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1987AGGIE
BLOOD DRIVE
November 2,3,4 & 5
Commons-10 a.m. to 8 p.m
MSC—10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SBISA—10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Zachry—10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Also on Nov. 6 at MSC —10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“Sponsored by The Aggie Blooddrive Club”
Another service of Student Government, APO, OPA.
THE
BLOOD CENTER
at Wadley
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Whitmire runs
for fourth term
in mayor’s race
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Mayor Kathy Whitmire looked for
voters to give her a fourth two-year
term Tuesday in a low-key contest
that pitted her against six politically
unknown challengers.
Those trying to unseat the mayor
included teacher and consultant
Richard “Dick” Dimond, retired
minister “Shelby” B. Oringderff,
businessman Bill Anderson, refinery
operator Mary J. Pritchard, self-em
ployed manufacturer Glenn Edward
Arnett Jr. and printer Don W. Geil.
About the only suspense remain
ing was the size of the anticipated
Whitmire victory margin, political
analysts said. One poll speculated
she could take up to 95 percent of
the vote.
A runoff would be required if the
leading vote-better did not receive a
simple majority but analysts consid
ered that a remote possibility.
Poll results released last weekend
showed Whitmire, a widow, drawing
favorable or very favorable ratings
from 70.5 percent of voters.
The positive sentiment was higher
than two years ago when she de
feated by a 3-2 margin Louie Welch,
who held the top city job for 10 years
until retiring in 1974.
Whitmire and Welch each raised
$1.4 million in a highly publicized
contest spiced by a Welch remark on
live television that one way to halt
the spread of the disease AIDS
would be to “shoot the queers.”
Whitmire, who used the office of
city comptroller as a stepping stone
to the mayor’s job in 1981, cam
paigned on a platform of seeking
greater diversity in Houston’s de
pressed oil-driven economy.
“We’ve been dealing with our eco
nomic problems most of the years
that I have been in politics,” Whit
mire said. “I think at this point we
are beginning to see some im
provements.”
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Sunset Today: 5:34 p.m. Sunrise Thursday: 6:42 a m.
Map Discussion: Low pressure is moving northeast through the Great
Lakes producing scattered showers. High pressure and mild weather
dominate the central plains and Rocky Mountains. Low pressure over
Florida associated with a tropical depression continues to produce
thunderstorms and gusty winds. A weak low near southern California and
an associated upper tropospheric low pressure area is causing scattered
rain, thunderstorms and mountain snow from San Diego to Lake
Tahoe.
Forecast:
Today. Mostly sunny with scattered cumulous clouds. Winds will be light
and variable with a high temperature in the low to mid-80s.
Tonight Mostly clear and cooler with winds becoming northerly at 8 to 15
mph.
Thursday Clear, cooler and breezy with 15 to 20 mph winds from the
north and northeast and a high temperature in the mid-70s.
Weather Fact Troposphere — the fraction of the Earth’s atmosphere
from the surface to about 10 kilometers. The troposphere usually is
associated with the part of the atmosphere containing nearly all clouds
and is responsible for daily weather changes.
Prepared by: Charlie Brenton
Staff Meteorologist
A&M Department of Meteorology
A&M psychologist studies
children’s learning process
By Larissa-Starr Smith
Reporter
A Texas A&:M psychologist is per
forming research on local preschool
ers to learn more about how chil
dren learn to label common objects
and put those objects in different
categories.
“I want to find out everything I
can about the natural learning proc
ess and how children learn about
categories,” Thomas Ward, an A&M
assistant professor, says.
Ward says parents often will label
objects for their children like “look
at the doggie.” The parent is point
ing out an object and using a partic
ular label.
“I’ve been interested in what chil
dren get out of those experiences,”
Ward says. “What is the child’s idea
of a dog after that kind of an epi
sode? Is it four legs, fur, a tail or an
overall appearence?”
Children understand labels are at
tached to objects and they also un
derstand the same label refers to cat
egories of things, Ward says.
“If I say ‘that’s a dog,’ I’m pretty
sure the child will understand that
the dog is a specific instance of a big
ger category,” he says.
“I’m interested in finding
out what defines the cat
egory for the child and
what the child encodes. ”
— Thomas Ward, A&M
psychology researcher
“I’m interested in finding out
what defines the category for the
child and what the child encodes,”
he says. “I want to know the prin
ciples by which children learn these
different categories.”
Ward uses as an example a child
who called everything with wheels a
car. The object could have been rol
ler skates, a truck or a skateboard,
but to that child they were all a car.
Ward concludes the child saw a car
and noticed the wheels.
“Is that a general principle?” he
asks. “Is that the basic way children
learn about categories? Do they fo
cus on a single attribute or on overall
appearance?”
Ward investigates how children
separate things into categories a
tries to find answers to his questii
by using imaginary creatures. I
uses words that are not in the chi
vocabulary as well as objects and
bels the child doesn’t know and l
not experienced.
He shows the child a picture of
imaginary creature and then a [
ture of another with varied pn
erties, like a different body sha
and size.
“We find 4- and 5-year-old d
dren tend to focus on a single attr
ute but not always the same attribi
with every child,” he says.
“They seem to pay attention
one thing rather than the numl
and type of legs,” he says.
Ward says children between l
ages of 2 and 6 learn about ninem
words everyday. This behavior
concentrating on a single attribi
may help the researchers see hi
children learn so well, he says.
“The tendency to pay attention
a single attribute may facilitate!
child’s learning, but it also may If
to errors where the child overgel
ralizes by putting objects in a c
egory that they do not belong (in
Ward says.
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