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Tuesday, November 27, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Author Warns of Language Decay
By CRAIG STOCK Kansan Staff Reporter
A breakdown of the English language has been demonstrated by the speech of politicians and businessmen, but there are warning signs of a deteriorated faculty of expression from the population at large. author Mary McCarthy said last night.
"Of course, there are people who have become so practiced in evasion, euphemism, circumlocution and all the forms of lying, that they not know how to tell to the an occasion favoring truth-telling should arise," McCarthy said.
The twisted syntax of these people is incarnable of directness, she said, and can
Debaters Place High at Tourney
Two University of Kansas debaters won honors at a tournament at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., last weekend.
The team of Joel Goldman, Shawnee Mission senior, and Bill Webster, Carthage, Mo., junior, won five place in a competition with 110 teams from 28 states.
Phil Snow, Sugarland, Tex., sophomore, and Jim Prentice, Turon sophomore, compiled a 5-3 record at the same tournament.
This weekend debaters will travel to Iowa State University at Ames, Texas Tech University at Lubbock and Texas Christian University at Ft. Worth.
result in a loss of credibility
"An occasional forthright statement, 'I love America. I am not a crook', though grammatically sound as a bell, has to be construed to mean that I hate America and a crook," she said.
McCARTY SPOKE to a near-capacity crowd in Woodruff Auditorium in the second of this year's Humanities Lecture Series. She is the author of several books and articles, both fiction and nonfiction. Her works include "The Group," "Birds of America," "Medina" and "The Groves of Academe."
the inarticulateness of the very young and the long-winded prescience of the middle-aged and old are the warning symptoms of the disease, being among the population at large. McCarthy said.
She said a reason for the loss of clarity in our language was the disappearance of the teaching of Latin and Greek by the public schools.
Latin promotes clear analytical thinking, McCarthy said, and helps us in our own language to distinguish the relations between members of a sentence.
SHE SAID the "insolent barbary of phrasing" by witnesses in the Watergate hearings gave the public insights into a new conspiracy and would have shocked the ordinary citizen.
However, she said, the public should have noticed its own speech.
"Most people sound like Jeb Magruder," she said.
case, McCarthy said, and the journals of the last seven years show that the last service serve an evidence.
Poor grammar and circumlocution in the speech of the public hasn't always been the case.
"It is possible that this breakdown of communication will be soon felt throughout the world," she said. "The Americans may have only pioneered it, as they've done with computers, the electrified kitchen and pollution."
SHE SAID the general deterioration of the senses and of the collective memory of the people were also factors in the breakdown of the language.
Television has definitely not aided the retention of memories by people, she said, because of its flickering image and the concentration it requires.
"Language is a consciousness-raiser," McCarthy said. "The problem there is that the power of using and understanding language, like all power, carries responsibilities with it. Most people today would rather not have this power.
"I think that most people think it better to delegate language to 'experts' and manage them."
Intellectuals are some of the worst sinners against language, McCarthy said, because
"fallout from academic circles in
aphyxia is dangerous to the delicate
line of the brain."
"ONE OF THE amusing sidelights of the Watergate affair," she said, "was the discovery that Halldeman, Ehrlichman, Krogh, and the lawyer Charles Alan Wright considered themselves an intellectual elite."
McCarthy said George Orwell, author of 1984, foresaw the dangers to a free society from canned jargon and euphemisms. His solution, she said, was the unmasking of the darkness of theocracy and the painting to the right way by his own steadfast, plainspoken example.
She said she thought what Orwell missed was the element of consent among the people. "I want to be a leader," she said.
She said that exposure of hypocrisy and lying had no effect now, because the hypocrisy of language was receiving consent from the public.
"How many times has Nikon been exposed as a liar?" she said. "And nobody cared except the exposers, Nikon, for most, not all." The woman or own anybody else's do not affect him."
Goods Stolen at Sorority
Burglaries broke into the PBI Phi Beta sorority house, 1612 W. 15th St., during Thanksgiving break and steal several thousand dollars worth of property, according to the Lawrence Police Department and members of the sorority.
Report Says KU Short of Space
By SUZI SMITH
Kanaan Staff Reporte
A shortage of space is the most critical physical problem currently facing the University of Kansas, according to a status report compiled by a task force of University-related people and released last week by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The shortage totals 1.6 million gross square feet of space based on the '1971 level of activity," which considers students, teachers, research and employees, the report said.
The report was submitted at the state budget hearings Nov. 20, along with similar reports from the five other state colleges and universities.
The report outlines a plan calling for reorganization of the KU campus with classrooms at the center and research and graduate facilities and service activities on campus.
SUPPLEMENTAL TRAFFIC AND UTIILITY facilities are also outlined in the report.
The report compiled by a task force headed by Keith Lawton, director of facilities, planning and operations for a physical education building, a continuing education
building a physical plant and central receiving structure and support facilities.
According to the report, projected figures indicate that the space deficit will decrease from 1.8 million to 1.27 million square feet by 1900.
The projected decrease in the space shortage will result from the addition of 500,000 square feet of space, whose construction has already been authorized, and the subtraction of 170,000 additional square feet that will be needed by 1980, the report
"KU CAN OPERATE in its present
report said, by overcrowding them," the
report said.
"Yet in the last ten years—the years of skyrocketing enrollments—the state has funded capital improvements at an average of $72 per enrolled, full-time student per year. That figure is the second lowest in the Board of Regents system," it said.
The report said 20 temporary structures, several of "World War II vintage," were usurping valuable space in the core of campus.
It said there were insufficient maintenance personnel and equipment for the project.
To combat traffic problems, the report called for a loop road system to encircle the core, enlargement of parking areas, new loading and unloading facilities, new bicycle racks and routes and improvement of important intersections.
IN ITS REPORT, KU claimed the greatest needs for additional facilities of any of the six state schools, followed by Kansas State University. The needs of the four other colleges and universities were similar because of recent appropriations.
John Conard, director of University Relations, said the report, a long range physical development plan, was requested by the Board in which appropriated $000.00 for the study.
Conard said the reports were requested so that the legislators would have a "well-coordinated, system-wide master plan" to guide them in appropriating future budgets.
However, he said, "The legislature is not bound by any restrictions except their own."
MEMBERS OF THE TASK force that compiled the report for KU were KU students, faculty and administrators. Board members held staff members and professional consultants.
Some of you out there weren't listening.
Staff members drove 872 miles over the vacation at 50 miles an hour. They reported being passed by 1,857 cars, 36 trucks, and 9 vehicles. Staff members passed only 22 vehicles.
Soine of you out there Weren't lustfully. Although President Nixon praised the conservation efforts of Americans in his fight against desertification, few of the Kansan staff indicated that few motorists observed the 50 miles an hour limit over the Thanksgiving holiday.
All of the driving took place in Kansas, and most of it was on 1-70 or the turnip. The drivers noticed that they were passed more often before Thanksgiving than after.
On two-lane roads, the test drivers were often only part of a string of several cars going 50 m.p.h., and the pace was slower because drivers might whoother have have
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gone faster were unable to pass.
The average length of the trips taken was between 150 and 200 miles. Most drivers found that it required about 30 per cent more time to travel to destinations than was required at 7 m.p.h.
For instance, a 124-mile trip to Junction City, which normally takes an hour and a half, required two hours and 15 minutes at 50 m.p.h. A 156-mile trip to Newton, which usually takes less than three hours, took more than four hours.
Despite this extra investment in time on the road, none of the drivers reported a sizable savings in gasoline, although a few drivers noticed savings of one or two miles a gallon. The savings contrast with administration estimates that up to 30 per cent of the fuel required at 70 m.p.h. could be saved by slowing to 50.
Conard said the task force included representatives from all segments of the
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The workbook will break down specific needs of the University into four areas: funds for new construction, modernization, curriculum development and improvement of the campus landscape.
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The house's maid discovered the break-in Friday morning.
Three members of the sorority, Cara Asel, Wichtia tisha; Barbara McTigue, Prairie College senior; and Barbara Flakas, La Grange, III., senior, said that about 12 stereos, several televisions, diamond jewelry and coats were among the items.
They said nearly every room in the house had been ransacked.
Police said the burglar found a key to
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Exam Alternatives Ordered
Instructors who had scheduled final exams for Dec. 17 and 18 have been asked by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes to provide information that would help them wish to the attend BabyLove game.
Dykes has also ordered instructors to make alternative final exam arrangements for students with official obligations connected with the game, such as football players, members of the band, pom pon girls and yell leaders.
Dykes issued a memorandum Friday outlining guidelines for rescheduling final exams after he had consulted with the University Senate Executive Committee, the Council of Deans and the vice chancellors.
Students who have an obligation to attend the game and all others who want to go to the game must make individual presentations, leading examinations with their instructors.
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