Wednesday, March 24, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Local programs teach speed reading skills
By PAUL SHERBO
If you have successfully completed a
meetings session, you have already
finished this article.
For students at the University of Kansas who haven't taken such a course, there are at least two opportunities to learn fast reading techniques.
One is the Effective Reading Program (ERP), a part of the reading and study program run jointly by the dean of men's and dean of women's offices.
The other is the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics course, taught by Mary Michener of Adventure Book Store, 925 Iowa.
The people involved in both programs say they are similarities in the techniques taught.
"YOU READ IN clumps of words," Jule Gordon, ERP coordinator for the Office of Management.
Michener said, "Your ultimate aim is to read as fast as you can think in that
Michener, who teaches in a classroom in the basement of the bookstore, said she guaranteed the course would triple a per student's reading ability to a maximum of 1,500 words per minute.
"I wish very much that we could count ideas per minute, because that's what reason is for me."
Bob Turvey, one of two EIRP coordinators in the Office of the Dean of Men, said he made a recommendation.
Both the ERP and Evelyn Wood courses take seven weeks and can be taught to groups or taken home. Although refresher courses aren't necessary, anyone who has paid the initial fee may come back at a later date, either course, course organizers said.
THE SIMILARITIES end 'there'. The Evelyn Wood classroom course costs $275. The charge pays for one workbook, instructor's salary and a sum that goes to the Evelyn Wood Corporation in Connecticut. The Evelyn Wood take-home course costs $79.
No credit given for ROTC classes
The failure of an ROTC course to pass a vote by the College Assembly yesterday for degree credit in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences raised further questions about the general evaluation of courses.
The two-credit-hour course, American Military History (Army 188), was put aside pending another academic evaluation. Two other ROTC courses, Seminar in Military Management (Navy 532) and Evolution of the Army, were accepted for credit in the College.
David Katzman, associate professor of
Bays had determined that the course was
JAMES CAROTHERS, chairman of the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC), said the College's evaluation had considered a report made by Daniel Bays, assistant professor of East Asian Studies.
Bond scheme questioned
Students who may have had contact with the "Spirit of 76 Invest in America" plan are advised against participation by the Consumer Affairs Association (CAA).
The "S spirit of '76" plan is an operation of savings bond chain letters. An individual pays $7,50 for the instructions and a list of 10 names. A $25 savings bond attached to the list is mailed to the person named on the bond.
HE THEN ATTEMPTS to sell each package for $37.50. When this is accomplished, he receives the $73.70 he paid for the original and the $73.70 he paid for the
Judy Kroger, CAA director, said she had received a copy of the letter from the office of Kansas Attorney General Curt Schneider. She said the attorney general's office had advised persons not to get involved with the operation.
The buyer then puts his name at the bottom of the list, makes two copies of the instructions and new lists, and purchases two new $25 bonds in the name of the first person on the new lists. The bonds cost $18.75 each.
history, objected to approving the course. He said the course evaluation hadn't considered whether the instructor was the best person available to teach the course. He said the evaluation didn't meet the standards used in a course evaluation in the College, he said.
According to this principle, when his name reaches the top of the list, he can receive $38,400 in bonds, worth more than $50,000 at maturity.
CAA has received no complaints concerning the letter. Kroeger, however, said one person had come to her office inquiring about it.
KROEGER the girl, who wouldn't leave her name, had bought the letters and
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had contacted a lawyer who advised her the operation wasn't illegal.
Kroeger was told by the attorney general's office the operation may be illegal because it uses the mail. The letter urges personal distribution of the $73.50 packages.
"b sending a savings bond through the mail illegal?" was the question the girl and anon said.
Schneider has asked the postal officials to conduct an intensive investigation.
worthy of academic pursuit and that the work included were at a college level.
Bays said that at the time he reported he didn't realize that he was the only member of the advisory committee to submit a report.
In another matter concerning the acceptance of credit hours, the EPPC restated its policy of refusing to accept one course to courses to fulfill distribution requirements.
Katzman said that the College should consider the course material, but that the court shouldn't be evaluated independently of the instructor.
The ERP cost courses $25 for residence
mail students and $55 for other students. It
will be provided in the course material.
Other committees said their reports would be given at future meetings.
The ERP course is taught from a Xerox corporation packet that consists of one text, one practice book, two follow-up books and seven cassette tapes. The tapes must be checked out and returned to the deans' collection in evidence hall where they were checked out.
The reports will include the results of a questionnaire on revision of the Assembly's structure and a clarification of some problems of freshman-sophomore advising.
TURKEY, GORDON and Michener all said that students became worried in the middle of the courses because their reading was hard to up but their comprehension had gone down.
All four persons interviewed said that both the reading speed and the comprehension would go up if the course was finished.
Turvey said that in the past the ERP course had been sold in residence halls and a number of individuals, an individual basis and that only a few groups have been organized. They have been moving toward more group sessions, he said, and they are now instructing a consultant to one fraternity to teach the course.
Michener said, "It's so demanding that they find them overawed in helmeted in the car."
It is at this point that some students begin to drop out, Turvey said. More people drop out of the ERP course than the Evelyn Wood program because students in the course baggage.
Ernie Garcia, the other coordinator for the dean of men's office, said, "We feel that we're not out to make a buck and Evelyn is providing our motivation is service to students."
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Turvey and Garcia said the difference in cost between ERP and Evelyn Wood was
"We're not a commercial operation," Turvey said.
Garcia said, "We sell the program to the student for what it costs us."
Michener said she wasn't sure how similar the two programs were.
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"I (the ERP) used to be quite different",
he said, "but they may have borrowed
it from us."
Michener said that 95 per cent of her customers were students.
"It made me realize some of the basic, fundamental techniques of reading," Garcia said. "It essentially polished some of those skills that I've had in the past."
SHE SAID SHE had taken the Evelyn Wood course. Gordon said she hadn't taken the ERP course. Turvey said he had started her training. Garcia said he had started and finished it.
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