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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
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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.”
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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.
Witt, who also organizes new stu
dent conferences, said that this sum
mer, the University officials hope to
have three fish camps this su-mer,
and that one may be exclusively for
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2,027.60
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2.819.04
5.638.08
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3.676.40
7,362.80
9,191.01
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4.605.18
9,210.36
11,612.93
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5.611.30
11.222.60
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6.701.22
13,402.44
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7.881.92
15.763.84
19.704.79
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9.160.96
18,321.92
22,902.38
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17.342.94
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