1978_04 The Daily Collegian April 1978

              April 4,1978
Hint,   «...mo
Jay City editor
lauds, raps
frown, Carter
•   and  then   editor
the political
f The Atlanta
ititution In the 1960s and early
is. He has written about Presl-
Jimmy Carter since 1963, when
er was a state senator In the Geor-
Legislature.    He also has constant-
iid-'nl as "absolutely ruthless" and
'one of the two or three phoniest
" he has met. Murphy will be the
r commencement speaker this year.
w.-.i   interviewed by Collegian staff
MURPHY: There are no slmllariUes
Khveen tbe two Chat rve been able to
tscover except tbat both of them are
-undent of tbelr own talents. One
inference Is that Got. Brown reaches
ant of his own immediate circle to pan
people In government. Carter reaches
jnt to pull people who are carbon copies
i himself.
QUF.S :
MURPHY: Andrew Young Is the son
_ a fairly properoos New Orleans dentist with a reasonably good education
i_. a deep Interest In religion. Take
tte skin color and yoa're talking about
Jimmy Carter. Bert Lance Is the son
ot a north Georgia Junior college pres-
ldent -reasonablywell-educated, deeply
brrolved In the Methodist church. He
vent into hanking and a bit Into peanut
__T___g. There are great similarities
between Griffen BeU and Carter. Grille. Bell happened to be a Judge who
tappened to be from Americus, which
tappers to be 15 miles frpm Carter's
borne town. Hamilton Jordan came from
tbe same part of the state as Carter,
fat? Powell came from the same part
-  than  t
: Jarvls-Gann p
MURPHY: The biggest one is Brown's
jBolntees. The tact that a lot of
axe disenchanted with Brown's
ppototees to various boards and var-
'*■. That's the biggest issue
■ Republicans would like to cap-
gte on. And the biggest Issue that
ftoiTB vould probably like to capitalize
P Is that there Is no Identifiable lea-
prship in the Republican party.
QUESTION:       You've   described   the
'Anybody' could be a child abuser if...
A curious 3-year-old child reaches out
to grab an irreslstable antique vase
from a table. The child's mother
spots him in the act and feels he.
most be taught not to touch important
things. Angered she hits Mm. Out
of frustration and rage she hits him
again and again until tbe child falls,
This Incident and others like It are
all too tam-Uar In homes across tbe
United States.
It is called child abase and It is a
major childhood disease in this country,
according to Jerome Leavltte, CSUF
school of education professor.
"More lids nnder age 5 are killed
by tbelr caretakers than by any disease
or coD-binat-or-s of diseases", said Leavltt , the eoord___tor of the Central
California Child Abuse Project
Child abase encompasses much more
than what is commonly thought of as tbe
physical part of child abase.
Leavltt said children, aged from 1 to
18, suffer from sexual andpsyebologic--
abuse as well as neglect.
Neglect is when a parent Is not giving
children the means to survive.
It Is when a parent is really "detrimental to the health and life of the child",
be explained.
Reported sexual abuse has also Increased, he said, with more toys than
ever before reporting the abuse.
But what ties in W.th these and Is
probably tbe most prevalent and probably the most harmful is the psychological abuse, said the author of
one of tta first coltogete-ibooks on ehlld
abase.
This abuse Is "very hard to get a
handle on," Leavltt said, because tbe
damage can be very subtle. For this
reason most facilities are not prepared
to deal with this kind of abase.
A trained teacher may be able to
tell if a chUd has been physically abused
Just by looking, but most symptoms
are not very definitive, he said.
Sometimes, be said, a teacher may
be able to have some Indications of abuse
by certain behaviors a child exhibits
or by the child simply asking for some
kind of help out ol his sltuaUoo.
The actual removal of a child from
the home Is a very extreme measure
and would be detrimental to the child
In most cases of child abuse, be said.
This Is because "for tbe most part
these parents love their kids and In
practically aU the cases, with some
exceptions, the kids love their parents,"
be explainer-.
The best solution to child abuse is
to educate the potential parents In the
art of good parenting, he said.
The alarming tact is that about 80
percent of adults who abuse their children
were themselves abused as children,
Leavltt. en-pbasiied, AH violent inmates
in San Quentln were shown to have
been "severly physically abused between
the ages 1-10," he added.
What child abusers seem to Inherit
from their parents Is the wrong approach
to disciplinary p-w*-nre. Many, however, do»not know tbey are abasing
their child because It was a "normal"
way to d-sdp-me when they ware children, he said.
(Coaft on Pg. 3)