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The Red and Black • Friday, November 9, 1990 • 3
New SAT form not to alter admissions
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Wnter
University admission policy concerning
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores will remain the
same, but officials are keeping abreast of
sweeping changes in the test, John Albright,
associate director of undergraduate admissions
said Wednesday.
The College Board, sponsoring agency of the
test, announced Nov. 1 that the new SAT,
called SAT I, will first be administered in 1994.
The new test format allows calculators into
exam sites and requires college-bound students
to elaborate on multiple-choice answers.
Albright said the university admission stan
dards utilize a formula which combines SAT
verbal and math scores with the applicant’s
high school grade point average when deter
mining acceptance.
'The SAT is kind of a norming device," he
said. “Grades are a mushy sort of statistic."
But Albright said the test should only be
used in context, so University policy weighs
GPA more heavily than SAT scores.
Students with scores from SAT I won’t apply
to the University until 1995, so it remains to be
seen if the new test ever will be treated differ
ently, he said.
“But it’s certainly something to be prepared
for,” he said.
SAT I is considered a reasoning test, Anne
Buckley, assistant director of public affairs for
the College Board, said in a telephone inter
view .
The new test omits antonymns, includes
longer, logic-oriented critical reading passages
and requires students to show calculations for
math answers, she said.
Designed to present a more detailed picture
of the student, SAT I reflects curriculum initia
tives in high schools and mounting concerns for
quality education at all levels.
For instance, some educators feel the
existing SAT is biased in favor of white Anglo-
Saxon males.
‘The college-bound population is becoming
more and more diversified,” Buckley said. And
the new test accounts for that.
A separate optional test, SAT II, will include
sections for English as a second language, she
said.
Dwight Douglas, vice president for Student
Affairs, said he doesn’t think the new test will
affect admissions at the University much.
The SAT is a useful tool to predict a grad
uating GPA of an applicant, and SAT I should
do an even better job, he said.
But, Douglas said, if everyone across the
board scores higher or lower, the policy can be
adjusted by changing the required minimum
score.
Freshmen miss homes, adjust to new lives
By JENNIFER PETERSON
Campus Correspondent
When Heather McMurphy chose
to attend the University, a decisive
factor was the opportunity to be
away from her Memphis, Tenn.,
home.
“Going to the University of Ten
nessee would’ve been like four
more years of high school,” said
McMurphy, a journalism major.
Although she does miss her
family and friends, she said the ex
perience of meeting new people has
been good for her.
Other students, like Mike Mor
rison, freshman business major
from Snellville, came to the Uni
versity along with many close
friends and classmates.
“It’s close enough to feel comfort
able, but not overcrowded,” he
said, “I can still meet new people."
Roughly 85 percent of the
freshman class is from Georgia,
which is consistent with previous
years, said Dwight Douglas, vice
president for Student Affairs.
Of 4,674 freshmen, 3,092 are
students who graduated from high
school in 1990 and the other 1,579
are developmental studies stu
dents and students with less 45
quarter hours.
As in previous years, majors in
arts and sciences and business are
popular. However, a large number
of students entering the University
did not declare a major.
“We kind of encourage that,"
John Albright, assistant director of
Admissions, said. “Arts and sci
ences is generally a good, broad
place for those people to start.”
For students who know only that
they are 18 years old and need to
go to college, the University is a
great place to be, Albright said.
Justen Gray, a freshman from
Macon, doesn’t know what his
major will be, but he is enjoying
the University anyway.
Although he isn’t os far away
from home as McMurphy, Gray
said he does miss his girlfriend, his
queen-size bed and his dog.
“She wasn’t too thrilled about
my leaving, but she understands,”
he said. “We talk on the phone
three or four times a week.”
By meeting new people and get
ting involved, art major Evelyn
Ladue, from Charleston, S.C., has
found it easier to adjust to college
life.
'There’s so much to do, I can’t do
it all,” she said.
Anti-incumbent attitude was myth, prof says
By JENNIFER KEE
Contnbuting Writer
Despite reports that an anti-in
cumbent sentiment surfaced in
this year’s election, only a handful
of incumbents lost their seats.
Charles Bullock, University po
litical science professor, said voters
didn’t show an anti-incumbent at
titude. That was just a misinter
pretation of the primary races,
Bullock told members of the Oxy
moron Society Wednesday night.
The Oxymoron Society is a polit
ical science club new to the Univer
sity this quarter.
Analysts misinterpreted a dis
gust with the institution of govern
ment for an anti-incumbent mood,
Bullock said in room 304 of
Baldwin Hall.
Zell Miller, lieutenant governor
for 16 years, won the gubernatorial
race, and other state politicians
such as Tommy Ross and Pierre
Howard again won government
posts.
In response to reports that Re
publicans didn’t do well because of
President Bush’s declining popu
larity, Bullock said popularity
wasn’t a strong factor.
“Popularity was not something
most Republicans had to over
come,” he said. Bush’s popularity is
still high, it’s just not as high as it
was.”
Euel Elliott, an assistant polit
ical science professor, said in an in
terview that the problem was with
increasing taxes, losing commu
nism as an issue and losing some
voters on the abortion controversy.
Bullock said Johnny Isakson’s
last-minute blitz of black voters
didn't pay off, garnering only 8 per
cent.
Newt Gingrich, who held on to
his seat by less than one percent of
Bullock said Isakson's
blitz of black voters
didn’t pay off.
the vote, concentrated on the na
tional scene too much and ignored
the hometown folks, he said.
Elliott said the Republicans
need to find a new set of issues to
define themselves with.
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Sorority reaches out
to influence youths
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Tha members of Delta Sigma
Theta sorority will reach out to
Athens youth with the hope of
making a difference in their lives.
The aorority ia sponsoring
“Summit III — Strengthening
Black Youth : Shaping Our Fu
ture’ Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. at the Tate Student Center.
Sherlonda Stephens, a senior
marketing major and Delta
Sigma Theta member, said the
University’s black students can
serve as rots models and let
Athens youth know that any
thing is possible.
“We feel that the black youth
are the future of black America,*
she said
Summit III will include pro
grams such as “Sexual Jeop
ardy,' ‘Girl Talk,’ The Role of
the Black Male” and 'Dear
Delta," Stephens said.
“It’s important that they’re ed
ucated on what they may en
counter in everyday life,’’
Stephens said
“Girl Talk,’ for females, will
include information on coametics,
hair care and etiquette.
The Role of the Black Male,’
for men, will be conducted by An
thony Cranberry, program coor
dinator for the vice president’s
office for Legal Affairs.
“Dear Delta’ will be a quee-
tion-and-answer session between
the audience and a panel of six
University students.
’Sexual Jeopardy,’ based on
the television game-show ’Jeop
ardy,” will be conducted by a Uni
versity Health Center employee.
Summit III is a national Delta
Sigma Theta program and each
chapter chooses the topics for
their program, Stephens said
The first summit was geared
toward females and the second
toward males.
Melissa Glenn, a senior micro
biology major and co-chair of the
Summit III committee, said other
Delta Sigma Theta national pro-
S rams include ‘The Profesaor En-
owed Chair,’ “School America,"
a literacy program started by
First Lady Barbara Bush, the
talent show “Jabberwock" and
“May Week.”
The sorority decided to target
the youth because one day they
will he expected to perform on an
adult level, she said
They also contacted counselors
at Cedar Shoals and Clarke Cen
tral High Schools.
“We hope to enlighten youth on
what is expected of them in so
ciety,” Glenn said.
She said Athens boys youth
groups, the Athens Gents Club,
Athens Adelphi and the Del-
teens, are some groups that will
attend the program.
“We should get a good re
sponse,’ she said.
The program is free and re
freshments will be served.
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