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"7* THE BATTALION Page 1B WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1979 lr »ians ^ the last | tl 1 nesday lir( l place'" - me ricanwor ■cessfiilf n » were in ransfer students aided by A&M r nion ver the]api antage oi e , the critical % ' an lias notL By CINDY COLVIN Battalion Reporter JexasA&M University has experi- led about a 20 percent increase in ■enrollment of transfer students .Je 1974, according to figures re- XN 01 1 ( 1 ehama Used by Dr. Billy Lay, director of pniissions. [■his fall, 2,402 transfer students, :e students who have been classi- as bringing college credit from ther university or junior college, istered at Texas A&M. is not the only university to act transfer students. Dr. Robert icup, professor of educational ainistration at Texas A&M, said University of Houston was the ling institution in attracting transfer students. This may be be cause there are many community and junior colleges within the Grea ter Houston area, said Lay. The University of Houston was followed distantly by the University ofTexas and Texas A&M University, respectively. The main reason transfer stu dents, particularly junior and com munity college students attended these achools are for primarily finan cial reasons. According to a study by the American Association of Com munity and Junior Colleges, 70 per cent of all junior college students work full-time. Most of these stu dents were involved im occupations related to their fields of study. Most junior or community col leges tend to be reasonably priced because of lower operation costs. The campuses are much smaller than a university. Fees at junior colleges are generally much lower at junior colleges than at universities. To help students who transfer from a junior or community college, the university offers 10 scholarships per year, ranging from $300 to $500. To be eligible for this scholarship, the applicant must be a graduate of a junior or community college. The applicant must maintain a 3.0 GPR. Transition to four-year university life is another problem for transfers at Texas A&M. GlennaWitt, student : : --! rom M.D. to Ph.D. fill Prof s career changed By SHERRY WOODARD Battalion Reporter J)r. Eric Deudon, a French litera- professor at Texas A&M Uni- I iity, paces in front of his class lusiastically explaining the nch television system. Eight years ago, he came to this intry with hopes of being another id of doctor. Iwas a medical student in France dying to be a general practition- ” Deudon said. “I wanted to prac- m&Peace Corps type of program 1 Pacific island like Tahiti.” ben, like a segment from a love y, Deudon met and fell in love 1 an American tourist. They be- e engaged and later married. l \C‘She was from Richmond, Va., there was no way her parents buld allow her to live in Paris,” he Id. “So 1 decided to make the move Jthe United States, continue my Idies and become a physician Mre,” Deudon said. arrived in N ew York with $80 in V pocket and a suitcase,’ said the Jry young man, clad in corduroy ps and a tie and gesturing with an blit cigarette. “1 was only vaguely pre of how the American medical bools operated before coming I was just in love.” |The first problem Deudon had iwith language. [.“The first year was bad, he said. “The language barrier was enor mous. ” Deudon said he was rejected by two medical schools in Virginia be fore deciding his chances of being accepted on the basis of his existing credentials were slim. “I would have had to start all over again,” he said, “and my chances of being accepted out of 3,000 hopefuls were too small for that. ” Deudon added, “In medical schools they may accept a black or a Mexican to fill a minority slot, but chances are they won’t accept a Frenchman.” Deudon said he then went to Vir ginia Commonwealth University and earned a doctorate in French literature and linguistics. Deudon said he doesn’t favor the American system of medicine more than the French system and vice versa. “In France, a physician has the option of going into a private practice or signing a contract to practice medicine in the government medical social security program,” Deudon said. “Most physicians sign the con tract because of tax benefits. ” With this system, Deudon said, even the poor can have top quality treatment by a specialist. Doctors in the social security program charge low fees, which pa tients pay only 10 percent. The gov ernment pays the rest. “A poor person in France could afford to see the equivalent of Christ iaan Barnard for $5,” he said. “I remember when I was young and my sister went in for an appen dectomy, Deuson recalled. “She stayed six days in the hospital. There was lab work. X-rays and surgery. After the government payed its share of the bill, she had to pay only $13 out of her own pocket. ” But Deudon said technically the United States has the best medical care. “If I’m going to be involved in a car accident at 2 in the morning and re quire emerqency treatment, I’d rather be taken to an American hos pital than a French one,” Deudon said in his accented rapid voice. Aside from the medical system, Duedon said a cultural difference he discovered between Americans and the French was the discipline of the American people. “The French are anarchist,” he said. “They’re constantly trying to beat the system.” Deudon said he refers to himself as an American, not as a French- American. “Lve made my choice,” he said. “It’s here I want to be a citizen of. It’s here I want-to be 1 buried.” Y 1 LOU NEEDS USED BOOKS! He’s buying Books NOW He’d Rather Buy Books from You. ffiLOUPOT'SH North Gate — Across from the Post Office At the Corner INTRODUCING CARLA BRAGG Design Hair Shaping by Carla l/2 Price HAIR SHAPING BY A PROFESSIONAL CONDITIONING, NEW THERMAL PROCESS You Will Love It FREE Thermal Condition ^ offered with the purchase of Hair Shaping by Susan Offer expires Sat., Dec. 8 Call 822-1183 JCmtrmtcc’H Hair Staling Salon development coordinator for the university, said that generally, trans fers are apathetic toward being helped. “Some come to register thinking that because they’ve been through two years of college they don’t need our help. It’s a few weeks later that they realize they really needed our help,” Witt said. In addition to apathy, transfer stu dents have a problem with adjusting to the higher academic level ofTexas A&M. Betty Mayfield, counseling psychologist at the Academic Coun seling Center, said that junior col leges don’t provide enough back ground material in a student’s area of study. Often students are required to know much more about a particu lar subject area at a university, com pared to a course taken at a junior or community college. When they enter higher level courses, they find themselves be hind the rest of the class, said Dr. Wade Birch, director of the Personal Counseling Center. Another service Texas A&M pro vides transfer students, available through the Academic Counseling Center, is an indirect aid. Each year, the Association of Former Students and the Academic Counseling Cen ter invite counselors from junior col leges to attend a conference here, Hayfield said. This allows the junior college counselors to learn of the problems facing transfer students, Mayfield said. 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