Show Letters to the Editor I Rough time Dear I had no idea that fraternities and their members had such a difficult life at the In perusing your letter and the sacrifice made in order to be a sacrifice and to to make I never knew being a member of a fraternity entailed so much my fellow engineers and I have considered appealing to the governor to declare a disaster After we certainly owe a fine group of students aid when they are attempting to improve their social relations fellow students with raw and social graces 15 year old G. M. membership requirements have changed I didn't know you could be a member of the Cub Boy Girl Scouts and Mutual now that you mention I feel fraternities have much in common with those A speech Dear Is the present method of teaching public speaking the best possible This is a question I have often debated in my own I have finally come to the conclusion that many steps could be greatly BEFORE WE proceed we need to define public speaking and its Public speaking is the communication of worthwhile thoughts or In order to communicate these ideas and thoughts we must learn to organize them in a clear and easily understood we must learn to present them smoothly and This requires a good knowledge of the conviction of one's an poise not to make the audience LET'S TAKE for our first example the habit of having beginning students give impromptu These students are anything but at and for good They have no idea how to outline their thoughts on their feet and thus present them in a coherent This makes them increasingly They don't know what to usually they can't think clearly become even more frightened of speaking before an Another habit is one of assigning a memorization to which one is to put his own Unless it is a which is especially well adapted for this is most Very few of even the most experienced speakers are able to capture the feeling of the author and express it the beginner feels ill at ease using gestures to express ideas for which he has little To it is far better to use gestures in one's own speech because one knows how he wishes to express himself physically as well as THE MOST irritating is the assigning of topics which require research with inadequate time for proper These usually require opinions from students on subjects they essentially know nothing they usually express only the opinion of one of the authors they happen to Let's have a new approach to public speaking whereby thinking is stimulated and ideas A public speaking JOAN KINNERSLEY Not perfect Dear The fraternal system is far from This is to be Very few human endeavors are In our constant search for or better study toward we all make and observe many The system is an attempt by groups of people with similar problems quite diverse to bind together to fulfill basic human and AS ANY organized group is more productive than a like number of and the better organized the more productive a group will the fraternal groups which seem to be the most cohesive and best organized do become a on Their methods of choosing members are not unlike the Each of us tries to do the very best he can within the limits of his personality and For if you want to know what a man look at his Each of us chooses his friends in a rather arbitrary I've many some of whom I've later and have been by which has often hurt quite deeply pm you have had similar expend On a much larger scale groups have the same H and make the same mists RUSH IS the lifeblood of groups and as all new were it would S be consistent to be unfriendly hovey they will be preoccupied with th groups because most of their activities are centered the except part of the whole is m l a Activity is certainly more when recognized A majority of my broW and many of the sorority BirU I had to my Lh school was Certain anyone who really desires to long and is willing to work for it will find a group delighted to accept CRITICISM and understanding are necessary criteria for any I feel sure the fraternal organizations appreciate your criticism and solicit your Good whether you choose Greek or Independent life I hope your college days are ROBERT M. JENSEN |