THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
No.164
Solar power discussed
Monday, July 21, 1975
Sec page 4
Talks defer postal strike
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—There will be no immediate nationwide strike by postal workers, James H. Rademacher, president of the National Postal Union of Letter Carriers, said yesterday.
"We are not prepared for any nationwide action until we send something out in written form to our members," Rademacher said.
However, postal workers here have worked two years under "unbearable working conditions" and definitely support a strike against the U.S. Postal Service, which is growing worth President of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch NO. 30.
Local leaders realize a strike would be illegal but the leadership is willing to risk everything, including a jail term, Bosworth said.
If wildcat strikes broke out in other cities, a meeting would be called here, he said.
"One or two small places wouldn't make much difference," he said. "But if it was made of stone, it would be very seriously. Would we very definitely be extremely serious. In that case we would probably follow."
Bosworth said union membership here was slightly over 1,000.
Another union official, Morris Biller, head of the American Postal Workers Union local in New York, said he was telling his colleagues that he was negotiating as negotiations continued early Monday.
"But if negotiations break off tonight without a tentative agreement, I don't see
how there's any way of holding them back," Biller said.
Postal workers in New York City were in the forefront of wildcat strikes in 1970.
Rademacher and other officials agreed that progress had been made during talks yesterday but said there was still concern. The Postal Service and its four unions.
"Any job action would have to be taken on the national level, and it would have to be organized in advance," he said. "We're not going to risk losing our job, and an agreement would be reached in time."
Union leaders have said that there would be no nationwide walkout unless there was agreement among the unions to do so. Top union negotiator Bernard Cushman said that no instructions have been issued to union members to leave their jobs.
The Postal Service has plans ready to move the mail if there is a strike, including a halt in mail delivery.
Federal troops were used in 1970 when union members in some parts of the country
Cushman said there were a substantial number of issues still to be resolved in the work rule.
Rademacher said any strike would try to be fair to the public.
"We have to consider that the public is intrinsically more concerned in consideration in addition than said."
carter yesterday, Radacher had said,
"It does appear there will be a contract by
midnight tonight, but only if that agreement wage and job security for letter carriers."
The chief negotiator for the Postal Service, Darrell F. Brown, said in a statement at midday yesterday that the talks were about that many critical items had been resolved.
"We continue to remain hopeful that we'll succeed," she said, issues before midnight tragic," he said.
Other unions in the contract talks are the 250,000-member American Postal Workers Union; the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, with some 47,000 members; and the mail handlers division of the Labor International Union.
James Lapenta, chief negotiator for the mail handlers, said of Labor International, "What I call the gut issues are still there—the economic package, the five or six major and complicated work-rule issues and, of course, the real big one: the nolayoff."
The postal unions succeeded in *gaining the no-laoyoff clause* in their last contract. Lapenta said it "would be committed to benefit that benefit—something we’re not going to give up."
The postal unions succeeded in gaining the postal law clause in their last contract.
Although Lapenta and other union officials said they hoped they could reach a tentative pact to put before their rank and file before the midnight deadline, they also agreed that they would need a contract might be extended for a few days to allow extra time to work out details.
Peron aide exile may help labor
But few doubted that his departure spelled his final defeat after a political struggle with the conservatives, all the opposition parties and even the officially neutral armed forces.
BUENOS AIRES (AP)—Argentine labor is likely to have more power after the reorganization of Isabel Peron's government, following the virtual exile of the once influential Jose Lopez Rega, reliable sources said yesterday.
Reliable sources said the remaining backes of Lopez Rena in the cabin were
The Argentine government said Rega, a former social welfare minister and confidential secretary to the president, was en route to Europe as "ambassador extraordinary" to perform negotiations "with foreigners" and international organizations."
Lopes Rega, whose conservative advice on the economy split the Peron administration from its usual labor backers, flew to Rio de Janeiro aboard Peron's plane, but the couple was accompanied by more than a dozen bodyguards and a large amount of luggage.
The government's strong turn to the right following Peron's death was attributed to Looper Rega and also to the organization of a feared secret terrorist organization, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, held responsible for the assassination of more than 200 Marxists and leftist Peronists in the last year.
expected to quit their posts in the next few days.
The Lopez Rega group included his son-in-law, Raul Lautlert, chairman of the house of judges at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The powerful labor movement increasingly became annoyed at the alleged isolation Lopez Rega imposed on the president by denying interviews and meetings with her requested by other Peronist groups.
official Peronist magazine, "Las Bases"; at least five of Mrs. Peron's eight ministers in her previous cabinet; and other key officials.
Lopera Rega, 58, is a former police corporeal nicknamed "The Wizard" because of his spiritualist and astrological inclinations. He was the power behind the 44-year-old Peron, who became president a year ago, the death of her husband, Juan D. Peron.
Peron had hired Lorea Rega in the early 1960s, during Peron's exile, to serve as a confidential secretary, a function he continued to perform with Mrs. Peron. His additional post as social welfare minister helped him serve Argentina's huge federal patronage.
Most opposition parties, which had given Juan Peron's administration "critical support," claimed that Lopez Rega was moving toward a "fascist state." The armed forces viewed him with growing dislike.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Guest conductor
Rodney Elchenberger, director of choral affairs at the University of Pennsylvania, leads a Camp choir in an afternoon concert at the University
Theatre yesterday. The choir performed "Riddle Me Tha!" to "Saint Cecilia" by *norman Dellor* John. To perform "T
New IEC director plans change
By STAN STENERSEN
Dissidents threaten civil war in Angola
Kansan Staff Reporter
UNITA, the third Angolan liberation
party, and apparently has
stayed out of the conflict.
LUANDA, Angola (AP)—One of three rival liberation movements called Sunday for full mobilization of its forces, threatening to plunge this Portuguese colony into civil war three months before its scheduled independence.
The mobilization order was broadcast by the Peking-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA). Forces of the Sovet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) have 800 officers and stage in a La Moka harbor fortress.
The FNLA charged that Porguegine troops, violating pledges of neutrality, were fighting beside MPLA soldiers to hold off advancement of FNLA reinforcements on the capital. Persistent reports say that a 5,000-man FNLA column is marching on Luanda from the north. It reportedly was halted near Caxto, only 36 miles from the capital.
Foreign students studying at the Intensive English Center probably can expect a more individualized and more specialized pattern of instruction than they may have received in the past, according to its new director. Michael M. T. Henderson.
Efforts to arrange a cease-fire collapsed Sunday when MPLA troops poured heavy mortar into the FNLA. Pedro do Barra was处 near the FNLA soldiers have been under siege since third time.
Henderson, who will move to Lawrence in mid-August to take up the position, was at the University of Kansas for several days last week to meet with IEC staff members. He is assistant editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, which is being compiled at the University of Warwick. He sat on Saturday, he talked about his ideas for the center.
The IEC has been criticized by some foreign students who say it has been intentive to their problems. Henderson said that although some criticism was inevitable, the teacher could be reduced if students tailed more to each student's needs and interests.
"Some students are bound to see the study of English as a barrier to their progress," he said. "A student who wants to be a doctor doesn't want to spend a lot of time learning English, even if he needs it for his college work."
One way to meet each student's needs, Henderson said, is to assign each student to different sections of grammar, reading and language laboratory according to his ability, in each area. Students are currently assigned a single section for all parts of the course.
"It presents terrible headaches in scheduling to switch to different sections," he said, "but it seems to be worth it. It means we can tailor the program to
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strengthen students' individual weaknesses"
Henderson said that he didn't know whether the change in policy could be made by the start of the fall semester but that the staff would trv.
Another change being discussed is to make more of a student's work in the IEC applicable to his intended area of specialization and to help him embrace opportunities to work with a number of departments at the University to develop such specialized programs. In
addition to making most students feel more comfortable, said, such specialization helps them.
Some foreign students have complained about the IEC's use of graduate students to teach classes. Henderson defended the use of online instruction to strengthen the quality of instruction.
One probable change, he said, is that an in-service training program will be developed for graduate assistants, who are currently required only to take a basic linguistics course and a course in the teaching of English as a second language.
Henderson said an in-service program would bring teachers together to discuss the issues.
Teaching English to a foreign student is similar to teaching a foreign language to an American. Henderson said he. Also he hopes that students will also other language departments on campus.
Henderson has been teaching English to foreign students since 1965. From 1965 to 1984, he served as the language center in Afghanistan. He returned to the United States to teach English to foreign students at St Louis University. He taught English to foreign students his PhD. in linguistics from the University
of Wisconsin in 1972, he went to Tripoli,
where he was director of the special courses
division of the English Department at the
University of Libya.
Henderson said people who taught English to foreign students should be aware of the exceptional abilities of many of their students.
"These students are often the cream of their country's intelligence," Henderson said. "It happens to be their fortune that they have to learn English before they can do what they came to do. The fact that they don't know English is essential. Many of these students are older and have already held positions of authority."
Adapting to an American university is often more than simply learning English, Henderson said. Many students come from educational systems that don't emphasize a continuous flow of tests and assignments. Instead, students study on their own and take major exams. But they need help, as a result, he said, they often need help with everyday study skills or with such unique American institutions as the multiple-choice test.
Students visit reservation to observe Indian culture
By BRUCE SPENCE
Kansan Staff Reporter
One of the field trip participants, Rick Stewart, Overland Park graduate student, said, "It was the first time I had really prolonged contact with native Americans, and I learned a lot about their life styles and value systems."
Five University of Kansas students returned this month from a three-week field trip to New Mexico, where they studied soil and social problems in Indian reservations.
The field trip, which concluded a one-year training program for teachers of minority students, was supervised by Akiba assistant professor of anthropology.
Another participant, Kathy Escaillance,
Lawrence graduate student, said the trip
comprised visits to many different reser-
ter sites in New Mexico, Navajo,
Hopi, Zuni and Mescalero Apache.
The graduate students stayed overnight at a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BI) board-
digned school in western New Mexico, which served Navaho and Zuni students.
"It was good for us," Escamilla said, "because we got an idea of the educational problems that a lot of American Indians face."
She said students at the boarding schools were away from home for months at a time, which caused hardships because they had to work on their studies in community life during their school year.
many or the reservations, Escamilla said, and they brought through the sixth grade, but many of the teachers, students must attend the boarding schools. Stewart also said that problems resulted from the new curriculum.
"When you come from a very small community of perhaps only several hundred people and haven't travelled extensively, you're going to risk your security can be devastating," said Stewart.
The U.S. government established boarding schools, Esamilla said, because on campus there were so many children.
houses were as far as 80 or 90 miles apart. This distance made busing students back and forth to school every day a big problem. We went to school by the time they got to school, she said.
As a result, many students are now biased during the school year, said Sapid.
"it solves the problem somewhat but not really," she said.
Stewart said that whenever possible, students attended their own community schools or went to school in the nearest town. He said this was a far better situation.
The BIA boarding schools are plagued with many runaways, a problem only partly caused by the loneliness of being away from home. In most cases, the students have to contend with stringent regulations.
The amount of education that Indian children may attain, however, isn't determined as much by their earlier educational experiences as by their parents' attitudes toward education, be said.
She said the field experience had a strong effect on her.
Escalamila said living and economic conditions varied from reservation to reservation, but many Indians had a very poor life. Some families lived in one-room cottages.
Esculamir said the realization of this problem has much more sensitive to students.
"A lot of people can't understand why a let of kids come to Haskell, stay two weeks and go home," Esencilla said. "Now I can understand the differences in life styles. This place must seem completely foreign to them."
She said she thought teachers usually reacted to minority students in one of two ways: either the teachers considered minority students incapable of what white students could accomplish and, therefore, didn't expect anything better; or were completely insensitive and tried to impose their own values on the students.
"I don't think either way works very well." Esamilla said.
Field experiences are an excellent method of making teachers more aware of their teaching needs.
The one-year training program, directed by Peter Johnsen, associate professor of educational psychology and research, was supervised by Dr. Daniel Garcia and Spanish-speaking community college students. It involved several out-of-class experiences, including six weeks of teaching at Haskell Indian Junior College in New York City and American community college in Garden City.
She said it was also less expensive for minority students to go to community colleges because many of them were enrolled. Students could commute and live at home.
Baccalaurea said the program dealt with junior college students since more minority students ended up there than at four-year colleges because their basic reading skills were poor.
Although Escamilla, who is majoring in Spanish and English bilingual education, was more interested in the Spanish speaking aspect of the program, she said, the studies of Indian populations had been very interesting.
"I've been through New Mexico many times, and I had no idea that all those Indians were there," Escamilla said. "I had never observed the different life styles there."
"We had classes where we read about a lot of situations in a book," she said, "but the situations become real to you until you see them first hand."
Stewart said, "The field trip was highly beneficial. There is only so much you can learn from textbooks, and the direct_experience of teaching is academic studies this past year very well."
"You can see exactly how they live and what kind of social structures exist, in order to get an understanding of where your students are coming from."
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