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Author discusses child abuses; law suits, lobbying encouraged
BY BETH GREENWALD
Staff Reporter
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Recounting one horror story after another, Ken Wooden, an investigative writer, called for accountability in the court system while justice system during a speech Friday.
University Daily Kansan
Wooden, author of a book on child abuse in institutions, also led an all-day workshop
An investigative reporter for the CBS program "Sixty Minutes," he helped investigate and write a recent segment, "The Interstate Commerce of Kids," about a man who made $1 million a year from running a chain of sex education facilities advertised in its brochures.
In Alabama, Wooden said he saw iron cages where children were thrown for misbehaving. He described an institution in Florida as the "Buchwald of America," where urine was injected into children to test for toxins, given to children to encourage suicide.
FROM 1972 TO 1974, Wooden traveled to 30 states, visited 175 juvenile institutions. What he saw and heard became a book "Weening in the Playtime of Others."
Wooden said he saw children in Texas whose skin had been chemically burned when they were tear-gassed for punishment in 8-by10-foot rooms. He also said pregnant young women in the institutions had the need of solitary confinement or an abortion.
BUT, WOODEN said, these were only a few examples of states where corruption existed in juvenile institutions and that all states were guilty.
He said the juvenile institutions failed to correct juveniles 40 per cent of the time and 60 per cent of the time.
Wooden said that 2 million children were in juvenile institutions and that less than 10 per cent of them had committed violent crimes. He said 60 per cent of the children in schools were status offenders, children who were truant or neglected by their parents.
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These noncriminal children are being taught criminal behavior when thrown into a tank.
Wooden called juvenile institutions expensive human warehouses and said they were a big business, grossing $15 million annually.
WOODEN IS editing a book called "Dust Dreams," a collection of poetry written by institutionalized children. The profits of the book will go into a trust fund, Wooden said, which will be used to bring lawsuits against institutions.
He said law suits were only one tool to fight the institutions. He encouraged people to join local political clubs and lobby at the state level for stricter institutional licensing laws. Because most juveniles in institutions were underage workers, Wooden said, labor union policies
Wooden and Larry Barker, a friend, have
begain a program to teach social workers about abuses in institutions and about ways of dealing with them.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said all nonprofit organizations, except churches and their affiliates, must reveal their total financial assets. Because of the 1969 Freedom of Information Act, the form then said, employees must use the form to pass on the information to the press.
Although America is called a youth-oriented society, Wooden said, children are denied rights and protection, but the Justice Department is trying to form a children's protection unit.
Wooden said that options to existing institutions were needed and that the present system must be abolished even if concrete options didn't exist.
"The street is better than the county jail," he said.
Sophomores sought for society
Lambda Sigma, a University of Kansas sophomore coeducational honorary, is now selecting members for the 1977-78 school year.
Selection is based on scholarship, peer
support, activities and faculty recommen-
dation.
Applications have been distributed to freshmen by the members of Lambda Sigma. Completed applications must be returned to the dean of men's or dean of women's office by Friday, where applications are available.
Lambda Sigma, a KU service organization, is beginning its second year at
Study in Guadalajara, Mexico
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The national membership of CWENS decided to become a coeducational honorary last summer, forming the national society, Lambda Sigma.
Last spring, members of KU's chapter of the International Association to Beltanize be brought to Milan.
Lambda Sigma's activities last year ended the Parent's Day Mum Sale and the Lambda Day Mum Sale.
New nationally affiliated MCAT/DAT Review Course to help prepare for the new MCAT. Review lectures, test taking tips, practice exams, review materials. Seven classes of 4 hours each. Weekly classes of 8 hours each. April 12 and ending April 16. Location: Rm. 21 Sedgewick Hall Rockhurst College, K.C., MO. Cost: $140 plus $15 refundable deposit on materials. Call or write:
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KU, replacing CWENS Society, a sonhomore women's honorary
Notice to All Organizations
WISHING TO APPLY FOR FUNDING FROM THE STUDENT SENATE/STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE:
Budget Request forms for Fiscal 1978 are now available in the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Union, Level 3.
These requests must be completed and returned
to the Senate office NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 28,1977.
Eighteen blindfolded Iranian students, bound to wooden supports from which dangled menus, marched down Jayhawk Boulevard Friday to symbolize the plight of 18 Iranian prisoners arrested two months ago for antigovernment activities.
social welfare, went to Tartaru, Iran, as a member of the delegation and to do
The purpose of the march was to point out the efforts of a U.S. delegation to visit the prisoners and get their names, according to an Indian student who asked not to be
The British Broadcasting Company and CBS have tried to report the Iranian activities, the student said, but have envisioned difficulties from the Iranian government.
Iranians protest for prisoners
Beaded the KU protest, he said, there have been hunger strikes involving 185 people in San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Oklahoma City and Chicago.
Norman Forer, associate professor of
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Iranian students also occupied the Statue
Work study cuts would hurt departments that employ students in the program, Weinberg said, because the KU department could afford less money available for student salaries.
Student aid
students from moderate- and low-income families. NDSL funds, however, provide loans to students with sufficient need regardless of income, so they could be hurt
FEDERAL MONEY pays 80 per cent of the salaries for KU students employed in the work study program.
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Weinberg said that if Carter adopted the cuts in the NDSL program, its only money would be repayments from students who have had past loans.
8:30 Sequeira Costa, pianist, benefit performance for the Music Scholarship Fund, University Theatre, $2.00.
Money from repayments of past NDSI loans could be as much as $700,000 a year, because the money was returned to new loans because it comes back to the University in monthly installments.
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of Liberty recently, and demonstrations have been held in at least 20 U.S. cities.
3:30 "What is a Curator?" a talk with Ross E. laggart, senior curator of Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Regionalist Room, Union
In Lawrence, about 45 clergymen and KU faculty members have formed the Comittee for Iranian Human Rights. The committee has organized a program in Houston and Washington, D.C.
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NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR REFORMATION
All proceeds go to
OF MARIJUANA LAW IS a non-profit organization
a non-profit organization.
Informational Meeting
SUA Officer and Board Selection
Monday, Feb. 21, 3:15 p.m.
All interested persons
Kansas Union—Parlor Room
invited to attend
Today's Events
The Society for Creative Disorganization would like to invite you to a
ENTROPY
PARTY
educators
mediators
synergists
positivists
technocrats
poets
hackers
in the Hawk's Nest
3:30-5:30
with zizzy from the
TOM MONTGOMERY TRIO
Courtesy of SUA
Friday, February 25
*students *
*professionals*
*sciences*
*soft* *sciences*
*social* *sciences*
*asocial* *sciences*
engineering
humans
hackers hobbyists
We invite any and all citizens from among the
Paid for from the Student Activity Fee
- This society will designate student members to the already existing Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Can science be observed outside the LAB?
to meet with us and consider the following questions
ENTRYPO is interested in an activity which finds us at its core.
OURS IS AN INFORMAL INTENT. We are having an opportunity to ponder these questions.
Can I deposit money to bank accounts? Are they required?
Can I deposit money to a bank account in the university? Is society at work in my myth?
Is the place of interest in the university? Is society at work in my myth?
Is the place of interest in the university? Is society at work in my myth?
Applications due Feb. 25
A sophomore cohonorary society at the University of Kansas is now accepting a candidate for the position of Dean of Women's Office, 228 Strong, or the Dean of Men's Office, 228 Strong.
Lambda
If you have any questions, please inquire at the Dean of Women's Office.
Sigma Society
Mike Zimmerman
writer and photo-journalist for a wide variety of periodicals in Israel and North America, will speak on
"THE MIDDLE EAST
INFORMATION WAR:
RHETORIC AND THE TERRITORIES"
(West Bank problems will receive special attention)
Tuesday, February 22nd 7:30 p.m.
Walnut Room in the Union
sponsored by Hillel, K.U. Jewish Students
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