Monday. Jan. 13. 1958 University Daily Kansan
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Clinic Tunes Up Poor Speech Habits
"I want you to teach me to talk as if I were born in Kansas," a European law student once asked Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech and supervisor of the KU Speech clinic.
Before any treatment is started, nose and throat specialists come over from Kansas City to give an exact
"There are three main ways speech handicaps may hamper a student," Miss Anderson explains: "If they make him uncomfortable in everyday conversation, if they make it impossible for him to take part in classroom discussion, and if the difficulty would be a liability in the student's future profession."
Extra Point May Go
Helping foreign students solve problems of dialect is just one of the jobs of the clinic.
Helping foreign students solve diagnosis.
Every new student coming to KU has to undergo a speech examination with his general physical exam. Students who have speech troubles, such as articulatory or voice difficulties, lispes, or stuttering, are referred to the clinic.
Miss Margaret Anderson, and her two assistants, Arlene Maynard, Peoria, Ill., and Keith Gish, Lawrence, both graduate students, are helping KU students to overcome all types of speech difficulties.
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The KU Speech Clinic is a cooperative enterprise of the Student Health Service and the Speech Department. It was started in the fall of 1941 as part of the general student welfare program.
The nation's top college football coaches agreed today that the extra point will be killed by the NCAA's new 2-point conversion play but differed sharply whether that will help or hurt the game.
"There'll be less and less kicking," was the virtually-unanimous comment and others included, "You've just got to go for the two points instead of the one . . . the coach is sure to be second-guessed no matter what he does . . . and . . . there'll be fewer ties and more interest."
NCAA rules committee chairman Fritz Crisler, athletic director at Michigan and author of the new rule, was outspoken in favor of it
"It is one of the most striking changes in football history," he said. "It's a progressive step and should inject more drama into football's dullest, most stupid play."
Henry (Red) Sanders of UCLA.
Ben Oosterbaan of Michigan, Abe Martin of Texas Christian, and Dr. Eddie Anderson of Holy Cross sided with Mr. Crisler but Terry Brennan of Notre Dame, Aldo (Buff) Donelli of Columbia and John Michelsen of Pittsburgh disagreed. And Bert Bell, commissioner of the field-goal conscious National Football League, barked: "I have no comment. We'll stick to our business; let them stick to theirs."
Seniors who want their picture in the senior section of the 1958 Jayhawker must have their pictures taken and the proofs returned by Feb. 1.
The conversion rule retained the old one-point for placement or drop kick regulation but added the option that a team could try for two points by running or passing from the 3-ward line. Most high schools throughout the country are expected to conform to the regulation.
Jayhawker Photos Due Feb.1
John Meschke, Hutchinson senior and Jayhawker business manager, said students can call Hixon's Studio for an appointment any time. Only pictures from Hixon's will be accepted for the book, Meschke said.
One costume jewelry manufacturer predicts that pearl gray will be the top color for spring and summer. Beige also will be a big hit, say stylists for Marvella, pearl manufacturers. "The most important thing about all the new colors is their softness," the firm added.
Nobody is compelled to take part in a speech correction course; the participation is strictly voluntary.
Such special help is free of charge. Most of the work is done individually in one or sometimes two half-hour sessions a week. Group courses are rare. Miss Anderson always tries to get well acquainted with the personality of her "patients" and to make them feel at ease.
Special cases are foreign students, who sometimes have serious problems with their accent. The service is available for them as well as for the American students. "On the whole, the foreigners are getting on very well," Miss Anderson says.
"It is a very interesting and exciting experience, to help the student overcome his handicap," Miss Anderson says. "Good speech is a health factor, necessary in a person's equipment for life."
Senators Like Ike Letter
Around The World
(Compiled by United Press)
President Eisenhower's letter to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin requesting a ban on space weapons was greeted favorably by members of the Senate today.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn) praised Mr. Eisenhower's proposal to Russia for a prompt ban on testing and production of space weapons. He said the ban represents a "broadened dimension" of previous American disarmament proposals "and a sound one, too."
The President's letter also left the door open for a "summit" meeting with Russia if preliminary talks indicate such a conference might produce results.
Big Budget To Congress
Also in Washington, President Fisenhower today sent to Congress his record breaking first "space age" budget asking for nearly 74 billion dollars, a peacetime record.
However, before the President even sent the budget to Congress.
there were already clear indications that parts of it were going to get only a lukewarm reception from Congress. His foreign aid program of $3,900,000,000 in particular still is in for plenty of trouble.
More Missile Plans
Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy disculsed plans to build a third base for launching 5,000-mile range intercontinental missiles.
Mr. McElroy said in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee the Defense Department already had started building two intercontinental ballistic missile bases and has funds for a third in the new budget.
He also said that by spending extra money on the Navy's Polaris missile now, it will be ready for use two years earlier than we thought was a reasonable expectation only a few months ago.
At Cape Canaveral, Fla, an Armw
Redstone missile was to blast off today to open the week in which the United States hopes to hurl a satellite into space.
The big show is expected later in the week when the Navy tries a second time to put up a grapefruit-size satellite with its siender Vanguard rocket.
In New York, former President Truman appeared to have closed the door to his possible participation in a White House conference on foreign policy by making a particularly derogatory attack on President Eisenhower.
Policy. Budget Not Good
Mr. Truman said Sunday he thought Mr. Eisenhower was neither "a good policy maker" nor "a good budget maker." He conceded that the President has been "a great military commander in Europe and in NATO when he had some one to tell him what to do." The former President said he was the one who told Mr. Eisenhower what to do in Europe and in NATO.
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