LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 22

              Monitoring "motherese"
Studying the speech of
four-month-olds, remotely
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Volume 13, Issue 22
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Tournaments begin for
wrestlers, and men's,
women's basketball
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March 1,2000
Lehigh child abuse
research spans a
quarter century
The nation's longest continuing
study of child abuse and neglect
by parents, conducted by Lehigh
researchers, has made significant
contributions to the field of child
psychology since it began in 1974.
Based on interviews with 297
families and 457 children, the
study has shown that positive
parent-child interaction during
the preschool years is crucial to
healthy development in adolescence.
It has uncovered evidence that
harsh discipline is more prevalent, and repeated abuse of young
children by parents more frequent, than was realized. And it
has erased doubts that parents
would answer questions about how
they discipline their children.
The researchers, who won the
1998 Outstanding Research Article Award from the American
Professional Society on the
Abuse of Children, have shared
their data with the Department
of Health and Human Services,
the National Institute of Justice,
and the National Institutes of
Mental Health.
"Other studies have tackled
these issues, but...we started
earlier and are still at it," said
Roy C. Herrenkohl, professor of
sociology.
Herrenkohl, his psychologist
wife, Ellen Herrenkohl, and research scientist Brenda P.
Egolf, have worked with 100 research scientists, professors and
students. Their study began as
an evaluation of a child-abuse
prevention and treatment program in Lehigh and
Northampton counties.
Initially, the study focused on
the frequency of abuse by parents who had already been cited
for abuse by social agencies. This
was before the outbreak of youth
violence underscored the link between family upbringing and aggressive behavior in children.
The researchers expanded
their project in 1976, examining
the ability of abusive and
nonabusive parents to cope with
children aged 18 months to six
years old. They interviewed parents and watched them interact
with children at home.
In 1980-82, the researchers
evaluated the same children's
behavior in school, and in 1990-
92, they asked them about their
level of functioning, including deviant and criminal behavior.
They identified children who had
survived child abuse with the
promise of emotional stability in
adulthood.
Today, the children are in their
late twenties, and the researchers
are exploring factors that should
be the focus of intervention.
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A new collaboration: After 141-pound junior
Matt Goldstein (above, left) and the wrestling
team defeated East Stroudsburg, Zoellner director Liz Scofield (seated, right) and (L-R)
wrestling coach Greg Strobel, former NCAA
champ Mike Caruso '67 and jazz band director
Bill Warfield hosted a jazz concert at Zoellner.
Unmatched success
for Lehigh wrestlers
Wrestling fans need not look back into Lehigh's esteemed past for the most successful dual match season. A glance through Lehigh's 90-year history, one
filled with All-Americans, NCAA champions, and
spirited Grace Hall crowds, is always satisfying, but
the program's most successful wrestling team in
terms of dual match victories is still competing today.
The 1999-2000 team has raced to a 19-2 dual
record, breaking the school mark for most dual
match wins in a season. Lehigh has beaten Big Ten's
Penn State, Purdue and Northwestern, and Harvard,
Cornell, Pitt and defending EIWA champion Penn.
Lehigh takes a 10-match winning streak into this
weekend's EIWA Championships at Navy.
"For this team to break a 90-year-old record is
really impressive," said coach Greg Strobel. "We've
won quite a few matches I didn't think we could win.
The Harvard match may have been our peak in that
we won four matches that, on paper, we weren't supposed to win."
In the season finale at Penn, Lehigh's unranked
sophomore heavyweight Shawn Laughlin upset
nationally-ranked Bandele Adeniyi-Bada to improve
to 20-9. Laughlin was honored as EIWA "Wrestler of
the Week."
Bruce Kelly '02 (125 lbs), Dave Esposito '01
(149 lbs.), Travis Doto '00 (165 lbs.) and Rob Rohn
'00 (184 lbs.) also bested their combatants. Lehigh's
19-15 win, its first at the venerable Palestra since
1957, solidified its No. 11 national ranking.
"This team has consistently worked hard and
shown a will to win," said Strobel. "The amazing
thing is that we've done it through quite a bit of
adversity. At times we've wrestled without three of
our top individuals (Travis Doto, Dave Esposito and
Ryan Bernholz). I've always believed that good things
happen to people who do things the right way all of
the time."
-Sue Hofmann
Photos by Paul S. Bartholomew
Snakepit meets Zoellner
Wrestling and jazz scored victories Feb. 19 as
100 diehard mat fans and arts lovers cheered
Lehigh to a resounding victory over East
Stroudsburg, then mingled to the sizzling sounds
of Bill Warfield's jazz band at a post-meet reception in Zoellner Arts Center.
"I think these ostensibly odd bedfellows
snuggled against each other very nicely," said
Elizabeth Scofield, Zoellner's managing director. Scofield, Mike Caruso '67, and wrestling
coach Greg Strobel came up with the idea. Susan Vengrove, director of development for the
arts, and Rich Santoro, executive director of
the annual fund, organized the event.
"It's a long cold winter, so we thought it would
be nice to plan something after a wrestling
match," said Caruso, a three-time NCAA wrestling champion. "Greg said, 'wrestling is art,' and
I agree. And we have this wonderful arts center a
few hundreds yards away from Grace Hall."
When Warfield heard about the idea, he wanted
his jazz band to get involved. "I wrestled in high
school," he said, "and I attended a clinic Mike
Caruso gave down in Baltimore just after he graduated from Lehigh."
Strobel's wrestlers were glad to take a break
and chill to some cool music.
"I have always enjoyed listening to jazz," said
electrical engineering major Mark Dufresne '00,
who is ranked 17th nationally. "So to be in
Zoellner for the performance was very exciting for
me. In some ways, wrestling and jazz are similar
in that they are just different ways to express ideas
or thoughts."
Several Lehigh trustees and community leaders attended, including Rick Anderson, president
of St. Luke's Hospital and father of Lauren '03;
Larry White '64, who endowed the wrestling
head coaching chair at Lehigh, and his wife Ann;
and John Harmon '59, who endowed the assistant wrestling coaching position, and his wife
Elaine.
-BillJohnson
A LEWIS
milestone:
Financial aid
processing
On Feb. 14, the financial aid office used the new Banner computer system to begin reviewing
online the 1,500 to 1,800 expected applications for aid by
members of the class of 2004.
The process, done every February and March, precedes a review
of about the same number of applications from continuing students between May and August.
In the first week, said Linda
Bell, senior assistant director of
financial aid and lead person in
the Banner financial aid implementation, the office reviewed
375 files, a number that compares well with last year's effort.
Bell said she and SCT con-,
sultant Soule Leiter "were impressed with how well the staff
were doing, especially since their
questions had less to do with
how to use the system and more
to do with how to apply new aid
policies."
As part of the implementation, tracking letters, or requests for missing documents,
will soon be printed. By the
middle of March, "packaging
rules" that determine how much
aid an individual should receive
and in what form, will also be
tested.
Banner financial aid will replace ZFAM, an automated, but
non-integrated system installed
in 1988. The integration of
records and processing from student admissions to housing to
grades, says Bell, is the biggest
gain LEWIS provides for the financial aid staff. Student employment records, often part of a
total financial aid package and
now part of the human resources
system, will also eventually be
part of LEWIS. When LEWIS financial aid and accounts receivable go into operation this summer, financial aid staff can immediately process a credit to a
student's account. Before, this
was an overnight job.
In other LEWIS news, 1,200
students were registered in the
second mock registration during
the week of Feb. 14. Fees were
assessed and all types of residence hall rooms, classrooms and
meal plans were tested. Cross
listing of pairs of courses, class
capacities, and faculty assignments worked as expected. The
third and last mock registration
will take place March 27 just
before Banner "goes live" for Fall
2000 registration.
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