12 - THE CITIZEN Prince George - Monday April 8 1974 RUDY WINSTON a Harvard Business School lecturer and Janet Smith of the Equal Opportunities program of the federal Public Service addressed a Women and Work conference at McGill University Women could use tension in battle for sex equality MONTREAL CP - Cana Canadian ¬ dian women who want power in the labor force should find out how many women in the country are committed to emancipation and then get nasty a Harvard Business School lecturer said Thursday Protest is not where its at Rudy Winston told a Women and Work conference at McGill University You and your sisters have to get at The Man in terms of power We blacks have been fighting him for 400 years He told the largely female audience to create tension for the males who discriminate against them saying they Visas refused have at least one excellent weapon for doing so You have a biological gem and can make it tough for men just by sayirg no The major problem as in the case of black emancipation he said is that most women are so used to bad treatment they dont know they are suffering The white male is one of the most scared cats in the world he said A female on the work scene threatens his sense of wellbe ing and superiority So hell try to regain his security at her expense in devious ways and sometimes will use sexual advances LONDON AP -Four Brit British ¬ ish MPs say they have been refused visas to the Soviet Union The four officers of the all parliamentary committee for the relief of Soviet Jewry are Patrick Cormack and Hugh Dykes Conservatives and Greville Janner and Peter Archer Labor Cormack said the group had only wished to meet Jewish families with whom they have been in tele telephone ¬ phone contact and look around Moscow as tourists Coming events The regular meeting of Rain Rainbow ¬ bow Senior Citizens Associa Association ¬ tion Branch 77 will be held Monday at 730 pm at 3701 Rainbow Drive A card party will be held Tuesday at 8 pm at 3701 Rain Rainbow ¬ bow Drive sponsored by Rain Rainbow ¬ bow Senior Citizens Associa Association ¬ tion Branch 77 Anyone who enjoys cards is invited to attend A childrens Easter party will be held at the Prince George Public Library Wed Wednesday ¬ nesday at 10 am There will be films shown and the chil children ¬ dren will be taught how to make origami bunnies At the same time the sequel to last weeks film A Further Glimpse of Joey will be shown for the parents This film brings out the problems of the adopted child in adjusting to family life routines Both prog programs ¬ rams will be in the downstairs library The members of the Prince George Calorie Counters are reminded that the hat parade will be held Tuesday during the regular meeting in the Scout Hall behind City Hall The meeting will start at 7 pm Today is the closing date for contestants to enter the ACT Rodeo Queen contest The con contests ¬ tests first training session will be held Wednesday at 7 pm when Mrs Vi Dewick of the White Spruce Toastmistress Club will give a short course on public speaking at 5138 Simon Fraser For further information phone 562 1061 The fifteenth shipment of knitted goods for the children of Vietnam Laos and Cam Cambodia ¬ bodia will leave the city April 15 Knitters have garments to be included in the shipment are asked to call Eugenia Johnson at 963 9310 for pickup New knitters are always welcome to the program t ITS COMING Secretaries Day Secretaries will be expecting a litle extra attention during the week of April 21 27 Ana if the boss is really on the ball hell take her out to lunch on April 24 because that has been set aside as Secretaries Day during National Sec Secretaries ¬ retaries Week a time for recognising the vital role secretaries play in business industry education government the arts and the professions Norma Calder will serve as chairman of the 1974 Secretaries Week for the Prince George Chapter of the National Secretaries Association Inter International ¬ national The theme for Secretaries Week is Better Sec Secretaries ¬ retaries Mean Better Business vxvvvvvvv iViniyiti1ivlvviiiViVViivVi v v v v v v v X X There are two types of women in the working world he said One is very aggressive and always makes it The other type which includes the great multitudes find difficulty withstanding pressure from malerun establishments but just grin and bear it and are miserable Janet Smith of the Equal Opportunities program of the federal public service told the conference that although the federal government wants to be a model employer in Canada discriminatory prac practices ¬ tices are still prevalent where women employees are con concerned ¬ cerned She said rug ranking a system whereby a secretary is automatically promoted along with her boss is common in public service offices Its as though the secretary were part of his necessary office furniture she said OH MY GOSH V EDUCATORS FORCED TO FIND ALTERNATIVES End of strap in school praised The sudden removal of the strap from BC schools was probably the most effective way of dealing with the issue according to Dr Margaret Csapo who was in the city con conducting ¬ ducting a weekend workshop for educators and parents on Alternatives to Corporal Pun Punishment ¬ ishment The ministers move to abolish corporal punishment caused many educators to take the trouble to look for alterna alternatives ¬ tives for the first time Dr Csapo said You see corporal punish punishment ¬ ment was used not because it was effective but because its ineffectiveness was never thoroughly understood If the teachers had been given time to consider its removal they would have spent a great deal of time finding ways to retain it BCs move to abolish cor corporal ¬ poral punishment is not unique to North America The National Education Associa Association ¬ tion in the US issued a report in November 1972 which recommended that strapping be phased out of US schools be 1974 At that time it had already been banned in three states and numerous cities by their school boards In their report the NES quoted the results of a survey they had undertaken which showed that corporal punish punishment ¬ ment was applied in 74 per cent of the districts surveyed The 135 teachers who responded reported 687 inci incidents ¬ dents of corporal punishment more than 400 of which involved elementary school children and found that 17 teachers accounted for over half of the incidents The period covered by the survey was three months or 67 school days Dr Csapo obtained her doc doctorate ¬ torate in special education in Kansas and taught emotion emotionally ¬ ally disturbed children in Ontario before coming to UBC in 1971 where she is presently teaching courses in behaviour disorders and the education of emotionally disturbed chil children ¬ dren She believes that if children are causing trouble in school it is their way of showing they cannot deal with the system EngagemG rits Mr and Mrs EJ Hyde of Maple Ridge wish to announce the engagement of Lynda Mar lene to Calvine Alfred son of Mr and Mrs AH Laing of Prince George Free Pickup and Delivery Tour Satisfaction it Cuoranfd corner Warn FomiCii Ri By Rav Bev fftrifonAn Christensen J 44 We should look at the rules and routines used in the school too often we make a lot of rules and never ask ourselves why we make them 44We should ask ourselves if the children have the skills to cope with the work we are giv giving ¬ ing them Dr Csapo is involved with a project in Vancouver called Operation Step Up which takes hard core delinquents aged 13 to 17 who are on probation and were either expelled or dropped out of school When we looked at their records we discovered why they couldnt cope with the situation They had reading skills that lagged two or three years behind and they lacked skills in mathematics and lan languages ¬ guages 44 We created special prog program ¬ ram of individualized instruc instruction ¬ tion for them and they get rein reinforced ¬ forced for their achievements and many of them are ready to leave or are progressing very well she said She believes similar types of alternate programs can be created right in the regular schools if the school is flexible enough and willing to handle children in that way 44But most teachers are not trained to prepare these individualized programs she said The real change will come when teacher education becomes more energetic more appropriate or different Teachers say they could do a better job if they had less children in the classroom But that alone is not going to solve anything because you have to be trained how to work effec effectively ¬ tively and efficiently with kids and How to work with kids with problems If you get one or two troub troublemakers ¬ lemakers in a class it doesnt matter whether the class is 20 or 25 they will still cause a dis disturbance ¬ turbance She endorses any move to include practical work in the classroom in teachers train training ¬ ing programs as long as the objectives are spelled out and the students know what they are expected to accomplish I would also like to see some kind of competency based teacher training prog program ¬ ram where it is spelled out very clearly what the students have to know before they are certified Right now they are cer certified ¬ tified after so many years training and nobody really Easter Is just around the I almost forgot Easter is nearly here Spring clothes must be readied Its good to have Superway Cleaners handy Let us put some sunshine in your Easter clothes xvv iiih SUPERWAY w 564 7261 Laundry and Dry Cleaners id 1480 2nd Avenue Prince George Sanitone Certified Master Vrycteaner f asks what is is they know or what it is they can do You can be an elementary school teacher without even taking a course in reading Dr Csapo said She recognizes that many parents have to be convinced that these new methods will be more effective than the old one Then we should look at the school carefully and see what kind of experiences the chil children ¬ dren have there that do not meet their needs Many of these people believe that if you hit him long enough he will learn 44 But what he will learn is not what the parents want him to learn she said She believes parents can do a great deal to create school environments where their chil children ¬ dren can learn and pointed to the Association for Children for Learning Disabilities who have been successful in help helping ¬ ing school boards develop sys systems ¬ tems whereby the special ANN LANDERS 1 i J needs of their children are bet better ¬ ter served Parents have to become conscious that they are the ones that pay the school taxes and they can shape what is happening in the schools They elect the school trustees and if they get together they can ask for the kind of education they want she said She believes the minister of educations white paper which stated she wants schools where parents wishes are heard has made many school officials uneasy because they know they arent doing a good job As long as children are fai failing ¬ ling the school is failing While they might be doing a good job with a lot of kids they are doing a terrible job with others the kids who drop out of school the kids who dont learn to read the ones who cant cope or become delinquent How would you feel it your child had failed for years and you were paying for that childs destruction and watch watching ¬ ing him lose his self respect at thejiands of a teacher who labefiecThirn learning disab disabled ¬ led or emotional disturbed because that gave him an excuse for his failure Dr Csapo asked Dear Ann Landers Many women have written to bemoan the fact that they are flat chested and they ask if exercise will help Or they want to know about silicone shots or implants I am just fine up front its whats behind that bothers me I have absolutely no fanny Can you suggest something Flat Felicia Dear F Many lingerie shops have girdles with padd padding ¬ ing The shaping is most realis realistic ¬ tic and creates a foolproof opti optical ¬ cal illusion So go out and buy one or have one made and you too can look well reared Dear Ann Landers For 22 years weve financed every everything ¬ thing under the sun for my in inlaws ¬ laws They have never had the decency to say the check arrived much less thank you There are nine children in elna Parents are not organized and in the mean time school boards have become big institutions who spend most of their energy perpetuating themselves Dr Csapo believes some something ¬ thing should be done in helping parents with their job with their children She had come to Prince George from Banff where she attended an interna international ¬ tional conference on behaviour modification which had as its theme Parents 44 We were trying to find ways to teach parenting skills to par parents ¬ ents so they can be more effec effective ¬ tive and efficient at their important job she said If parents are taught how to manage their children this would facilitate the childjs adjustment to the school situa situation ¬ tion because there are certain problems that are created in the home because the parents may not know how to manage certain types of behaviour Dr Csapo believes the pre present ¬ sent authoritarian school sys system ¬ tem gives the students a very poor understanding of how a democracy works Because the schools have adopted an authoritarian position they find they need corporal punish punishment ¬ ment to enforce the rules of the minority on the majority she said Yoga solves snoring Dear Ann Landers Two years ago I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown because I couldnt get a nights sleep My husbands snoring was getting louder and louder I couldnt understand how he could sleep through that hor horrendous ¬ rendous racket One day a friend suggested something she had learned in yoga class It solved the prob problem ¬ lem for her It is called alternate nostril breathing and it works Now when I say Honey 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