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Show Juvenile Judge has "frightening" experience in ghetto Judge Sterling R. Bossard of the Fourth District Juvenile Court, spent five days last week on "skid row" in Denver, Colo, ghetto. The purpose of this experience was to help understand the life style of culturally deprived people. "It was a frightening experience experi-ence at times," Judge Bossard said, "living for five days on only $10 and associating with these deprived people in their own environment." Part of the experience was to assume the role of a man with a police record and trying to get a job. During Judge Bossard's stay his hotel, in the ghetto area, was robbed and one of the participants with him was "rolled" by some of the people of the ghetto. While there he talked with youngsters, visited a "pad" used by some of these youth for pot parties, and generally mingled with them. From this experience Judge Bossard said he realized that "we who are trying to work with these underprivileged young people as well as the adults, are not able to understand under-stand the anxieties and hate that builds up in their thinking. We must find some way that we can really get the feci of their frustrations and realize the 'why' of it. The experience of getting right down and living with them is an excellent way to get this feeling," he said. "It was a valuable, yet frightening experience," he concluded. |