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The Red and Black • Wednesday, September 19, 1990 • 3
Required PE may change
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Hiking across campus and run
ning for a University bus may be
the only exercise future undergrad
ates get — if the University council
follows a recommendation to
abolish physical education require
ments.
Wen Williams, chairman of the
University Council’s Curriculum
Committee, said the committee
recommended the University drop
its five credit-hour PE require
ments for undergraduates.
A survey showed some faculty
felt the PE requirement should be
changed. Another survey showed
there was no PE requirement in
many colleges and universities.
Stan Brassie, head of the Phys
ical Education department, said an
alternative proposal has been de
veloped.
The proposal would involve stu
dents demonstrating competency
in fitness or sports, such as tennis
or swimming, he said.
Brassie said a student who has
one of the two competencies won’t
have to take a course.
The PE department will provide
courses for students who don’t
meet competency standards.
‘The University has an obliga
tion to educate students not only in
the mind, but in terms concerning
health,” Brassie said.
Evidence published by the
Center for Disease Control and the
American Medical Association
shows that there is a need for phys
ical education, he said.
Brassie said there are too many
cases of people who are well-
trained mentally and have a heart
attack later in life.
“All of the evidence points to the
fact that an active lifestyle is very
important for a person who is going
to be productive in life,” Brassie
said.
Jack Razor, director of the school
of Health, PE, Recreation and
Dance, said abolishing the PE re
quirements wouldn’t affect the tea
chers in the department.
“If the requirement were alx>-
lished we would continue to offer
an elective program,” Razor said.
“It would just change the mix of
students taking PE.”
Many students who would ben
efit the most from the program
wouldn’t have the opportunity if
the PE requirement is abolished,
Brassie said.
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Incoming freshmen SAT scores are consistent
while national, state trends continue to drop
Average 1 SA1 Scores:
UGA Freshmen vs. The Nation iV State
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores
for enrolled freshman last year
were the highest the University
has seen in 20 years, and this
year’s enrolled freshman class
should have similar scores,
according to the Office of Admis
sions.
This bucks the national and
state trend of dropping scores.
Last year the average SAT
score for enrolled freshmen in
creased 14 points from that of
1988 freshmen, while the na
tional average dropped one point,
as did the state average.
This year the national average
SAT score dropped another three
points, as did the state’s. But this
year’s University freshman class
is expected to have scores as high
as last year’s, according to Asso
ciate Director of Admissions John
Albright.
“I think it’ll be very similar.
Based on the grade point aver
ages and SATs of applicants and
accepted applicants, I think it
will be similar,” he said. “We’ve
had a real good crowd attracted
to come here.”
Last year’s enrolled freshmen
also had a higher number of stu
dents with a GPA of 3.0 or better
than in previous years.
Nationally, SAT scores are ex
actly the same in 1990 ns they
were in 1980 — averaging 900.
"All this decade we’ve been
waiting for our education reform
to take effect, for the bubble to
burst, and it really hasn’t,” Al
bright said.
Randy Kamphaus, a professor
of educational psychology, said
changes in SAT scores of less
than eight or 10 points weren’t an
important difference.
Jeremy Kilpatrick, a professor
of math education, said SAT
scores didn’t nessarily reflect the
quality of education American
high school students are re
ceiving.
More students this year than
last year might have been en
couraged to take the test, he said
These and other factors make the
test subjective.
“You have to look at who’s
taking the test. 1 don’t think av
erages mean much of anything —
not to judge our high schools,”
Kilpatrick said.
Albright said, “SATs are one
useful standardized method for
making comparisons, but should
never be used by themselves.
People who want to are hurting
themselves,” he said.
“SAT scores are a pretty good
measure when taken along with
other things,” he said. "People
who ore statistically illiterate
want to read too much into
them.”
Albright said he didn’t like ex
amining SAT scores alone, but
that the scores were useful when
combined with other factors like
GPAs that determine academic
aptitude.
He compared examining these
factors like trying to determine
the shape of a forest by exam
ining it’s individual trees.
“Glimpses we have of the
forest at our institution seem to
be looking up, and one indication
of this is SAT scores,” he said.
Kamphaus said many different
factors could cause the Univer
sity to attract higher scoring stu
dents.
The availability of more schol
arships, good publicity, even the
success of the University’s ath
letic teams might attract a better
pool of applicants
These factors might also at
tract more out-of-state students
which could improve the Univer
sity’s pool of applicants.
Albright said, “Sometimes it's
a group-think; a lot of people may
want to go here because Bubba ^
coming here. Or they may not
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here It changes every year.”
He said SAT scores and GPAs
are used to predict an applicant’s
ability to perform during their
freshman year, but that success
in subsequent years is best pre
dicted by looking at the student’s
performance as a freshman.
AH those things might be re
lated, but not necessarily,” Al
bright said. “We’ve all heard the
story about the National Merit
Scholarship winner who dropped
out and the developmental
studies student who went on to
get a Ph D.
I can tel! you more accurately
how well a student will do in col
lege by examining his parent’s
wealth and education level, hut
that flies in the face of everything
we believe in on making admis
sion decisions,” he said
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rnls and checkups,” Randall said.
Randall snid the Athens clinic
also was developing a technique
called menstrual extraction, which
was developed to provide a safe
means of performing abortions
should they become illegal
“It’s similar to learning CPR,”
she said, “in the event a national
emergency.”
Students can take advantage of
counseling and information serv
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similar to those offered at the
Athens clinic, but Health Services
doesn’t offer cervical caps, which
the Athens clinic was able to im
plant.
‘They’re missing at this point,”
snid Nancy MacNair, a health edu
cator with Health Services. 'The
Feminist Women’s Health Center
had some highly trained people —
our people aren’t as highly
trained.”
But MacNair feels the coun
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nancy counseling.
Ed Hague, the pastor of the one
year-old Athens Perimeter Church,
said his 140-member congregation
is committed to offering women op
tions to abortion.
Hague, who was arrested at a
pro-life demonstration in Atlanta
two years ago, said his people open
their homes and maintain pro-life
crisis centers with hot lines to help
women in “tough binds,” namely
unwanted pregnancies.
He said his church, of which 25
percent is University students, de
votes about 10 percent of its min
is try to pro-life activities
Irene Diamond, treasurer of the
Athens chapter of the National Or
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Athens clinic is the only place she
knows that offered self-help groups
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‘They were the only sort of ‘al
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