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■THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1982
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Newsbriefs
Moving Out?
Graduating seniors who wish to stay
in their dorms until graduation may
do so on request. Residence Life, in
Mandeville Hall, will be open from 10
a.m. to 3 P-m. on December 10 to
assist with check-outs.
Academically dismissed students
may check out December 30 in the
Residence Life office, between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m.
Juniors and Seniors wishing to
break their housing contracts must
also follow the check list to check out
in addition to filling out a housing
release form. This should be done
before the end of the quarter.
Year in Denmark
Scandinavian Seminar is now ac
cepting applications for its 1983-84
academic year abroad in Denmark,
Finland, Norway or Sweden. This uni
que learning experience is designed
for college students, graduates, and
other adults who want to study in a
Scandinavian country, becoming part
of another culture and learning its
language. One-semester programs,
only in Denmark, are also now
available.
After orientation in Denmark and a
2-3 week intensive language course,
generally followed by a family stay,
students are placed individually at
Scandinavian Folk Schools or other
specialized institutions, where they
live and study with Scandinavians of
diverse backgrounds. The Folk
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Schools are small, residential educa
tional communities intended mainly
for young adults. Both historically
and socially, these colleges have
played an important part in the
development of the Scandinavian
countries. Midway through the folk
school year, all the Seminar students
and staff meet in the mountains of
Norway to discuss progress and make
plans for the Spring. A final session is
held at the end of the year to evaluate
the year’s studies and experiences.
Because the Scandinavian countries
are small, open, and accessible, the
year provides an unusually rich op
portunity for the student to explore his
or her particular field of interest by
doing an independent study project.
American academic credit for par
ticipation in the Seminar program has
been awarded by more than 150
American colleges and universities
upon recommendation of the Seminar
staff. However, students who require
an Academic Transcript may qualify
to receive one through the Interna
tional Programs Office of the Univer
sity of Massachusetts.
The 1983-84 fee, covering tuition,
room, board, and all program-related
travel in Scandinavia, is $6,200. Ap
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awarded on the basis of need and
qualification. The application
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Be One of Us
The West Georgia College Student
League is the organization that works
closely with the administration during
freshmen orientation and on visitation
days. We serve as hosts and
hostesses, tour guides, and group
leaders for the campus visitors.
Membership in this organization
provides students with excellent op
portunities to learn leadership skills
and to gain experience in the public
relations area.
Only 35 people may belong to the
student league. Currently there are
ten vacancies; therefore, we are ac
cepting applications from interested
students.
If you have good communication
skills, and if you enjoy meeting and
working with the public, perhaps you
should submit an application. Ap
plications may be picked up from Jill
Henricks in the Admissions Office in
Mandeville (834-1290) or Alison
Breeze in the Student Activities Office
(334-1364).
Campus Close-Up
The regular monthly edition of the
student TV newsmagazine CAMPUS
CLOSEUP is scheduled to air Wednes
day, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. on 20
CATV public access channel 13. The
program includes features on West
Georgia’s Visitation Day, the
cheerleaders, a sports review, and
other news of interest, along with the
man-on-the-street feature “Feed
back” and the new “Commentary.”
Director this quarter is Brett
Johnson; Producer is Terry Pacetti.
Hosts are Barbara Anthony and Mark
Buford. In addition to airing on cable
Regents' Test Not Invented to Keep You In School
BY ANGELA STODGHILL
You cannot receive a diploma from
a member institution in the Universi
ty System unless you pass the
Regents’ Test!
West Georgia College is a member
of the University System of Georgia.
Every student, including transfers,
must pass the Regents Exam before
he or she is eligible for graduation.
Despite what many may suspect,
the Regents’ Test was not invented to
keep students in school paying tuition
forever.
The book Strategies for Passing the
Georgia Regents’ Exam states that,
“The Board of Regents’ Examination
in 1972 so that each institution could
assure to other institutions and the
System as a whole, that students ob
taining a degree from that institution
possess literary competence, that is,
certain minimal skills of reading and
writing.”
Patricia Hughes, testing coor
dinator at West Georgia, agrees with
this policy and states that, “minimal
System
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freshman year. The scheduling is
critical, since most of the courses are
offered once a year. The preparatory
courses are available now. Since the
major started this quarter, there are
only ten students majoring in this pro
gram. “We expect forty majors,”
says Chairman Hunnsicker,
“conservatively in the fall. ’’
In the future, the department plans
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Check It Out
Moving off campus next quarter?
Don’t forget your S4O deposit. Getting
it back is simple, if you follow the four
easy check out steps.
• Find a resident staff member.
• Sign a check-out card.
• Turn in your room key.
• Fill out a refund request form at the
resident life office.
You will receive your S4O check in
four to six weeks by mail.
Resume WorlcT
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competence in reading and writing
should be met before a student can
earn a bachelor’s degree.”
The minimal requirements for pass
ing the reading section of the Regents’
Exam is 38 percentile, and the
minimal requirements for passing the
writing section is “two out of three
raters.”
To understand what this means the
grading system must be explained.
The essays written for the writing sec
tion of the test are each evaluated by
three “raters,” English instructors
employed by junior and senior col
leges and universities of the Universi
ty System. No marks are made on the
essays by individual raters so that no
rater is influenced by what previous
raters felt about an essay. Two of
these three raters must give an essay
a score of 2 of a possible 4 grade in
order for it to pass. A rating of 3 is
good; and of 4 is excellent.
The reading section is computer
scored. There are 70 items: 20 word-
to open minors to tie in with other ma
jors where computer application is a
necessity.
Presently, there are several com
panies interested in co-op oppor
tunities with this program. Such com
panies are J.C. Penney’s and IBM.
“To support the computer pro
gram,” says Hunnsicker, “the college
is upgrading the computer system.”
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Rotary Grants
The Rotary foundation of Rotary In
ternational and over 10 Rotary Clubs
in Georgia are seeking applicants for
an extensive program of educational
awards available to residents of
Georgia for university study in
foreign countries. These will be for
the academic year 1984-85 and are
available for graduate study,
technical training in vocational areas,
for teachers of the handicapped
(special education) and for profes
sional journalists (newspaper, broad
cast, public relations, etc.) or
graduate journalism students inten
ding journalism as a profession.
This is the most extensive interna
tional student exchange program in
the world. Approximately 1,500 young
people each year afe having the ex
perience of traveling, studying and
living in a country other than their
own under this program. Their only
obligation is to be “ambassadors of
goodwill.” An award covers
transportation, educational and living
expenses for one year.
Georgia applicants are selected in
itially in competition with other
Georgia applicants. Usually 25-30
Georgia applications are received and
one to five awards will be made.
The nature of the award requires
early planning; the deadline for ap
plication is March 1,1983; awards will
be announced in September 1983 for
choice questions and 50 comprehen
sion ones.
Students who do not pass the exam
must enroll in remedial-level reading
and writing courses. Beginning with
the winter quarter 1983 West Georgia
has instituted a slight change in the
remedial and re-testing procedures.
Up until now, a student at West
Georgia who failed both parts of the
exam, not only had to take both
remedial courses the following
quarter but re-take both exams dur
ing that quarter.
Beginning now, however, a student
needing to re-take both sections of the
Regents Exam may take only one per
quarter. It is still required, though,
that a student failing both sections
must take remedial courses in both in
the quarter following their failures.
Faculty Senate
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undergraduate Catalog a restriction
on the acceptance of “D” grades for
transfer credit in English.
The Senate also authorized an up
date in admissions criteria and ap
proved a recommendation on the ac
ceptance of transfer students with
associate degrees. They then voted on
the final AP & P recommendation and
approved the removal of a restriction
for students on academic probation
listed in the Undergraduate Catalog
which Vice President John Lewis had
“administratively deleted” earlier
this year.
Dr. Bill Doxey, chairman of the
Academic Programs Committee, in
troduced, among a number of items
for Senate information and approval,
a BS in Education with a major in
Secondary Science Education to be of
fered through the Department of
Secondary Education. The program,
which is meant to prepare its
graduates to teach science in secon
dary schools and for NT-4 certifica
tion in science, would include four em
phases’: biology, chemistry, earth
space science and physics. Offering
this major in the School of Education
would bring West Georgia in line with
attendance abroad in the academic
year 1984-85.
Any person interested in application
information, forms and materials
should contact the Rotary Club in his
or her hometown or write Dean Ben F.
Johnson, College of Law, Georgia'
State UNiversity, University Plaza,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303, indicating the
applicant’s hometown. The deadline
is March 1, 1983 and interested per
sons should begin work on their ap
plications as early as possible.
Intro Chem Students
The Chemistry Department will be
establishing waiting lists for courses
that have been closed out. During the
Drop-Add period of Winter Quarter
vacancies created by drops will,
through the waiting lists, be made
available first to those who need them
most and have been waiting longest.
If you have had a schedule request for
a chemistry course denied because
the course was full, please come by
the Chemistry Office and place your
name on the list.
It would be appreciated if those who
have early registered for chemistry
courses and who find out that they will
not be taking the courses next quarter
would let the Chemistry Department
know that the places they have
reserved will not be used, so that
others who want these courses may
have a chance to get them. By the
time no-shows are processed througii
the Registrar’s Office the Drop-Add
period has passed.
The figures for West Georgia
students’ performance on the Regents
Exam this fall quarter have just been
released. The statistics break down
this way: 415 students took the exam
of which 153 were repeaters and 262
were taking it for the first time. Of
these 69 percent passed the reading,
62 percent the essay section. This
record puts West Georgia below the
state-wide percentage of 76 passing
the reading; but is very close —a
fraction of a percent to the system
wide percentage of 62 on the reading.
The first-time takers at West
Georgia scored 4 points above the
state average on reading with 80 per
cent, and one point above on the essay
with a 63. This suggests that our
school is slowly pulling up in the pack.
“the broad field science concept in
corporated into the revised criteria
for science teachers in Georgia
(1980),” according to the program’s
proposal abstract prepared by the
department of Secondary Education.
Senate discussion revealed that,
although three courses of study under
this program, chemistry, physics and
biology, do not overlap any present
program, a program very similar to
the one planned in this major is
presently offered through the Geology
Department (Arts and Sciences). Dr.
Richard Dangle, Dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences stressed the fact
that with the addition of one five hour
course, which his school “would be
glad to offer,” the two programs
would be identical. He also said he did
not feel it was necessary to offer the
same program under two seperate
titles.
Dean Evelyn Fulbright, of the
School of Education, said the earth
science program for would-be
teachers which is offered through the
school of Arts and Sciences was “the
best kept secret on campus. If we (the
School of Education) had the pro
gram, we could make it visible.”
“It wasn’t the best kept secret on
campus,” Doxey chimed in, “It’s
been in the catalog for years. So
meone didn’t do her homework.” He
also said that his committee had seen
this problem, but had approved the
program to go before the Senate in a 6-
5 vote.
Dr. Edna Edwards, chairman of the
Department of Secondary Education,
stressed the fact that the criteria for
science teachers in Georgia has
changed and said her department
“got word that they (the Geology
department) aren’t interested” in of
fering a program for science
teachers.
“We’re hung up on one option (of
the program),” President Maurice
Townsend said. “We could approve 75
percent of this program. What is the
problem? Is is the School of Education
versus the School of Arts and Sciences
again?” the president asked.
Doxey responded to his question,
saying he felt it was a matter of pro
tecting territory. Then he added:
“Some bozo in Atlanta hands down a
decree like the Pope or something and
the people around here knee jerk into
line.”
After a period of wrangling between
the Deans of Education and Arts and
Sciences and some discussion over
Parlimentary Procedure, the Senate
decided to vote on the program. The
sent it back to committee with a vote
of 16 no, 6 yes and 2 abstentions.
