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Tuesday, November 26, 1974
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Touch up job
By Kansan Photographer JIM THOMAS
Apparently two-toned building don't go over well with the University, for when it was discovered that the color of the bricks on a portion of the original Learner didn't match the bricks on the addition, women began replacing the original
bricks. Before construction began, it was thought the brick colors were identical. However, the color match turned out to be different.
Move to remedy two-toned hall
Differences in brick color have forced replacement of a small part of the new construction outside Learned Hall, Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning and operations, said recently.
"Essentially, the architect thought he could take one panel partly down," Lawton said. "The difference in brick made at one time and another time, and the ability to match that from the clay . . . did not turn out satisfactorily," he said.
Removal of a three-foot section of brick from the second floor window to the shoreline, which was the roof and is now the third floor, was caused by a "slight shade difference," said Bob Green, president of B. A. Green Construction Company. The construction company is the general contractor of the $3 million project.
"This is a minor portion of a huge contract," Lawton said. The remodeling covers a one-yard strip on the front of the
addition. Cost differences will be negotiated between the state architect and the contractor in the future, he said.
The cost burden of the planning error could possibly fall on the University, Lawton said. The state architect approved the work before it was altered and might pay the contractor for the mistake.
"What you find in a project of this type is the brick manufacturers who originally did it are out of business," Green said. "It is virtually impossible to get the same shade of color because the new material is extracted from different clay beds."
Originally, the brick was thought to be matched, Lawton said. The match wasn't adequate to add the condition, but the brick was actually significantly adjoined.
Partial occupancy of the new addition is scheduled for September 1975. Lawton said. Construction bids continue.
Schools OK handicapped program
A recommendation that Unified School District No. 497 become the site of a program next year for the profoundly handicapped was approved unanimously last night at a meeting of the USD No. 497 Board of Education.
The program site in Lawrence will be one of two program sites in Kansas, USD No. 501 of Topeka has tentatively agreed to be the other site.
The program will be funded by a $20,000 grant from the Midwest Regional Resource Center, a federal center designed to provide services and assist states in establishing curriculum and kindly handicapped students. The funding is expected to continue for three years.
About one-half of the $20,000 grant and a state fund raise will be used to USD No. 407. The year-end of fees for the grant is June 30.
A proposed computer facilities improvement, financed by USD No. 497, Douglas County and the city of Lawrence, was discussed by the school board and
Some federal and state guidelines used in defining profoundly handicapped children are autism, severe epilepsy, severely malformed speech and motor control, profound retardation or similar problems.
KUOK's "Battle of the Bulge" contest was extended yesterday until Dec. 6 because of the absence of its major participant. Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Dykes was in Topeka with governor-elect Bob Bennett and was unable to be at the weigh-in, according to Cindy Hutter, KUOK promotions director.
The contest, which is sponsored by KUOK, invites students to send in postcards guessing Dykes' weight. Cards will be accepted until Dec. 6, Hutter said.
The weight-in will be at 1:15 p.m. between Flint and Wescose Walls.
representatives from the county and the city.
A study done by USD No. 497 showed the computer could be completely paid for by the bank.
Under the proposed plan, a computer to be used by the schools, city and county would be purchased and added to during the next seven years.
Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, predicted quicker service in utility billing and parking violation billing if the computer program was approved. He said he would present the plan to the city commission today.
Arthur Heck, county commissioner, also voiced his support of the computer plan and said many hours would be saved in sending county bills by using a modern computer.
Other business of the school board included a report from the Lawrence High School Extension Program, a report on the athletic budget, voting on an architectural fee arrangement and personnel and organizational matters.
Carl Enloe, director of data processing for USD No. 497, said the job prospects of students trained in data processing were good, and urged the plan's adoption.
There is no stereotype of the person who abuses children, Deane Ann Bolick, protective services social worker for the county Wildlife Department, said last week.
Child abuse may occur in all ethnic groups, economic levels and to children of
By ANITA SOLTER Health Reporter
"ONLY ONE PER CENT of suspected abusers in Douglas County are black, and five per cent nationwide are black," Bolick said.
very interesting and very "One of the most enjoyable and light-hearted musicals that I've filmed, and certainly the best movie musical this year. Everyone, everywhere, should see it. Even the British."
Cases handled by the welfare department mostly involve welfare and average-income families. Abuse in an upper-income family is less likely to be reported, she said.
MIKE ELWELL, JUVENILE court judge, said a Kansas statute required everyone to report suspected child abuse to either the juvenile court or the welfare department. Then an investigation is made and staff and the welfare department be said.
A very thrilling and very touching, and very exhilarating kind of musical.
Serious child abuse cases go to court, he said.
All kinds batter children
"Any doubts about making a complaint should be made in favor of the child," he said. "The victims are often not able or old enough to attend the meeting to the energy of their parents or relatives."
A person making a complaint may choose not to give his name, Elwell said.
She said she had investigated complaints children from 2-days old to 17-year-old.
'A genuine firecracker of a movie-tune-inful, inspiring, brimming over with spirit and wit.'
LAST YEAR THE juvenile court received 35 referrals on dependency and neglect cases. Ten of these cases, which involved some form of inattention to a child, were
Elwell said he hadn't seen an increase in child abuse cases in the two years he had
"A delight ever moment of the way, a soaring, laughing musical drama. It's standard for the musical movies."
Bolick said most complaints in Douglas County were reported to the welfare department. The department received 174 complaints in the last nine months of 1973 and 154 complaints by September of this year, she said.
SHE SAID COMPLAINTS might vary from a neighbor's report that a child had been beaten to a complaint that a mother kept her children's clothes laundered.
"People are more likely to report to the welfare department than the juvenile court because the department has been more publicized as an investigating agency," she
Bolick said each complaint received by the department was investigated on a prior visit.
"THE MOST SERIOUS cases receive immediate attention and are referred to the juvenile court," she said. "In some cases, they temporarily place the child in a foster home."
Bolick said serious cases involved
Most of the department's complaints are handled by Bolck, but cases involving welfare clients may be investigated by the case worker for Aid to Dependent Children.
beating, neglect or sexual abuse.
"A lot of child abuse incidents are a one-time-only thing." Bolick said.
CONDITIONS AT HOME, work or with a landlord may be tense and the parent blows a whistle.
Bolick said such parents were very tired. The child and couple explain why they did it.
Wade Dexter, assistant administrator of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said the hospital was required by law to report child abuse cases treated there.
THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN at the emergency room would make a prompt, verbal report to the welfare department, the juvenile court or, if after office hours, to the juvenile division of the Lawrence Police Department. he said.
The hospital isn't required to separate
emergency room, doctor's office,
Beatrice Lott, nurse in the department of human development, sees many children day
"There have been not more than four cases here in 12 years," she said.
EACH DAY, LOTT checks for illness and bruises of almost 100 children, ages 2 to 8, who attend the preschool and other facilities in Haworth Hall
"The children here are representative,"
"they come from families of all
professionals and community."
Sandra Shrau, psychologist and director of child services at the Bert Nash Mental Health Center, said she counseled about six child abuse cases a year and this number hadn't increased during the three years she had been with the center.
BOB DAVIS, ASSISTANT juvenile probation officer for Douglas County, said the biggest problems in child abuse were detection and definition.
"We must assume there are always many cases of child abuse which are not reporterable."
There is difficulty in defining child abuse,
in knowing what really is abuse and what is
overstepping a boundary of discipline, he said.
"We are involved in a learning procedure about mental abuse," Davis said. "A child's sleepiness or behavior in the classroom may indicate a problem."
DAVIS SAID MOST of the provable cases involved beating the child, but mental abuse, which was harder to detect, might be more common.
Davis said some child abuse could be prevented through awareness of the problem. There is a trend to less fear about reporting such cases, he said.
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Davis said court and welfare officials, school nurses and others would attend a symposium on child abuse at the KU Medical Center in December. From this program, he plans to develop programs for dealing more effectively with child abuse in Douglas County, he said.
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