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Thursday, Oct. 24
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What: Faculty Food for Thought
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Friday, Oct. 25
What: Meet a Researcher
When: 3.30 to 5 p.m.
Where: Anschutz Library, Anschutz Learning Studio
About: Ice cream social to meet faculty, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate researchers
When: 4 p.m.
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What: Cherokee Day of Celebration
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Where: Lied Center, Parking Lot
About: Race and obstacle course,
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What: "At the Hang-Up" Book Signing When: 3 to 4:30 p.m. Where: Edwards Campus, Jayhawk Central, Bookstore About: Book signing with former basketball coach Ted Owens
Study finds positive environment boosts results
KYLE PAPPAS
kpappas@kansan.com
We've all seen it: an angry coach or parent yelling at or berating an under-performing youth player. Many of us are often left wondering "Is that really helping anything?" A recent University study says the overwhelming answer to this question is no.
Mary Fry, associate professor of sports psychology, and doctoral student Susumu Iwasaki recently conducted a study analyzing the environments of youth athletes in the Lawrence area in relation to their intrinsic motivation.
"The more [the kids] perceived
The study concluded that athletes exposed to a positive sports environment were much more likely to succeed and enjoy themselves than those who are immersed in a negative one.
positive and supporting environments, the higher the intrinsic motivation and desire to continue to play the sport was," Fry said.
Fry and Iwasaki handed out questionnaires to youth basketball and volleyball players, ages 9-18, asking them to evaluate their environment and how much positive interaction they felt that they received.
The results of these questionnaires showed that the children's perceptions of their environments were actually very good, citing a positive atmosphere and future desire to participate in sports.
But Fry said that administrators can always look for ways to get better.
"There's still room for improvement," she said. "By collecting data, they have something to build their efforts on, something they can use to train coaches and
educate parents."
The idea for the study came when Fry and Iwasaki came in contact with two sports administrators who were interested in feedback on how to improve their atmospheres and provide a better experience for their kids.
"When you don't quantify the information, you don't get the bigger picture."
SUSUMU IWASAKI doctoral student
"Sports administrators usually have a full plate or don't have the skill set to develop a survey and gather results," Fry said. "It's a great partnership for administrators and sports psychologists to team up to make their sports better"
Iwasaki agreed, saying that coaches and parents are sometimes unable to grasp the full concept of this when it comes to their children.
"When you don't quantify the information, you don't get the bigger picture," he said. "Sometimes, it can be difficult for coaches to think about improving their coaching methods in this way."
Fry notes that the differences in environments are the result of either implementing a task-involving climate or an ego-involving climate. Task-involving includes stressing effort and improvement, while ego-involving sends the message that performance and talent are what matters.
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The effects of these environments can have serious repercussions on youth athletes, both short-term and long-term.
"A bad athletic experience can give children's overall self-confidence a hit," Fry said. "It can kill the fun and decrease future participation in exercise."
One might assume that these results would only hold true for developing and impressionable younger athletes, but Fry says that this isn't the case.
"Recent research with college athletes have had the same results," Fry said. "They may be better equipped to deal with it, but it's not necessarily a better environment."
Iwasaki and Fry's study has been accepted for publication in the applied-research magazine The Sport Psychologist and is set to appear next spring.
STUDENT SENATE
Edited by Sarah Kramer
After lengthy debate, Senate strikes down coalition resolution
KAITLYN KLEIN
kklein@kansan.com
Student Senate did not pass the coalition resolution at last night's meeting after more than three hours of debate.
the resolution, which can be viewed online at Kansan.com, would have influenced future election reform.
Arguments for both sides were varied and senators spent a lot of
time questioning the speakers on their viewpoints and the facts they presented.
Marcus Tetwiler, student body president, and Tyler Childress, chief of staff, introduced the
rinance Committee Chair Alec Joyce spoke against the resolution because he said he did not think enough of the student body was involved in the debate. He suggested having senators table, attend meetings and talk with students about coalitions and, more broadly, about election reform.
Hannah Sitz, a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, spoke in favor of the resolution and addressed Joyce's concerns
"Coalitions are not the problem."
MITCHELL COTA
multicultural affairs committee chair
resolution and advocated ending coalitions in order to be more inclusive and improve representation.
by sharing her unofficial survey results. She said 158 students responded in 24 hours
that she could not comment on the validity of her survey, or on how representative it was, because it was informal and meant
Cota referenced the variance in Ad Astra as an example of how coalitions can promote diversity, and compared that to freshmen elections — which do not have coalitions — in which students elected were mostly white greek students.
Sitz said the results were polarized, but
to gauge student feedback to help
her make a decision on the issue.
Mitchell Cota, a multicultural affairs committee chair, spoke against the resolution because he said that without coalitions diversity would be in jeopardy.
— a far larger return than she expected.
In the second attempt to end debate, senators called a vote and a majority approved ending the deliberation and voting on the resolution.
"Coalitions are not the problem." Cota said.
— Edited by Duncan McHenry
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If you registered to vote in Kansas before Jan. 1, 2013 and are on the voter registration list, you are ready to vote in both state and national elections.
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