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February 2, 1983
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Academic skills taught
Counselors offer clinics
by Karen Schrimsher
Battalion Reporter
The Student Counseling
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Us onp academic skills clinics.
The clinics, operated by
Drs. Betty Milburn and
Anne Schroer, focus on the
development of time man
agement, reading and note
taking techniques, and test
taking skills.
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has typically offered acade
mic skills counseling on an
individual basis but this is
the first semester group, lec
ture-type meetings, have
been used.
The first two clinics are
full. There is a waiting list
for future clinics.
“We really have been
pleased with the results,”
Milburn said Monday.
After students attend an
academic skills clinic, they
can return to the Student
Counseling Service for indi
vidual counseling, Milburn
said.
The clinics meet at 3 p.m.
Mondays and at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesdays. Registration is in
107 Academic Building.
Each clinic is limited to 10
students. There is no fee for
attending a clinic and all
counseling is confidential.
The interest testing clinic
is another self-help service
offered by the counselors.
Students take an inventory
of subjects in which they are
interested and return a few
weeks later to meet with a
counselor to evaluate the re
sults of the inventory.
“The purpose of the in
terest inventory is to let stu
dents see how their interests
compare to the interests of
people who work in various
fields,” Milburn said.
Students then can be re
ferred to members of the fa
culty that may be helpful in
making career choices.
Students may pick up a
copy of the career interest
inventory in 107 Academic
Building. Interest testing cli
nics are held each week at 9
a.m. Tuesdays, at 4 p.m.
Thursdays and at 10 a.m.
Fridays.
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Battalion Reporter
■acuity in the T exas A&M
■lege of Veterinary Medicine
voted Friday to implement new
grading standards next fall.
■The faculty also approved a
prpposal for a change in pre-
professional and professional
irricula for veterinary stu
dents.
The new grading scale will
apply to students entering the
veterinary college in fall 1983,
but the proposal for different
curricula must be approved by a
number of University commit
tees, including the University
curriculum committee.
There will be no change in
the standards for assigning let
ter grades but any grade below
70 percent will be considered a
failure.
[“It’s a positive step for unifor-
jnity and consistency,” said Dr.
E. Dean Gage, associate dean for
academic and clinical programs.
jVIany veterinary schools
across the country already use a
similar grading system, and the
stale licensing board examina
tion also requires a minimum 70
percent to pass, Gage said.
The new scale will apply to
first-year veterinary students in
September and all subsequent
classes, but will not apply to stu
dents already in the school, he
said.
“I think it’ll be good news for
this upcoming class,” Gage said.
“It’ll give them an early start in
making the standard.”
The grade change was
approved by the University in
the fall and the new grade scale
was accepted by the faculty
Friday.
Gage said the preprofessional
curriculum change, which
would change the minimum
course requirements for enroll
ment in the veterinary medicine
college, and the professional
proposal are the result of a
four-year effort by the college’s
curriculum committee.
The pre-professional propos
al would add 17 undergraduate
credit hours to the current re
quirements for all applicants. If
the proposal is approved, classes
in biochemistry, computer sci
ence and entomology will be
added to the current list of 66
required credit hours.
If the proposal is approved,
applicants will have at least three
years of college credit, Gage
said. The average pre
professional education for stu
dents now enrolled is 4.7 years.
The new requirements would
strengthen students’ scientific
disciplines and start the profes
sional curriculum at a higher
level, he said.
The proposal in the profes
sional curriculum will place
more emphasis on specific biolo
gical systems in the third year
and rearrange the clinical block
program in the fourth year.
“The good thing about the
new curriculum is that it will
address the modern problems in
vet medicine today,” Gage said.
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Award-winning poet
recites works tonight
Internationally known poet
William Stafford will present a
selection of his poems during a
reading at 7:30 tonight in 204
Sterling C. Evans Library.
Stafford, whose work has
appeared in hundreds of books
and magazines, has won the Na
tional Book Award in Poetry,
one of the highest awards in the
country, says Dr. Elizabeth
Cowan of the English depart
ment.
Most of Stafford’s poems deal
with nature and have a lot of
“quietness” in them, she says.
The English department
selected Stafford to visit Texas
A&M to give awards to graduate
students and to present his
work.
“I like writing,” Stafford says.
“It seems to me to be very easy
and natural. If you write a lot it
naturally falls on the page.
One should let that “idling
process” continue without fear,
Stafford says. “Writing is letting
your ever-going current go into
language,” he says.
Stafford says he writes for
himself. “I try religiously to keep
from writing for public critics,”
he says.
“When I’m writing I feel that
satisfaction of each ratchet I
contribute — like a happy cen
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whether people will understand
his writing. “I have a lot of confi-;
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