European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sketched Tram memory Shete Ward map an sampling with 4,277 drawn by tint year in 54 countries. Geographer Thomat f. Saarinen collected the mop to test mental images of the world Many not too accurate. entered Europe Tome Asia or the America. Hearty Alt took the to to url outre but a Tew a it a Chance for humor. The mapping project we to Rand geographical Union end financed by the National geographic society. France a United states Indonesia Australia �1b87 hat tonal geographic society i mapping the world from memory byjoe Waschenbach National geographic y of Are Given a Blank piece of paper an asked to draw a map of the world fro memory. You Are told to Label All the countries and include any other features of interest or Impf Tance. Time limit 30 minutes. How would you do the 4.277 first year College students in 54 count Rita who were assigned this task by geographer Thomas f. Saarinen. Of the University of Arizona averaged about 30 countries per map fewer than one filth of the Independent countries in the world. Saarinen who personally administered the classroom test in 30 of the countries surveyed last year says he Erma Bombeck we visited some friends recently and their kids were marched in dutifully to say hello. Their son was wearing a pair of faded jeans hat looked like they had been rescued from a Coral reef. His shirt was frayed and there was a Hole in the Elbow. His Small Sisler was wearing jeans that were so thin her Knees were showing through and they were stuffed in a pair of High lop gym shoes without strings. She topped it with a jacket that was tattered around the culls and was three sues too big for her. If it had t been for the two Quartz watches on their arms they could Nave passed for a couple of Waltons. I whispered to my husband How can they afford to dress their kids like thai de does t make thai k and of Money. Those outfits must have set him Back a couple of Hundred my husband looked at me with disbelief. Our kids dress like countered unit that is because you have would give the maps a worldwide Grade of most students managed to draw and name All seven continents and the major countries but lacked specific knowledge about the rest of the world Tho 640 . Students who were tested ranked with the world average in numbers of countries labelled he says but made More mistakes in placing the countries on the map. The More than 4,000 maps from every continent except Antarctica represent the largest collection of world sketch maps Ever assembled Saarinen says and will form an Archive of computerized information about mental images of the world. Before we can have a shared world image he says we have to understand what images Are at present and the cortege mapping project was sponsored by the International geographical Union and financed by the National geographic society. Saarinen selected & cultural Cross Section of students enrolled in introductory geography courses because they already had completed their countries Basic educational process and were interested enough in geography to Lake a College course in it. If they Don t know How to draw map of the he reasons who does what was totally unforeseen Saarinen says was the perceived importance of Europe everywhere. It had to be part of the colonial legacy at least in the educational. System. I thought there d be a Home continent Bias with it pictured biggest but More important was the exaggerated size of Europe. Our mental images a observes Don t seem la have caught up with the reality of a world of free and Independent eighty percent of the students placed Europe in the a Claver wife i Don t follow trends. I create them. Who do you think invented acid bleached and Stone washed jeans Moil thai s who. Every major fashion breakthrough in the last 20 years started in my Utility room take pastel shirts for men. I had no idea i was charting a new course in fashion history the Day i put All of your shirts into the Wash with a new set of red towels. No one expected to see a High school principal roam the Halls in Pink shirts week after week but within a year if you remember manufacturers were bringing out shirts in shades of Pink Blue and yellow and you know the rest. Some trends even Surprise me. Like the monday morning our son got up tale and we had been out late sunday and i did t have a Chance to Iron his Shin and the bus was honking the Horn and he Tore out of the House wearing the lop to his ski pyjamas. Weil. The next thing you know the entire Star trek Crew was wearing Panama tops on the Sla ship Enterprise and the rest is history i Don t purposely set nut to change the destiny of style. A just happens. I la be honest with you. The Day i inadvertently knocked Over a bottle of bleach and it snaked across my Best Blouse i never dreamt that i had invented lie Dye. And who would have beloved that Story of the pure silk Blouse with the dry clean Only Label on it that i stupidly put into the Washer when in came out Limp and wrinkled i called it raw silk and now everyone is buying i had no idea All those fashion trends were yours said my husband As he listed his Pant Teg. Are you telling me that it s Only a matter of time before everyone in the country will be wearing one Black sock and one Burgundy Trust me i said any Day now Neiman and Marcus will both be wearing la nil. U Page if the stars and stripes saturday september 26,1987
