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DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASS" CAPE & ISLANDS Vol. 26, No. 29
Fall River, Mass:, Friday, July 30, 1982
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Certification sham?
PATRICIA DUFFY discusses "career tree" with Paula Wilbur, second grade teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taullton. (Torchia Photo)
Flexing BICEPs
Many people think teachers spend their summers much like many of their students - on the beach, dO' the country, or otherwise enjoying a laid back lifestyle. It's not always true. Take the 18 teachers who began ,this summer with a jampacked week at a Project BICEJP in-service course con· ducted at St. 'Mary's School, Fall River, and at the BICEP resource center in Hyannis. ,BICEP is an acronym for Barnstable Instructional Career Education Program. It was developed by a brown-eyed whirl wind named Patricia Duffy, who presented it under auspicer of the diocesan department of education and the inservice . education program of Bridgewater State College. In exchange for their highpowered week of total concen tration on BICEP, the 18 teachers received three graduate credits from Bridgewater. It seems a quick three credits, but classes totaled 37Y2 hours, the same as a convent,ional graduate course spread out over a semester, pointed out participants. BICEP, explained Ms. Duffy, had its start In 1977, when she began developing a career education program for 5th anc' 6th graders in the ·Barnstable school system. Soon she realized that such education should really begin 'in the earliest grades, that children should understand that nearly everything they learn is or can be career-related. "When we teach trees dn second grade, for linstance," said Ms. Duffy, "we can talk about all the careers that depend on wood products.'! The dua:1 concept of relating careers to sohool subject~ and of raising the dignity of the individual so that no matter what work is finaHy chosen, he or she wdH realize its impor tanoe earned Ms. Duffy a federal grant for development of "an innovative program tha,t coul<J he appJ:ied nationwide." Today 32 states use 'BICEP as a "validated" inservice pro gram for teachers, counselors and administrators. Validated, says Ms. Duffy, means that it is government approved as a fundable project, a feature very attractive to today's hard-pressed school systems. . Through a variety of activdties the diocesan B~CEP stu dents learned how to encourage pupils to develop good self concepts, interpersonaa and decision-making skills, economic awareness and positive work attitudes. They were also briefed on wlhere and how to obtain occupationa'! information for budding careeI1ists. The program was hands-on all the way, with participants making and doing projects they would later offer in' their own classrooms. Durung the week each developed instructional a'ids or activities applicable to his or her teaching d1iscipline or Turn to Page Six
WASHINGTON (NC) -·Presi dent Reagan's July 27 certifica tion that EI Salvador is making human rights progress was pro tested by church groups even be fore its release. The president of the Confer ence of Major Superiors of Men said the certification "flies in the face of evidence from the most reputable sources" about the situation in EI Salvador. And the director of the Office of Social Concerns of the Mary knoll Sisters said the Reagan ad ministration cannot honestly certify progress in the investiga tions of the deaths of four Am erican churchwomen because no progress is taking place. The certification, signed by Secretary of State, .George P. Shultz, is required by law every six montbs for the continuation of U.S. military aid to EI Salva dor. "Every criterion on which the president's certification must be
based shows that in the last six months . . . conditions in EI Salvador have not improved but in many cases worsened," said Franciscan Father Alan McCoy, head of the male Religious super iors group. . Father McCoy said EI Salva dor's government has not com lied with international human rights standards, has not gained control of its armed forces, and has "postponed" its land reform program. Also questioning the investiga tions was Maryknoll Sister Helene O'Sullivan, director of her order's social concerns office. Two of the four women murder ed in December 1980 were mem bers of the Maryknoll order. 10'- signing . tpe certification, Shultz wrote in an accompanying letter "We continue to be con cerned over the human rights program situation and the course of the reform program in EI Salvador.
"Nevertheless, there have been tangible signs of progress in each of the areas covered under the certification requirement." The certification included a section on investigation into the deaths of the churchwomen and two land-reform advisors as well as the disappearance of an Amer ican journalist. Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, however, who managed a joint congressional resolution re quiring specific certification of progres~ in investigation of the deaths and disappearance, said "The question here is really whether a smidgen of improve ment from ground zero justifies certification." His resolution passed the House 399 to 1 and the Senate 95 to 2. Pell noted that Reagan's certi fication was released a day early and opined that it was rushed to Congress in the hope of beating passage of the joint resolution.
Papal trip delayed
By Agostino Bono
NC News Service
Pope John Paul II is a Polish citizen who ,technically can enter his home country by just show ing his Polish passport to immi gration officials. Yet after months of negoti~tions between the pope, Polish church leaders and the government, no date has been set· for his second visit to his homeland since his election as pontiff. .Postponement of a hoped-for August trip was announced July 21 by the Polish primate, Arch bishop Jozef Glemp, and by Po and's martial law leader, Gen. Jaruzelski. The situation reflects the tight intertwining of church and state in the complex political web spun in a country where an offi cially atheistic Communist Party rules a population 90 percent Catholic. Pope John Paul had frequently expressed a desire to visit Po land. Aug. 26 for celebrations marking the 600th anniversary of the arrival in Poland of the icon of Our Lady of Czesto chowa, Poland's patroness. Yet such a visit would have come at a politically bad time
for the martial law Polish gov ernment which has been facing increasing unrest from members of Solidarity, the suspended in dependent labor movement, and pressure from the Soviet Union against a papal visit. From the church's viewpoint, Vatican and Polish sources said the pope and many Polish bishops were worried that a visit could be interpreted as papal approval of martial law, declared' last Dec. 13 in an effort to suppress Solidarity and other dissident movements. The problems occasioned a series of church-state meetings, ending this month, when Arch bishop G1emp spent almost three weeks in Italy conferring with the pope. The archbishop indicated that the papal visit would take place sometime before the end of the Czestochowa jubilee year in September 1983.
Peter's Pence The traditional Peter's Pence collection in aid of the charities of the Holy Father will be taken up this weekend In all ehurches of the diocese.
In Warsaw, Jaruzelski said the pope would be welcome but not in August. He said the nation should prepare for a papal visit next year. .Jaruzelski also announced a series of minor relaxations in martial law, mostly affecting travel and communications to foreign countries, and said he would abolish martial law by the end of the year if tensions de crease. His words were accom panied by a government an nouncement that 1,227 detainees were being released. Many Poles criticized the gov ernment measures as too little and also opposed the decision to postpone the papan visit. The postponement indicates that, although church-state dia logue continues in Poland, key issues, especially the future of Solidarity, remain unresolved. Jaruzelski, on July 21 said that the government would respect the principle of union self-rule but that it would not allow the restoration of Solidarity in th" independent form it· had prior to martial law. From th~ government's view point a papal visit at the end of August could quickly have be·· Turn to Page Six