University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. XIX
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. JULY 30, 1968
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Children Transplants Need Intensive Study, Prof Says
Transplanting a young human into a foster home should be accomplished with the same degree of professional sophistication required in transplanting a human heart, a professor of social work believes.
Instead of the follow-up intensive care which is given the heart patient, however, only a bailing-wire-will-fix-it approach is accorded the young human transplant, according to Dr. Carl Shafer, assistant professor of social work.
Public and private social agencies involved in foster care are less to blame for the situation than the public itself, says Dr. Shafer. This is due to the fact that such agencies historically have been under-staffed and under-budgeted because of public attitudes about the care of displaced and unwanted children.
“The middle and upper classes, particularly, do not see the need and do not understand foster care services and the impact which the lack of them will impose on society,” he said. “These problems are growing more critical every day because there are sim-
TROJAN GOES ONCE WEEKLY
Today’s issue of the Summer Trojan is the last before the second Summer Session, which begins next Monday.
During the second session, the Summer Trojan will be printed only once a week, and students may pick it up at the distribution points on Wednesdays instead of Tuesdays and F ridays.
ply more children, more broken homes, and fewer people seeking to adopt children.”
There is a deep need to re-examine the whole problem of providing interim foster care for young children and adolescents. Dr. Shafer believed and more effort and more money should be expended on (1) experimentation and (2) recruitment and preparation of persons who make good foster parents and who might be willing to assume such roles if they understood the need.
Rich rewards in terms of human experiences await those adults who are willing and able to offer a child the stability of normal family living, said Dr. Shafer, who with his wife have been such foster parents to a young girl placed with them by a public agency.
Beyond the physical needs of the foster-care child for food, clothing, and lodging are the needs for affection, understanding, social relationships and the need for a person or persons with whom the child can identify.
“The ideal foster parents are people who perceive these needs and who know how to meet them, because of their own experience as natural parents or, perhaps, even through training which could teach them how to be foster parents,” said Dr. Shafer.
Although the field of child care has a history of frantic research, change, action, and reaction, there has been little research into the area of foster care and what has been learned often cannot practically be applied because of lack of funds and lack of professional people, Dr. Shafer charged.
“While we no longer ‘bind’ children out to foster families to work for their care, we haven’t progressed very far in many other as-
pects of the foster family relationship.
“The whole subject needs a thorough re-examination and revaluation and we might start by admitting that ‘mother love’ is not natural to all people. A woman may have genuine mother’s love for a child, but that kind of love is the result of many other things which make her feel secure as a woman, wife and mother.
Believe it or not, Friday is the last day of the first session of Summer School. After six weeks of furrowed brow, pencil-stained hands, wrinkled papers, and dandruff scratchings, students will lose no more sleep over exams and papers for the rest of the summer.
Unless of course, they decide to enroll in the second Summer Session, which lasts four weeks and begins next Monday.
Registration for the students who want to subject themselves to another four weeks of torture begins Friday at 8:30 a.m. and lasts until 4:20. On Saturday the lines will open once more at 8:?0, but will close at noon, so be prompt.
Classes begin Monday, and Tuesday will be the last day for registration and for adding classes. After this date, there will also be a late fee for students and their daddies who have not paid their tuition yet.
Students who do not register academically or attend classes within the registration period, must petition the Committee on Student Scholarship Standards. This petition must be endorsed first bv the instructor involved and by such other persons as the committee may require.
August 16 will be the last day to drop a course with a mark of W, if the work is not of passing grade.
The second summer session will feature the same excellenr
Visiter To Probe Care of Retarded
Dr. Edward L. French, president and director of the Deveret’: Foundation, Devon, Penn., will speak Thursday in the 7th Annual Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Education.
Dr. French will lecture on “Principles of Residential Therapy as a Rehabilitation Tool” at 7:30 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The^e will be no admission charge.
Dr. James F. Magary, associate professor of education, explained that “residential therapy is the use of resources of a therapeutic environment to create a positive change in the condition of mentally and emotionally retarded adults and children.”
Dr. French has co-authored “Children in the Shadows” and “How You Can Help Your Retarded Child,” as well as being a frequent contributor to professional books and journals.
He serves as president of the American Psychological Association’s Division of School Psychologists and the Clinical Biochemistry and Behavioral Research Institute. Dr. French is a Fellow of numerous professional societies and is a recipient of the Freedom Foundation Award of Valley Forge.
The Devereux Foundation has schools, summer camps, cli< ^ and hospitals in California, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Perc sylvania, Texas and Arizona.
Students at USC do research at the foundation’s Santa Barbara division. The facilities there and in the other divisions operate on the basis of the Devereux Plan of Dynamic Education and Therapy.
The plan works to provide effective education for children between the ages of four and 21 to live in society and return to their families and communities.
To promote their treatment and academic progress, the children are divided into small homogeneous units. Divisions of the foundation offer positive treatment for several different groups.
music program that has been taking place all summer, but for the average student there may be little time to enjoy the concerts.
The second session condenses one semester of normal work into a four-week course, however, students are allowed to register for no more than four units.
And for students not returning to school next session, have a wonderful sleep, enjoy your finals, and bon voyage!
Business Profs Edit Anthology
Two American business educators have taken a professional look at organized man and the result is a 550-page text, “Behavior in Organizations: A Multidimensional View.”
The authors are Dr. Robert E Coffey, associate professor of management, and Dr. Anthony G. Athos, former USC business faculty member who is now a member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School.
W ittet directty to the student, the tone of the book is personal and informal <r it relates what ma* experiences in five dimensions of behavior—ideals, purpose, social, psychological, and learning—and the conflicts which can develop within and between these dimensions. '
Including both readings and reports of actual cases, “Behavior in Organizations” borrows from both studeni. culture and business settings.
The new text is dedicated to Dr. Harold S. Spear, associate professor of management.
Among the readings in the book is “Strategic Factors in Diagnosing Organizational Character,” by Dr. William B. Wolf, professor of management.
Lisred acknowledgements include a note of thanks to Dr. Robert D. E^Dckson. dean of the School of Business Administration. “fo* the importunity to develop ^e outA-^ for which thesi ;n«*.. :.ials were designed.’*
Co-author Coffey is presently director of the master’s degree program in business administration. He has served as consultant to a number of companies and has participated in numerous executive development programs in both industry and government.