Hard work, varied experiences aid degree
As the only music teacher from a Georgia county in the Appalachians, Lorita Whitaker, KU senior in music therapy, taught slow classes in a culturally deprived school, where only half of the teachers had degrees.
classes, found foster homes for walfs, and spent a summer in the juvenile court of Atlanta specializing in child care.
She has worked with Head Start
Mrs. Whitaker was forced to suspend her formal music studies after one year of college because of her father's poor health. But
particularly concerned with the culturally deprived children.
J. Edgar Hoover says Reds pushed protests
When Head Start funds were drastically cut, she spent the next summer in Atlanta working with the juvenile court. Many cases of neglected and abandoned children were assigned to her while she worked in an emergency shelter for children. Part of the time was spent with delinquent girls who were awaiting a final court decision on their cases.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover says Communist elements anxious to try to force a unilateral American withdrawal from Vietnam were deeply involved with the Nov. 15 mass antiwar demonstrations.
His hardest-hitting testimony in years—critical of demonstrators, liberal judges and the Black Panther party in particular—was made public by the House Appropriations Committee on the eve of mass demonstrations Saturday against U.S. involvement in Cambodia.
"It was neither by accident nor coincidence that the demonstrations held in Washington and San Francisco on Nov. 15, 1969, had accompanying anti-U.S. demonstrations in other countries throughout the world on the same day," he said, detailing various Communist sessions abroad in the six-month period prior to the rallies.
"The major emphasis in the discussions on those occasions was on the need to keep massive propaganda pressure in the form of antwar demonstrations on the current administration in the United States to force a unilateral withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam," Hoover testified.
"The Black Panther party, a black extremist organization, consisting for the most part of hoodlum-type revolutionaries, continues to be most active and dangerous from an internal security standpoint. Law enforcement agencies throughout the country are wrongly accused of harassment by many well-intentioned but uninformed voices echoing outright lies generated by the lawless BPP.
that didn't stop her. Hard work in night school, after working all day, provided her not only with degree requirements, but also with a husband. While he was completing school, though, she moved with him to a remote county in the Georgia mountains, again giving up her classes.
"During 1969, leading proponents of the New Left . . . more clearly established themselves as
Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries dedicated to the violent destruction of our society and the principles of free government. As a result, they intensified their efforts to foment violent disorders and discord..."
During a discussion on the 195 million fingerprints on file at the FBI, Hoover disclosed he has "always advocated that the age of juvenile delinquents should end at 16. Anyone above age 16 should be tried as an adult and records should be filed on them as they are on adults."
with a particular interest in handicapped children. This was finally worked out and they now operate a foster home under the auspices of a Lawrence church that provides housing and furnishings.
In the spy area, Hoover warned that the Soviet Union and its Communist satellite countries. Communist China and Cuba all had stepped up their "deep cover" espionage activities here.
The schools of Architecture, Business, Journalism, Pharmacy and Social Welfare would continue with the policy of accepting one LAS course as an elective option.
LAS courses OK
Future growth of the size of the LAS program, said Delbert Shankel, associate dean of the College, would depend on student and faculty initiative. He said the courses developed according to student need and could also be an experiment, or a teacher's whim.
Shankel mentioned the courses "Topics and Problems in Biologia General," "Topics and Problems in Our Visual Environment," and "Topics and Problems in East Asian Culture," as a few of the LAS courses which would be offered for next fall.
Upon completion of school, her husband accepted a position as psychology technician at the Veteran's Hospital in Topeka. Mrs. Whitaker began thinking of completing her degree at KU.
The LAS system now has 1,000 student enrolled in 40 sections, said Lewis.
Besides going to class and coping at home, Mrs. Whitaker is involved with the projects of the music therapy service club which includes music activities with aged patients at local homes, handicapped adults and groups at local community centers. Forty-five volunteers also help out in special education classes in town.
After moving to Lawrence, the Whitaker's began to plan for an emergency children's shelter, only to find that Kansas did not have this type of program. They decided to become foster parents,
Television in review
By RICK DU BROW
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — The expected big, bad news finally came for the television networks Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission has voted to strip them each of a half-hour of prime time programming every night.
She and her husband both plan to attend graduate school after graduation next month. "Our plans are still rather unfounded, but our interests are similar, and we would like to do something so we would be working together," she said.
But one of the immediate effects, according to network people is that the cutback has dashed hopes for expanding the nightly network newscasts from 30 minutes to an hour.
The idea behind the decision is to promote diversity and local programming. The effective date is Sept. 1, 1971
The FCC decision is a modified version of an older plan that few observers felt ever be realized. The original idea was for the networks to be restricted to 50 per cent of prime time, with local and other programming filling the other half.
In brief, the many stations affected will be able to use programs supplied by the networks in other three of the four hours between 7 and 11 p.m. EDT.
Actually, entertainment prime time is usually from 7:30 to 11 p.m. EDT—with news programs often a 7 p.m. entry.
The FCC decision apparently
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There she found a desperate need for people with an ability to bring music and beauty of a new dimension to the poorer families. She soon was giving 90 private lessons a week. She taught music part-time at the local elementary school for two years. Then she took over the local church choirs, badly in need of a director.
Local stations are not altruists. They are in business to make the most money. Yet they do not have the funds and manpower to try out new, contemporary directions in a big way, as the networks do. Networks may not be ideal, but, in its current setup. American television cannot succeed unless they do.
presupposes there will be a cultural blossoming and creative upswing by local stations using their extra 30 minutes. FCC Chairman Dan Burch, who voted against the decision, dissents. And I agree with him. He says there will be:
On the business side, the networks will lose about 10 hours of programming a week—and the income from it. That's a lot. There will be fewer openings for new network shows, and therefore fewer chances to develop new ones. Hollywood, of course, will be hit hard, and it is already reeling.
"More of the same—more games, more light entertainment along proven formulas, more 'emcee' talk shows."
She became involved in a summer Head Start program. She and her husband took the kids on trips, sewed for them, and spent long hours with these children. As a part time teacher, she was
Under the new decision, special network news shows, such as space shots and political broadcasts by candidates, are excluded from the three-hour limitation. And local stations affected by the ruling cannot fill the prime time period with either old network series programs or previously broadcast movies.