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» » Poetry reading raise funds for i.f 3 f rl f i ir ■ * 4 ’ July 7 will Hass’fees *» ’ * * ... * Talk* through play “•I« v * I - • f ’ Parents ‘listen’as kids communicate Everywhere American dreams are coming true. The power and the glory of a profitable Asian war expand in space and in time. A new race of Indians must now be exterminated, that white men may again believe in the divinity of pale skin. The President looks for revolutionaries under his bed, and we hope that he will not be disappointed. Certain sheriffs are seen cringing at the fantasy of blonde-haired girls raped by marijuana fiends while those same sheriffs smile benevolently on beautiful rivers of Mafia heroine flooding the city. The wife of the Attorney General ban know that her pale vagina rests safe as she prophesies lullabies of Bobby Seale sizzling. Repression is a fact — repression is here to stay. The FBI scours maternity wards searching for future Dr. Spocks. The acting president cannot tolerate 45 faculty members sitting in his office for an. hour. Repression, like the daily body count and smog readings, is here to stay, if we let it. by Pit Maloney Spectrum Staff Writer ‘Troubled” children from the ages of six to 11 may now have a new answer to their problems. Mrs. Muriel Santilli, organizer of the Parent-Child Communication Workshop, is formulating a technique in which the disturbed child and his family can communicate through play therapy. Children having emotional problems are often identified by such varied forms of behavior as extreme rebelliousness, inability to concentrate on schoolwork, lack of interest in activities and withdrawal. Fear of punishment or criticism often prevents the child from expressing his feelings to his parents. Relationships both within and outside of the family are hindered and communication with the child becomes very difficult. Mrs. Santilli, a doctoral' candidate who has degrees in education and social work from Columbia University and State University of Buffalo, holds a newly-accepted belief among child-care specialists: “We have discovered that there are disturbed families, not disturbed children ” scheduled play sessions. Other children in the family may have their own sessions, but are not allowed in these meetings. The role of the parent is to “tune in” to the child’s feelings and aid him in working them out. The child is allowed to do as he pleases, but he must not attempt to harm his parents or damage the playroom. The child is the real leader of these meetings, and the parents are to give their full attention to the child and show him that they understand what he is expressing. Flay sessions usually last for half an hour, and take place about once a week. Hass subpoened Prof. Robert Hass was faculty advisor for the Buffalo chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. He has been subpoened by the Grand Jury to produce SDS records. To the surprise of the Grand Jury, SDS does not keep detailed accounts of its membership or its activities. So Robert Hass has nothipg - tp show; the Grand Jury — not that* such records of membership, if they did exist,, should be open to the Grand Jury. . If they canT convict you, they can harass you with long court proceedings and with legal expenses, they can put your name in the newspaper so that you and your wife and children are targets for the taunts and threats of the organized right wing. A child’s world Workshop meetings utilize these sessions as a basis for study. In addition to playing tapes of other parent-child encounters, recordings from current home play sessions are examined. Participants are encouraged to comment on the quality of the sessions in order to uncover whatever difficulties individual families are having. Learn to relate The Parent-Child Communication Workshop, which will begin next autumn at State University College of Buffalo’s Child Study Center, seeks to have both parent and child learn to relate to each other. Because young children often cannot articulate their feelings in words, their play is used as a means of interpretation. Jury for failing to produce records he does not have. Returns (with Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard), and has appeared in two major anthologies. The New American Poets, and An Anthology of New York Poetry. Berrigan is considered a leader in the present gieneration by many seasoned observers. John Logan’s reputation is so solidly established that he needs no introduction. He is certainly one of the most important poets now writing, and has been a potent influence on the younger generation through teaching. His books are: Cycle for Mother Cabrini, Ghosts of the Heart, Spring of the Thief, and The Zig-Zag Walk. Poetry reading There will be a poetry reading oa Thursday night, July 7 at 9 £.m. in’the Conference Theater to help meet Robert Hass' legal fees. Tickets* $1 for students and $2 for all. others, are available in Norton Hal)/ The poets who are reading are all damn good: Ted Berrigan, George Starbuck, and John Logan. George Starbuck, an exciting younger poet who has two books, Bone Thoughts and White Paper, is not a stranger to Buffalo political problems. He fought, and won, a case involving the loyalty oath when he taught here a few yean ago. Ted Berrigan is one of the most daring writers of the new generation of American poets. He has several books, The Sonnets, Living with Chris, Bean Spasms (with Joe Brainard), Many Happy Mrs. Santilli, who is conducting the Workshop as part of a study she is making with Dr. Ralph Bierman of the University of Waterloo, sees the Workshop as “an innovative approach to parent-child problems.” The parents are trained to enter the child’s world through the play sessions. The Workshop will be composed of two small parent-child groups. Parents will meet with Mrs. Santilli for one of the most important parts of the sessions-training. Success of the workshop will be interpreted by means of pre and post-measures. Therapy is often influenced by the attitudes of the therapist, and Mrs. Santilli hopes to train parents into a desired “shaped behavior,” in which they will show empathy, openness and trust - qualities desired in human relationships. Robert Hass has not been convicted of anything, he has not even been indicted for anything. But he has paid, and still owes, large legal fees, he has faced harassment :from the -right (threatening phone calls, etc.), and he may yet be cited for contempt of court by the Grand Afraid to touch Man’s liberation The ultimate aim of all poetry is the liberation of man, the transformation of the self and the world. It is only right that there should be a poetry reading for Bob Hass, who is a gifted young poet, a fine teacher and a politically committed man. The sessions free both parents and children from discipline and everyday rules. Flay with the parents teaches the child to like himself. In the home sessions, he is not chastened or inhibited by his parents. The parent learns to accept and understand his child’s feelings and to help the child cope with his emotions. Contact is not repudiated, but is encouraged to Play sessions “Only the imagination is real,” said William Carlos Williams. Clearly the Vietnam war and the The Workshop will meet for 12 to IS weeks in absorbing week-end therapy sessions. The WHAT’S NEW ? \Y«k l«t U>\ - TW grow in an open, accepting atmosphere. TwaEgga, Bices or Sassage, Toast A Jelly, economy and racism, the destruction of the environment, hatred of the wilderness and parents, and uses teaching materials and experience as the main approaches to teaching. Cdfee, Tea or Milk The basis for the Workshop of what life on this planet can be, an imagination that is made real all around us. It is up to us to create and substitute another. meetings, and the therapist will play tapes of successful parent-child encounters. At home, both parents work with the child in regularly relations lack the intimacy, warmth and openness which are necessary for us to be freely ourselves. We are afraid to touch, to encounter... Often the feelings that hurt remain under the surface and are disabling and isolating. They sap our energy and interfere with creative living, with loving.” DOG HOUSE 3241 Main Si. at Heath (I£m) E.S. Now 24 hours a Mon. — UB Students' r»a: Mrs. Santilli’s idea is to bring parents and children cloaet together in a deep, intense relationship. She believes that this •) dynamism can change a family’s life-style and make communication easier for both parent and child. July 2, 1970 . The Spectrum . Page three
