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Ever feel like just a speck on a to locate her next class on a map.
map? Evelyn Sekera, a junior Sekera is a University of Arizona
architecture major, does as she tries student here for the summer.
TV dramas get new twist
Soaps have Christian tone
by David Johnson
Battalion Reporter
Tired of the same old soaps
with the same old murders,
affairs and operations? KAMU-
TV offers daytime drama that
gives a different perspective on
everyday living.
Roger Lewis, programming
director for educational televi
sion at KAMU, said the serials
on KAMU are different from
commercially produced shows
like “All My Children,” “General
Hospital” or “The Days of Our
Lives” because they use Christ
ian-oriented solutions to con
temporary problems such as in
ter-marital communication,
freedom of expression and pre
judice instead of sex and vio
lence to create dramatic story
lines.
Daytime serials on KAMU in
clude: “Insight”, “This is the
Life”, “Human Dimensions”
and the documentary, “Listen”,
all sponsored and produced by
religious groups.
Many of the programs fea
ture well-known actors such as
Martin Sheen, June Lockhart
and John Ritter.
KAMU offers the programs
as part of its overall program
ming plan, which is to offer a
broad category of programs re
flecting a wide variety of view
points, Lewis said.
The Christian-oriented prog
ramming is different, according
to Lewis, because it bucks a
trend of media to ignore reli
gion or present it from a nega
tive viewpoint.
He said a recent article in The
Quill, a professional journalism
journal, illustrated this trend.
The article included statistics
comparing the religious beliefs
of media personnel to those of
the general population. The
study showed that exactly 50
percent of the media personnel
polled professed no religious be
lief or affiliation compared to 30
percent of the general popula
tion.
Because of the trends, Lewis
said, the media often neglects
the influence of religion in ev
eryday life, and as a result, tele
vision news and shows ignore
the importance of religion.
The programs broadcast by
KAMU are distributed at no cost
to public television stations such
as KAMU.
The groups use private dona
tions to finance the production
of these shows.
Lewis said many commercial
television stations air the shows
despite the fact that they are
produced without pre
programmed breaks for com
mercials.
“Insight” is produced by the
Paulists, a Catholic brotherhood
based in California. “Human Di
mensions” and “Listen” are pro
duced in Ft.Worth at the South
ern Baptist Convention’s recent
ly built television studio, which is
one of the largest and most up-
to-date television studios in the
nation. “This is the Life”, a
Lutheran production from
St.Louis, has won several Emmy
awards.
A&M animal scientist horses
around with equine trainability
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
Horses soon may be classified
according their ability to be
trained for certain tasks, says a
Texas A&M animal scientist.
Dr. Gary D. Potter, an animal
scientist at Texas A&M, is con
ducting a long-term project on
young horses to determine their
trainability. The project began
around 1973 and has continued
in various stages for about ten
years.
Some of the highlights of the
project, Potter said, include
finding out that the learning
ability of horses is a measurable
trait, and both positive and
negative reinforcement reduce
errors and speed up learning.
The ability of horses to learn
varies widely, he said. Horses
can be ranked on a scale ranging
from those that can never learn
to those that are highly train-
able.
“Some horses seem to have
tendencies to rationalize or
think for themselves,” he said.
The learning ability is mea
sured by training the horses to
perform tasks ranging from
very easy to extremely difficult
and correlating their perform
ances to learning ability scores.
“Basically, we have measured
learning differences in the
horses using different techni
ques,” he said.
In one study, horses observed
other horses performing a task.
The horses that had seen the
task performed first seemed to
learn the task quicker than those
that hadn’t observed, he said.
This seems to show that
horses learn by observation, he
said, but the results are not as
conclusive as he would like them
to be.
The data is being summarized
and readied for publication in
scientific journals, he said.
The idea to test horses’ intelli
gence developed from work
done with other animals, Potter
said.
A little work in the same area
also has been done at Texas
Tech University and at Cornell,
but most of it has been done at
Texas A&M, Potter said.
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