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SAT undergoes changes, will better test critical thinkin; “ The Associated Press PRINCETON, NJ. — The venerable SAT is get ting its first major overhaul in two decades. It will al low use of calculators and better test critical thinking skills. But critics say the revisions to the assessment test are only cosmetic and don't address what they see as an underlying bias against women and minorities. "It's an attempt to make the SAT look like it will measure higher-order thinking skills," said Cinthia Schuman, head of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. "You really can't measure higher-or der thinking skills in questions answered in one minute or less, or when students can't show their work or do anything except choose from preselected possibilities." The Scholastic Aptitude Test first appeared in 1926. It is used by most U.S. colleges to evaluate po tential students. It consists of two sections, one mea suring verbal abilities and one measuring mathemat ical skills. Each section is worth 200 to 800 points. High school students will first see the new version March 19. More than 1 million high school students a year take the SAT. Officials from the Princeton-based Educational Testing Service, which administers the test, say its the first major overhaul to the SAT since 1974. The verbal section will contain fewer reading pas sages, but the passages will be longer. The test also will include a pair of passages on similar subjects, which students will be asked to compare. Students who have memorized long lists of ob scure words will have less chances to displaytl knowledge. Unlike its predecessor, the new SI won't contain a section on antonyms. Instead, the SAT will have more partial sentJ that students will have to complete. In the mathematical section, the biggestckl will be that students can bring along calculators * Unlike the old test, the new version will hat; | math questions without multiple-choice ans»iI Students will be required to calculate their on: I sponse. PI th bt hav< The Battalion Classified Ads Phone: 845-0569 / Office: Room 015 (basement) Reed McDonald Building Business Hours Call or visit us: Monday through Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fax us at 845-5408 Deadline 11 a.m. prior to publication accepted ^ ’AGGIE’ Private Party Want Ads $10 for 20 words running 5 days, if your merchandise is priced $1000 or less (price must O appear In ad). This rate applies only to non-commercial advertisers offering personal possesions for sale. Guaranteed results or you get an additional 5 days at no charge. LXJ If Item doesn't sell, advertiser must call before 11 a.m. on the day the ad is schedule to end to qualify for the 5 additional insertions at no charge. 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This trial is now the focal point: inter-party war," he said. At stake are the highest positions in Texas government, which ries significance on the national level because of the state's sizeli: fluence. This year. Democrats want to recapture the Senate seat wonk! Hutchison, and Republicans are seeking to unseat Democratic^ Ann Richards. The outcome of Hutchison's trial could affect both races in the vember general election, Christian said. Hutchison and Richards little-known opposition in their party primaries March8. "It could turn into quite a political event in the fall," Christiarj "When the Republicans and Democrats square off they will tryainl the trial or take advantage of it no matter how it turns out." He added, "The public has probably lost sight of what her trial; about because of this intense political warfare." Jury selection is scheduled to start Monday in Mrs. Hutchison’sti Attorneys on both sides say the trial itself could last from one toi months. Hutchison, 50, faces three charges of official misconduct, and charge each of tampering with government records and tampe: with physical evidence. All are felony charges except foronenc meaner count of official misconduct. The charges allege that she used her previous position as state* surer, a post she held from January 1991 to June 1993, for personal political gain. She used state funds, state employees and state comti ers to run a political operation, and then destroyed records as part: cover-up, according to the indictments. Just eight months after winning a landslide election to become first woman senator from Texas, Hutchison, if convicted on all coil faces the prospect of a 20-year prison sentence. Hutchison has denied any wrongdoing. She and the stale Repu| can Party have claimed the charges are politically motivated. Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, saw charge is frequently made by officeholders in.both parties who scrutinized by his office. c o v burr: tune cook N expl is p< The is so enin so c< unde to co H bide Old of tl Tean W ly Jo' Wal- H in tii shoe "The that prog for t whic on p folio "I will i lence of T, It Scientists use baboon? to test AIDS vaccines The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Baboons have been infected with a hybri man-monkey AIDS virus in a move that could make testingexperi: tal vaccines easier, scientists say. Two baboons at Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Rest were infected by researchers with SHIV, a simian-human immune: ciency virus developed at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Bostc: Efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine has been blocked by the lad: plentiful animal model. Chimpanzees, the closest primate to mar. capable of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIK But those animals are rare, intelligent and protected. Baboons are the second primate species to become infected; SHIV. Two years ago. Harvard researchers successfully inft: cynomolgus monkeys with the virus. "They are still testing vaccines in chimps, but not at any great!! because there are not many chimps," said Jonathan Allen, a virote at Southwest Foundation. "So right now, large human clinical trials to look for vaccines: AIDS are on hold," he said. The first chimpanzee was first successfully infected with the .-l. virus at the Southwest Foundation in 1984. The foundation also has' of the world's largest baboon colonies with 2,000 animals. "This foundation in general has had pretty good collaboration; the past with a lot of different vaccine companies, who have done: of testing (here) in the chimp models," said Allen. To produce the genetically engineered SHIV, the outer proteine: lope of HIV is grafted onto the core of a strain of simian immunotf ciency virus, an AIDS-like virus that infects non-human primates. Allen said that, because most AIDS vaccines under developmer’. designed to attack the outer envelope of HIV, scientists should be:' to test their effectiveness against SHIV. Researchers in Japan have developed a similar hybrid simian-hif virus. San Antonio foundation officials said the two baboons have mained infected for 36 weeks and are not expected to develop Al like symptoms. Many vaccine researchers may prefer to use baboons over cynot gus monkeys because they are larger, more closely related to hue- and more plentiful, Allen said. K; Ai M A; D; St Je K. Je Tl SI Ai K; Ai Scam Continued from Page 1 Wittman said the man told him to wait 90 to 120 days for the & zines to arrive, which Wittman thought was rather long. "After 90 days, you can't cancel a credit card transaction," hesai ; Wiatt said often these salespeople tell students to make check to vendors or companies that are no longer in business. "To find these guys is just impossible," he said. Wiatt said that if the salespeople are found to be con-artists, f' from out-of-state, the district attorney would not extradite them - for $30 or so, most students would not pursue legal action. "This is how they make their money," he said. "If you wantaf ; azine, deal directly with the publisher." Palomeque said he felt victimized. Despite the new 24-hour lock policy in non-air halls such as Law/Ihe man still got in. Wiatt said there is often no way a student can tell whether the>« : man is legitimate or not. "The bad thing is people are swayed by the people and thei: ; ries," he said. "Often students say, TT1 buy one to get rid of them, ; that's how they make their money." Hi Hi Je w M Vi Jo Kj Bt M