The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
DAVE KRAUS/Kansen staff
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin warm temperatures to play on the gymm in South Park. Forbes and Forbes (left) and Shahrid Heardilari took advantage of the sunny skies and Heardilari are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilliday Camp Care Center.
Kansas legislators debate speed limit bills
the limit to 65, both dependent on Congress taking action first.
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reportor
Hamm said he proposed his version of the bill.
SECTION TWO
The Book of Lists claims that Americans fear speaking in public more than they fear heights, bugs, or death.
According to Dr. Robert Ambler, who teaches a course for speech-anxious students at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, these feelings cause adrenaline to pour into your body, halting your digestive tract and pushing your heart beat faster. Meanwhile your brain tells you that failure is imminent.
Expert speakers use a wide variety of tricks for keeping stage fright at bay, but most still stress the old advice to speak in French, since speech is ninetimes delivered. Millard Bennett and John D. Coriarch, authors of Successful Communication and Effective Speaking (Prentice-Hall, 1976 $90), list four hours when preparing a speech after you've chosen a topic:
To begin with, ask yourself some basic questions. Why is this topic important? What is the purpose of the environment? When and in what environment is the talk to be given? Try to imagine yourself as a member of the world.
Next, make a simple outline. Cover only one point in a five-minute speech and make sure to mention main points in a 30-minute speech. A three-point outline is easy for you to remember and easy for your audience to understood.
audience in order to anticipate its interests and attention span.
Third, start writing
D don't worry about grammar,
spelling, or organization-
just of the head. Head these.
Ideas will represent about
80 percent of your final speech.
Once you have
your ideas you can start
researching, organizing,
cleaning up the language.
Finally, analyze and clarify your ideas, then revise until you find the most precise way to use them. Don't be afraid to erase unimportant or irrelevant ideas.
Read your words aloud.
Do they sound like you?
Do your ideas make sense?
How To Practice Sounding Unrehearsed
No matter how well your speech is constructed, you can still shoot yourself in the foot. A poised and natural-sounding presentation usually requires practice. Here's a strategy that many speakers recommend
- Memorize a short opening (three or four typewritten lines) and a conclusion.
The memorized opening will get you through those initial moments at the podium and will prepare the audience for your subject.
We'll ask them what you'll tell you when to stop—and can be plugged in if you forget what comes next or suddenly run out of things to say.
- Memorize your outline to insure that you will be able to cover your main points quickly if your time is cut short or your audience begins to vawn and squirm
Rob Tucker, a researcher who writes education programs in speech communications for Toastmasters International, cites these five common mistakes made by teachers.
Col. David Hornbaker, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said that about 62 percent of Kansas drivers were complying with
Five Ways To Blow It
1. They try to imitate the style of another speaker.
2. They fail to project a sense of confidence, using poor posture, inappropriate gestures, and little variety in pitch, voice, and tone modulation.
- Practice the entire speech, using your notes if you have to, in front of a test audience and at a table or a row of stuffed animals. The more familiar you are with your material, the more confident you will be. The less likely you are to blow your speech.
3. They tend to speak down to the audience, using jargon or technical references when a customer can identify wifi
4. They don't prepare enough supporting information to back up their own state of mind.
5. They tend to lack dynamic opening and closing lines in their presentations.
10 Think Fast,
Pause First
"In a question and answer session, you should think first and avoid pouncing on a question," says Susan Perkins, who has been questioned by the New York Times since she was crowned Miss America of 1978.
Perkins, who now works as a representative for several companies, always tries to pause long enough to form a rough outline in her mind and determine if her ideas make sense and follow a logical plan.
"Answer the difficult and hostile questions candidly," she recommends. "Keep your voice in the same tone speak slow so you are not distracted. Try to determine why the question was asked and what the question wants to know."
Random Notes
For informal presentations,
a note-card outline offers a
good security blanket that
helps you remember your
main point and keeps you
maintains focus on the top
one tips.
- auunt the cards in a small ring notebook. Then you won't have to worry about dropping or flipping the card.
- To avoid confusion put only one statement or idea on a card.
- Print in BIG letters and do not abbreviate unless you can remember them.
- Exaggerate punctuation, use dashes to remind you of pauses, and underline essential phrases.
- Use stickers or stickers can help remind you to smile, use a visual aid, or stop bad habits.
INSIDER
New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU board issued board ticket committee are approved today.
The KUAC board will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Satellite Union to consider the recommendations. It also will consider proposals to move a KU-MU football game to Arrowhead Stadium and to sell beer in Memorial Stadium whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
Steve Leben, KUAC student board member,
said that ticket pricing in past years had been settled at board meetings to keep student ticket prices as low as possible.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
Leben said the proposed pricing policy was unjustified and drastic. Based on this year's public prices, $19 student tickets would cost $31 for a seven-game football season and $11 student tickets would cost $38.50 for a 14-game basketball season.
The committee also has proposed a policy for the board to adopt requiring students to pay half the public price for both football and basketball tickets.
BASED ON NEXT year's prices, which have not been set officially, student tickets could cost $36 for football and $42 for basketball, Leben said.
He said that he had met with athletic officials and student board members and that a compromise could be worked out before the board met this afternoon.
The ticket policy committee, headed by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, will meet at 2:30 p.m. today, before the board meeting, to finalize its recommendations.
Leben said that he meet with Bob Marcum, athletic director, yesterday, and the two had
agreen to recommend to the committee at the 2:30 meeting that student football tickets be based on one-third the public cost rather than one-half.
"That would mean tickets would cost about $25," Leben said. "What's that out of line money? It could be $25." He had $22 tickets.
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years. Leben said.
AMBLER SAID the recommendations would be broadly said at both meetings today before thoroughly discussed.
"But phasing it in doesn't change the problem," he said. "It only lengthens the pain. Let's not accept something we don't think is fair or that we're not going to take effect for two or three years."
He also said he believed some of the information used to back up the committee's recommendation was "unintentionally" misleading.
"When you talk about increases, students have to bear their fair share of the load," he said. "But a major reason that student income has declined is that we've paid off our debt that we agreed to finance (the east stadium addition of a 7,000-seat student section). Lo and behold, revenues did decrease, but they were supposed to."
Leen said the information did not include student contributions to women's athletics and distorted declining percentages of student contributions to the total athletic department
He also said private contributions had increased to more than $1 million a year.
KU STUDENT FUNDING for athletics is comparable to other schools in the Big Eight
Significant increases in funding of women's athletics have to be made, he said. Also, KU's football and basketball recruiting budgets are second to lowest in the Big Eight, and the capital improvements budget is the lowest in the Big Eight.
"The athletic department is in a difficult position, but it is not a desaterate situation, but it is serious."
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Kansan spurs Senate debate
The Senate approved the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations for seven of 13 committees.
If the Senate approves the bill, it will ask Alicia Democrat Del Shankel to increase the 11.19 acre farm price.
It also deferred a decision on the recommendation to remove the School of Architecture and Urban Design Student Council from the code until tomorrow's meeting. Six remaining recommendations be considered Thursday before a final vote is taken on the entire recommendations bill.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager,
defended the fee increase before the Senate.
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"We've done things in an effort to keep even with rising costs," Fry said, "but if we raise our rates to our advertisers any more, we'll no longer be competitive."
"The Kansan is a half-a-million-dollar business," Fry said. "Our costs vary from month to month. Cash carry-forward is to maintain our costs."
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Kry also answered questions from Steve McMurray, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,200 and requested that its total allocation be increased to $96,000. The Kansan now receives $24 from the activity fee.
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