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Friday, April 1, 1977
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Educators to study child abuse problems
Informing educators about child abuse is important because they are in the position to recognize it first. Barbara Clarke, a special education teacher at Child Abuse and Neglect, said yesterday.
The Council for Exceptional Children and the University of Kansas department of education will present such a training and tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Adrienne Redel, president of the Student Council for Exceptional Children, said the program also would focus on understanding the abusing parent.
Clarke, instructor in special education, said most of the people attending were involved in education. The program will recognize and deal with child abuse, she said.
Clarke' said part of the program would deal with identification of physical abuse.
WE WILL include legal definitions of each, as well as see indicators., Clarke said.
"Often, someone who abuses is in a situation of need, and needs a release often, the child."
The deadline for receiving ballots in the election of teaching assistants (TAS), assistant instructors (AIS) and graduate instructors (GIG) must be set by Assembly has been extended to Monday.
Ballot deadline for Assembly to be extended
Eleanor Turk, assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the extension was granted to offset slow mail service. Some ballots were delayed in the past; they were sent to the voters, she said, and then to the governor, who allowed them to meet yesterday's deadline.
The new deadline isn't expected to delay the counting of ballots or the seating of new representatives by the April 19 assembly meeting, Turk said.
Thirty graduate student representatives as and As will be elected in the balloting.
Clarke said the program would cover the legal action that occurred when a child abuse case went to court, as well as other cases involving violence and possible treatment strategies.
CLARKE said that if a child anuse case was taken through criminal court, the parent was treated like anyone else who had used it. If the parent's consideration is given to the child, she said.
"Very often jail is not the answer, but some kind of treatment is." Clarke said.
MOST CHILD abuse is caused by a combination of four things, the potential for abuse to occur and the child seems handicapped in some way to the parent; and a lack of relief for the parent.
Clarke said it was best to take a case to juvenile court.
"That way, there can be treatment for the family, and if at all possible, the family can take care of their own."
Redeel said that prevention of child abuse and treatment, and that being a good parent, is important.
Clarke said, "Everybody has the potential to abuse."
Redel said that child abuse cut across all social, racial and economic lines.
child abuse as a poor family," she said.
"More than 80 per cent of the parents who abuse were abused themselves," Clarke said.
"A rich family is just as vulnerable to child abuse as a poor family," she said.
She said many times they abused their children because they didn't know the cause.
Redel said that last year 2,000 children were in need of abuse, including 12 children in Kampala.
The American Humane Association estimates that battered children cases number between 30,000 and 40,000 a year, and suggests that at least 100,000 children are admitted to an additional 200,000 to 300,000 abuse abused each year, Clarke said.
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Textiles . . .
The pre-Colombian textiles are on loan to the Museum of Art from Barbara Jarrau.
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Waggoner said that the fragments were acquired from burial sights along the coastal region of Peru, where the Chancay Indian civilization blossomed.
which produced some of the most famous of
the textiles, was in Poracas, Peru.
Peru
There were many burial grounds in the area around Lima, she said, and some of the fragments may have been religious or ceremonial pieces.
ONE OF THE more popular burial sights,
"The Chancay Civilization was eventually conquered by the Inca Indians, who in turn were conquered by the Spanish conquistadores," she said. "So the actual history of this issue is hard to determine because all of these cultures overlapped each other."
"One Peruvian author dates the culture of the Incas from 1,380 to 1,600 A.D. so the textile fragments are likely from the Inca."
Job program head named summer openings offered
County commissioners yesterday approved a new coordinator for the Douglas County Youth Jobs Program. Next week applications for the program will be sent to junior highs, counseling services and the job opportunity center.
The program will begin June 6 and continue for 11 weeks.
Martha Jean O'Toole, named to the coordinator position, said yesterday the students between the ages of 15 and 24 were enrolled in vocational courses who met federal eligibility standards.
Thirty-three positions will be available to students in Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin and Perry-Lecompont. Each participant will be work a maximum of 150 hours at $2.30 an hour. The maximum one person can earn during the program is $345.
O'Toole, business education instructor at
High School High School, said the part-time
work was fun.
University Daily Kansan
allow students to attend summer school or take driver education
O'Toole said that she transferred some applicants to the Community Development youth job program because it offered more hours at a slightly better wage.
Students on the program are evaluated twice during the summer, she said, and most who have problems get a second chance before they are replaced.
County revenue-sharing funds pay for the program, which provides jobs with the city, county and schools. Job openings are for custodial services, clerical work, library work and painting and maintenance at the county fairgrounds.
"We're here to help people," she said.
"Her community pretty well complements other youth programs."
O'Toole said the jobs were designed to help students learn the responsibilities of working. She said many of the participants had never worked before.
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