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Professor and Student Needs ...
Academic Discontent Exists
The perfect professor in the eye of the student is
abounding with knowledge, vitality and inspiration. He
has done his homework. He inspires intellectual com
ment. He demands respect. He requires preparation for
his class. His demands are fair because he gives as
much as he expects of his students. He wants to share
his knowledge. He wants to teach.
The perfect student in the eye of the professor is
prepared for class. She knows basic facts. She asks
intelligent questions demanding a knowledgeable
professor’s answers. If she does not know the answer,
she is not afraid to ask. She participates. She gives the
professor eye contact during his lectures in contrast to
blank, uninterested stares. She wants to absorb his
knowledge. She wants to learn.
These expectations are idealistic. However, they
make a comment on very real professor-student desires.
There is nothing more disappointing to a student than
to enroll in a course whose description promised in
tellectual insight from the course and in actuality, the
course offered little more than monotonous lecture.
There is nothing more disappointing to a professor
than a student who promised hard work and actually
gave little more than class attendance.
A professor who sparks interest is one who is capable
of great salesmanship. His classes are worth attending
because each class enhances the learning experience.
He sells his product to his students.
Nonetheless, this salesman expects payment for his
hard work. Payment comes in participation, attendance
and thorough class preparation prior to class by the
student.
Professors and students at Salem have experienced
both disappointing and rewarding educational
relationships. Those who have experienced more of the
latter are fortunate because they will emerge with the
true understanding of scholarship.
Allison Buice
Seniors ... Entrance Exams Required
All applicants to graduate
school must take entrance
exams. The Graduate Record
Exam (GRE) is necessary
for any type of masters
program outside of law,
business, medicine or any
other specialized area.
Most graduate schools
require the GRE-Aptitude
and the GRE-Advanced in the
particular field of proposed
study. Students interested in
law, business or medicine
must take the Law School
Admissions Test (LSAT),
Graduate Management
Admissions Test (GMAT)
and the Medical College
Admissions Test (MCAT),
respectively.
Other specialized ad
missions tests are the
Veterinary Aptitude Test and
the Foreign Service Exam.
Graduate school applicants
for 1982-83 should take ad
missions tests either in the
fall or spring. The LSAT will
be given on Dec. 5 and Feb.
20. Deadlines for registration
are Nov. 5 and Jan. 21.
The MCAT will be given
April 3. Registration deadline
is approximately one month
prior to the testing date.
The GMAT will be ad
ministered on Oct. 24, Jan. 23,
March 20 and June 23.
Deadline for these tests,
respectively, are Sept. 21,
Dec. 21, Feb. 15 and May 18.
The GRE-Aptitude and the
GRE-Advanced will be given
on the morning and afternoon
of the following dates; Oct.
17, Dec. 12, Feb. 6 and April
24. The Aptitude only will be
administered on June 12.
Deadline for those test dates
are Nov. 6, Dec. 31, March 9
and May 7. All tests allow
walk-in registration if space
is available.
Most exams require a fee
that will be posted in the
information booklets for each
test. For example, the fee for
the GRE-Aptitude and
Advanced is $48; for the
LSAT basic registration, $18;
for the GMAT basic
registration, $27.
Salem does not administer
any of the tests; however,
Salem students may take
them at Wake Forest
University or any other of
ficial testing center.
Tests are normally ad
ministered on Saturdays and
require several hours to
complete. The GRE-Aptitude
is three and a half hours long;
the GRE-Advanced, two
Salem Security Upgraded
A guard is now posted at the
tennis court gate as a
precaution to keep
unauthorized persons from
entering campus.
Students must present their
Salem ID’s to the guard to
pass through the gate.
Tightened security is a result
of problems of car thefts in
the tennis court parking lot.
Security Tips
- Lock your car, shut
windows tightly whenever
you park.
- Never leave car running
unattended even for a minute.
- Carry a record in your
wallet of your car’s vital
statistics to aid in recovery in
case of theft.
- Turn wheels sharply left
or right to make it harder for
a thief to tow your vehicle.
- Engrave your Driver’s
License number or other code
in several concealed places
on or in the car. Drop your
business card into window
channel, beneath the seat,
behind the dash panel.
hours and 50 minutes; the
LSAT, three and a half hours;
the GMAT, three hours; the
MCATjitgix hours or all day
with : in'ch break.
PrOverstion for graduate
schQoi/eiams is not required,
but is available. For exam
ple, each information booklet
on the exams contains sample
questions and suggestions for
good results. These booklets
are available in the Lifespan
Center. More detailed
preparatory handbooks are
available at local bookstores.
The Lifespan Center offers a
filmstrip and a series of one-
hour tapes for LSAT
preparation.
Amity Testing Institute
provides preparatory courses
for the LSAT, GMAT and the
MCAT. The course centers in
North Carolina are in
Durham and Chapel Hill. The
Amity LSAT review is offered
on a three-day intensive
weekend with classes from
6:30 to 10:45 p.m. on Friday
and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on
Saturday and Sunday. A 30-
hour program including
Saturdays and Sundays is
available for two weeks or
one day per weekend for four
weeks. Cost for the three-day
weekend is $175 while the cost
for the 30-hour program is
$250. The review is ad
ministered two to four weeks
before the test date.
The Amity GMAT review is
a 15-hour program given on a
weekend. The cost is $160 and
it takes place two weeks prior
to testing.
The Amity MCAT reviev/s
usually take place on Sunday
afternoons for the eight
weeks prior to the test date.
Cost is $250. A home-study is
now available for the MCAT
review. Under this program,
the student pays $75 for
study materials, but does not
attend lectures.
Amity has a toll free
number for anyone interested
in more information: 1-800-
243-4767. Other questions
regarding graduate school
testing may be addressed to
Judy Aanstad or Roger
Pearman of the Lifespan
Center.
Practice Makes Perfect - Sally Smith and Kathy King, Pierrette
members, practice for their fall performance of Chaucer’s
“Canterbury Tales,” which will open today, Oct. 9, and run
through Sunday, Oct. 11.
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