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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 14, 1968
English -
Continued from page 1 "Crisis in Black and White" is too difficult a book for the students.
"The way it's written is too long and repetitive; there is so much in it. We need a simpler book," she said.
Mrs. Novak did say, however, that in her opinion no rhetorical textbook would be any better than the one now used—that is, "Preface to Critical Reading."
The books also brought fire from the student chairmen of all five advisory boards in the Colleges-Within-the-College. The chairmen agreed that the two textbooks and the materials they cover should be changed.
They suggested no alternatives. Meanwhile, a suggestion before the North College Advisory Board calls for an exemption test to be created in the English department—to cover either the rhetorical section of the course or the entire English requirement.
All the instructors interviewed thought this plan impossible and inconceivable.
"I'd like to see the man who could make up such a test," said Holden.
A few instructors indicated however that three semesters of required English might be covered in two.
Alum fears lean Twiggy may vanish
A KU alumnus is afraid Twiggy will disappear if she keeps dieting.
Albert H. Hindman, class of 1921, enclosed the following poem about Twiggy in a letter to Dick Wintermote, executive director of the Alumni Association:
WHAT ADONIS MIGHT
"Alas, poor Twiggy! So flat and spare—
When you turn sideways, there's no one there
there's no one there.
A leaf of lettuce for breakfast,
And for lunch a string bean—
If you get any thinner you
cannot be seen. Hindman is retired but writes some feature articles for the Kansas City Star.
Freshman party will be March 30
Plans for a class party were made by the Freshman Class Congress at its meeting Wednesday night.
The party will be March 30 in the Lawrence National Guard Armory. Music will be furnished by Bob Kuban and the Inmen.
Freshmen with class cards will be admitted free.
'O Guarani' opera to be presented on KANU
The opera "O Guarani" by Antonio Carlos Gomes will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Friday over KANU-FM on the program "Opera is My Hobby." The opera was first produced at La Scala in Milan in 1870 and is based on the romantic love story of a Brazilian Indian and a white Portuguese colonist.
The opera broadcast is part of the Brazil Month activities of the committee on Brazilian studies.
CHALLENGE: Read This Message In 32 Seconds
There are 1,216 words in this message. If you read at average reading speed, you will require nearly five minutes to read it. If you had developed the simple skill of Dynamic Reading, you would be nearly halfway through the article by now. There are many Reading Dynamics graduates who could read this page with full comprehension in less than 32 seconds. But don't be embarrassed about your slow reading. The simple fact is that you don't read slowly by average standards; but by the standards of Reading Dynamics you poke at a snail's pace—probably reading between 250 and 400 words per minute. You are not alone. Most of your friends and neighbors—and many highly placed professional people—can't read any faster than you. Many undoubtedly read at a considerably slower pace.
Most Reading Dynamics graduates can read an average novel in less than the time it is would take them to watch the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday night. And they read with full comprehension and complete enjoyment. You can, too, once you have acquired the extraordinary skill of Dynamic Reading.
Most KU Reading Dynamics graduates have now finished this article. But please keep going.
In recent years over 300,000 people have graduated from Reading Dynamics Institutes throughout the nation and abroad. All of these people took the course with the guarantee that their reading efficiency would at least triple in the short span of seven weeks. In virtually every case, when the student attended class sessions and did the required practice, this exciting promise came true. Reading Dynamics makes you the same astonishing guarantee: We guarantee to increase your reading efficiency at least 3 times. We will refund the entire tuition to any student who, after completing minimum class and practice requirements, does not at least triple his reading efficiency as measured by standard beginning and ending tests. Reading efficiency combines speed and comprehension, not speed alone.
At KU alone, 400 people have
benefited from Reading Dynamics. For example, records from recent fall classes show a speed increase of 6 to 8 times with a comprehension improvement of $ \% $ . Many people who read Dynamically have developed their skill so successfully that they are able to read at even higher rates. Astonishing? Yes, it is. But true.
At this point you are probably a bit incredulous. A doubling Thomas. Be our guest. We admit our claims are dramatic—indeed, overwhelming. But they are based on documented statistical case histories of our thousands of students. When you become one of our students—even though you may be a relatively slow reader now—you, too, will contribute to our startling record of achievement. Evelyn Wood first observed Dynamic Reading 20 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6,000 words per minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years, she found 50 people who could read faster than 1,500 words per minute, with fine comprehension, outstanding recall, and great satisfaction in reading.
"Reading is a waste of time, slow or fast, if you don't understand what you are reading," stated Evelyn Wood at a recent teacher training conference. "If you are not comprehending, you are not reading."
The first thing you are asked to do after enrolling in the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics course is to forget everything you have ever been taught about how to read. Reading Dynamics teaches you to read all over again. A relatively fast reader beginning the course does not have any particular advantage over an average reader starting the course. You will be taught to read not just with your eyes, but with all your senses. Words will become pictures, and pages will roll by like frames on film. Your eyes will learn to move in rhythmic patterns down the page and through the volume; and you will read with thorough comprehension in a fraction of the time it takes you now.
As a child you were taught to "hear" the words as you read them. You will be untaught that cumbersome technique and discover that you can read swiftly and meaningfully by circumventing your old audio reading patterns. Once this eye-to-mind communication has been established, you practically eliminate the necessity of saying, hearing, or re-thinking words. You will no longer read word-by-word or even phrase-by-phrase; indeed, as you develop your skill, neither will you read sentence-by-sentence. Instead, you will read in "chunks." You will visually lift large blocks of material from the printed page and instantaneously project actions and pictures onto the screen of your imagination. As the course develops your Reading Dynamics skills, you will discover the exhilaration of experiencing the vitality of the printed page. Reading will become less and less like reading, as it becomes more and more a process of experiencing.
Dynamic Readers, having finished this article, are now pages ahead of you in the newspaper. As you read, your hand will function as a pacer, swiftly brushing across printed material as the words well into pictures in continuous, dramatic flow. You will be gratified at your increased speed; you will be moved by your newly developed sensitivity to literary values; and you will be thrilled at the high degree of retention of the printed material after it has been read. Many Reading Dynamics graduates find that their ability to recall even highly technical material long after it has been read is the single most valuable aspect of their new skill.
The Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics teaching staff at KU is highly experienced. Naturally, all instructors are college trained Our Reading Dynamics instructors do not teach skimming. They teach improved reading efficiency which includes both speed and comprehension. Skimming techniques negate improved comprehension and are therefore unacceptable in the Evelyn Wood method. As Mrs. Wood frequently points out, "You read five times faster
not by reading every fifth word, but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time. It is impossible to tell which words to skip or disregard until you have seen them all and determined their relative importance and meaning." You may be assured that Reading Dynamics is the most comprehensive reading improvement course in the world today. The Dynamic Reader, having finished this newspaper, is off doing something else.
In this supersonic, electronic, automated age, it is comforting to know that man has discovered a way to improve not just things and machines but man himself. When your minimum guarantee of tripling your reading skill comes to pass, you will find that you can read and absorb at least three times more material in the time it now takes you to efficiently complete present reading commitments. To put it another way, our average student can read and absorb in 10 minutes what previously required an hour or more. In an age where your most precious possessions are time and knowledge, isn't this a wonderful gift to give yourself? The rare and exciting gift of self-improvement. It can be yours in SEVEN SHORT WEEKS. The 32 second challenge is now over.
O.K. So you failed Here's what to do about it.
You are invited to attend one of the provocative demonstrations of Reading Dynamics that will be presented this week. At these demonstrations, you will see a documentary movie that includes interviews with U.S. Senators and others who are graduates of the Reading Dynamics course. In addition, you will learn how easily you can increase your reading speed from 3 to 10 times, improve comprehension, retention, and study abilities. Make your plans now to attend one of the demonstrations listed below.
This is your invitation to a very
This is your invitation to a very thrilling experience.
ATTEND FREE DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT 3:30 p.m.,7:00 p.m.&8:15 p.m. KANSAS UNION — ROOM 101 (off main lobby)
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Wednesday, March 27 ... 7-10 p.m.
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TO: Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute UDK 31468
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