The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 24

The SMH took! Sedien, TfrandoT. Dec 13, 1973 4 FJ5 The social problem of rape CO I111UU my a And one man's aim to face up to it on film JF In Britain he was making a film in a Durham coal mine when a seam collapsed and he was buried Doctors told him he would eventually lose the use of bis right arm. 'To prove I would go on using it i bought a second hand Lambretta and rode it to the Arctic Circle in Norway. I built up the arm by forcing myself to use it." Bob spent three years travelling overland from Norway to Australia on growing number of film director in this country dedicated to the idea of making films about our social problems. The idea for the film about rape came to Mr Kingsbury after talking to several women who had been victims of rape.

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After a short spell back in New Zealand making films he married and finally came to Sydney. He has worked for Film Australia for the last nine years. Film director Bob Kingsbury wants to make a film about rape a social problem he believe has not been properly investigated in Australia. He work (or Film Australia, the Australian Government organisation which makes and distributes films about Australia. Many of its films are commissioned by Government departments.

The Department of Social Security sponsored Mr Kingsbury's latest film, "Women Alone," which has already been televised nationally on Channel 7. It will shortly be seen on two other networks. Mr Kingsbury is hoping Social Security or another will sponsor hi proposed film on rape. Concerning a genius At the moment Bob Kingsbury is completing the Australian half of a film being co-produced by Film Australia with the National Film Board of Canada. The subject is a former chemical engineer and film-maker, Charles Bliss, who has invented a language of visual symbols which can be used to help handicapped children.

Bob Kingsbury belongs to a small but Bub Kingsbury: in the aftermath "nobody tries to director, Bruce Moir, is working with a Canadian team on the Can- -adian half of the film, which shows the Bliss system being used successfully by disabled children. The Australian half of the film, as yet untitled, will include tome origi-. nal film shot by Charles Bliss himself at various stages of his eventful life. One sequence contains scenes of. Shanghai in 1941.

Mr Bliss and his wife lived there after their escape from concentration camps in Austria. The Minister for Health, Dr Everingham, a friend of Charles Bliss, also appears in the film, talking about him as a friend, a man, a genius and fanatic. Buried alive The film, in colour, will be offered to Australian and international television networks. Bob Kingsbury was born in New Zealand, and worked with the New Zealand Government film unit. lift hitch-hiking in the country, and got raped?" Charles Bliss, subject of the Canadian Australian him, is a 76-year-old Austrian-born Australian, he has lived here since 1946, and invented a language of visual symbols.

Black-painted symbol "Strictly speaking you should call it a visual communication system for children suffering from cerebral palsy who can't speak," Mr Kingsbury said. He pushed across the table what looked like a child's building blocks, each with a black painted symbol on it. The Bliss Sym-biolics he went on, are not merely characters, they have their own culture and philosphy behind them. "The Canadians have been first to prove the bliss system works in practice." Mr Kingsbury is responsible for the section of the film that presents the personality and life of Charles Bliss. Another Australian film The parents' bad example produces school cheats Making of film use This was the first time a film made here was used to help a government department get a message across to a particular group of people: women on their own through unhappy circumstances, like divorce or desertion.

"These women I had so much admiration for them. Their awareness for one thing, their courage and intelligence," he said. One personality impressed him in particular. She was 26, and had been pack-raped in an outer suburb of Perth when she was 13. "In these last 13 years since, nobody has tried to help her by explaining to her the mental and emotional states she might pass through as a oiHaj, This.il me first 6f two articles on why children cheat in school and what can be done about it.

or in order to brag about how he "put one over on that dumb teacher." Lcfroy Barney, Professor of Education at Northern Illinois University, who made an extensive study of cheating, said otherwise honest children are often driven to cheating simply to impress classmates. "Sometimes we even see good students cheating negatively. They write the wrong answers on a test on purpose, to gain acceptance from others in the class who From a special correspondent In Chicago Mum lies about her age and weight. Dad fudges just a little on his income tax. And in the papers and on the television, they see Watergate and related incidents unfold.

Against this backdrop. delusive Syn-taai Soiweiw Offer don't do well," Barneyls wiie result of her experience," said Mr Kingsbury. He played part of the tape. The girl's voice is quietly matter-of-fact, but final: "It makes you trust nobody." She has become promiscuous, despising men and at the same time bitter. Finding accurate figures of rape cases is difficult.

"I've heard that only about one in 20 raped women ever go to the police. But I want to ask questions and try to answer them in the film. "Does somebody with a high regard for his daughter put her through the ordeal of making a charge of rape? How many girls say it was rape when it' wasn't?" A special technique He would use the technique of "Women Alone" real life case histories and interviews, reproduced with actors. "I'd also want to go to a middle-class pub and ask the guys there when they've had say eight beers each: "What's your attitude to a girl who accepted a sized MICI 81.80 82.es sa.es 88.75 811.25 814.50 Jgrrf 'J. IV.C-' MB' ROM eT (fill OTIS iflfW IfWIP f-prrnnnrFi tm Slides or prints you can frame, including giant poster colour photographs 20" help by explaining with a kind of bugging device," Barney con- fessed.

He also noticed no differences between the techniques used for cheating by the children in four different States 1 or over the period of 1 1 years. 1 "Kids still carry crib notes in their socks, 1 written on their arms or tucked in sleeves. And they still whisper and let their eyes rove," he said. Cheating was the second most common behaviour problem outlined in a survey of secondary school teach-' ers made by the research division of the National Education Association in 1964. (AAP) Weddings 1 don't just they're organised At tha Glenview in St Leonards we give a wedding reception a great deal of extra care and attention.

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This unique beauty fluid assists nature to nurture and preserve the fresh, youthful bloom of your beautiful complexion and is recommended for use nightly before retiring. Merri! The Sun-Herald has obtained rights to reproduce some of the most outstanding official colour photographs of the wedding of Princess Anne and Captain' Mark Phillips, These are now available to readers as slides or colour prints. Susie and Johnny are supposed to grow up honest. But the fact is, they don't. Susie and Johnny cheat in school, often beginning as early as the primary grades.

Paul Byers. a business education teacher in Waukegan, Illinois, reported: "Some students have been cheating as long as they can remember, and they'll continue to do so as long as possible. "Parents are largely responsible, for this attitude begins long before the child reaches the influence of school. It is evident in his daily play with other children. These students feel it's easier to cheat than to be honest." Dishonesty Dr Brenda Solomon, a psychiatrist affiliated with the Institute for Psychoanalysis, said: "Well-intentioned parents usually tell their children to do the honest and right thing.

Yet every day, right before the kids' eyes, they present clear examples of dishonesty that contradict their preaching. And, we have to face the fact that youngsters rarely do as they're told they do what they feel and see their parents doing. "For instance, children may hear their parents talk about honesty and then they sit in the back Of the car while Dad drives 10 miles an hour over the limit but slows down when he spots a squad car. Pretty soon the children get the idea that the point is not to get caught." Parents often fail to set standards and stand firmly behind their convictions. Dr Solomon said: "Many members of this generation have grown up with the impression that their parents will stand behind them no matter what they do.

''Years ago if a child was caught shoplifting, his parents automatically made him return the item and suffer the embarrassment of apologising. Although that experience was painful, it generally served as a reminder not to repeat the act. "Today, if children are caught shoplifting or in more serious crimes parents often tell them they understand the frustrations that caused them to do it. And in many instances they even demand to know why the police are harassing their children." A parent-cultivated need for status is abetting, schoolroom cheating, Dr Solomon said dishonesty nviy stem from the. home, where children may begin lying in order to gain approval from: parents.

If unchecked by parents, it can grow into; a pattern of Later, i children may cheai in school in order to get high marks to Jain approval from avourite teachers. we en' counter a truly honest youngster with good who changes' under stress of peer, Dr Solomon said. In 'n effort to gain approval of esteem of otherwise good students may cheat to be "one of the gang," SLIDES Set of 10 for $5.50, including postage and packaging. Princess Anne in the glass coach Close-up of Princess Anne in the glass coach The Lifeguards in the Queen's procession The Bride and the Duke of Edinburgh in the Abbey At the altar during the ceremony The Bride and Groom passing foreign royalty in the Abbey The scene in the Mall The Bridal group The Royal family group with the Groom's family The Bride and the Groom at Buckingham Palace Barney reported that his data also showed that a great many students tend to be scrupulously honest until they sense a threat to their status or to their, rapport with their teach-! er. "We tested a group of fourth-graders by giving them a spelling tcsl," Barney explained.

"The children were told that if they misspelled any words on the test, they would be required to write each misspelled word correctly 10 times. They were also told they were on their honour, although a teacher viewed them through a oneway window from the next room. "During the first test, quite a few children missed some words hut virtually no one cheated or failed to hand in the practice words later. "During the next test, the penalty for misspelling a word was to write it 20 times. Still no one cheated or failed to turn in practice sheets.

"For the final test, we changed the procedure," Barney said. "This time the teacher told the children there was no penalty for misspelling words but he stressed he would be very disappointed in any one who made any mistakes. He said that students who were as smart as that class should have no trouble. Whispering "And that day there was a good deal of head turning, whispering and cneating in general. Why? Because one short speech from a teacher they loved and respected arove tnese basically nonest cniidren to cheat.

At all costs, they wanted him to be proud of them." Although Barney isn't reaay to make firm sex-oriented observations about cheating, he said tnat in his research more girls cheated than boys, especially on tests. But when boys did cheat. they cheated in a bigger way Barney has tested young people in ele-mentary and junior high schools in Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and II-linois with three different methods: A hidden camera in the classroom. A one-way window. Collecting papers, making copies of them, then returning them to the owners to mark, and then comparing the marked copies with the original copies.

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