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By CARLA SUTTER
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University is now
the only university in Texas that
accepts only the Scholastic Apti
tude Test as its college entrance
exam.
The University ofTexas System
Regents recently decided to
accept either the SAT or the
American College Test as college
entrance exams beginning next
Ml.
At Texas A&M there has been
no formal consideration of accept
ing the ACT, B. G. Lay, director
of admissions said. Using the ACT
for admission would call for a
series of studies to determine a
cut-off score where certain appli
cants would not be accepted.
That isn’t necessary, Lay said,
because the SAT meets the Uni
versity’s purposes — determining
how well a student will do.
But at the University of Texas,
Dr. Ronald Brian, vice president
of student affairs said, “I’m very
supportive of the decision (to
accept the ACT).”
The two tests are not substan
tially different, and high schools in
a number of areas in the state offer
preparatory courses for taking the
ACT, he said. It is easier for the
student to take the ACT since it is
accepted by almost all colleges
and universities in Texas.
Texas Tech University began
using both the ACT and SAT a
number of years ago for the same
reasons UT did, said Dr. Gene
Medley, director of admissions at
Texas Tech.
Comparing the two tests, Dr.
Arthur Tollefson, director of
academic counseling service at
Texas A&M, said recent studies
have shown that the SAT discri
minates against people with talent
but not skill.
And while the SAT tests verbal
and mathematical areas, Tollefson
said, the ACT tests a broader
range of subject matter. The ACT
is more achievement oriented, he
said, while the SAT is broader and
more of a test of a student’s ability
to take tests.
Before 1940, standardized tests
like the ACT and SAT didn’t exist
because fw people sought entry to
colleges and universities.
However, this situation
changed after World War II, Tol
lefson said, when thousands of
men returned from the service to a
high-technology world. They
appreciated it (new technology)
and wanted to enter college, he
added.
There were a few standardized
tests in those days, he said. Then
the SAT caught on and became
prestigious. Schools like Harvard
and Yale relied on the SAT be
cause so many people sought
admission to the schools, he said.
The ACT wasn’t used until 1959.
“We re so conscious of cultural
bias now, and back then they we
ren’t, Tollefson said. “People
didn’t feel culturally disadvan
taged.
“The courses we teach are cul
turally biased, based on a stu
dent’s past experiences and
classes.”
The administrator said the SAT
is a good predictor of how well the
student will do academically in
college.
However, receiving an un
acceptable SAT score doesn’t ex
actly deny a person entrance to
Texas A&M. Those who have
been denied admission to the Uni
versity because of a low score can
go to summer school, take 12
hours and if they make a C average
or better can enroll in the Univer
sity.
THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1981
Students win prizes
for marketing plans
Photo by T. Garrett
Graduate student John Joyce and Cyclotron operator Jim velocities and then impacts them with other elements. To
Mullins talk about accelerating particles to almost the speed of increase the capacity of the unit, another $8.8 million addition
light. A cyclotron speeds particles of one element to high is planned for the west wing.
Expansion of Cyclotron planned
By LISA SMITH
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University may not
offer advertising as a major, but
that didn’t stop two students from
winning advertising contest prizes
last weekend.
Seniors Terri Heinz and Mike
Probst, both marketing majors,
won first and second prizes in the
Student Grand Prix 1981, held
Friday in Houston. The Student
Grand Prix is an advertising com
petition sponsored by the Hous
ton Advertising Federation, for
undergraduate students within a
five-state area.
This year’s theme was for a
Swiss Festival, which will be held
in September in Houston, spon
sored by the Institute of Interna
tional Education.
Categories for the competition
included: television, newspaper,
radio, magazine, outdoor, theme
illustration and a marketing and
media plan.
Heinz won first place in the
media and marketing plan categ
ory, and Probst won second in the
same category. The two students
wrote their plans for the contest in
the advertising course in the mar
keting department, taught by
Valarie Zeithmal.
“I didn’t know exactly what to
expect at the competition, ” Heinz
said.
Probst also expressed some sur
prise over the contest. “I was
shocked, because there were over
200 people in a five-state area en
tering the contest.”
“On the other hand, I put a lot
of work into it,” Probst said, “and I
would have been kind of dis
appointed if I had not won any
thing. ”
As a result of competition, both
Heinz and Probst were invited to
work on the Swiss Festival cam
paign this summer.
By WAYNE COOK
Battalion Reporter
When hurrying to class at
Zachry Engineering Center, or to
McDonald’s for a quick lunch,
many people pass the Texas A&M
University Cyclotron, but few
know exactly what goes on there.
At the Cyclotron, located
across from Zachry, nuclear chem
ists and physicists conduct re
search to learn more about the
nuclei of various atoms.
“We want to learn about the
forces that hold a nucleus
together, and the laws that govern
its motion,” said Dr. Dave Young
blood, director of the Cyclotron.
He said if researchers under
stand nuclei behavior through
basic research, then the findings
can have practical applications in
medicine and industry.
Experiments at the Cyclotron
study the nuclear processes occur
ring when one atomic element is
bombarded with the high-speed
particles of another element.
A cyclotron unit can accelerate
atomic nuclei to velocities
approaching the speed of light.
High-speed nuclei leave the cyc
lotron and are directed by mag
nets to one of four separate ex
perimental areas.
Among the practical applica
tions of high-speed nuclei study is
radiation therapy for cancer pa
tients. The Cyclotron has made
such applications. Work has also
been done to find a new means of
treating bacterial eye infections.
In an industrial application, im
purities in Texas lignite can be
identified from the radiation emit
ted when the lignite is struck by
the high-speed nuclei.
Youngblood said the Cyclotron
has achieved international prom
inence because of its capability
with both light and heavy atomic
elements. An $8.8 million expan
sion of the Cyclotron facilities is
underway and will enhance the in
stitute’s reputation even more, he
said.
“In the study of nuclear physics
we will be clearly at the forefront, ”
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