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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1977
The Arts Committee presents
The Wild Child
This film is based on the 1806 memoirs of
a French physician, Dr. Itard. It begins in
1798, when a child is found living in the
forest like an animal. Dr. Itard sets for him
self the task of educating the wild child.
The film is meticulous and objective, ex
ploring in great depth the themes of love,
[freedom, the nature of childhood and child-
i hood’s end.
Monday, February 7
8 p.m., Rudder Theatre
lAdmission $1
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Change needed in classes
The struggle to teach may involve
more than the battle for minds.
Teachers may also have to fight the
arrangement of the classroom inside
because it may affect certain human
behavior patterns.
For this reason, interest is grow
ing in human behavior research as it
relates to the physical environment,
says Dr. David G. Armstrong, assis
tant professor of educational cur
riculum and instruction at Texas
A&M University.
Armstrong says facts are needed
to convince administrators to
change the classrooms from tra
ditional row arrangements.
Interest is developing to the stage
that a few of Armstrong’s graduate
students have expressed interest in
the field. He would like to cooper
ate in some future research with
local public schools.
Distance, size of the groups and
eye contact seem to be important
variables, according to research fig
ures.
Tests reveal that 71 per cent of
the people in a room try to organize
conversation with only one other
person. Only 21 per cent seek three
persons for the group and less than
10 per cent feel comfortable enough
to be involved with four or more
persons.
Since the smallest group a
teacher can usually divide the class
into is five or six, research indicates
that teachers must quickly appoint
specific, individual responsibilities
to pupils. Otherwise, those groups
will subdivide into conversation
groups of two or three persons.
“We are teaching the teachers to
tell one student. You take notes.
Tell another, ‘You’re in charge of
making sure everyone participates.
And others, ‘You and you do this
and come up with this. There is a
greater likelihood of active partici
pation by all, using these methods,
Armstrong said.
A test that divides the classroom
into 12 evenly arranged sections fac
ing the teacher, demonstrates the
critical importance of eye contact.
All the students in the first three
front sections actively participate at
least half the time. So do the three
sections located in the middle of the
class on a perpendicular line with
the front sections.
This forms a “T” with the crossbar
on the front rows and the leg down
the middle rows. Students who sit
in the “T” have the most continuous
eye contact, suggests Armstrong,
and those pupils feel more inclined
to participate.
Evidence indicates teachers who
can move about freely or who can
shuffle students without adverse ef
fects, can increase participation by
all class members.
the teacher. They have leam,
to work the system.”
Other research has com
that a five-foot, head-to-he
tance is the maximum ram
people will feel comfortable
versing. In our society, hm
there is an unspoken mini:
tance, so teachers may no|
success with cramming s ti
close together.
“Frequently, it is the A’ students
who holler the loudest when you
start moving pupils around. They
know that by occupying those criti
cal seats, there is a positive rein
forcement flow between them and
People arranged in a circit
most comfortable about part
ing, Armstrong says, but the
tables or other physical ba
that their ideas and their
being are protected and not
exposed.
Two engineers get scholarships
Marathon Oil Foundation Schol
arships go to Texas A&M University
students Michael F. Cook of San
Antonio and Dwight D. Johnston of
Dallas, both seniors in ocean
engineering.
The pair were the spring recipi
ents of the $350 awards given on the
basis of high scholastic achieve
ments in their program.
They were selected by an Ocean
Engineering Scholarship Commit
tee composed of Drs. Wayne A.
Dunlap, Robert Randall and J. B.
Herbich.
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Cook is a member of the Ocean
Engineering Club and Johnston is
the president of the organization.
The Marathon Oil Foundation,
Inc. has sponsored scholarships
since 1973 for the ocean engineer
ing program which now 7 enrolls
about 200 students.
Aggie Cinema’s
Matinee Series
Presents
BLESS THE BEASTS AND THE
CHILDREN
Sunday Bff/
February 6 ^
2:00 P.M.
By CATHY BREWER
The self-contained lifestyde is one
of the most interesting and advan
tageous things about the Northgate
Condominium, said Dixie N. Stan
ton, director of marketing for the
project.
Four eight-story towers, 360 con
dominium apartments, a 66,000
square foot retail mall, and a regula
tion ice hockey arena will be in
cluded in the live-year proj
ect. Construction will begin this
March.
It will he built one block north of
the Texas A&M University campus
on a nine acre site, now occupied by
the Circle Di ive-In Theatre.
Northgate is a joint venture of
Boyett Investments, Ltd. of College
Station and CBJV, Inc., a subsidiary
of the Condel, Inc. of Dallas.
The price range for the one- and
two-bedroom and studio apartments
is between $29,000 and $44,000.
The first phase, to be completed
in late 1978, will consist of the mall,
ice rink and 90 condominium
apartments in an eight-story tower.
Each of the second, third and
fourth phases will have 90 apart
ments in an eight-story tower also.
Tennis and racquetball courts, a
health club, swimming pool, meet
ing rooms and electronic security
are among some of the benefits of
phase one.
Stanton said that each apartment
will have a security-guarded parking
space, separate from the retail area
parking.
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Presents
JENNIFER O’NEILL
GARY GRIMES
JERRY HOUSER
OLIVER CONANT
Friday, February 4
12:00 Midnight
Rudder Theatre
Admission $1.00 with
student I.D.
Advance Tickets Available in Rudder Box Office
starring HERBERT LOM
with COLIN BUKELY - LEONARD ROSSITER • LESLEY-ANNE DOWN
Animation by RICHARD WILLIAMS STUDIO - Music by HENRY MANCINI
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the resident’s use and a bain
each apartment, built at anu
provide more privacy for then
Appliances and carpetiij
provided in each apartmenl
prospective buyer has a choic*
unfurnished or furnished
ment.
“Basic floor plans are bein;
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One of the most attractive ele
ments of the apartments is that each
unit will be equipped with its own
laundry facilities, said Stanton.
Other interesting features in
clude storage units on each floor for
A Dallas architectural
Swanson, Hiester, Wilsw
Claycomb, is designing llit
dominium.
Stanton said several market
shown interest in Northgate
"The strongest market is
sistant teacher or professor
concerned with a lifestvlethat
educational and culturalpi 0
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rather than mowing the uw
on Saturday,’ Stanton said. ^’ e
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Other markets include lj n a S j
ents of students, footballT, um p
ticket holders, corporations«j te 0 f t
business with the University
those who are concerned soleli
investments.
The owner can handle kis
leasing arrangements or h»
management company handle
Stanton said that at
they are confining full-timel
dents to the seventh andtl
floors. “The lower floors ares
tore of investors and others»!
purchasing for their childrens
Stanton said.
Northgate has recruitedfom
dents from campus toactasn
sentatives for the condominiui
to help students who are into:
in living there.
“We work with the parent
the representatives work win
students to come togetbs'
sale, ” said Stanton. “It gw |
student a chance to work
someone from the same]
group.”
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