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e, the lowest processing lee in the
ate, and does not charge a replace-
ent fee.
Hill said Wadley must charge
ore because it must pay its own ex-
;nses, while the Red Cross receives
me funding from the United Way.
Funding is not the only difference
tween the two organizations.
A spokesman with the American
ssociation of Blood Banks, which
oth Wadley and the American Red
[ross belong to, said there are two
fferent philosophies of blood do-
tions.
Wadley uses the “individual con-
pt” while the Red Cross uses the
‘‘community concept.”
The Association spokesman said
he concept of individual responsi-
lity means . . . the only way we
n provide the blood is if individual
ople donate — there isn’t any sub-
sjitute.”
I Blood banks using this concept re-
ruit individuals to donate and pro-
vdecredits for this blood.
I The spokesman said this is a good
way to get people to donate blood.
Because Wadley uses this concept,
gives credits to individuals and
oups who donate to Wadley.
lood donated to Wadley on campus
1 credited to the Aggie Blood Club,
his is a paper transaction. T he ac-
al blood is airlifted by AirLifeLine
the Wadley Blood Center in Dal
is for use at hospitals supplied by
adley.
AirLifeLine is a non-profit orga-
Bzation of pilots, who volunteer
I
English
“The concept of individual responsibility means . . .
the only way we can provide the blood is if individual
people donate — there isn’t any substitute. ”
— American Association of Blood Banks spokesman
their time and planes at no charge,-
to transport blood, medical supplies,
patients and organs. The flights are
necessary because the blood col
lected at the A&M blood drive must
be transported to the Wadley Blood
Center in Dallas for processing
within six hours.
The Aggie Blood Club provides
replacement coverage to A&M stu
dents, former students, faculty, stall
and families of anyone associated
with A&M. The credits earned dur
ing a blood drive stay in the account
for one year. The credits are used to
cancel some of the cost hospitals
charge for replacing the blood used.
Hill said John Stone, a former
A&M student who has had three
liver transplants, has used 704 units
of whole blood and blood compo
nents. Because Stone is a former stu
dent, the Aggie Blood Club donated
the necessary credits to cover the re
placement cost, she said. This saved
Stone about $7,000, Hill said.
The Association spokesman said
the “community responsibility the
ory,” used by the Red Cross, is a the
ory that individuals should donate
not to build up “credits” but so the
blood will be available for those in
need.
Blood banks using this concept re
cruit individuals to donate but do
not provide credits for this blood; in
stead, they provide the blood to ev
eryone in their service areas at the
same cost. Most banks using this con
cept do not charge a replacement
fee.
The Red Cross operates with this
concept and does not charge a re
placement fee.
Falkenburg said Brazos County
always has used more Red Cross-
provided blood than it supplied
through donations until the Red
Cross was allowed on campus last
year.
Because the Red Cross is now able
to recruit donors on campus several
times each year, Brazos County now
donates more blood to the Red Cross
than it uses, Falkenburg said.
Both local hospitals use the Red
Cross to supply their blood needs,
and blood collected by the Red Cross
on campus will be used in local hos
pitals, Falkenburg said. Any blood
donations above the local needs will
be sent to areas not supplying as
much blood as they use, she said.
Katheryn Lescher, director of the
blood laboratory at Humana Hospi
tal in College Station, said she would
rather see students donate to the
Red Cross than Wadley because “we
never see that blood back in this
town again, period.”
However, Wadley’s Hall said this
does not have to be the case. Hall
provided The Battalion with a letter
to Dr. Carolyn Adair, A&M’s direc
tor of Student Activities, stating that
if any A&M student or faculty mem
ber uses blood, Wadley “will replace
the blood used with a shipment of
blood to the hospital.”
Hill also said Wadley will ship
blood to local hospitals.
During a Red Cross-announced
shortage of O-positive blood in the
local area, Wadley offered to ship ex
positive blood to area hospitals, Hill
said.
She said the Red Cross turned
down the offer and told Wadley
there was no shortage.
Falkenburg, of the Red Cross,
said she was not aware of any such
offer and would be “shocked if it
were true.”
Stiller said she had not heard of
this offer and would be “shocked
and surprised if it were true.”
Both sides agree it is important
for individuals to give blood, be
cause giving blood can save a life.
The Red Cross and Wadley will
meet together to work out their dif
ferences on Mar. 28 and also will
meet with Student Goverment offi
cials at that time.
Wadley’s blood drive will continue
until Friday and the Red Cross will
have a campus blood drive in April.
Individuals who give at the Wadley
blood drive will be able to donate
again to the Red Cross, because the
time period needed for the body to
recover between blood donations
will have elapsed.
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player etests even fewer students. Marga-
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ctor in a foreign student’s admis-
sn.) Seventy-six percent of the stu
nts responding to the survey said
ley didn’t realize what score was re-
ired to pass the ELPE.
ELI Coordinator Deanna Wor-
uth questioned the validity of the
■aduate students’ survey.
1 “Their sample was rather small,
Bid their questions were somewhat
■ewed to come up with a certain
_ Ind of answer,” Wormuth said.
S l But Colegrove said the graduate
widents worked with A&M’s Mea-
firement and Research Services to
as guadcvelop the questionnaire in as ob-
's SouC halve a manner as possible,
the Wet Colegrove and Wormuth both say
iston(» he advertising problem is being t e
as nanii jived and that the Office of Admis-
feek. ons sends a concise estimate of ex-
Inses to foreign graduate students
. t Up|j[— including information on the
hea^k f . , . ,
IBelore a foreign student is ad-
tted to the University, he or she is
t a flier from the Office of Ad-
ssions that estimates ELI costs at
,000 for one semester of full-time
rollment. This estimate includes
leusing costs.
Foreign students also receive a ta-
j :that estimates their probability of
ving to do ELI coursework based
i their scores on the Test of En-
|sh as a Foreign Language. But
t information comes only after
h: student has been accepted to the
| liversity.
The table shows that a student
w 10 scores in the 89th percentile on
he TOEFL has at least a 75 percent
“When a student arrives on the
campus, he receives an individual
evaluation, and that consists of an
oral interview, an examination of the
kind of English training he has had,
and could possibly also include a
writing sample,” Kidd says. “But
they are not retested in most cases.”
Kidd says only one or two stu
dents per semester are sent into an
intensive English program like
A&M’s ELI. She says, however, that
there are classes set up within the
regular curriculum that students can
take to improve their English skills.
“It’s more of an evaluation to use
for advising students as to which En
glish, speech and/or communication
classes they ought to go into their
first semester,” Kidd says. “Very sel
dom are they advised to go into the
intensive English program. Only if. .
. it appears they’re going to have a
great deal of difficulty with English
do they go into the intensive English
program.”
The Council of Principal Investi
gators, an organization of research
faculty at A&M that is not recog
nized by the University, has been in
vestigating A&M’s English profi
ciency system for more than a year.
In its January newsletter, the CPI
calls A&M’s system “disturbing,” es
pecially when it is compared to UT’s
English pypftciency,system.
“The CPI opposes the current sys
tem and urges a carefid study of the
system employed at UT, which
seems much more realistic given the
present and future reliance of our
graduate research programs on for
eign students,” the newsletter read.
But Dr. Duwayne Anderson, asso
ciate provost for research and grad
uate studies at A&M, says that just
because UT’s system has met with
general success does not mean it
would work at A&M.
“My attitude and view of this is
that there are really many, many
ways that an institution could estab
lish procedures to deal with the
needs of foreign graduate students
for assistance in improving their
English,” Anderson says. “There is
no one single best way, in my opin
ion. I think they must be tailored to
the needs of each instit ution.”
“That (price list of ELI courses) is the hrst thing a stu
dent in China gets, and I think that’s a real negative
factor in terms of us getting good graduate students,”
he says.
— Dr. Ry Young, professor of biochemistry
chance of required enrollment in
one or two courses at the ELL
Dr. Ry Young, a tenured profes
sor of biochemistry who is opposed
to the ELI system, says this is not the
kind of advertisement the University
needs.
“That (price list of ELI courses) is
the first thing a student in China
gets, and I think that’s a real neg
ative factor in terms of us getting
good graduate students,” he says.
“They’ll get that, and my feeling is a
lot of students will just throw our ap
plication away.”
Young says that other universities
don’t have such costly systems and
that top international graduate stu
dents are scared away by the cost of
A&M’s program. He says A&M is be
coming more dependent on foreign
graduate students as the pool of top
American graduate students dimin
ishes.
Colegrove says many foreign stu
dents responding to the survey
weren’t aware of A&M’s system be
fore admission. Of those, half said
they wouldn’t have come here if they
had known about the ELPE and the
ELI, Colegrove said.
Jae Lee is a case in point. He was
highly recruited by A&M and was
the first student in the new cell and
molecular biology program. Lee
spent his first two years in the
United States doing research at the
University of Alabama-Birmingham
while working toward a Ph.D.
When his major professor moved
to Oxford in England, Lee looked
into A&M’s program. He had made
a perfect score on the quantitative
section of the GRE, and scored in
the 80th percentile on the verbal sec
tion. He already had published three
papers in leading scientific journals.
So when he discovered that A&M
would require him to take the ELPE,
he refused.
After a two-month battle, two pro
fessors in the biochemistry depart
ment were able to get the ELPE re
quirement waived for Lee. But he
considers himself extremely lucky
and says he is the only foreign stu
dent he knows who has gotten
around the requirement.
Colegrove also addressed this
problem at a recent Faculty Senate
meeting.
“It is true that this University may
be scaring away students from other
countries because they have to go
through the ELI,” he said. “But (at)
this University, in its desire to train
scientists and train students, are we
missing something by asking these
students to be able to be proficient in
the English language?
“I cannot answer that question.
My gut reaction is, this University
does not require foreign languages
from me. But I somehow think that
we’d be missing the boat if we didn’t
require a certain level of proficiency
for students who came in.”
Wormuth says that all schools
have requirements for admission,
and the ELPE just happens to be one
of A&M’s requirements right now.
Students should not be scared off by
the proficiency requirements if they
read the admission information
carefully, she says.
“I would think that in many cases
a student who is so intimidated by
having to have adequate language
proficiency as a concern may not be
evaluating the information carefully
enough,” Wormuth says. “Because if
a student reads very carefully what
information is given to him or her,
he will discover that very few (for
eign students) take that much with
us. They take one or two courses.”
But nevertheless, Gyusang Jeong,
a Ph.D. student in aerospace engi
neering and president of the Korean
Student Association, confirmed Pro
fessor Young’s fear that A&M’s re
quirements are scaring off top for
eign graduate students.
Jeong said that A&M’s English
language proficiency program is
“notorious” in Korea and Taiwan,
and that many of the top foreign stu
dents there are afraid to come here.
Thursday’s story discusses com
plaints about A&M’s English Lan
guage Proficiency exams.
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