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Scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have declined
for the 17th consecutive year nationally but are slowly
on the rise in North Carolina, according to recent
figures released by the College Doard.
The SAT exarn measures mathematical and verbal
abilities on a scale of 200 to 00 and is administered by
the board to college-bound high school students.
The national scores have declined from a peak of 478
verbal and 502 math in 1962-1963 to 423 verbal and 467
math in 1979-1930, a decline of 90 points combined.
The drop has caused a great deal of concern among
educators, administrators and parents who say they
wonder whether the scores reflect a decline in the
quality of the nation's educational systems as well.
Drue? Eckland, a professor in the sociology
department, recently served on an advisory panel
organized to study possible causes for the decline in
scores.
The panel concluded that numerous factors
contributed to the continuing decline.
Among the causes listed were the adding of more
elective courses to high school currieuJums, particularly
in English; the apparent drop of students enrolled in
basic English courses; the tolerance of increased
absenteeism; and grade inflation, Eckland said.
Automatic promotion to the next grade level, a
reduction of homework, a lowering of the reading
levels of textbooks and the advent of television also
have contributed to the decline, Eckland said.
He said television caused more of a child's learning
to develop through viewing and listening than through
the traditional modes of reading and writing.
However, the panel concluded that increases in
school desegregation and forced busing probably did
not affect the scores substantially during the 1970s
because the measures only occured in limited areas of
the country.
Other educators have said the decline was caused, in
part, by the increasing number of persons from poor
socioeconomic backgrounds taking the test,
particularly in the 1960s.
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"The tests put emphasis on reading and translating it
into clear, concise, written English," said Richard
Cashwell, director of Undergraduate Admissions.
"We don't consider the SAT very much in deciding
who is admitted to the - Unvisrsity," Cashwell said.
"We feel what a student studies in high school and his
class rank are a lot better indicators of how he'll do in
college," he said.
In contrast to the rest of the country, scores in North
Carolina have risen over the past three years from an
average of 390 verbal and 424 math in 1977-1978 to 393
verbal and 429 math in 1979-1 920.
"We've had more emphasis on language and math
and on exceptional children," said A. Craig Phillips,
state superintendent of schools. "The kids who started
out in our basic reading -program are now in high
school, and it shows," he said. '
The basic reading program was started in 1969 for
kindergarten students and extended in 1976 to include
elementary grades.
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Student Body President Bob Saunders
will discuss the proposed Southern Bell
rate increase on "Open Line," a weekly
news program that will air 8 p.m.
Sunday on WXYC (89.3-FM), UNC's
student radio station.
Linda Brown, a staff for The Daily
Tar Heel and editor of Black Ink, and
WXYC staff member Tom Young also
will question Saunders about Chapel
Hill's plans for a new noise ordinance,
UNC's food service and the recently
released College Curriculum Report.
Phone lines will be open during the
40-minute program and listeners may
call in questions and idea.
Carter told the crowd he would continue to
pursue a policy of peace and that "the best
weapon is the one that is never fired. The best
soldier is the one who never has to give his life
in combat."
After Carter finished his speech, several
state officials joined him on the podium in
signing a proclamation making March ,19,
1981 National Agriculture Day.
The Carter motorcade then weni to a
reception at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons
for a S500-a-couple fund-raising dinner.
Carter again stressed the importance of the
election, which he said "may be the most
important decision of your lives."
Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department
of Education.
Gary Barnes, assistant vice president for
planning for the General Administration,
said the office had not begun working with
the report.
"We have a tremendous backlog of work
because of preparing for litigation with (the
Department of Education)," Barnes said.
"This survey is not of high priority right
now. That's not to say - that it will be ,
forgotten, either." V ..."
Barnes said it may be three months before
more is done with the survey.
He said the administration also is using
information gathered from the UNC system's
1977 and 1978 admissions records in its
federal administrative court case dealing with
the UNC system's desegregation plans. That
information is gathered from accepted
applicants, not just people who actually
enrolled.
Barnes would not release exact figures
because of their role in litigation, but he said
' they showed that while the percentage of
blacks who were accepted and enrolled in the
UNC system dropped slightly, actual black
, enrollment was up.
"More blacks are beginning to submit
applications than would have a few years
ago," he said. .
The 1979 survey also said black females
had the highest educational aspirations, while
, blacks in general have higher educational
goals than whites. . .' - . .; '. :: , v
Almost 77 percent of the black females- said
they planned to study for at least a Master's
degree, compared with 65.5 percent of black
males.
The University's strong academic
reputation was the major reason students
chose to enroll at the Chapel Hill campus, the
report said.
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Hearing set in drug caoe
A probable cause hearing for 16 people arrested Sept. 24 cn druj charges
has been scheduled for Oct. 15 at the Hillsboroush County Court house.
N.C. District Judge Stanley Peele will preside at the hearing.
The 16, including seven UNC students, were arrested on a total of 56 druj
charges in connection with an undercover investigation conducted by the
Chapel Hill Police Department, Carrboro Police Department, University
Police and the State Bureau of Investigation.
Police confiscated drugs with an estimated street value of $60,0C0
including methamphetamine, marijuana and hashish, during the arrests.
Llore than 5,000 register in county
More people registered to vote in Orange County on Oct. 6, the last day to
do so, than any other single day, said Gerry Cohen, who works with voter
registration for the Orange County Democratic Party.
- Cohen said 1,061 voters registered this past Monday in Carrboro Town
Hall and the Chapel Hill Municipal Building. He estimated that mere than
5,000 people had registered to vote in Orange County since the process began
in September. Of those, approximately 4,000 registered in Chapel Hill, the
other 1,000 in Carrboro.
The registration held in Woollen Gym Sept. 15 and 22 brought in 535 new
voters, he said. Cohen attributed the high turnout to the bus referendum,
which will be voted on Nov. 4, the appearance of Independent presidential
candidate John Anderson at the University, and the hours and sites of voter
registration. Registrars were on campus two days, and residents could
register at the town hall and the municipal building six days a week, rather
. than five.
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lisoinger to releaoe converaationo
WASHINGTON (AP) Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has
agreed to turn over to the government transcripts of his telephone
conversations while he headed the State Department, U.S. officials disclosed
Thursday.
However, under a compromise agreement with department lawyers,
Kissinger will be able to keep under wraps notes that are considered personal.
Kissinger has considered the summaries of phone calls, his personal
working papers. Without deciding that issue, the Supreme Court last March
kept them out of thchands of journalists, historians and political scientists.
Polish exile wins Nobel Prise
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) The exiled Polish writer awarded the 19C0
Nobel Prize for literature said Thursday his poems are a response to the
tragic experiences of the 20th century.
Czeslaw Milosz, a professor of Slavic languages at the University of
California at Berkeley, was awarded the coveted literary prize this year
worth a record $212,000 by the Swedish Academy of Letters in Stockholm
Thursday.
The strong-willed, 69-year-old instructor said he was delighted that the
Nobel Prize was awarded to a writer in the "exotic Polish language,' but was
suprised that honor went to him.
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determined unsafe in 1929 and by 1931 a new
building had risen on the same site as the old
Gothic structure. Former dormitories such as
Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Hall and Steele
Building were converted for administrative
purposes.
"Person Hall used to be the old chapel of
the University," said John Alcott, retired
. employee of the Uniyersity.art department.
. '.'Then (it housed) chemistry, medicine, art
Contrasting the modern Student Health
Service, students in 1858 used a small two
room structure known as "The Retreat" as
their infirmary. "The Retreat" was located
on the site of Spencer Residence Hall for 36
years.
To expand the medical school, a dissecting
hall was constructed around 1900 in an
almost inaccessible section of campus, the
persent location of Venable Hall. This hall
was abandoned in 1911 when Caldwell Hall
was built for the medical school. Fans will be
fans, and in the tradition of a Carolina
victory, students burned the deserted
dissecting .hall to celebrate the defeat of
Virginia in 1919.
Football and baseball games were held in
Emerson Field and Stadium, in the area
surrounding today's Pit.
Athletic activities have not always been
centered in Woollen Gymnasium. Bynum
Hall, that awesome home of the Cashier's
Office, was known as Bynum Gymnasium for
33 years until the opening of Woollen
Gymnasium in 1937.
An indoor poll was located in Bynum
Gymnasium, but use of the pool was
eventually stopped when it was declared
unsanitary due to the lack of filters or
circulatory pumps.
During the 1940s, Woollen dymnasium
was used for other things besides athletics.
Because of plumbing shortages la campus
buildings, it was not unusual to see a towel
clad student "dash over to the ' gym for a
.shower, said William ,S. roweilia Hs beck
The First State University.
Professor Emeritus Walter Spearman was
a UNC student during the 1920s tid until his
recent retirement taught at the University for
43 years. He said he had seen msch of the
rapid expansion on campus.
"It's harder for a new student on South
Campus to feel an intimate psjl of the
University," Spearman said. "Students tend
to identify with their own personal student
interests." But he said, "Students' adjust to
(the changes) quickly."
Other centers of student life have changtd
their locations many times In the history of
UNC and students seemed to havt adjusted
well.
At one time the hub of Greek activity was
centered around what is now the pat king area
near Swain Hall. Fraternity Row in the 1920s
extended along the north and west borders of
the campus .
There were 10 frame houses 'for the
fraternities until 1919 when a fire destroyed
three of them. In 1925, the fraternities
exchanged these sites along Fraternity Row
for the area today know as Fraterr4y Court.
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