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The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Thursday, September 26, 19857 The sun, nagstan, Arizona, inursaay, September ze, 18 Program Adapted Worldwide womens perception of themselves fairs, thereby perpetuatina their The Center for Excellence is ton to countries o. womens perception of themselves fairs, thereby perpetuating their The Center for Excellence is tant to countries such as and the respect they command In their families make them far more likely to become active in the schools and other community af positive involvement in their childrens development long after the children finish the HIPPY program. helping Lombard introduce television to the program to serve isolated families. This approach, if successful, will be extremely impor nuiMccAuciiicij mipvi' Australia, she said, where the great distances involved are a major barrier to establishing any kind of home-based education programs. cuuLtUlUll piUgrdlllS.

KNAU-FM Gels Grant to Add Translators HIPPY mother sees her childs progress from week to week in learning new words or mathematical skills, there can be no question that she has taught these things to the child, because no one else is involved. Support is provided by paraprofessionals who visit each mother periodically and from participation in group meetings of others in the program. The meetings sometimes focus on specific learning needs of the children, but more often provide enrichment for the mothers, tips on cooking and nutrition, a discussion of hygiene or even a lesson in personal grooming. These sessions further develop the mothers sense of personal and social esteem, Lombard said. The payoff for the children and the community is that the improvement NAU NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS Northern Arizona Universitys KNAU-FM radio station has been awarded an 38,000 project grant to help install two translators to serve Northern Arizona.

The grant was awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and will be administered by the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program. This grant will be used to give better coverage to the Flagstaff and Prescott areas, said Russ Hamnett, KNAU station manager. He pointed out that the grant would be used to purchase and install equipment needed to rebroadcast KNAUs signal. KNAU was one of 144 radio stations awarded a grant for this fiscal year. The Flagstaff translator will be located on Mount Elden, while Mount Francis will be the site of the Prescott installation.

According to Chief Engineer Bill Emshwiller, the translators are needed to help solve the multi path problem in Flagstaff and produce a stronger signal in Prescott. The multi-path problem causes a distorted signal in Flagstaff, he said. And in some cases, no signal at all. The frequency for the Flagstaff translator will be 90.7 FM. Prescott is a different story, Emshwiller said.

Their lack of signal is due to Mingus Mountain being directly in the path of KNAUs signal. Again, a translator on Mount Francis will rebroadcast the signal and serve the Prescott area better. Emshwiller noted that Prescott area listeners will be able to hear KNAU on 90.9 FM. Hamnett stated that money from the fall 1984 fund raiser will be added to the grant to help purchase the equipment. Target date for the sign-on of the translators is set for the end of November.

Israeli NAU NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS A professor of early childhood education from Hebrew University in Jerusalem explained Monday at the NAU Center for Excellence in Education how a successful Israeli preschool program is being adapted for use in countries ail over the world, including the United States. Dr. Avima Lombard, a native of Israel who was eduated in America, started Project HIPPY (Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters) in 1969 to help children from disadvantaged homes and to help their mothers develop selfesteem and a sense of involvement in community life. Except in the most extreme cases, all parents have aspirations for their children and want them to succeed in school, but not all parents do something about it. Many believe that the best way for their children to get an education is for the schools to take the children out of the home as soon as possible, Lombard said.

Yet it is the mother who is almost always the primary teacher of young children. Virtually everything a child knows before he or she goes to school is learned from the mother. Our program is designed to show the mother how she can channel the teaching she already does to better prepare the child for learning in school, she said. The program provides programmed, sequential learning workbooks designed to promote cognitive growth in the child, Lombard said, but the books are written for the mother, not the child. As the NAU Professor Presents Paper On Alien Contact NEWS AND PUBUCAQNS Northern Arizona University anthropologist Dr.

Reeif Ulrier maintains that long-term and mutually beneficial contact between alien cultures and intelligences is possible in a paper he will present at the third annual CONTACT Conference. CONTACT is a scholarly symposium of anthropologists and science fiction writers and artists. Participants explore the possibilities of contact with aliens be they extraterrestrials or members of different cultures within the human race. The three-day conference in San Jose, begins Friday. Riner says it is generally thought that any meaningful communication with alien intelligence is impossible.

The reigning argument is that alien contact will result in the subordination or destruction of one or both cultures. The argument has been substantiated in historic examples of culture contact among nation -states. Riner, however, cites examples from outside conventional recorded history in which nondestructive and mutually beneficial multicultural contacts have been maintained among various bands, tribes and chiefdoms. One example Riner notes is the system of potlatching, or reciprocal feasting and gift-giving, practiced by some 31 different chiefdoms along the 1,500 miles of the Northwest Coast from the panhandle of Alaska down into Oregon. Women Writers Subject of Talk NAU NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS Margaret Ferguson of Yale University will give a public lecture, titled A Room Not Their Own: Women as Readers and Writers in the Renaissance, at Northern Arizona University Wednesday.

The talk begins at 7 p.m. in Liberal Arts Room 226 and will be accompanied by brief commentaries by Richard Burt of the Arizona State University English Department and James Fits maurice of the NAU Department of English. Dr. Ferguson will be on campus during the first week of October visiting classes as a short term faculty member. Her books include "Trial of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry, published by Yale Press, and a volume she is currently writing on the subject of women writers of the Renaissance.

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