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Professor: Intelligent women need
special help to overcome obstacles
Grades for first semester will not be mailed to
students during the Christmas vacation because of
a new grade distribution policy in the Office of
Registration and Records. Students can pick up
grades at the following times and places:
Jan. 9 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Administration
Building Window 5.
Jan. 10 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Administration
Building, Window 5.
Jan. 1 1 to 13 and Jan. 16 to 20 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Multi-Purpose Room in the basement of the
center building of Selleck Quadrangle. Students
should use the west or southwest entrance to the
building.
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Intelligent young women need help our society
doesnt provide, UNL psychologist Barbara Kerr
said.
Kerr, director of the country's only counseling
program aimed at helping gifted women, said if
creative women are to fully use their talents, three
overwhelming problems must be overcome.
The worst may be underemployment in an eco
nomy "wasteful of brilliance," said Kerr, assistant
professor of educational psychology and social
foundations and director of the gifted children
programs at UNL
We have the MA. doing babysitting at home and
the Ph.D. in business running the Quik Shop on the
corner," she said. "Only 200 people in the country
that's one in a million are making a living as a
free-lance writers. And even the artist with a major
talent goes undiscovered here without business
savvy on the side."
The talented adult woman has other problems,
the psychologist said.
"Because creative abilities are not valued in our
society, she feels an undercurrent of rage and
frustration at the way she is spending her life."
The woman's quest for perfectionism and feeling
that nothing she does will be good enough for sights
set incredibly high also is a major obstacle to
happiness, Kerr said.
"When gifted children grow up without dealing
with their tendencies toward perfection, they be
come adults who think their spouses are never good
enough," she said.
In a recent speech to the National Association for
Gifted Children in Philadelphia, Kerr called this cry
for outside recognition the "precocious child
syndrome: trying to be darling, to get awards and
adulation from adults in the same ways they did as
children."
She graduated from an all-gifted high school in
South St Louis, one of four such prototypes in the
nation that was designed for children with high IQ
test scores.
When she went back for a reunion four years ago,
her classmates asked her to find out what went
wrong with their dreams.
"Back in the post-Sputnik era of the late '60s, they
kept telling us we would be the scientists and
leaders of tomorrow," she recalls. "We expected to
be the ones to discover the secrets of a new world in
space."
But soon after graduation, two of her classmates
tried to commit suicide and one ended up in a
mental institution, Kerr said. "And most of the rest
of us were nurses or clinicians, not doctors and
scientists." ,
She combined research on her St Loub class
mates with work done by Felice Kauffman of the
University of New Orleans, who did a follow-up
study of John F. Kennedy's Presidential Scholars of
1062.
"We discovered common problems," Kerr said.
"The person with an IQ of 1 40 is as different from the
average person as one who has a subnormal level of
60."
Yet too often counselors treat creative or highly
intelligent adults like the "average client who comes
into the office with a high degree of anxiety and
strives to reduce that level so the person can love
and work," she said.
"We don't want the talented adult to be too
healthy. The creative person cant be too mellow and
creative at the same time."
That doesnt mean all those legends about being
"crazy" and creative go together, she said.
"Creativity is the tool by which the writer and
artist control craziness. Feeling mentally blocked
from expressing ideas on paper is real trauma. I see
more pain," she adds. "A writer who has lost her
writing voice has lost her best friend."
Kerr's goal in therapy is to free creative adults 10
use their talents. This means teaching them how to
use tension and how to value abilities without
having to depend on rewards of others, she said.
"We're still in a society where being too smart is
not too smart Too many talented people hide in
camouflage, just wanting to be like everybody else,
feeling guilty for intellectual or creative pursuits
and a drive that isnt like their neighbors."
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ask for?
During the National Drunk and
Drugged Driving Awareness week, pro
claimed last Friday by Gov. Bob Ker
rey, state police and councils on alco
holism are asking people to avoid drink
ing and then driving over the holidays.
The week, sponsored by the Nebraska
Office of Highway Safety, came just in
time for what Administrator Fred Zwon
echek called probably the worst time
of the year for driving while intoxi
cated offenses.
Along with the highway office, the
Nebraska State Patrol and the Lincoln
Council on Alcoholism and Drugs are
trying to create more public aware
ness about the dangers of drinking
while driving.
Lt Harold LeGrande of the state
patrol said the patrol's training center
has made radio announcements about
such dangers. He said 104 Nebraska
stations air the radio spots.
Zwonechek said more DWI arrests
and alcohol-related traffic accidents
occur during the Christmas holidays.
But the death rate in Nebraska during
the 1932 holiday season was lower
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than in recent years, he said.
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Traffic fatalities in Nebraska total
248 so far this year, Zwonechek said.
He said the number at this time last
year was 251.
Although state traffic fatalities are
down, the number of such deaths that
are alcohol-related has increased to 45
percent of this year, he said.
Although Zwonechek said the state
totals of DWI arrests are rising 10 to 13
percent form the 1032 totals, LeGrande
said the state patrol's DWI arrest rate
has declined this year.
Linda Lewis, public information of
ficer for LCAD, offered drinking safety
tips for people sponsoring or attend
ing holiday celebrations:
Decide who will drive home from
a party before it starts. If you are driv
ing, dont drink at alL
If you are the host, make sure
non-alcoholic drinks are available. Al
ways serve snacks.
Call a cab for a guest who has
overindulged, take him home yourself
or offer him a place on your couch.
Serve non-alcoholic drinks and
snacks during the last hour. ,
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Grade Report Distribution
Grade reports will be available for pick up begin
ning Jan." 9th at 1:00 p.m. Student I.D. card will
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Jan. 10th, 1984, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; ,
Available at Admn: 209;-window 5. .
Jan. 11-13, 16-20, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
. Multi-purpose room, Selleck Quadrangle,
Center building basement. '
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