ARTS AND CRAFTS — Bobby Janson and Nicole Nifgen fingerpaint at the Tracy Clinic while Sharon Nakata supervises the activity.
Staff photo by Sltv« Hyman
Volume LXXXIX. Number 19
University of Southern California
Friday, October 10, 1980
Director says caliber of security officers up
By Cliff Tan
The director of Security and Parking Operations savs new personnel practices have improved the performance of University Security officers.
Carl A. Levredge, in an interview last week, gave credit to new training and selection methods started in 1979 for the higher caliber security officers.
Training is now directed to equipping officers to do the type of work specifically connected with a university setting, Levredge said.
In the past security officers, who were trained at Rio Hondo College, had to be desensitized because the old training overemphasized police-like reactions, Levredge said.
Because of this training, some officers became weapon-happy, he said.
The university fired a security officer last year after he drew hisgun on a man who was preaching on the roof of a university restaurant. The Daily Trojan W'rote last year in an editorial that "officers have been accused of incompetence, racism and intimidation of students and campus visitors."(Continued on page 8)
COMPARE EDUCATION
China delegates visit campus
By Cliff Tan
A People's Republic of China delegation studying adult education visited the university Thursday, but refused to meet President James H. Zumberge after it spotted the Taiwanese flag on campus.
It was the first time the delegation had seen a Taiwanese flag during its visit and reacted, said Henry Levine, an interpreter with the group, although this type of incident has happened with other visiting Chinese delegations.
The visit went smoothly, however, apart from the incident.
The delegation, led by Zang Boping, vice minister of Education in China, met with univ-
ersity educators at the Davidson Conference Center.
At the meeting, the delegates heard presentations on the College of Continuing Education's structure, programs to teach English as a second language, and the ''Beyond the Classroom" project, a federally-funded program to teach instructors how to give informal, on-the-job training.
The delegates had difficulty understanding how an informal instructor differs from a part-time teacher.
In China there are no distinctions between formal and informal education, said Yao Zhong-da. deputy director of the Bureau of Worker-Peasant Education in China.
Chinese education happens in three places — the family, the society and the schools, Yao said.
Morals and values, such as diligence in studies and work, are taught at home, he said, adding that actions of elders should influence their children
Society educates the Chinese through units such as governmental bodies and factories, and also through movies and advertisements, Yao said
Movies in China provide models to follow, he said, such as active citizens helping to modernize the nation. Thev are shown at theaters during the week, much as American films, I Continued on page 7)
And the deaf shall speak
Clinic teaches children
By Craig Gima and Cindy Feldman
Pre-school aged children are taught to speak words they have never heard at the John Tracv Clinic on Adams Boulevard.
The clinic was established at the university 37 years ago by Mrs. Spencer Tracy, wife of the famous actor, for their son, John. Like the children who play and learn at the clinic today, John was deaf.
The connotation of the term clinic is misleading. The atmosphere is not that of a sterile, bland hospital, but of a vibrant, energetic preschool. Children learn by working not only with the clinic staff but their parents.
"We educate parents to work with their child," said )im Garrity, director of Educational Services for the clinic.
The philosophy of the clinic is one of oral instruction. Deaf children up to six years of age are taught how to communicate directly through speech instead of sign language.
Another unique feature of the clinic is that all services are free. The opera-
tion is entirely supported by private donations.
"Deaf children do not learn like other children. They cannot hear the language on television or hear sound of the blender and learn that way," Garrity said.
Utalizing lip reading, repetitions and hearing aids — most deaf children have some hearing ability — the children learn the language.
Parents are taught to see how ordinary situations can be learning situations. The children are constantly learning to comprehend their environment. The learning does not stop when they leave the clinic.
"We put one parent and child in an apartment environment and the teacher works with the parent and shows the learning possibilities," Garrity said.
"Learning language comes before the speech or it's like teaching a parrot, they don't understand what they are saying," said Edgar Lowell, director of the clinic.
Parents are also educated to be "proactive people."
(Continued on page 6)
Staff photo by Steve Hyman
ANTICIPATION — Vanessa Morrellas contemplates her balloon.