Thursday, April 24, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Members hone speaking skills
in club's friendly atmosphere
Two UNL students will help a Lincoln Toast
master's Club celebrate its one-year anniversary
Thursday night at the Harvester Restaurant,
1501 Center Park Rd.
The club, called the Single Toasters, is one of
about 15 Toastmaster's groups in Lincoln, and is
for unmarried people of any age who want to
improve their public speaking, said Judi Pasek,
a doctoral student of entomology.
Pasek and Ed Green, a senior psychology
major, are two of about 22 Single Toasters. Six or
seven of its members are UNL graduates, Pasek
said.
Pasek joined the group for self-improvement
and professional reasons. Since she must do
research for her doctorate, the practice she gets
researching topics for her Toastmaster's speeches
is helpful, she said.
"This is a good forum for practicing speaking
without people being highly critical of you,"
Pasek said. "It's a very friendly atmosphere."
Alice Fields, a Lincoln resident who is pres
ident of the singles club, said the club's anniver
sary is Friday, but the banquet will be Thursday,
the club's usual meeting night. The banquet
$8.50.
Fields said the banquet will have five speak
ers, including Lou Novak, the Toastmaster's
Region 4 International Director; Jean Dyer,
founder of the Single Toasters; the Toastmaster's
area governor; and two Single Toasters members
on the dating dilemma.
The group meets in the basenent of Lincoln
General Hospital, where the members give
prepared speeches and impromptu "table top
ics," Pasek said. Not everyone must speak at
every meeting; rather, people give speeches at
their own pace. In any case, the club provides
quick speaking improvement through evalua
tors' constructive criticism, she said.
"We have one club member who was so ner
vous the first time that he stammered and stut
tered and finally had to sit back down," she said.
Only a year later, she said, they "call on him for
table topics and he just takes off."
Although Pasek and Green are the only cur
rent members enrolled at UNL, the club would
welcome more people from campus.
"I would love to have more university people
students, faculty to be in our club," she
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Office provides help for handicapped
Handicapped students have taken an active students.
role in planning new campus additions, Brad
Munn, UNL's affirmative action officer, said.
Munn said some of the improvements to make
building projects accessible to the handicapped
may seem small at times, but other projects
require major input. He cited the Lied Center for
Performing Arts as an example.
"With the 2,500 capacity planned for the Lied
Center, the seats would simply be too small for
some people's posteriors for them to sit comfort
ably during a performance," he said. "We've
worked with the Lied people and arranged to
have six to eight oversized seats installed along
with space for wheelchair bound people."
The handicapped program, which was added
to the affirmative action office in 1978 after
legislation required each institution to establish
offices to meet the needs of disabled people, has
been immune to the recent budget cuts, Munn
said. Although the center only has a $5,000
annual budget for operating expenses, Munn
said many other sources contribute to the needs
of UNL's handicapped students.
One such group, the Nebraska Commission for
the Hearing Impaired, currently provides about
$20,000 in funding for interpreters for deaf
The federal government recently provided a
$100,000 grant that allowed the university to
install a new computer room for handicapped
students.
But not all assistance for handicap students
comes from outside sources. Munn said many of
the improvements are paid for by other university
departments.
"Chancellor (Martin) Massengale and housing
director (Doug) Zatechka have been good with
all our requests," Munn said.
He cited the recent installation of a new
elevator in Avery Hall and new wheelchair doors
in Selleck Hall as examples.
Munn noted that not all improvements for
handicapped students require large sums of
money.
"If a student has a class on the third floor of
CBA and has a heart condition which prevents
them from walking up three floors, our office
works with the instructor to move the class onto
the first floor," he said.
Currently, UNL has 256 students who suffer
from some sort of disability and use the handi
capped office, Munn said. Some of the disabilities
aren't as noticable as others, however.
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