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Photo by FRANK IR WIN
Not a drop spilled
Sally Lockran of Caldwell carries a glass of “champagne” to
demonstrate the smooth gait of the Peruvian Passo horse.
Only about 4,000 of these horses, bred for their smooth gait,
exist in North America. The demonstration was sponsored
by the TAMU Horseman’s Association at the Animal Science
Pavilion Tuesday night.
Computer iq Brazos U n ited Way h its
set for 4 p.m. 80 percent of final goal
Nobel laureate Dr. Herbert Simon
will speak today on “The Present
and Future of Artificial Intelligence
Research.”
The public is invited to attend the
lecture, which will be at 4 p.m. in 108
Harrington.
Simon will focus on defining the
phenomenon of artificial intelli
gence and discussing its possibilities
and limits.
The lecture will describe the cur
rent state of the art in this area, as
well as addressing the ethical and
philosophical questions posed by
such an advanced technology.
Simon’s lecture is part of the Pres
ident’s Lecture Series and is being
sponsored by the Texas A&M Col
leges of Business Administration
and Liberal Arts, the Department of
Engineering and the Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station.
A professor of computer science
and psychology at Carnegie-Mellon
University, Simon won the 1978 No
bel Prize for Economics and is au
thor of the widely influential book,
“Administrative Behavior.”
An inernationally recognized au
thority on human decision-making,
computer automation and its impact
on society, Simon also has contrib
uted significantly to a number of
other fields, including sociology and
applied mathematics.
For the past 20 years, he has
worked to create artificial intelli
gence through computer technol
ogy-
By CAMILLE BROWN
Staff Writer
With one week of fundraising to
go, the Brazos County United Way
has collected 80 percent of its
$425,000 goal. To reach this goal by
the end of the campaign, the United
Way needs to collect about $84,000
by Friday.
A&M is now at 82.5 percent of its
$110,000 goal.
Reaching the goal may look
doubtful this year, but Bob
Fleischer, executive director of Bra
zos County United Way, is still opti
mistic.
By BRANDON BERRY
Reporter
. The Central Texas Area Chapter
of the March of Dimes Birth Defects
Foundation will sponsor Healthy
Baby Day, a health fair, and the
Baby Olympics on Saturday at Post
Oak Mall.
The fair is part of the observance
of Healthy Baby Week, Nov. 12-17,
and will stress proper prenatal and
inf ant care.
“Were educating people,” Liz
Jackson, March of Dimes coordina
tor, said.”
Booths, including those from Hu
mana Hospital, the March of Dimes,
“We’re still moving along pretty
well,” he said. “I think we can still
reach the goal. There are still a lot of
cards out, and by the end of this
week we should have the bulk of
them in.”
The results are looking good com
pared to last year’s totals. Fleischer
said the United W’ay is about
$35,000 ahead of last year’s total at
this time.
Even though the the campaign is
officially over on Friday, the United
Way will have its last divisional re
ports presented on Nov. 20. Dona
tions to the United Way are always
and the Department of Health, will
be located throughout the mall giv
ing out information On the care of
pregnant women and their babies.
“We are glad to help in any way
we can,” Cindy Brannen, Post Oak
Mall marketing director, said. “Our
store owners tell us there are so
many mothers with small children in
the mall. The babies seem to love all
the sounds and colors.”
Baby Olympics will begin at 2:30
p.m. in the court area in front of the
Chocolate Chip Cookie Co. The
Olympics will feature contests for
smiling (0-6 months), rolling over (3-
accepted, even after the fund drive.
The county-wide campaign is di
vided into 12 sections. Of these divi
sions, the pilot group, made of the
24 largest employers in the county,
has contributed the most money so
far — $122,000. A&M is second with
$90,776.
A&M is further divided into three
groups: the University, the System
and the students. The University
surpassed its goal of $55,000 this
week by collecting $55,563. The Sys
tem has 80 percent of its goal with
$35,089 and the student contribu
tion is officially at $ 124.
6 months), crawling (6-9 months),
walking (12-15 months and 15-18
months), and running (18-24
months).
In addition, films dealing with Fe
tal Alcohol Syndrome and the men
tal and physical care of a hand
icapped child will be shown.
A photography contest is planned
for photos of children ages three
and under. Judging will be based on
creativity, composition and clarity.
Registration forms are available at
the Post Oak Mall information
booth. All proceeds go to the March
of Dimes.
March of Dimes to sponsor
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College Bowl tournament finals tonight in MSC
By LINDA ROWLAND
Reporter
Six teams will grapple with a bar
rage of questions tonight it> the final
round of the College Bowl tourna
ment at Texas A&M in the Memorial
Student Center.
One team will win the University
championship and the right to go on
to the regional compet ition.
Gregg Steele, president of the
MSC College Bowl Committee, said
the tournaunent is based >on a tele
vision game show, which was aired
nationwide until about 1970.
“Recently, the game has gained
popularity since the Trivial Pursuit
game came out,” President Gregg
Steele said.
Steele said A&M has the largest
tournament in its region. Regional
competition involves schools in
T exas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
“Participation in the College Bowl
has consistently gotten larger since it
began here on campus,” Steele said.
Last year A&M had 32 teams com
peting. The tournament is double
elimination and requires ,a certain
number of entries for the double
elimination system to work. Forty is
the next workable number of teams.
“I am sure we will have at least
forty teams here next year,” Steele
said.
The 32 original teams compete in
an elimination process until only six
teams remain for final competition.
The committee president said
A&M’s diverse student body is well
represented in College Bowl compe
tition.
“We get a wide mix of students
participating — from frats, dorms
and the Corps — from just about ev
ery group on campus,” he said.
The Association of College
Unions International coordinates
the College Bowl tournaments. The
organization also arranges such
events as dart tournaments and stu
dent development programs on
campuses around the country.
Steele said the College Bowl
Foundation in New York provides
the questions, which it gets from
l ime magazine’s files.
“So current events, science, his
tory and just general trivia are fair
game,” he said.
The questions remain sealed until
the night before competition when
the moderator may look them over.
Tonight’s winning team will re
ceive a trophy and the chance to par
ticipate in the regional champion
ships hosted bv Rice University in
February 1985.'
A&M hosted the 1984 regional
championships. The team from
A&M will compete tigainst teams
from Rice, Baylor University, Uni
versity of Texas and Louisiana State
University, the committee president
said,
The regional champions then go
on to the National College Bowl
championship. Steele said about f5
teams from around the country
compete in the nationals that are
usually held in early May.
Here, teams play for higher
stakes. The members of the winning
national team split $25,000 in schol
arships.
“The games are very entertai
ning,” he said. “It’s funny — you
find the audience really playing with
the competitors as they find they
know the answers.”
“I’ve seen teams who can hear the
first four words of a question and
make a correct guess at the answer,”
he said.
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MSC Box Office 845-1234
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