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Show 6- Of Interest The Forum Mew i LI Westminster College recently named Daron Park the Lady Griffins Head Basketball Coach season. for the 2000-200- 1 Park will replace Tom Steinke, who led the Lady Griffins to an fexciting first season. Daron Park was the assistant coach this season to the men's team, behind Tommy Connor. "Daron will be an incredible asset to me in building a new basketball program as well as wonderful addition to the Westminster community as an admissions counselor and head golf coach, "said Connor. Park is planning on adding a new flare to things, his own personal touch. He feels that his off-seas- on biggest key to the team's success. According to members of the team, his personality will bripg the team closer. "I can already see our team growing, and we have only had a couple of weeks off' said Lindsay Doxey, a freshman. The transition from the men's to the women's teams will be challenging for him, but Park says the main goal is to remember Doxey. ' . -- . . . "Daron is so organized and on top of things. He is ' so enthusiastic. It will be an awesome year. He laid everything out for us and got everyone excited to play. Coach will give basketball all the attention teaches students to distinguish between a Staff Writer "good touch" and a "bad touch". has set been A good touch being a April aside as National Child hug from someone you love Abuse Prevention Month. and a bad touch being a While prevention forced contact of a private be the might only way we part, or kicking. can rid our nation of this This might sound all schools Utah are fine and dandy in principle, problem the in about it but did the founder of this going wrong way. program ever stop to think The Salt of what a child who has On April 4th, Lake Tribune published the experienced a "bad touch" article titled Kids Learn is going to do once they How to reject Abusive Acts. know it is bad? The article focused on Research has shown time and time again that the prevention program "Good-Touc- h ", perpetrators of abusive acts is which currently to children are trusted adults. being implemented in Utah schools. Imagine a small child who has been touched like According to the this since he can remember article, the program By Cyd Kirkham his team. They are looking forward to his coaching style, and are also looking forward to the new team, the new players, and the differences that the new coach will bring. The majority of the women know what to expect for next season. The women will be more prepared individually, ana will have had a year's worth of maturity to add to the . that when everything is said and done, it's all about basketball, and the game is played on the court. He is very open to the personal life of nis players and wants to make sure that things are taken care of. . "He expects things from us) but is also very understanding," said enthusiasm, upbeat personality and youthfulness will allow him to be able to relate well with his players and make next season a success for the team on and off the court. He is planning on focusing on individual skill that it needs, and more. His priorities are set right. He told us that family comes first," and that makes him respectable to development, and having individuals reach their full potential. Park feels that will be the the Staff Writer -- 11, 2000 s Lady th for Leadership By Becky Pugmire Bad-Touch- April program. Along with being named the women's coach. Park is also the head coach for the Griffin golf team. Westminster College will be getting a men's and women's golf team in the near future. The competition in the NAIA won t be tough, so basically, he is looking for people who are willing to team, can hit the ball and know the fundamentals of golf. Park is hopeful that the addition of athletics to Westminster College will suddenly hearing that it is "bad". That child is not going to understand what to think. He might understand daddy is touching him in a bad way, but then what? He will most likely take everything associated with the touch as "bad". That means daddy is "bad", story time is "bad" and mostly that he is "bad". So now this child knows is daddy is bad, and he won't have any trouble telling someone what is going on and getting out of the situation right? Wrong. For a small child a parent who is all they have ever known of life is never wrong and never "bad", so the fault must lie on him. add a lot to the campus and involve the community with the programs and events. "If you would have asked me seven years ago where I wanted to be, I would object to the fact they use the word "bad" at all with young children. One of the biggest reasons child abuse still goes on in this country is the fact that no one can talk about it. I definitely have said at a school in the NCAA, but things change. Westminster is definitely a place where I can see myself for the next 20 years," said Park. slightest touch by that person because it once was "bad". Why does it suddenly become good, and how do you draw the line in the mind of a child? The only way we can A child find out that ever learn to prevent child abuse is to see it through something is "bad" and shouldn't ever happen and a child's eyes. For the rest of this they won't talk about it. Not even after they find a month The Forum will be abuse. of the out way publishing a series on In short the abuser will child abuse from the point of view of the crime's get two years if he is ever child will victims, survivors, and convicted, and the of a life silence. sentence those trying to prevent it. get child that And for more Imagine tell future a to having information about Child how other significant Abuse Prevention Month they were touched in a "bad" go to the Child Abuse way as child, imagine the Prevention web page at pain that child must feel www.yellowdino.com when he cringes at the |