Battalion/Page 7
September 24, 1982
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Students failing
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much fun. Phyllis Phillips, a senior through its paces. She injured her
from San Antonio studying special foot recently in a wreck and will just
education, leans on her crutches while have to watch instead of play for awhile.
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United Press International
LUBBOCK — Geography
Professor William B. Conroy
gives his Texas Tech University
students a world map test at the
beginning of each semester. The
results are usually dis
appointing.
On the average, Conroy says
his students score less than 50
percent in identifying major
countries, including Vietnam,
Poland, Thailand, Morocco,
Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria and
Iran.
And he says the lack of geog
raphical knowledge is not li
mited to students at Texas Tech.
“Typical American students
in grades one through 12 get
very little background in geog
raphy,” he says. “Teachers are
not prepared to teach it. They
devote their time to stressing the
basic skills of the language arts,
arithmetic and other subjects
with which they have greater
familiarity.”
Conroy does not advocate the
elimination of basic skills in pub
lic schools, but believes geogra
phy is important enough to war
rant a class in its own right.
“A knowledge of geography is
important in understanding
world conflicts and serves as a
base in making sound decisions
in resolving those conflicts,” he
says. “At the very least, every
student needs to develop a men
tal map of the locations and
names of countries, major dities
and other major features on the
earth’s surface.”
He says such a mental map is
essential in sorting out and orga
nizing information learned in a
variety of subjects, as well as in
the news.
Conroy blames grade school
curriculums for the students’
lack of geographical knowledge.
He says since the 1920s, schools
have included geography under
the broad category of social stu
dies, which includes history,
anthropolgy, sociology, econo
mics, psychology and political
science.
“By the time students get to
collge their mental maps — their
ability to picture where coun
tries, cities and other major fea
tures are in the world — are not
filled in,” he says.
Conroy says Soviet and Euro
pean children know much more
about U.S. geography than stu
dents here know of Soviet and
European geography.
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SAN ANTONIO ~ A trial in
the assassination of federal
judge John Wood begins Tues-
■ day, but attorneys do not know
Whether all four defendants will
be tried together or separately.
Federal Judge William Ses
sions has scheduled a hearing
Friday for arguments on separ
ating defendant Jimmy Chag-
ra’s trial from the others. The
move was requested by govern-
tnent prosecutors because Chag-
ra’s brother Joe has refused to
testify against Jimmy.'
Joe Chagra, who pleaded
guilty last week to conspiracy to
murder Wood, has agreed to
1 testify against at least one other
defendant as part of a plea bar-
gain.
Sessions will hear arguments
/ on whether to move the trial out
side San Antonio — a request he
had temporarily denied until he
tried first to seat a jury in San
| Antonio.
f, Publicity about the case since
i then has further hurt the
chances of seating a fair jury in
the city where Wood was killed,
said Warren Burnett, attorney
for Jimmy Chagra’s wife, Eli
zabeth. He has asked again that
the trial be moved.
Most of the publicity has con
cerned a letter Mrs. Chagra re
portedly wrote to Katie Wood,
the slain judge’s wife, confessing
to the slaying and apologizing
for her role. The letter blamed
the death on Jimmy Chagra.
Also charged in Wood’s death
are Charles and Jo Ann Harrel-
son. Harrelson is accused of
shooting Wood for $250,000
from Jimmy Chagra. Mrs. Har
relson is charged with conspira
cy to obstruct justice.
Mrs. Harrelson has asked for
a separate trial. Harrelson’s
attorney has asked that Harrel
son be tried after Jimmy
Chagra.
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