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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 49, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Neumayer, Rick. Mame Opens Thursday
• S.L.A. Marshall to Speak on Campus Tonight
• Atkinson, Marthalee. Contemporary Writers to Appear at Poetry Conclave Saturday
• Little Anthony Concert Set for 8 P.M. Tomorrow
• Reading of War Dead Scheduled Tuesday
• Sullivan, Marta, Marthalee Atkinson & Larry Wilkerson. NBC’s Irving R. Levine Warns of America’s Internal Dangers
• Neumayer, Rick. Academic Council Delays Student Vote
• Danforth Scholars Nominated
• Putting Off Until Later What Could be Done Today – WKU Academic Council
• Evaluation Progress Exceeds Expectations
• Flowers, Mrs. Edward. UNICEF Thanks
• Sims, …

An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Personal Proximity Upon Selected Aspects Of Conversational Content, Ronna S. Loewen

Dissertations and Theses

Proxemics is an area of study devoted to the interrelated theories of man's use of space as a special elaboration of culture. Edward T. Hall, an anthropologist, has begun to draw these theories together in his work dealing with proxemics.

It is the purpose of this study to determine whether certain dimensions of interpersonal conversations vary with the distance between the conversants. Three distances were used as experimental variables. Intimate distance was set at nine inches, personal distance at three feet, nine inches, and social distance at eight feet. A total of fifty-four subjects was used with nine pairs situated …

Ua3/3 Salute To Gilbert Burkhead, Kelly Thompson

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Tribute speech to Kentucky educator Gilbert Burkhead delivered by WKU President Kelly Thompson.

The Educational Radio Media, James L. Tungate '69

Honors Projects

The undeniable affect of radio on the nation's economy, social structure, attitudes and behavior, not to mention marketing, business and industry, and the entertainment field has been great. But the modern broadcaster has a rather unique problem-- a problem of communication. All of the national effects of radio have caused the broadcaster to constantly review and update his knowledge in legal and social areas of developaent, as well as technical advancement. Since change occurs so rapidly and so often in all three, the communication problem becomes even more acute. Broadcast texts of five years ago , for instance, only predicted …

A General Semantics Model For Speech Evaluation, Harold Lee Drake

Masters Theses

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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Robert F. Kennedy's Speaking On The Issue Of Peace In Vietnam, As Revealed In His Kansas Address, "Conflict In Vietnam", Jeanine I. Rishel

Masters Theses

Many Americans have marshaled their rhetoric to support or to denounce the Vietnam war. One of the most insistent voices heard was that of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Hypothesis. It was the hypothesis of this study that Robert Francis Kennedy’s speaking on the issue of peace in Vietnam was intelligent and responsible.

Statement of Purpose. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis by analyzing and evaluating “Conflict in Vietnam,” a speech delivered by Robert Kennedy in Manhattan, Kansas on March 18, 1968. This particular speech was selected for the following reasons: (1) The speech stated …