Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin warm temperatures to play on the jungle gym in South Park. Forbes and Forbes (left) and Shahrad Heldari took advantage of the sunny skies and Hieldari are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilltop Day Care Center.
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"Welcome to the Land of Doublespeak."
You are entering a world of euphemisms and deceptive phrasing
Someday the dean's swelcoming speech may include such a useful caveat. Until then, most students will have to learn the hard way that it's vital to read about her work and visit information on apartments, jobs, and courses. Some common examples of Grade College doublespeak...
...in course descriptions:
Attention placed on enhancement writing skills. Plan on a lot of term papers with extra grammar and structure.
Department permission only.
Unless you get contacts in the school or you are a last-quarter senior, your chances of getting in are slim.
A basic introduction. Don't plan on spending too much time on one subject. These topics are good for skimming topics
...in apartment notices
Unstructured classes. Count on a lot of outside work, with little direction from the professor.
Required course. If you're going to have a class with 258 people, this will usually be it.
Spacious two and three-bedrooms. Compared to a dorm room, anything is spacious.
Convenient to the interstate.
This usually means you're living next to a highway.
Country setting. It may take a half-hour drive to get to the closest convenience store.
--walk to campus. Plan on a lot of illegal parking and a big traffic jam on football weekends.
Need own transportation. Plan on spending a lot of time on the road.
Adult complex. In a college town, this usually means no students are welcome.
Year-round lease. If you're not going to be around summer you'll have to submit your bill.
Energy efficient construction.
This sometimes means that the shower has little water pressure and that the thermostats are regulated by the office.
Need 20 sharp people. Generally, companies that need 20 people at one time are filling temporary sales jobs Telephone work. These jobs usually pay strictly by com
Language Lovers Of the World,Unite
...in job ads
Convenient student hours.
This means lots of night and
Sunday afternoon work.
"I believe in calling a desk a desk, not a 'pupil station.' And I prefer going to the library instead of to the learning resource center." So says Professor William Lutz, head of the Rutgers University English department and president of the National Doubleday Center. "Who wants to be wise to wife out euphemisms in our lifetime.
While euphemisms exist in business and government, Lutz believes that doublespeak is gaining the most ground at universities. "College administrators use euphemisms to make it seem ordinary—that is, fancier, more important. After all, a dean sitting in his big college office has to think of some way to justify it." A
Social I.Q.: Catching Unspoken Clues
The committee, a branch of the National Council of Teachers of English, began 10 years ago and is now approximately 50-member group puts out the Public Double-seek Newsletter four times a year and gives annual ebooks to teachers for years' winner, the nuclear-power industry, won because, according to Lutz, it invented a whole new educational experience during the Three Mile Island incident. The committee presented an award for the best example of doublespeak from a school that was given Jaso Albaptista Figueiredo, who upon being elected Brazil's next president told reporters, "I was surprised by democracy, and anyone who is against that I will jail, I will crush."
If sociologist Dane Archer had his way, all professional-school entrance exams would judge applicants not only on their academic skills but also on how well they interact relationships and unspoken emotions in the people around them.
Archer, author of How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quentin M. Evans, 180, $5.95) believe we that we are better trained in SI, or the knack of picking up powerful signals but that we aren't trained to use this skill. Because the GRE, MCAT, and LATD (tunis such abilities, he feels that we need training in and the best doctors and lawyers possible.
"Professionals need to be able to see past mere words and feelings of emotions of the persons they are dealing with." Archer says. For example, adoctor James does not perverse in a patient.
Among college undergrads, theater majors tend to score the highest on SI training they are trained to communicate through nonverbal methods. Women also score consistently higher, perhaps because they have more need to pay attention to small details. This is not to say that people can't pick up the skills later on. We need to need it to unshackle ourselves from strictly verbal communication.
Sion, Look, and Listen
"You can win friends, melloweries, helpwowed ones, and change your own life through developing your powers of assertive listening " promise Baxter and James Patterson in the book How To Listen Assertively. The Gettingted you how to develop such assertive listening techniques as "full-color listening" which stresses taking part in the conversation -disagreeing or agreeing -commending or criticizing your comments or someone's comments rather than just passively listening to them. (Sovereign Books, 1978, $2.95.)
INSIDER
New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
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.
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU information board ticket committee are approved
Tough's low will be in the upper 30% under clear to partly cloudy skies. Thursday's high will be around 60.
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.
Canterbury house. After attending Episcopal schools for two years, he said his decision to enter a seminary was a practical one. He had See PRIEST page 5
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
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.
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 $15 student tickets would cost $38.50 for a 14-game basketball season.
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
vice chancellor for student affairs, will
be based on the results of the
0 p.m. today, before the boxalize its recommendations.
I that he met with Bob Marcum, tor,yesterday,and that the two had
"That would mean tickets would cost about $3. Leben! Leben! You're out of line, you know!" The kids were $2 two years old.
COMFORTABLE
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years, Leben said.
AMBLER SAID the recommendations would be thoroughly discussed at both meetings today before any decision was made.
agreed 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.
"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." He's 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 7,000-seat student section). Lo and behold, revenues did decrease, but they were supposed to."
Leben 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.
Douglas said:
"The athletic department is in a difficult financial situation," he said. "It is not a desperate situation, but it is serious."
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riversity Daily Kansan's $1 student increase request provoked a two-titon Senate debate before it was apopt.
e approved the Finance and Auditing s recommendations for seven of 13 ups funded under the Revenue Code. offered a decision on the recommem- move the School of Architecture and sign Student Council from the code orrorn's meeting. Six remaining idations will be considered Thursday final vote is taken on the entire idations bill.
CHLUETER
san spurs Senate debate
Senate approves the bill, it will ask
hancellor Del Shankel to increase the
ivity fee to $14.52.
Fry also answered questions from Steve McMurry, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager,
defended the fee increase before the Senate.
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,280 and requests that its total allocation be inclusion in $109,480. The Kansan now receives $2 from the activity fee.
"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."
See REVENUE page 3
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