Friday, November 18,1988
The Battalion
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Spasms’ will represent
^.&M in College Bowl
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By Kelly S. Brown
Staff Writer
Texas A&M will be in an official
Jowl this year — the College Bowl —
|nd A&M’s representatives in the
rsity sport of the mind will be
pasms of Lucidity.”
Guy Diedrich, a senior psychology
ajor and captain of “Spasms,” said
|e was pleased with his team’s vic-
pry Thursday night in the final
xind of A&M’s College Bowl tour-
iainent, sealing the “Spasms’” place
S A&M’s representative in the re-
ional playoff.
Diedrich’s team also won the
bowl last year and went on to
tie regional bowl at LSU. Returning
n the “Spasms” team were Michael
1 Irawford, a graduate student in
nath and Babu Srinivasan, a junior
ifill ^ tiechanical engineering major.
tandy Crist, a graduate student in
^ 1 nath,joined the team this year.
The Bowl, which is an intramural
vent, began in September with 32
mm#* earns competing. Four members on
.Li"*?! ach team battled wits in two 10-
ninute halves in a double elimina-
ion tournament.
Ann Leslie, an MSC adviser, said
has the largest number of peo-
ilecompeting in the nation.
Thursday night four teams came
Rudder Tower in hopes of win-
lingit all.
Two of the teams from the win-
jiing bracket — “People in Charge”
ind “Spasms” — came head to head
n the fight to show who possessed
he most knowledge.
After “Spasms” won 205 to 105,
a teams from the consolation
iracket took their seats — “Satan’s
heads” and “Beatniks from
Hell.”
Satan’s Eggheads,” comprised of
iob Wooten, a sophomore philoso-
hy major, Mike Denham, a senior
istory major, Nimish Oza, a senior
mounting major and Jon Belanger,
graduate student in land devel-
ipment, won the match 205 to 90.
“People in Charge” caught up
with “Satan’s Eggheads” in the third
f 1T1 ound, but lost 120 to 130.
"Mil The final battle featured the
Spasms” against the “Eggheads.”
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that is now your best move?”
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Jim Damm, a senior electical engi
neering major and chairman of Col
lege Bowl, said the questions come
from “College Bowl Incorporated"
based in California.
The questions covered, among
other topics — sports, math, litera
ture, politics, history and geographv.
There were two types of questions
— toss-ups, worth 10 points a piece
and bonus, wortli a stated number of
points. With the toss-up question,
the player must signal and be recog
nized before answering. A correct
answer on a toss-up question ear ns
the team 10 points and a chance at a
bonus, while an incorrect answer
goes to the opponent. Toss-up (ques
tions could be interrupted by a
player from the team the question
was not directed to, but if the inter
rupter answers xvrong, points are de
ducted and the turn goes to the
other team.
During toss-ups, players could not
confer with each other. However, on
bonus questions they were permitted
to work together.
Anne Gwin, a junior french ma
jor, said she enjoyed competing with
her team — “People in Charge” —
this semester.
“It was fun and I met a lot of new
people,” she said. “I’ve always
wanted to be on Jeopardy and the
Bowl is kind of like the quiz show.”
A quiz show it was. Another sam
ple question was: “The nationally
televised 40th anniversary concert of
Atlantic Records re-united two
groups at its close last May. For 10
points each, which together-again
group played thier classical hit
“Stairway to Heaven?”
Diedrich answered, “Led Zep-
plin.”
Art therapy leader
gives A&M crowd
subconscious view
By Teresa Carter
and
Melissa Naumann
Reporter
Pictures of sad faces and spiralling
staircases flashed on the wall.
These weren’t professional pieces
of art. Instead, they were sub
conscious releases from fear and
confusion by art therapy patients.
Luanne Harris Lee, a registered
psychotherapist at West Oaks Hospi
tal in Houston, led a seminar called
“Drawing on Images From Within:
Introduction to Art Therapy”
Thursday night. The lecture was
sponsored by the Brazos Valley
Jungian Society and the Texas A&M
psychology department.
Art therapy, using various art
forms to unlock inner feelings, is
useful for many types of people, she
said.
“Some art is helpful for people
who are verbal, logical types,” Lee
said. “Often, art helps them inte
grate their logical selves and allows
them to see another side. Non-verbal
people, perhaps teen-agers, really
blossom in art therapy because they
aren’t forced to communicate with
other people.”
With a backdrop of Oriental mu
sic, Lee spread magazine pictures on
the floor to begin an illustration of
art therapy.
“Let a picture choose you,” she
said. “I promise there is the perfect
picture for everyone.”
Each member of the audience
chose a picture, glued it to construc
tion paper and extended it with
markers and crayons to express feel
ings evoked by the picture.
Lee explained how to analyze the
design and color used to create the
picture.
“For example, I’ve had many pa
tients who create checkerboards,”
she said. “This is symbolic of people
who try hard to have control of
themselves. Soon the borders begin
to melt a little and the underlying
reason for all the emotions, like an
ger, is made apparent.
“It’s usually scary for people when
their anger is going to erupt, but
they soon learn that they don’t have
to explode. It can drain out little by
little.”
Scribbling is another common ap
proach used by patients.
“A scribble shows confusion,” she
said. “Usually they are dark lines be
cause people feel locked away into
nothingness.”
Colors often describe moods im
prisoned in their unconscious, Lee
said.
Japan
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not affect their performance at
A&M.
“We anticipate that when they
take beginning math or chemistry,
they’ll know the material, but not in
English,” he said.
The tentative course offerings fall
into three categories to help the Jap
anese students aim at a major: busi
ness, liberal arts and science or engi
neering. Courses include biology,
political science, math, history, eco
nomics, accounting, psychology and
computer science.
Laane said that physical education
classes also will be offered from the
beginning to give the students some
relief from the intense English train
ing.
Outside of academics, the pro
gram also is intended to familiarize
Japanese students with the United
States, Wormuth said.
“We will have to do much more
than expose them to English,” she
said. “Another goal we have is to ac
quaint the students with America.”
Students will have access to Amer
ican movies and tapes about life on
American college campuses, she
said. They will also have the oppor
tunity to learn Aggie idioms and ex
pressions.
“Part of the way to make them feel
part of A&M will be to teach tradi
tions and jargon,” Wormuth said. “It
will also make their adjustment to
life in College Station easier.”
When American A&M students
arrive at the Koriyama campus, the
Japanese students will have a new
source for cultural information as
well as new English-speaking con
tacts, she said.
“Speaking with fellow students
who are already fluent in English
will enrich their vocabulary and en
courage the use of English,” Wor-
muth said.
Laane said that if the Board of Re
gents approves the project, A&M
will have a pilot program beginning
in May 1989, with 50 Japanese stu
dents and three faculty members.
“The advantage of this pilot pro
gram is that we would have an idea
of how fast English is absorbed,”
Laane said.
He said the pilot program will be a
good way to judge student interest in
the university.
“We’re going to have to go into
the recruiting business,” he said.
“It’s a unique idea for an American
university to recruit Japanese stu
dents.”
Faculty members will benefit from
the Koriyama program, Laane said.
Although many other universities
offer a sabbatical year for their fac
ulty to take a leave of absence and
still teach somewhere else, A&M
does not. A satellite campus in Ko
riyama would allow them to have
that opportunity, he said.
The number of faculty will be able
to be increasd, Laane said. Since 25-
40 faculty members will always be in
Japan on salaries paid for by the Jap
anese, the same number of additio
nal faculty could be added here.
Wormuth said that the program
will be valuable to faculty members,
especially the English instructors,
because of the learning experience it
offers.
“Those of us who go will have the
opportunity to view what we do
from the other side,” she said. “It’s a
tremendous opportunity. This will
be the first time for many of us to be
teaching and in the second language
environment at the same time. It will
help us redefine our methodolo
gies.”
Wormuth’s experience of visiting
Japan without knowing Japanese
also forced her to evaluate her teach
ing methods.
“When I went there, I learned
more things to stress,” Wormuth
said. “I was in their shoes and I
could see different ways to learn and
teach English through not knowing
Japanese. You have to have a will
ingness to open your senses. As an
instructor, I will focus more on con
cepts now.”
Aside from classes and teachers, a
broader concern is the real value of
an American degree to a Japanese
society. McDonald said that interest
should not present a problem, con
sidering the Japanese interest in the
program.
“For one thing, higher education
is becoming less available in Japan
and they want more education,” Mc
Donald said. “Plus, the English lan
guage is a very valuable commodity.
I don’t think they would pay the
money for the education if they
didn’t value an American degree.”
Wormuth said that degrees trom
A&M will be valuable in terms of the
students’ futures.
“These students will be highly
marketable in many things like inter
national business,” she said.
The major advantage, however, is
the cultural education both coun
tries will get, Laane said.
“You have this image of the ‘ugly
American’,” he said. “We can get rid
of this by learning about other cultu
res.”
After visiting Japan and working
with Koriyama officials, Laane said,
he has learned certain things that
most Americans don’t know.
“Giving gifts is very important to
the Japanese,” he said. “It’s a gesture
of friendship and willingness to get
involved. It’s not the gifts themselves
that are important but it’s the conno
tation.
“Also, American businessmen
wonder why they can’t sell to the
Japanese. They don’t follow the
rules. The first rule is that you learn
to trust each other. Americans get
frustrated because they think they’re
wasting time when they’re really get
ting to know each other. The Japa
nese have to trust the salesman as
well as the product.”
The Japanese people strive for
perfection, and this quality has come
through in their negotiations, Laane
said.
“They are extremely efficient and
careful with details and that makes
you feel better that everything will
be taken care of,” he said.
Texas A&M is not the first univer
sity to respond to the offers made by
the Japanese. The Mid-America
State Universities Association
opened their campus last summer
and have been successful. Six other
American universities are consid
ering opening campuses in Japan,
Laane said.
When three Japanese architects
visited College Station in October,
they wanted to get a taste of Ameri
can architecture so they could build
an American-style campus. The
classrooms and housing, however,
are not the only things they will
build when they start A&M campus
construction in Koriyama. After
years of industrial and academic ri
valry,they will be building the foun
dation for the East and the West fi
nally to join forces.
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