Thursday, April 4, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Cures for stage fright discussed
COOL AS A CUCUMBER
By Robert Burdick Kansan Staff Reporter
Photo by Moe Behrayesh
Stage fright and its possible cures were the topics discussed by these graduate students in a speech symposium Wednesday night. From left are Robert Adams, Mandan, N.D.; Shirley Masterson, Bates City, Mo.; Gustav Friedrich, Lawrence; and Mary Heider, West Salem, Wis.
Reasons for stage fright and possible cures for it were discussed by three graduate students in a speech symposium Wednesday evening in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
The discussion, moderated by Gustav Friedrich, Lawrence graduate student, presented the results of research by Mary Heider, West Salem, Wis., Shirley Masterson, Bates City, Mo., and Robert Adams, Mandan, N.D.
Miss Heider is studying childhood experiences and their relation to adult stage fright; Miss Masterson, personal motivation in connection with stage fright; and Adams, counseling as an aid for people with stage fright.
Through group comparisons Miss Masterson found people who are highly motivated to achieve success are better speakers than those who are highly motivated to avoid failure.
People in the latter group tend to pick either the easiest speech or the most difficult when offered a variety. They do this because each of these areas offers them an outlet, she said.
They are almost sure to do reasonably well on the easy subjects. If they fail on the most difficult they have the excuse that nobody could have done well on such difficult material, she said.
Miss Masterson outlined four points she thinks can aid speech teachers.
- Students must have a choice of a level of speech difficulty. This enables the poorer student to start slow and build confidence as he works toward more difficult subjects.
6 There should be a gradual increase in difficulty—a move up the scale.
The instructor should play a supporting role, letting the students criticize themselves. He should not create a fear in the classroom by being too authoritative or overly critical.
The competitive atmosphere of the classroom should be reduced so that students can feel more at ease when they speak.
Petroleum estate planning institute at KU April 16-18
About 50 oil jobbers-oil salesmen who sell to distributers—will study estate planning at the 12th annual Petroleum Marketers' Management Institute here April 16-18.
By studying specific cases, the institute will explore the history of a mythical oil jobbership and the problems that go with it. Participants will try to solve the various problems of the mythical jobber's estate, according to Robert Nelson, institute coordinator for University Extension.
Estate problems also will be illuminated by an attorney, a certified public accountant, a certified life underwriter, a bank trust officer and a liability insurance expert. Thomas L. Jones, director of education for the National Oil Jobbets Council, Inc., Washington, D.C., will present the orientation for the mythical case to the group.
The institute is sponsored jointly by the Kansas Oil Marketers Association and University Extension.
Adams' studies to see if counseling can improve the speech student he called unsuccessful, but he doesn't think they were truly representative of the possibilities in counseling.
He said his experiments were started too late in the semester and students did not have enough time to adapt or were already assured of a passing grade and had no incentive.
He did have success with a special class of 27 Speech I students last summer.
The students said the course was superior because they had a
chance to talk about their experiences to one another.
Adams said counseling has worked in every other type of education and doesn't know why it shouldn't work in speech classes. He hopes more research on counseling is done.
Miss Heider's study on the effect of child-parent relations on stage fright in later life found environmental relations important in whether a person is able to express himself in later life.
"Children can become inhibited as early as one or two," she said.
If they get a negative reaction
from their parents when they try to express themselves as children, their trust is inhibited. They truly representatives of the possi-guard against situations where they have to express themselves in later life, Miss Heider said.
KU will be evaluated by foreign educators
Twenty-five Latin American educators will evaluate KU as part of the ninth annual Seminar of Higher Education in the Americas, to be held at KU from April 2 to May 15.
Psych prof presents child behavior study
A professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development discussed "The Pluralistic Approach to Developmental Research: A Case Study that is Almost Overwhelming" Wednesday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
William Charlesworth presented his findings on the problem of surprise in child behavior through a series of slides and films. Of the three elements involved in scientific enterprise—theory, methodology and data—Charlesworth said that a project's data is what really counts in the long run.
Several aspects of the study presented at the colloquium will
Charlesworth is attempting to reduce the data to a definition of the most prevalent response pattern of children at different age levels. He has not completed the study.
He filmed the reactions of children told to choose the largest of three semicircular objects. Because of an optical illusion, the objects appeared to be different sizes when placed in differing relations to each other.
be analyzed by Charlesworth in a proseminar at 4:30 p.m. today in 102 Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
Both the colloquium and the proseminar are part of a series sponsored jointly by the departments of psychology and human development and family life.
RFK campaigners to meet in Union today
A meeting to fill committees for the local Robert F. Kennedy campaign will be held at 5 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The most important committees are for campaign membership drives in all living groups, fund raising and statewide coordination of the campaign, said John Case, Arlington, Va., senior and chairman of the group.
The other officers of the group are Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., senior, vice president, and Gerald Weintraub, Brooklyn, N.Y., junior, committees coordinator.
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