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GOP candidate for U.S. Senate
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AUSTIN (AP) — Tuesday’s GOP
U.S. Senate primary could be like
child’s play because many Texans
know little about any of the four can
didates, one of them said Wednes
day.
“We still have to change that a
little bit, or for about 80 percent of
the voters it might be ‘eenie, meenie,
miney, moe,’ ” U.S. Rep. Beau
Boulter said of the low name identi
fication for him, Milton Fox, Wes
Gilbreath and Ned Snead.
token opposition in the Democratic
primary from Joe Sullivan, a little-
known professor from San Antonio.
“Even if it’s ‘eenie, meenie, miney,
moe,’ I’m ahead and would expect to
win,” said Boulter of Amarillo.
The four Republicans are battling
to face Democratic U.S. Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen in November. Bentsen faces
At a Capitol news conference,
Boulter called on Bentsen to abide
by campaign spending limits pro-
E osed in a Senate bill co-sponsored
y Bentsen. The bill was recently de
feated by Senate Republicans, but
Boulter said Bentsen should still
abide by the proposed limit of $5.8
million.
Reports have indicated Bentsen
could spend about $10 million on his
re-election bid. Boulter said Bentsen
would be in “an embarassing posi
tion” of exceeding the limits pro
posed in a bill he co-sponsored.
“The argument by all the spon
sors, and I assume it’s Sen. Bentsen’s
argument as well, is that too much
money might tend to corrupt and
might give some powerful senators
too much access to special interest
groups,” Boulter said.
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He said he would vote against the
bill because it offers federal money
for Senate races.
Jack DeVore, a Bentsen spokes
man in Washington, chided Boult
er’s comments on spending limits.
“Mr. Boulter opposes campaign
finance reform.” De Yore said. “Sen.
Bentsen supports it. Talk about hy
pocrisy.
“The real irony is that the only
reason Boulter is in this race is a
promise from the Republican Na-
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with a provisional admission to the
University and take this exam and
possibly be forced to take courses in
Texan English. It’s an ultimate out
rage.”
McIntyre says he does not think
this story is an exception but rather a
clear signal that a problem exists
with A&M’s English proficiency sys
tem.
“There are an infinity of stories of
this sort that one hears,” he says.
“And the bottom line that I have
reached in trying to research quite a
number of them is that almost all of
them are largely true, and that we do
have a problem.”
At a recent Faculty Senate meet
ing, Lloyd Colegrove, president of
the Graduate Student Council,
touched on this same problem.
“I have talked to people from In
dia who maintain that they learned
English from when they were a
child, yet they’ve had to go through
ELI,” he said at the meeting. “And I
have spoken with people from other
countries who learn English as a sec
ond language, and since their coun
try is a protectorate, they walked
right on in. And there’s a lot of grad
uate students out there who feel this
is very unfair.”
As the system currently stands,
Wormuth says, there is no consider
ation of a foreign student’s back
ground in English before he takes
the English proficiency exam. As a
result, students with bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from American
universities end up taking the exam
and, potentially, enrolling in ELI
courses.
“I think there have been occa
sional students for whom there may
have been an anomalous situation,
and they’re asked to take the test be
cause that’s policy,” Wormuth says.
“I think the concern becomes in
looking at the work that has been
done at a previous university. Some
where someone has to be evaluating
that.” Wormuth also says there is a
method built into A&M system for
appeal after a student has taken the
proficiency test.
“The department can request a
waiver or postponement of the stu
dent’s placement in this program,”
Wormuth says. “It’s an appeal done
by the departmental people through
the dean of their college, and when
they look at that information they
can make a decision.”
Upon arriving at A&M, most in
ternational students already have
taken an English proficiency exam
called the Test of English as a For
eign Language. The student’s
T OEFL and Graduate Record Exam
scores are primary factors in their
admission to the University.
University officials say there are
two main reasons why students are
retested after arrival. First, the
TOEFL does not test a student’s pro
ficiency in written or spoken En
glish. Also, administrators have cited
concerns about the security of the
TOEFL exam, saying that they
worry about its validity since it is ad
ministered under circumstances not
governed by A&M.
But students, professors and ad
ministrators admit that there are se
rious security problems with A&M’s
English proficiency exam.
Dr. David Martin, a research asso
ciate in the Office of Measurement
and Research Services, says about
eight or nine different forms of the
test are recycled for administration
of the test, which takes place six
times a semester.
But several foreign student asso
ciations have copies of all the forms
of the test, and one association even
has the test forms on microfilm.
The Battalion was able to obtain
two different forms of the test.
Wormuth says she is aware that
copies of the ELPE are circulated.
She says that fact does raise ques
tions about how accurate a measure
of a student’s proficiency the test ac
tually is. But she says that problem is
not uncommon with the use of stan
dardized tests.
“Like any other standardized test
ing situation, there is generally al
ways a means of getting copies of
things like that,” Wormuth says.
“The TOEFL exam is the same
way.
Four components of the six-sec
tion ELPE come from the Michigan
Test of English Language Profi
ciency. Dr. Sarah Briggs, a research
associate in the test office of the En
glish Language Institute at the Uni
versity of Michigan, says that retired
components of the MTELP are sold
to colleges and universities around
the country for screening purposes.
Briggs says the University of
Michigan no longer uses the MTELP
and has developed another profi
ciency test called the Michigan En
glish Lanaguage Assessment Bat
tery. New versions of the test are
constructed every year, she says, in
order to avoid the type of security
problem that exists at A&M.
“That’s a serious problem,” Briggs
says. “We don’t use it here because
when you’re using a test widely like
that, you have to revise it every
year.”
Aside from the complaints about
who takes the test and the security
problems, some, such as Colegrove,
argue that the test itself is not a fair
measure of students’ English profi
ciency.
“Ladies and gentleman,” he told a
recent Faculty Senate meeting, “I
have the feeling that if you took
some of the other graduate students
from the U.S. and had them take
this exam, you would find a certain
percentage that did not pass it.”
Dr. Ry Young, a tenured profes
sor of biochemistry who has been
outspoken against the ELI system,
also voices concerns about the
fairness of the A&M proficiency
exam.
“Apparently we give the most ex
haustive and extensive English lan
guage proficiency test that’s given
anywhere,” he says, “at least ash;
as anyone else’s and harder than
most everyone’s.”
But Dr. David Martin, assistant
search psychologist with A&M’sT
and Measurement Services, sayst
ELPE “for the most part” provii
an accurate evaluation of fora
students’ English proficiency.
Martin says A&M chose to use
Michigan test because of its cn
ity- Jg
“It’s a test that has a long hi
of development, so it was set
because it’s one of the better ti
the type,” he says.
Before A&M began using
ELPE, Martin says, the Univei
tested it on entering A&M freslm
whose native language is Engl
They were given the four Michii
components — testing reading,
tening, vocabulary and grammai
and the composition componi
which is designed locally.
“It was just a check to makes
that it was something that was|
sonable to give international
dents,” Martin says. “The mainp
was to make sure that it wasn'ts
thing that native speakers
have difficulty with, because it
be unfair to expect internation
do better than (native speakers)
Foreign graduate students
score an 80 on each test section;
eign undergraduates must ntf
70.
On the listening, grammar
vocabulary sections of theteslir
trial run with native Englishsf
ers, all the freshmen scored hi
than 80. But 20 percent scorer
low 80 on the reading compri
sion section of the test, and"
cent scored below 80 on
composition section, Martinsaii
But Martin said he’s not suit
reliable those results are.
“Certainly . . . trying to deter
the level that’s required of gra‘
students from testing under!
uates is kind of hard,” he said
requirements are a lot differen
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