the roof was being repaired in December, said Allen Wiechert, KU director of facilities planning.
Money to make some emergency repairs to seal the cracks around the roof was allocated by the Legislature in December, he said, and the $85,000 needed to complete the repairs was added to KU's request for capital improvements that was submitted to the Regents last April.
The other KU projects recommended by the Regents, but eliminated by the BJP.
*$386,000 to plan for a $24 million science and technology library that would be built between Hoch Auditorium and the Military Science building*
From the University Library to Design
• $488,000 to remodel the Art and
Design Building and Broadcasting
Hall
- $130,000 for energy conservation improvements at KU's power plant.
*$2.06 million to renovate Spooner Hall.
*$250,000 to renovate the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall.
- $85,000 to repair roofs on seven buildings, including Haworth and Learned halls.
*$32,000 to plan $5.8 million in facilities for the Kansas Biological Survey, now in offices in Snow Hall and buildings on West Campus.
King Kong back in New York for film's 50th anniversary
By United Press International
NEW YORK — That big, nasty monkey battled a crew of workers on the spire of the Empire State Building yesterday, 50 years after he terrorized Fay Wray in his famous picture "King Kong."
The rubber gorilla finally exhausted the team of 16 workmen who struggled for three days to get his deflated form through the building's elevator system and then lashed to the side of the skyscraper.
Then came the tough job of inflating Kong with 600 pounds of air. When filled, he will span the top 10 stories of filled.
one 102-story building and will be visible from nearly any spot in the southern end of Manhattan for the next 10 days.
TODAY, DURING CELEBRATIONS marking the 50th anniversary of the movie, Kong will be "attacked" by two antique planes blazing the sky.
Bob Tinker, the manager of the Empire State Building for the past 34 years, also hoped it would generate a borde of tourists for the building.
TINKER SAID THE reappearance of Kong was more exciting than the building's own 50th anniversary two years ago or the annual race up the building's staircase.
SUPERTEAMS WANTS YOU TO
COME SEE
“FOOLS FACE”
in
Concert
and ALL the beer you can drink
at
POTTER PAVILION
SATURDAY, APRIL 16 — 8 p.m.
Tickets now on sale at the SUA Office in the
Kansas Union
Tickets — $3.50 in advance
$4.00 day of the show
Sponsored by Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Delta Delta
All proceeds to benefit the Douglas County Association
of Retarded Citizens and Cancer Research
at KU Medical Center
HAVE A VOICE!!! Let Your Opinions Be Known
Before you is a proposal for a $15 three year campus privilege fee to supplement academic services at KU in three areas: library acquisitions, academic computing, and instructional equipment.
Take the time to learn about this fee and make an informed decision in a referendum vote on April 11 and 12.
Ballot boxes will be located in front of the Kansas Union, in the back of Summerfield Hall, east of Lindley Hall, and in front of Wescoe from 8:30 to 4:30 on each day.
REFERENDUM BALLOT
SHALL THE FOLLOWING PETITION BE PASSED:
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT BODY respectfully petition the Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs and the Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs, the Chancellor, and the Board of Regents to establish a $15 fee in Campus Privilege Fees for Academic Services.
BE IT FURTHER PETITIONED that this fee automatically be removed after three years, Fiscal Year 1986.
BE IT FURTHER PETITIONED that the Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs in conjunction with the Executive Vice-Chancellor, determine the manner in which this fee should be allocated.
BE IT FURTHER PETITIONED that Student Senate shall be presented with a yearly breakdown of how the fee has been allocated.
BE IT FURTHER PETITIONED that the Student Body believes it would be inequitable to tax law students a second time to pay for general academic services, and hereby requests that law students be exempt from the $15 general academic services fee.
YES
NO
Funded by Student Activity Fee.