Thursday, Sept. 5, 1985
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Professor to receive award for teaching
John B. Bremner, Oscar S. Stauffer Distinguished Journalism of Journalism, will receive the 1985 Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award from Sigma Delta Society of Professional Journalists.
The award, given annually, will be presented to Bremer during the society's annual meeting Nov. 13 to 16 in Phoenix. Ariz.
The award recognizes outstanding teaching contributions to journalism and maintenance of high professional standards. Nominations come from professional journalists and journalism groups. The society's five officers choose the winner.
Defector to give talk
Brenner will retire from the School of Journalism at the end of this semester.
Arkady Shevchenko, the highest ranking Soviet diplomat to defect to the West, will speak at 8 p.m. Oct. 8 in Wooldrift Auditorium. His appearance is part of the University's Vickers Memorial Lecture Course.
Shevchenko is the former Soviet ambassador and undersecretary general of the United Nations. He has been involved in Soviet decisions on such issues as disarmament, Vietnam, the Middle East and Soviet-American relations. He was recently featured on the cover of Time magazine and in February he appeared on "60 Minutes."
Coaches to meet staff
Faculty and staff are invited to an open house at Anschutz Sports Pavilion from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. tomorrow to see the building and talk with the coaches.
Writers seminar set
There will be a seminar on black women writers from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union. The seminar is being sponsored by the department of African studies in cooperation with the departments of English and women studies.
Registration will be on the day of the seminar and the fee is $20 per person or $25 per person including lunch. For additional information or pre-registration, contact Rose Rousseau at 864-3284.
New exhibits to open
Two new exhibits at the Kansas Museum of History, 6425 S.W. Sixth St., Topeka, will open from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
Phase I of "Voices of the Heartland: A Kansas Legacy" examines in kansas from the early Indian cultures through 1854.
A temporary exhibit, "There's No Place Like Home," explores the symbols of Kansas and how outside influences have shaped public impressions of the state.
Financing for the opening is being provided in part by the Woman's Kansas Day Club. For more information, contact Jim Powers at (913) 723-8681.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with a high of 90 to 95. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the upper 60s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms and highs in the low to mid-90s.
From staff and wire reports.
Truck overturns
Lawrence firefighters dressed in protective clothing supervised the transfer of fuel from a truck that overturned on the Kansas Turnpike late yesterday afternoon. See story, page 5.
Alan Haoman/KANSAN
Reach out for grammar aid
Hotline has hints on syntax
By Susie Bishop Of the Kerson staff
Of the Kansan staff
Walter Cronkite's research staff, Gov. John Carlin's office, the congressional offices in Washington, D.C. Rolle Royce and Pillsbury Co. all have one thing in common.
They all have been clients of the Writer's Hotline operated by Emporia State University.
Faye Vowell, founder and director of the Writer's Hotline, said it was exciting when the researcher for Walker Crontike's 6 p.m. news show would call to check the grammar of a sentence.
"Everybody in the lab would run home to see if our sentence got on the show." Vowell said.
Grammar hotlines reach across the nation and beyond. The service exists in 17 states and in Canada. But when dialing long distance, only Grammarphone, Frostburg State College, Md., can be called toll free.
The only existing hotline in Kansas is in Emporia.
"The desire to have a question answered is a positive thing," Vowell said. "It would be a real burden to carry all information ever learned in
one mind. Language itself is a dynamic thing.
"A guy in California called an said that he had a bet with a friend who said that there were three words in the English language that ended in gry. One was hungry; another was offered to spilt the money with us if we would not. We looked everywhere we could think of but we never found it."
"We had a man call from France," she said. "I think that he was drunk. His mother had written to him in the military telling him about our service. So he called us with a grammar question."
Vowell said most of the people who used the writing lab hotline were not students and most calls were from out of state.
Mike Thyssen, Coligne, West Germany, sophomore, said he thought a grammar hotline at the University of Kansas would be a great tool to help not use the hotline from Emoria because of the long-distance charge.
Brett Bartlik, St. Louis, Mo., freshman, said, "If it is long distance, I would just as soon call my
teacher — he probably knows just as much."
Whether or not the University of Kansas will ever have its own hotline depends on whether it would substantiate the costs involved, said Michael Johnson, chairman of the department of English.
Johnson said if a grammar hotline were undertaken, the money should come from University discretionary money and not out of standard instructional or English department money.
"It might be a natural outgrowth of the new writing center," said Johnson.
The University Writing Center, 4004 Wescoe, currently helps faculty in departments other than English to put writing into their course curriculums.
Amy Devitt, associate director of the University Writing Center, said a long-range goal of the writing center would be to provide one-on-one assistance for students needing grammar help and possibly a bottle, but it would take a lot of money and a lot of staff.
Student's research requires stutterers
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Classified advertisements may be small, but they can arouse curiosity and attract attention.
That's what Makoto Kariyasu, Tokyo graduate student, hoped to accomplish when he ran the classified ad: "Adult Male stunters needed for research project. Contact Makoto 864-4570."
Kariyasi, who is in the department of speech-language-hearing; sciences and disorders, said yesterday that he needed to find stutterers to complete his research. He also finds stuttering subjects a challenge.
"I advertised in Topeka and Kansas City this summer, but could not get anyone," he said. "It is very hard to find stutters."
Kariyasu said he hoped the advertisement would prompt people who stutter to call him and participate in his experiment.
After running the ad for 14 days, Kariyasu said, he has had three responses.
"I hope to get 10 people," he said, "but I can do my project with five."
Kariyasu is studying the vocal patterns of stutterers and non-stutterers.
For the project, Kariyasu said,
he will analyze his subjects'
general speech patterns by asking
him to give three minutes and
read a short passage.
Then he will ask the subject to make sounds, such as vowel sounds, that also will be analyzed.
To determine whether differences exist among stutters' vocal production, he will take an acoustic measurement of the voice production of his subjects' voices, he said.
Kariyau said he hoped his findings would result in a small piece of evidence that would be a cause finding the cause of suffering
People who speak fluently most of the time may stutter in a certain situation or at a certain time, he said.
Tune-up season here for students' bicycles
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Do your gears shift whether you want them to or not? Does your back wheel wobble when you hit 5 mph? Or does the old bike just not ride like it used to?
Then Lawrence's five bicycle shop owners and managers say your bike needs a tune-up.
"The average person would need once one a year," Kevin Beals, manager of Uptown Bicycles, 1337 Massachusetts St., said yesterday. The other shop managers agreed.
An average tune-up includes adjusting brakes and gears, "truing" or straightening the wheels, cleaning
John LechliterKANSAN
John LechillerKANSEM
Fritz Menninger, an employee of Lawrence Schwinn Cycley, 1820 W. Sixth St., adjusts a 12-speed bicycle so that Mike Eglinski, Lawrence graduate student, may take it for a test ride.
the chain and oiling almost everything
Beals said the majority of his customers were KU students because bikes that had been sitting around all the time had also used for transportation to school.
"This is our busiest time of year," said Thomas Howe, associate manager of Rick's Bike Shop. 1033 store in St. Louis that we we're fairly well caught up.
He said that he checked every moving part of a bike and that bearing surfaces were most important for the smooth movements of a bike.
He said tume-ups were 'extra assurance that a bike would last longer'.
Sharon England, manager of Sunflower Surplus, 804 Massachusetts St., said the hills in Lawrence were especially hard on bicycle brakes, which could wear down and stop working.
Besides correcting the brakes, she said, a tune-up "makes it almost into a brand new bicycle."
First meeting for Student Senate and committees
SENATE MEETING
ANNOUNCEMENT
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
Sept.11 7pm
Sept. 9 7 pm
STUDENT RIGHTS
Sept. 9 7 pm
MINORITY AFFAIRS
Big 8 room
Walnut room
TRANSPORTATION
Sept. 9 7 pm
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Sept. 5 7 pm
Inte'nl room
T. B.A.
Paid for by Student Senate Activity Fee
Wheat room
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