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Memory course helps
students boost grades
By Anthony Rao
Former University of Houston
football coach Jack Pardee said it
best: “This was so helpful to several
of my players, I am now making the
whole football team take the cour
se.”
Pardee read about a memory
seminar held by noted memory ex
pert Alvin Jackson and sent three
players who needed to pass some
important tests in order to stay in
school. Uncertain that anyone can
be taught photographic memory,
Pardee sent athletic department
academic advisor Dr. James Berlow
as an observer.
In one three hour session Mr.
Jackson took three college fresh
man, whose college entrance exam
grades were so poor they are not al
lowed to practice football, and trans
formed them into students who
can study and recall tasks as well as
the brightest students on campus
Since Dr. Berlow took in the
class, he admits his recall and mem
ory increased sixfold. He wishes
Jackson’s course was available when
he studied for his doctorate.
To test the athletes’ increased
memory, Jackson asked the trio
to memorize this number
9185952963092112 well enough to
recall it in 13 weeks. It took them an
average of 2 minutes. This reporter
attended the seminar and witnessed
them master French, Portuguese,
anatomy, names and faces.
What impressed this writer the
most is how memory techniques are
used in reading and listening. Jack-
son used a third year economic text
book and I watched as freshmen
read and recalled a whole chapter on
“Macroeconomic Effects on a Fully
Employed Economy”, after read
ing it once.
“Contrary to popular belief peo
ple are not born with photographic
memories, it can be taught, I have
taught thousands. I have taught it
to those wanting to use it to in
crease their G.P.A. to those with
perfect G.P.A.s who wish to cut
down on study time while main
taining high grades,” Jackson said.
“Our present educational sys
tem gives high grades to those who
can memorize. If you remember
more of what you hear in lectures
and remember all of what you
read, you will get higher grades,”
Jackson added.
“I know many techniques and
teach my students the one that fits
them best. Right now all students
use “Rota” memorization system
taught in school. Under “Rota”,
you have to go over and over what
you want to learn. As far as I am
concerned, “Rota” is the worst.
What student has that much time
to repeat information enough
times to get top grades?” says Jack-
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Jackson will jbfi at College Sta
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George Bush DHVe, Rm #105 on
February 8th ohe'day only for two
sessions. One at 1:00 p.m. and a
second session at 6:00 p.m. The
tuition for the S-'/z hour session is
$55.00
Jackson guarantees results. “If I
don’t triple their memory capacity
three fold in the session, I will re
fund all tuition.” he said.
Jackson is only accepting 30 per
sons in each class on a first come
first served basis. It is worthwhile
and enlightening. You can register
by calling 1-800-462-8207.
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tory agencies and health and humiij
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take over.
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Talking about that last weel |
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the upcoming speech.
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ment among elected officials to c® |
serve, cut back. I’m going to be mat |
ing a State of the State (address).. ! |
which we are going to propose son
opportunities where we think then
are economies,” Richards said.
AUSTIN (AP) — Schools, the
budget deficit and ethics — thorny
issues all — likely will be spotlighted
by Gov. Ann Richards when she de
livers her first State of the State ad
dress to the Legislature this week,
aides say.
The speech, scheduled for noon
Wednesday in the House chamber
before a joint Senate-House session,
will be Richards’ first major address
since her Jan. 15 inauguration.
Although her staff didn’t expect
the final draft to be completed until
early this week, aides said the speech
should contain specifics on Ricnards’
plans for the next four years.
“It is going to be a very detailed
outline of what she hopes to ac
complish in the next several years,”
Bill Cryer, the governor’s press sec
retary, said.
“It’s going to be, I think, a power
ful speech,” he said. “I think there
will be some surprises, too.”
Cryer said he expects the address
to detail proposals for education, the
budget, governmental ethics reform,
insurance reform, the state’s regula-
Yellow ribbons serve as reminders
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The yellow
sprouted early this year. But the bouquets were
not signs of a spring come early, rather a somber
reminder of a country at war.
In cities and towns across the nation, yellow
ribbons flutter from lampposts, and bows of yel
low adorn front doors like Christmas wreaths
gone awry.
“Supporting our troops should always be up
permost in our minds,” Mayor Daniel E. Bogan,
of Fall River, Mass., said at a ribbon-tying cere
mony last month. “Yellow ribbons will serve as a
reminder.”
The symbol has aroused controversy as well. A
Pennsylvania hospital has barred employees
from decorating with yellow ribbon. A Rhode Is
land columnist calls them “floweis of fascism.” A
Florida store manager fired an employee for
wearing a ribbon in violation of company policy,
but the decision was reversed by embarrassed
company executives.
The yellow ribbon’s current status as a token
of support for U.S. soldiers overseas seems unas
sailable, but it is far from clear how the symbol
originated.
“We’ve searched books on American lore and
symbols and found nothing” explaining its ori
gin, said Barbara Cook, a reference librarian at
the Providence Public Library.
The Archive of Folk Song in the Library of
Congress has been responding to inquiries with a
six-page reprint of a 1981 newsletter that at
tempts to outline the beginnings of the tradition.
It cites a number of possibilities, from the 1973
song, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak
Tree,” popularized by the group Tony Orlando
and Dawn, to the 1949 John Wayne movie, “She
Wore a Yellow Ribbon.”
Yellow ribbons last lined the nation’s streets 10
years ago, when 52 American hostages returned
after 444 days of captivity in Iran.
That phenomenon was likely triggered by
Penne Laingen, wife of ex-hostage Bruce
Laingen, who tied a large yellow ribbon around a
tree in front of their Bethesda, Md., home, Par
sons said. Laingen said at the time that the idea
came to her spontaneously, “to give people some
thing to do.”
She was inspired by the song written by Irwin
Levine and L. Russell Brown, which tells of a
convict riding a bus home after three years in
prison. He had written his sweetheart telling her
to tie a yellow ribbon on a roadside oak tree if sk
wanted him back. Sure enough, the ribbon is
there.
Levine said he and Brown based the song on)
story Brown heard in the Army in the 1960s.
The movie “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” popit
larized another song, “(Round Her Neck) Sk
Wore a Yellow Ribbon.” Parsons said the song
can be traced to a 1917 composition by GeorgeA
Norton, called “Round Her Neck She Wears)
Yellow Ribbon (For Her Lover Who is Fur, Fra
Away).”
Whatever the origins, the ribbons seem hereto
stay for the duration of the Persian Gulf War.
But their acceptance is not universal.
At Clearfield Hospital in Clearfield, Pa., era
ployees have been told not to tie yellow ribbonsto
the doors. “Not everyone perceives the ribbonsas
meaning the same thing,” said spokeswoman
Parry Kummick. “Some people could under
stand them as support of the war itself.”
Gerald M. Carbone, a writer with The Provi
dence Journal-Bulletin, wrote that he finds yel
low ribbons “troubling ... symbols of blind sup
port” that cannot be detached from the war.
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