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Collect Station, Texas
Thursday, February 7, 1963
THE BATTALION
FOR FEED SOURCE
Scientists Set To Begin
Study Of Aquatic Plants
College agricultural scientists
soon will take a close look at fresh
water aquatic plants as a livestock
and poultry feed source.
The project has risen out of a
program to clear Caddo Lake of
bothersome water plants, such as
various mosses and water lilies.
Caddo Lake is on the Texas-Lou-
isiana border between Marshall
and Shreveport. Recreational use
of the lake is hindered by the
plants.
The federal government’s Area
Redevelopment Administration has
arranged with a Wisconsin firm,
Aquatic Controls Corp., to harvest
surface and submerged weeds from
the lake. ARA will sign a $47,000
contract with the company Thurs
day.
DR. CARL LYMAN, head of the
Department of Biochemistry and
Nutrition, said the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station will try
the water weeds in a dehydrated,
pelleted form on, beef cattle, swine
and poultry.
Available information indicates
that the material is high in caro
tene (Vitamin-A activity) and this
phase of analysis and feeding will
receive special emphasis, Lyman
said.
The work with beef cattle will
include feeding trials with fatten
ing calves in which the water
plants will be tested both as a ra
tion additive and compared to de
hydrated alfalfa. Evaluation of
the feed in rations for developing
breeding heifers will be made. In
tests wintering breeding cows in
the plants will be compared with
hay.
In the swine feeding trials the
aquatic plants will be evaluated to
see how well they stand up to al
falfa leaf meal as sources of Vita
min-A and the B-Vitamins.
THE PRODUCT will be tried on
poultry as a source of xanthophyll,
hydroxylated carotenes and other
substances which give the desired
pigmentation in broilers and egg
yolks.
Cheating Called
Ba d Fo r Psyches
Of Today’s Kids
By JOE MILLER
L/P) Women’s Editor
NEW YORK kP) — “When
in doubt, cheat!”
That may never replace
“Think” as a motto suitable
for wall hanging, but a lot of
parents and educators fear it’s
becoming an increasingly popu
lar dictum for survival at exam
time.
“The child who feels he’s
pulled a fast one and is full of
bravado about his cheating in
wardly is ashamed. As for the
state of his mental health, he’s
worse off than the kid who can
admit he’s a dope in a certain
subject but doesn't resort to
cheating.”
Sometimes a youngster can
hide his feelings of shame and
inferiority even from himself,
says Miss Ritholz, and when he
does that he’s in a pretty sorry
state emotionally.
But Miss Ritholz, who has a
soft spot in her heart for child
ren, hates to believe that very
many little ones go into class
prepared to cheat.
Preferring to extend a helping
hand rather than point a finger,
Miss Ritholz has come up with
some suggestions for curing
cheating:
1. More patience in teaching.
“If the world can be a ‘bloom
ing, buzzing confusion’ to the
newborn babe, it can be more
than that to the child who is
confronted with a new type of
arithmetic, for example. The
child who is simply not adept
at arithmetic, or who is a little
slower, may find himself if in
despair and cheat out of sheer
desperation.”
2. More imigination in teach
ing. “For example, changing an
abstraction, such as fractions,
into something concrete, such as
apples or potatoes, can help a
child understand the subject.”
3 More empathy for the handi
capped. “The child hard of hear
ing or with poor vision is in a
way worse off than the totally
disabled, for whom special
schools and class are main
tained. If the teacher would only
stand where the child with poor
vision can see best, or spend a
few extra minutes with the child
who can’t hear everything.”
4. A happy medium in stand
ards. “Some teachers are too
lenient—until examination time
comes around. Suddenly the stu
dents find themselves confront
ed by a stern pedagogue and an
exacting type of exam.”
5. A more realistic view of
cheating. “The honor system
should be discarded. Only the
honorable students observe it.
This is not to say that most are
dishonest, but with the fierce
competition for good grades the
cheaters cheat not only them
selves but the honorable ones as
well. When the curve system is
used—in which grades are com
pared relatively with each other
—the cheating student may re
ceive a higher grade than he
deserves and possibly push the
honorable student’s grade down
on the curve, even perhaps to
failing level.”
6. More breathing space for
children. “He should be allowed
to develop his potentialities with
a certain amount of privacy—
from his parents. Children seem
subject to an inordinate amount
of prodding and probing and
manipulation by adults these
days.”
7. Better examples set by
adults. “The very parent who
would be horrified at his child’s
cheating might laughingly re
late how he used a slug for a
parking meter or thought up
some clever income tax evasion.
What effect does this have on
the listening child, who, accord
ing to my studies, is more
greatly influenced by his parents
than even by his teacher?”
8. Less panic about entering
college. “There’s terrific compe
tition now for high grades to
gain admittance to the ‘best’
colleges. But the early years of
adolescence are difficult ones;
grades often slump in the sec
ond year of high school, then
rise again. Some potentially
brilliant teenagers may beTack-
ing in motivation during some
of that time. Parental pressure
is not going to help the situa
tion. Besides, there are still
many good small colleges with
empty seats. Ease up, every
body.”
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Lyman said the material and in
dividual plant species will also be
analyzed for amino acids, vitamins
and minerals.
Dr. J. R. Couch of the Depart
ment of Poultry Science will con
duct poultry feeding trials; Fred
Hale, Department of Animal Hus
bandry, swine feeding; E. K.
Crouch, associate animal husband
man in charge of East Texas Pas
ture Investigations at Lufkin, cat
tle feeding; and Lyman, biochemi
cal analyses.
Lyman said the feeding trials
will last about 18 months.
A spokesman for Aquatic Con
trols Corp., said the over-all proj
ect, if successful, could lead to es
tablishment of a commercial
aquatic weed processing plant near
Marshall.
Skelton’s Dancing Partners
Red Skelton rehearses a dance number for “The Red Skel
ton Show” with the six-foot identical twins he brought to
Hollywood after seeing their act at the Lido in Paris. The
girls, Alice, left, and Ellen Kessler, have sung, danced and
acted in movies throughout Europe. (AP Wirephoto)
5 th Woman Prof
Now On Campus
There are no coeds on campus,
but there’s nothing in the rules
that says the faculty must be all
male.
A&M now has five women teach
ers, the latest one being Dr. Lane
Murray, assistant professor in the
Department of Education and Psy
chology. The other four are in
the Department of English.
Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of the
Department of Education and Psy
chology, said Mrs. Murray is di
rector of student teaching and
teaches an introductory course in
counseling.
HE DESCRIBED her as a “mas
ter teacher.”
This is the educator’s second
time to teach at A&M. She was
here in 1960 in a similar capacity
but left to devote full time on her
doctoral program at the Univer
sity of Houston. She received the
Doctor of Education degree in
June, 1962. .
Other degrees held by Mrs. Mur-
it
ray are a Bachelor of Arts fin
Texas Tech and a Master of Edn
cation from Sam Houston Stall
College.
Mrs. Murray taught Englisl
and journalism at Huntsville Hi{|
School before coming to A&M,
HER RESEARCH, “Preparstioi
of Manuscripts for Reproductioi
by Diazo,” was published by
Bureau of Education Research aai
Services. She is the author of “I
Secondary Student Teaching Haai
book for the University of Hoas.
ton,” to be used as the offidi
handbook for the univertitS
teaching program.
The teacher’s husband is
Thomas Murray of the Sara Hod
ton Department of Education arj
Psychology, with whom she M
collaborated to write and prodiitl
educational film strips for putlJ APT E
and private schools throughout thf
nation.
Mrs. Murray and her husbaii|
have three children.
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