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Wednesday, September 26, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 professors urge improved child care By KIM GRIFFITHS Reporter Between 37,()()() and 43,()()() chil- |ren under the age of 6 spend an av- rage of 34 hours a week at home with a family child care provider, ccording to estimates by Dr. Ben guirre, Texas A&M University as- lodate professor of sociology. Aguirre’s findings come from a idy — the first to examine family hild care in Texas — conducted through the Public Policy Resources Laboratory here. According to the September udy, state and national studies have documented that child care providers are second only to parents in the number of children they take care of and in the average number of hours of child care they provide. “Our culture is greatly concerned with the fate of children and their rights to healthy lives,” Aguirre said. “But if you look at what we know about family child care in the United States, there is an almost complete absence of information.” Heightened concern over the quality of care and education given to children, particularly in their early years, has come none too soon, said Dr. Douglas Godwin, a profes sor of early childhood development at A&M. “In the day-to-day routine of work and family, the aver age father spends approximately 20 minutes with his child, of which only about 43 seconds are spent in nu- turing and affection.” — Dr. Douglas Godwin, a profes sor of early childhood development at A&M. In a study conducted in 1981, more than 43,000 children under the age of 6 were found to be wan dering the streets unsupervised while parents worked, Godwin said. It is generally agreed that a child’s personality has developed during the first four years of his or her life, Godwin said. “(If) love and trust are not suc cessfully learned by age 4, then they may never be learned,” he said. Contrary to popular belief, the quantity of time spent with a child is just as important as the quality of time, Godwin said, particularly as it relates to time spent in terms of af fection and love. “In the day-to-day routine of work and family, the average father spends approximately 20 minutes with his child, of which only about 43 seconds are spent in nuturing and affection,” Godwin said. “And the same pattern is being observed in the working mother.” The role of the child care pro vider then becomes necessary not only to the well-being of the child physically, but psychologically as well, he said. “It is important to note, however, that the care provider can never to tally replace the role of the mother and father,” Godwin said. “The child of working parents must be made to understand that they are working for him and not because of him.” Taking all of this into account, Aguirre suggests that the efforts made recently in Texas to improve our educational system need to be expanded to incorporate these child care providers. Aguirre also says in his study that the providers become educational agents of our people, so they may in troduce and guide the children dur ing the earliest and most important period of socialization in their lives to the excitement of education. >ur lion ? ied!!! -2611 ICES nl*An accurate 1 bilities...thi$i$*tef >e WE ARE THi NTERNATIONAl I 86 ty Dr. W. us Photo ifti OUBLE reasonable rates s, term papers d copying at ore LE 331 Univeri ere Comparing long-distance services can save you money on phone bills By VIVIAN SMITH Reporter If you’re like most college stu- pents who can’t resist the temptation i pick up the phone and call family |nd friends in a faraway hometown, rou can save money by using one of the area’s long-distance services. Bryan-College Station has three najor low-cost long-distance alterna tives to General Telephone Com- pany: Call America, Star Tel, Inc. and MCI. “Any of these long-distance serv ices are going to save you money off the GTE rates. Exactly how much you save depends upon an individu- il’s needs," Dr. Larry Gresham, fexas A&M Marketing Society advi sor said. MCI and Star Tel have used the Marketing Society to market their services to students this fall, Gre sham said. He said rate tables for each com pany are difficult to interpret. “Sign up for more than one serv ice and then make calls to fre quently-called locations at same times of day and for the same dura tions,” he said. “Then simply com pare the rates to determine which service is best for you.” Call America, with 27 locations in the United States, is based in Califor nia. Its only Texas location is Bryan. Mike Miller, vice president of Call America, said his company stresses quality. Call America only leases the highest quality telephone lines avail able, he said. You can call anywhere in the continental United States and gel a clear connection, he said. T he cost for residential service (5 p.m. to 8 a.m. weekdays, and all day and night on weekends) is a $10 ini tial access fee and $5 service charge per month. For 24-hour service there is a $20 initial fee and a $10 monthly charge. Call America offers lower rates outside a 50-mile radius and a 1-800 service. Miller said. “Call America is designed for the student who wants quality and has a high monthly phone bill,” he said. “We advise people that the break even point for the residential service is a telephone bill of about $25 and $45-$50 for 24-hour service.” Star Tel, in business for three years in Bryan-College Station is the oldest resale company in the area. Star Tel has experienced many of the growing pains other long-dis tance companies haven’t, Star Tel President Bill Stephenson said. For a limited time, Star Tel has no monthly charges and no hook-up fee is charged, Stephensen said. Star Tel guarantees a minimum of 20 per cent to 50 percent savings on long distance calls, he said. MCI, one of the largest long-dis tance companies in the nation, owns their equipment and telephone lines. Gresham said this makes it possible for MCI to have direct lines into ma jor cities and offers greater savings. With MCI, you can save 5 percent to 40 percent on long distance calls compared to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. MCI has no monthly fees or start-up charges. In the future, MCI will offer a MCI calling-card service to allow custom ers to make MCI calls outside the Bryan-College Station area. Homeless people injured in Idaho bus crash nterpmtatlon talian, Portuguese, M ove Campus Ptfla G your proposals , essays on oui T Fast seme MUNICATION I, INC. le84fH579TH a papm.rsi® , ' 1 United Press International NOTUS, Idaho — A chartered bus loaded with homeless people heading to “a new life” with an In dian guru collided head-on with a car Tuesday, killing the motorist and injuring nearly three dozen passen gers aboard the bus. Police said the Trailways bus col lided with the car about 7:20 a.m. and overturned at a rural intersec tion 20 miles west of Boise. T he driver of the car, David Allen Lar son, 20, of Caldwell, Idaho, was killed. His automobile crossed over the center line and slammed into the bus, causing it to erupt in flames af ter it veered off the highway, Idaho State Police Cpl. Dan McDaniel said. “God had to be with us,” said Cal vin Lamont Shannon, 18, of Colum bus, Ohio, a bus passenger who was heading to a town in southern Ore gon headed by Indian guru Bhag- wan Shree Rajneesh. “If he wasn’t, we all would’ve been dead,” said Shannon, who had a mi nor hand injury. Church spokeswoman Ma Prem Sunshine said the bus began its cross-country trip in Washington, D.C. Another bus following it from Houston continued on the journey after the crash. “Trailways provided a bus imme diately for seven (uninjured) on the bus to continue on,” she said. “We’re flying people to Boise to help care for the injured and get them safely to Rajneeshpuram.” Shannon said he and other victims would not be deterred in their jour ney to the guru’s town, where the Rajneeshpuram religious commu nity is located. “I was headed to a new life, and I’m still going,” Shannon said. Caldwell Memorial Hospital offi cials said 34 of the 41 people on the bus were examined and four — one with a severe back injury — were ad mitted for further treatment. Nurs ing supervisor Jan Magger said most of the injuries were slight. Italian to be tried for loss of millions United Press International ROME — Italian swindler Michele Sindona was extradited from New York Tuesday to stand trial on charges that include insti gating murder and bank fraud that resulted in a loss of millions of dollars of Vatican funds. Sindona, 64, was taken from a New York prison where he was serving a 25-year sentence for fraud, and arrived in Rome Tues day afternoon after a stopover in the northern city of Milan. He was escorted on the flight from New York by four U.S. fed eral agents, who handed him over to Italian police at Milan’s Mal pensa airport. Reporters at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport said the gray haired financier looked relaxed and in good health as he stepped off the plane. Officers hustled him into an armored van and drove him un der an escort of six squad cars to Rome’s Rebibbia maximum secu rity jail, police said. Italian authorities have been requesting Sindona’s extradition since 1981. But the extradition wasn’t possible until Monday, when the U.S. and Italy ex changed ratification of a new ex tradition agreement signed Oct. 13 last year. Sindona has been serving a 25- year sentence handed down in 1980 bv a New York court for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the U.S. Franklin Na tional Bank. At the time it was de scribed as the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. The Franklin National Bank failed after Sindona fled to the United States to escape charges in Italy in connection with the col lapse of his Banca Privata Italiana with debts totaling $350 million. In 1969, Sindona became an adviser to Pope Paul VI and suc ceeded in persuading the Vatican to pour millions of dollars into fi nancial enterprises that later col lapsed amid huge losses and scan dal. The pope and Sindona cen tered their dealings on the church’s Societa Generale Immo- billiare, then Italy’s largest prop erty and development concern, owner of the Pan Am building in Paris, the Montreal Stock Ex change building and the Water gate complex in Washington D.C. Their plan was to have Sin dona sell the firm while taking some shares for himself and ad vising the pope on how to invest proceeds. Sindona, it was later discov ered, took control of the com pany for himself . 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