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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 29, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Psychology Lab To Help
Eliminate Speech Defects
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“In. regular semester, there’s intramurals, outfit duties,
and student activities, but in th’ summer there’s no single
alibi for low grades!”
Grackles Not Dumb
s Wildlife Prof
Say;
are
Boat-tailed grackles
from being dumb bunnies, con
tends Dr. Keith Arnold of Texas
A&M’s Wildlife Science Depart
ment.
Dr. Arnold, who’s heading a
research project on grackles,
caught one female grackle in the
same trap six times in two weeks.
“She’s a smart old gal,” Arnold
chuckled. “She has learned that
she won’t be harmed. All she has
to do is put up with the indignity
of being handled briefly while I
check her leg band.’
The "smart old gal,” perhaps
better known as “017,” trades
her freedom briefly for a free
meal of milo maize.
Male grackles are more wary
of being caught.
Arnold, an assistant professor
of wildlife science, is seeking in
formation which may eventually
help control crop damage caused
by boat-tailed grackles and other
members of the blackbird family,
including redwings, cowbirds and
bobolinks.
Observers estimate grackles
cause a minimum of $6 million
damage annually in Texas alone.
Com, rice and other big grain
crops suffer the brunt of the
damage.
Arnold is anxious to learn how
the grackles go about forming
flocks after the breeding season.
And he’s interested in their mi
gration patterns and ways these
patterns can be applied to all
social blackbirds.
Research funds totaling $24,000
are being provided by a U. S.
Hatch Fund grant and A&M Uni
versity for the three-year study.
Working alone for the past
several months, Arnold has band
ed 100 birds with metal govern
ment bands which gives each
grackle a number. He also has
banded 65 other grackles with
color bands, using- different color
ed bands in each trapping area.
Colored bands allow him to quick
ly trace migration patterns.
Early indications are that the
birds don’t migrate much during
breeding season.
“I have only one bird to dispel
this theory,” Arnold remarked.
“A bird trapped in the System
Building area was trapped two
days later near the campus swim
ming pool.”
Adult female grackles are about
the size of robins, while adult
males are about twice as large
and have massive tails. Arnold
said the large tails cause the
birds to be very slow flyers and
easy prey for predators.
Arnold claims grackles are
very colonial. They flock in a
specific area and other colonies
are not found for several blocks.
Flocks range from 15 to 50 birds.
“These birds are highly individ
ualistic concerning color bands,”
Arnold noted. “Some of them
work like crazy to peck them
off, while others pay them no
attention.”
Another goal of Arnold’s is to
determine if the insect consump
tion of grackles balances the
damage they cause to grain crops.
“Grackles catch a lot of insects
to feed their young,” he explained.
“We don’t have any idea how
many potential insects are de
stroyed. The question is whether
we should destroy them.”
Arnold checks eight campus
traps and three off-campus traps
several times daily. The wire de
vices have two funnel-like en
trances. Grackles can enter easily,
but are unable to retrace their
steps to freedom.
Three grackle traps stolen
recently prompted Arnold to
quip, “Somebody must like black
bird pie.”
A brown-eyed lad concentrated
on a chart, giving names of ob
jects pointed out by a young
lady.
The five-year-old occassionally
bowed his head with the effort
of pronouncing words starting
with f, m, d and 1.
“Mmmmmmm,” he repeated,
“ma, ma, ma.”
“Now with me. La, la, la, la,
ladder,” the adult coached. “Not
ya-ya, la-la.”
“La, La, ladder,” the youth tri
umphed with a brilliant smile.
“That’s good, that’s very, very
good,” she replied.
The scene in a sound-proof
cubicle of the Psychological serv
ices Lab at Texas A&M is re
peated seven times a day, with
four-year-olds to 22-year-old col
lege students. Mrs. Joann Bour
geois conducts speech therapy
sessions while in adjacent, two-
way mirrored rooms, other spe
cialists administer remedial read
ing programs.
“I did much better reading a
book last night,” one youngster
boasted proudly. “I didn’t have
to re-read parts.”
“I’m very enthusiastic about
the results,” a mother com
mented.
I read and spell better and know
all the sounds of the letters,”
a young miss exclaimed.
The summer remedial reading
and speech therapy programs are
offered in two six-week sessions
by the Education and Psychology
Department lab, directed by Dr.
Edward J. Wylie.
It has a two-pronged goal, notes
Dr. Paul Hensarling, department
head. While providing remedia
tion service, the lab enriches
training of A&M students study
ing for certification as counselors
or reading specialists.
Reading programs conducted
by Mrs. Naomi Shannon, Mrs.
Elora Dale and Mrs. Wanda Bad-
gett help students with learn
ing problems.
“Others just want to improve
their skills in comprehension and
speed reading,” Wylie pointed out.
Clinicians and specialists help
pre-school children and students
from the surrounding area and
as far away as Pasadena. Five-
student groups are assigned on
the basis of diagnosis of intelli
gence and reading ability, the di
rector explained. Lab personnel
work on the skill in which each
person is deficient.
Different methods and mater
ials are used in each case, depend
ing on the deficiency,” he said.
Speech therapy deals with
problems of speech development,
articulation and stuttering. Daily
weekday reading sessions require
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90 minutes. Individual speech
therapy sessions take 30 minutes.
Modern equipment is used in
testing and teaching sessions.
The lab utilizes three rooms
screened from a control center
by two-way mirrors. Via the
mirrors, students may be observed
by light manipulation and inter
com without being disturbed.
and observer
while therapy
can
is
The clinician
communicate
underway.
The second six-week session be
gins July 17. Interested parents
should contact the lab, Wylie said.
“Seeing students every day al
lows for a more intensive pro
gram,” Mrs. Bourgeois com
mented.
Webb Hospital Commander
Joins A&M Hospital Staff
Dr. Mount E. Frantz, com
mander of the Webb Air Force
Base Hospittal at Big Spring for
the past five years, will join the
Texas A&M Hospital staff Aug. 8.
Dr. Kenneth Nelson, director of
Student Health Services and uni
versity hospital, made the an
nouncement.
Jayne Mansfield
Killed In Accident
Dr. Frantz retired from the Air
Force June 1 as colonel, following
25 years service. He commanded
the 50-bed hospital at Bryan Air
Force Base from 1953 to 1958.
Other tours of duty included
assignments in Morocco, Vietnam
and Korea. He served in China
and Burma during World War II.
Prior to entering the service, Dr.
Frantz practiced 13 years in
Indianapolis, Ind.
Actress Jayne Mansfield was
killed early today in an automo
bile accident near New Orleans.
At The Grove
Her chauffeur and lawyer were
also killed in the three-car smash-
up. Her children, also riding in
the automobile, were only slightly
injured.
Tonight: “Bye Bye Birdie”
Friday: “Cyrano De Bergerac”
Saturday: “All the Young Men”
Sunday: “Second Time Around”
Monday: “The Loved One”
Tuesday: “The Grapes of
Wrath”
Wednesday: “Back Street”
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