Monday, October 1. 1979
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Newman attacks language abuses
By TED LICKTEIG
Staff Reporter
KANASA CITY, Mo. — A mail order catalog described an ice cream scoop as an "ice cream transfer space," and a weather station called the Dusner dunstarsur for "significant rain event."
Edwin Newman, NBC correspondent describes these two statements as examples of decadent language usage.
Individuals should stop try to inflate their self-esteem by abusing the language, and instead speak and write understandable. Newman said in a speech Friday night.
Newman spoke to about 1,100 members of the Missouri Bar Association at their 100th annual conference at the Crown Center Hotel.
Newman, the author of two books on language usage and a new novel, Sunday Punch, criticized people who used incorrect words for thinking that those who did were snickers.
"These people said that your heart had to be in what you said. That you had to 'relate' to other people." he said
"Using this fiery dull language makes a person feel self-important. It creates a fence to keep outsiders out. It makes too much noise for people to try to think it out," newman said.
NEWMAN'S TAUNTS brought laughter from the members throughout his 45-minute address.
Newman did not chastise lawyers directly, but exorcized people whose words were considered insulting language is too notorious. We should isolate it and deal with it separately," Newman told us.
A Sacramento weather forecaster, said A. current radar tracking data no longer impairs to this heavy precipitation regime," instead of saying that thundershowers were again in place.
He also said the Times had written about a building by saying "It will be fully completed."
He said the New York Times had written of Green Bay Packers head coach, Bart Starr, "He has instilled a posture of patience in his fans." He brought up a roar of laughter by adding that, presumably, the fans maintained that position while
Newman quote a broadcaster as saying that Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Burt Hooten "has scattered one hit." He said that when he scattered it all over the natural surface.
PROCLAIMED EXPERTS were not spared from Newman's wrath.
Newman preyed on sportscasters, who he said always referred to grass as "natural surface."
Those in education, he said, ultimately were responsible for the decay of the
English language, and most were not doing a good job.
He said a Florida school district called desks, "population stations." When enrollment went down at Santa Clara Calf., school was an accelerated slumline stau-
HE SAID the language was being poisoned by ethnic phrases and by teachers who were afraid to correct the grammatical students, for fear of alienating them.
He said education had reached a point where educators did not think correct grammar mattered.
Contributing to the downfall of the language were the rebellious 1906 and the Watergate era, in which age, experience, memory, mathematical rules were held in disrepute, he said.
He said that there was, however, room in the language for slung and foreign phrases and that he did not expect people to talk like him.
Classified...
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Collins said the administration was concerned that some people would think of the Classified Senate as a union.
ALSO on the committee are Dek Shankel, executive vice chancellor, Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, and Mike Davis, University general counsel.
DAVIS SAID that he and other members of the committee had not studied the proposal enough to cite any specific legal problems.
Mann said his talk with Collins had given him a better understanding of the Classified Senate's objectives.
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Nichier said that although the recognition of the Classified Seneca needed study, there was evidence being among administrators that all employees form one form of representation in the University.
"We don't want a union," Collins said. "But the administration worries about someone outside the University wondering why their body could be anything but a union."
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Alumni Association plans to build additional center
The KU Alumni Association Board approved plans this weekend for a new run of 140 parking spots on Oregon streets, Dick Wintermote, director of the Alumni Association, said Thursday.
The Kansas University Endowment Association agreed three weeks ago to assist KU alumni in raising funds and supporting the new parking lot, for the site of the new center.
"The board approved the report of the Alumni Planning Committee and asked it to continue as a Building Committee," he wrote. "The Board will be by the Alumni Planning Committee."
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The Alumni Association Board also asked the committee to hire an architect and to study the amount of space needed in the new center.
According to Wintermote, no time schedule has been set for the completion of the new center.
"I hope that we will occupy the center by the one hundredth anniversary of the KU Alumni Association in 1888," she knows—the construction might go faster.
Winternote said no cost estimate had been set for the new center.
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