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Wednesday, September 15, aoio | The Red a Black
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for typing term papers,
mostly because of its touch
screen, the tablet can be
used for activities such as
surfing the web and read
ing.
The new iPads will be
pre-loaded with applica
tions and books.
“I’m curious to how stu
dents will use them," Potter
said. “I see them carrying
around huge textbooks
when they could Just be
loaded on an iPad. It even
has color.”
iPads weigh about 1.5
pounds, making them easi
er to carry around than
traditional books.
The laptop loan pro
gram the iPad will most
likely be a part of doesn’t
have much demand right
now even though the
laptops are paid for by the
student technology fee.
Potter said many stu
dents aren’t aware they can
check out laptops, and
hopefully the iPad will be
different.
Potter said the iPads
will be at the University by
the end of September and
available for rental soon
after.
Laptops can be rented
at the MLC with a valid
student ID for three-hour
periods at a time.
Preparation classes help some on post-graduate exams
By SARA CALDWELL
The Red and Black
You thought you were done
sharpening your No. 2 pencil when
you got that final SAT score. But
if you want to go to graduate
school, you might have to break
out your standardized testing
skills again.
But is it worth it to pay the
extra money and get professional
help on these entrance require
ments?
Christine Burgoyne, learning
services public service associate
with the University’s Center for
Continuing Education, said grad
uate school entrance tests are
getting harder.
“The scores are more competi
tive,” Burgoyne said. “Just a cou
ple of points can make a large
competitive difference when
you’re trying to get admitted into
the program that you want to get
into.”
To help students prepare for
these tests —be it the Graduate
Record Examination, the Law
Sehool Admission Test or the
Graduate Management Admission
Test the University offers cours
es which focus specifically on
teaching students what to expect
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By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
Gays and African-
Americans have more in
common than you might
think.
Or maybe they don’t.
That burning conun
drum was at the center of
the LGBT Resource
Center’s open discussion,
“Is Gay the New Black?"
Attendees wrestled
with the idea of how much
the black and gay civil
rights movements have in
common .
Dawn Bennett-
Alexander, an associate
professor within the Terry
College of Business, over
saw the talk, having seen
the issue of civil rights
from both sides of the
question.
“You really don’t know
what it was like,” she said
to an overflowing audi
ence, many of whom had
to take seats on the floor
in the Miller Learning
Center.
Bennett-Alexander
witnessed Martin Luther
King Jr.’s “I Have a
Dream” speech at the ten
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on their upcoming exams.
For 10 nights of LSAT or GMAT
preparation in a classroom set
ting. the enrollment price is SBO9.
It costs $699 for eight nights of
preparation classes for the GRE,
Burgoyne said.
The University offers these
prep courses on campus at the
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education, and they are also
offered at the University’s
Gwinnett campus.
However, the center's prepara
tion classes are not as popular as
the one-on-one tutorial sessions
the University offers.
“A lot of students want tutors
because they can focus on exactly
what they need and not have to
go through what a group wants,
with a traditional curriculum on
something," Burgoyne said. “If
they need to focus on a particular
type of question, or if they want to
ask a lot of questions and get
them answered, they can."
Burgoyne said another perk to
the tutor sessions is that students
can fit them into their schedules.
“We have three tutors that
we're using right now. They’re
busy all the time,” she said.
In order to tutor a student in
test preparation, Burgoyne said a
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▲ Dawn Bennett-Alexander of the Terry College discusses similarities
and differences between the gay rights and civil rights movements.
She went on to partici
pate in the 1973 march for
gay rights in Washington.
Despite her own wealth
of experience, Bennett-
Alexander quickly pulled
back to open up the floor
to the various attendees.
“I think a lot of people
in the black community
feel the people in the gay
community want to jump
on the bandwagon,” said
Resource Center
Executive Director of
External Affairs Tochuku
Ikedionwu.
Faye Fleming, a psy
chology and sociology
double major from
Athens, shared her own
social experiment of
homophobia when she
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posed as one half of a les
bian couple.
Fleming and the other
participant in the experi
ment presented them
selves as heterosexual,
but she carried on with
her female friend in much
the same as she acted
with her husband.
“The point we were
trying to make is that
straight-looking lesbians
are more accepted than
butch-looking lesbians,”
she said.
Many other students
came forward with stories
of their own. debating
issues such as the defini
tion of oppression and the
ease of hiding one type of
minority over another.
tutor has to score in the ninetieth
percentile of the test they want to
teach.
They also have to have teach
ing experience, or they have to
demonstrate they have the ability
to teach, she said.
The largest number of students
approaching Learning Services
are coming from the Terry College
of Business, and Burgoyne said
these students are choosing to
study on their home ground.
“There’s a comfort factor.
Studying at UGA is studying at
home,” she said. “You’re studying
with UGA people. They probably
know people who’ve studied with
our tutors here. I think that reas
sures them that we know what
we’re doing.”
First-year graduate student
Brian Sanders from Yatesville is
studying for his master’s in sec
ondary education with a history
focus at Valdosta State
University.
Sanders, after completing his
undergraduate degree at the
University, said he thought he
should continue his degree while
he was in school mode.
“I thought it would be harder
to get back into the routine of
school once you get out and have
CRIME NOTEBOOK
Congratulations,
University students.
Crime notebook contains
nothing but good news
today.
Police reports from
University Police and
Athens-Clarke County
Police showed little activ
ity affiliated with the
University Monday night.
University Police Chief
Jimmy Williamson said
he was unsure why
Monday night saw a drop
in University-related
crimes.
“I guess we were lucky
and the community was
lucky,” he said. “Some
nights are busier than
other nights, but we’re
always happy if it’s a slow
night. That means
nobody’s having a prob
lem, and nobody’s finding
themselves in trouble.”
Law enforcement offi
cials periodically experi
ence a lull in crime,
Williamson said, but offi
cials usually can't predict
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Bennett-Alexander
encouraged the gathered
students to continue defy
ing labels, a topic that
will be broached in the
LGBT Resource Center’s
upcoming talk on hetero
flexibility, scheduled for
Tuesday of next week.
Most participants
came to the conclusion
that oppression comes in
many forms, and it can’t
be rationed out or down
played.
“I carry my own envi
ronment with me," said
Bennett-Alexander, who
explained her own meth
od of owning her identity
instead of running from
it. “For me, it’s all about
love.”
a job," Sanders said. “It’s difficult
to have a full-time job and go
back to school. While I have limit
ed responsibilities I might as well
do it."
Sanders took the GRE in the
fall of 2009 through the University
Testing Service, and he prepared
for his exam with online materi
als.
“I spent maybe two days look
ing at resources just looking at
practice problems, practice tests,"
Sanders said. “I didn't really stress
over it at all. I made well over
what I needed to get into any pro
gram that I applied for.”
Sanders said the preparation
material helped him on the exam.
For him, the largest benefit for
looking through the material was
that it helped him prepare for
how the questions would be
framed, and Sanders recommends
that future graduate school appli
cants utilize whatever preparation
resources are available.
“If you’re trying to get into law
school or a general competitive
program and you need to stand
out better than the person next to
you, a greater preparation and
better score would help you stand
out against the other candidates,”
Sanders said.
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how crime in Athens will
fluctuate.
“There’s no way for us
to be able to even look at
those things,” he said. “If
there were set patterns
for us to use, we could go
out and predict when
things were happening to
stop them from occur
ring.”
Williamson also said
weather can sometimes
be used to predict when
crime will be less promi
nent.
“Sometimes I can look
at weather and say
weather’s an indicator,”
he said. “If it’s cold,
cloudy, raining or there’s
lightning. But last night
was a beautiful night, so I
guess we were just fortu
nate.”
—Compiled by
Tiffany Stevens
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updates
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Black
After an analysis of the
residency status of incom
ing freshmen, the
University has found no
undocumented students in
that pool. But after review
ing the citizenship of
returning students
including all undergradu
ate, graduate and profes
sional students the
University found two stu
dents without proper doc
umentation returning for
fall of 2010.
Neither student has
received any state or fed
eral benefits, and they have
been paying out-of-state
tuition.
“There are processes in
place in the Office of
Admissions, so these stu
dents in the returning pool
would’ve been coded as
either full documentation
or pending documenta
tion,” said Laura Jolly, vice
president for instruction.
“So when we ran our
report, we had two stu
dents who still had docu
ments pending.”
The University was one
of nine University System
of Georgia institutions that
had not reported the resi
dency status of returning
students to the Regents.
In August, the Special
Residency Verification
Committee of the Board of
Regents asked those insti
tutions to verify the citi
zenship of returning stu
dents and submit a final
report by Sept. 8.
However, Jolly con
firmed that though there
was a prior directive from
the Regents to file the
report by Sept. 8, the
University received a
request from the Regents
with a deadline of Sept. 14.
The University submitted
the report last Friday.
“They evidently changed
their deadline," Jolly said.
"WeTe just responding to
their request.”
After all of the institu
tions have submitted the
final numbers of undocu
mented students in the
incoming and returning
student pools, the Special
Residency Verification
Committee will meet on
Sept. 21 to discuss what
the group will recommend
to the Regents.
John Millsaps, spokes
man for the Board of
Regents, said he does not
know about any future
plans or actions the
Regents might take.
As for the University,
Jolly said the request of
verification from the
Regents has led the
University to become more
confident about its admis
sions process.
“We feel good about the
system that we have in
place,” Jolly said. “What
we’ve learned is that we’ve
got a process of review that
allows us to identify stu
dents and properly code
them. It appears to be
working in terms of identi
fying students to see
whether they’re either fUlly
documented or that they’re
pending documentation.
In other words, we didn’t
misclassify anyone.”
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