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Chris Manly, Boston graduate student, right, instructs Taylor Ann Moore on making pretzels for her afternoon snack. Moore is one of about 100 children who attend the Edna A. Hill Child Development Center, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month.
Hill child development center reaches 50 years
Changes in society increase demand for quality care
By Kathleen Stolle Kansan staff writer
Weathering 50 years of societal and legal changes, the Edna A. Hill Child Development Center has stayed true to its original mission.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, the center opened at KU in October 1943 under the direction of Edna Hill, head of what would become the department of human development and family life.
The center was created in response to the employment of large numbers of Lawrence women at a De Soto ammunitions plant during World War II. The mission has been to offer child care to the community while providing KU students hands-on learning.
Jan Sheldon, the center's fourth director.
said that history was repeating itself at the center.
During the war, Hill provided day care for children up to age 12.
After the war, the center reduced its services to primarily preschoolers.
In the '80s, as women ventured back into the workplace, the center expanded its services to include classes for toddlers and provide day care. Just last year the center added an infant program, Sheldon said.
"What's interesting is that's what she had done original," she said.
Another significant change at the center was the inclusion of children with special needs. In 1975, a federal mandate required all children with disabilities be provided access to public education. In turn, the enrollment of handicapped children in public schools and day-care centers increased.
"Some of us felt committed to that before the law caught up to it," said Alita Cooper, an associate director of the center.
As for location, the center was originally in a house at 1100 Missouri St. The house no longer exists. The center was moved into Haworth Hall in 1970 and expanded
into Dole Human Development Center in 1990.
Cooper said she remembered when, before the advent of one-way observation mirrors, researchers studied children through painted screens.
The name, too, underwent evolution,she said.
"It was called the nursery school for a long time." Cooper said.
Later, it was called the child development lab, which then became the child development center in the '80s.
One aspect of the center that has always been the same is the number of male students involved. Cooper said.
"There's always been very few men," she said.
Darin Taylor, Roeland Park senior, works with toddlers and preschoolers five and a half hours a day, five days a week. Taylor, a biology major, said he was considering pediatric medicine. But the experience, including teaching tasks such as tying shoes and buttoning clothes, has benefited him personally as well.
"When they get it right, you feel good because the kid feels good about himself, and that's what you're there for." he said.
Communist legacy won't go quietly
Professor addresses Russian economical transition at KU forum
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
When Russia switched from capitalism to socialism after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the societal transition took almost 16 years, said Richard DeGeorge, professor of philosophy and Russian and Eastern European studies.
DeGeorge spoke yesterday about the legacy of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe before a crowd of 60 at the weekly University forum at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
"The move from capitalism to socialism was easy in theory," DeGeorge said. "It was one big experiment."
DeGeorge said that after living under communist rule for more than 70 years, people would have a difficult time adjusting to a capitalist society.
He said Russia was trying to return to capitalism after 76 years of communism and socialism.
When communism still existed in the former Soviet Union, he said, the government controlled everything and people's liberties were oppressed.
"Individuals and individualism was something that was not respected," DeGeorge said. "The moral fabric of the country was seriously weakened."
The country's work ethic was affected by the oppression of the people, he said.
"The joke among Russian workers would be, "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work," DeGeorge said. "Collectivism was the norm and productivity was low."
When he attended the World Congress of Philosophy in Russia in August, DeGeorge said, he noticed that entrepreneurs in China, a communist country, showed more energy and creative ability than entrepreneurs in Russia. But a reason for this was that China did not have 70 years of oppressive communist rule, he said.
Despite Russia's attempts to revitalize the country's economy by privatizing businesses, DeGeorge said privatization was futile.
"Most of the big industries are still state-owned," he said. "From what I can see, most things are grinding to a halt."
DeGeorge said if the government continued to control farms, people would have no desire to become farmers.
"If you can't own the land, how much work will you put into it?" he asked.
Stimulating the economy has been hindered even more because American companies have been accused of exploiting Russian workers by paying them low wages, DeGeorge said.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
India Club plans collections for quake victims
The KU Cultural India Club will collect donations from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Kansas Union for victims of the Oct. 1 earthquake in India.
The earthquake was responsible for as many as 30,00 deaths in central India, and tremors are still being reported, said Malik Munish, New Delhi, India, graduate student.
"Everything we collect goes to the Red Cross," Munish said.
The donations will be placed in the Red Cross' India Earthquake Relief.
Munish hopes to collect $2,000 for the relief effort. In India's currency, this is equivalent to 65,000 rupees — a good year's income for a person in that country.
Most KU students from India live farther south or along the coastal areas of the country and did not lose family or friends to the disaster. Munish said.
About 150 students from India attend KU, Munich said.
Phone book recycling available till tomorrow in on-campus bins
Munish said the group also planned to place donation boxes around campus.
Angela Teasley, environmental education coordinator, said students were urged to place old telephone directories in one of four collection bins on campus.
The bins are north of Carruth O'Leary, in front of Summer Auditorium, between Haworth and Summerfield halls, and next to the Burge Union. Directories will be collected until tomorrow and will be recycled into construction materials, such as wallboard.
No other types of paper or books will be accepted in the bins.
Another directory collection will be held in December when the new Lawrence directories are distributed.
Last year about 4,000 directories were recycled as a result of the October and December collections, and Teasley said she expects more this year.
Briefs compiled from Kansan staff reports
LesBiGays OK fumes at KJHK's handling of Phelps debate
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
Officers of Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Services of Kansas yesterday expressed outrage about a Monday talk show on KJHK, demanding an apology and the removal of the show's host.
The "TalkRadio with Russ Johnson" show Monday featured a debate between Eric Moore, member of LesBiGaySOK, and the Rev. Fred Phelps, a Topeka minister and outspoken anti-gay protester.
The show originally was scheduled to feature Moore and Jennifer Papanek, co-director of LesBiGayS OK, to discuss National Coming Out Day and the report of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns Study Committee, which was released Monday. Moore and Papanek were notified of the program change only minutes before the show.
The change also was a surprise for Dante Pestano, associate producer of the Russ Johnson show. Pestano stepped down from his position because he had ties to both LesBi-
Gavs OK and KJHK.he said
KIHK sent a letter of apology on Tuesday to LesBiGAY or for failing to notify Moore and Papanek appropriately of the change.
But LesBiGayS OK released a statement yesterday that said the organization was upset with more than the change.
The statement said that LesBiGaySOK "found the tone of the entire afternoon hostile, condescending, verbally abusive and at times threatening."
The statement also challenged Johnson's claim that Phelps' appearance was "newsworthy," saying that Topeka media stations usually refused to cover Phelps' protests.
In its statement, LesBiGay SOK demanded an apology to the organization, Papanek, Moore and Pestano, and demanded the removal of Russ Johnson from the airwaves of KJHK. LesBiGay SKO it would not work with KJHK unless those conditions were met and encouraged supporters of LesBiGavSOK to do the same.
Bob Holtzman, KJHKnewsdirector, would not comment on how the organization's severed ties would
affect KJHK's operations.
LesBiGayS OK officers said although their statement was written before receiving KJHK's apology, that apology was still insufficient.
"The apology we got had very little to do with what we were most offended with," said Scott Manning, codirector of LesBiGayS OK.
Papanek said the behavior of the people in the show was what most offended her and LesBiGay SOK.
"We thought the way Russ Johnson handled himself was incredibly unprofessional and incredibly offensive," Papanek said.
She said Johnson referred to one caller as a lesbian, even after the caller said she was not a lesbian, and addressed another caller as a "meathead." She said he repeatedly pronounced the name of the organization, and finally said that he "didn't like the name anyway."
Chris Beurman, graduate teaching assistant at KJHK, said he would not comment on the show's content before speaking with Johnson, but he said he thought Tuesday's apology was adequate.
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