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First of a two-part series.
It's 7:30 Saturday morning, and you
tell yourself that the Graduate Record
Examination will soon be over. You are
ill when you realize that for three hours,
you will be taking a test that could deter
mine your immediate future.
For those thinking about attending
graduate school, the GRE, which is co
ordinated by . the Educational Testing
Service in Princeton, N.J., is an obstacle
that must be overcome.
Students' test scores supplement aca
demic records they send to grad schools,
which use the records and test scores
when deciding which students they Wl
admit.
"While everybody applies for the SAT .
(Scholastic Aptitude Test), the percentage
taking the GRE is like the top percentage
of that group," said Penny Rue, assistant
director of outreach services for the Uni
versity Counseling Center. She said that
students must compete heavily for spots
in grad schools.
Minority otudento visit Carolina
By KIMDERLY KLEMAN
Staff Writer
Over 300 minority high school students
and their parents visited UNC last week
. for "Decision Days," a newly-established
program which gives minority high school
students already accepted here an infor
mal look at the campus.
"In the past, those minority students
that decided not to attend UNC, and
who wrote us comments about why they
wouldn't be coming, had misconceptions
about the University. They thought some
things were true about us that weren't,"
said Collin Rustin, Jr., assistant director
of Undergraduate Admissions and a
member of the committee that established
Decision Days.
Decision Days was designed to dispel
these misconceptions, he said, by pro
viding high school students and their
parents with information on housing,
financial aid, courses, admissions pro
cedures and support systems for the black
community at UNC. Tables were set up
in the Union where students could ask
questions and receive information, and a
luncheon was planned for all who at
tended. Also, student counselors provided
campus tours.
The three-day program, in which fam
ilies were invited to visit on any one of
the days, is especially needed for minority
students, Rustin said.
"For many white students, it's an es
tablished 'tradition 'to 'cbme'io Chapel
Hilt.' Their parents! riaVeJc'brheJ here;land
even their grandparents," he said. "For
blacks, we have yet to go through a gen
eration of students whose parents have
come to Chapel Hill. It's only -the 11th
year of real integration here."
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There are many ways, however, a stu
dent can prepare for the test. One way is
to purchase any one of several commer
cial books on the GRE, which cost about
$5. Or one can pick up a GRE registra
tion booklet in Nash Hall. The books
contain practice tests and study guides
that allow the student to discover his
weaknesses.
"It's like the SAT," Rue said. "They
say you can't prepare for it. But take it
seriously, and never take it on luck."
Rue said that college students are par
ticularly weak in the math section, which
consists of trigonometry, geometry and
algebra subjects that most students
have not studied since high school.
The analytical section, which deals
with logic, also poses a problem for the
student, she said.
Other tests similar to the GRE are the
Law School Admissions Test, the Medi
cal College Admissions Test, the Dental
Admissions Test, and the Graduate
Management Admissions Test, These
testswhich are admissions tests for var
ious professional schools, are used much
like the GRE. Study booklets are also
available for these tests.
Elson Floyd, assistant dean in the de
partment of student life, said "We decided
to make it an informal thing because for
black students, the informal mechanisms
are not there. White high school students
come to Chapel Hill with their parents
for football games and see the University
then, .or see it when they visit their
friends here. Blacks often don't come
here for the weekends to see what Chapel
. Hill is like." .
Decision Days enabled the high school
students to get a total perspective of the
University by showing them all its parts,
Floyd said. "We ran the program from
the (Carolina) Union, on North Campus so
the students would be able to see North'
Campus. They also saw the dorms on
Middle Campus and South Campus," he
;said.
Some students, however, made up their
minds where to live next year even before
taking the tour. 4 1 knew a long time ago
I wanted to stay in Hinton James," said
a Wilson high school senior Reginald
Speight. "My brothers and sisters all
stayed in James, and I always wanted to
stay on South Campus. Visiting here
hasn't changed my decision."
Other students said that visiting the
campus had changed their minds about
UNC.
"Students have told me visiting UNC
has changed their decision in a positive
direction," Floyd said. "A day devoted
to them fills that need to feel that the
University is concerned about them."
Rustin also said seeing UNC encourages
";! students to -come "here. "One of the major
A problems we have with black high school
students is that they don't know what's
available here. They don't know what's
happening. If we can get people to see it,
it sells itself. This was our goal with
.Decision Days."
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"The GRE is geared toward a rate of
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esidents oppose substation site
By STEVE GRIFFIN
Staff Writer
Plans for construction by UNC of an elec
tric power substation near the North Carolina
Botanical Garden on Mason Farm Road have
met with opposition from residents of the
nearby Highland Woods neighborhood follow
ing the Chapel Hill Town Council's approval
of the project last week.
The residents said they would request that top
University officials reconsider the location of
the proposed construction, but said they might
appeal in court if it became necessary.
Those who spoke on behalf of the residents
asked not to be identified individually, because,
they said, that would distort the sense of group
opposition.
"Our main concern is that the location is
just not appropriate. It will definitely detract
from the beauty of the Botanical Garden,"
one said.
Olin Mouzon, a UNC economics professor,
agreed with the protesting residents.
"The proposed substation location not
only will commandeer an important segment
of the garden, but will also present a much
greater nuisance after the garden's main en
trance is moved to Old Mason Farm Road,"
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when one or more the . choices can be
eliminated as incorrect. "The best thing
to do is to answer the questions you know
first and go back to others if you have
time," Rue said.
It is difficult to determine an average
GRE score because each graduate school
has different scorings and qualifications.
Other factors, such as your college qual
ity point average, extra-curricular activities
and recommendations, are considered.
UNC administers the GRE in October,
December, February, April and June.
Registration for the April test was March
20, but students can still register by pay
ing a $5 late registration fee. The dead
line for the June test is May 8, and the
registration fee is $20. Registration forms
are in the GRE information bulletin in
Nash Hall.
Town planners had suggested another site
for the substation earlier which had been
rejected, but that residents now feel should be
reconsidered.
The alternative site is approximately 3,000
feet further from the campus load center,
near both the Orange Water and Sewer Au
thority sewage plant and Finley Golf Course.
Residents estimated that construction on
the alternate site would cost the University an
extra $300,000 to $400,000. In addition, the
residents predicted that power loss due to the
inefficiency of longer cables would cost the
University around $1 1,000 annually.
The residents said the advantages outweighed
that extra expense. "The town-suggested site
removes the high tension wires from the Garden
and the adjacent recreation property (Finley
Golf Course)," said a paper written by the
residents explaining their viewpoint. "It clus
ters three negatives: the maintenance build
ings for the golf course, the east side of the
sewer plant and the substation'
One resident emphasized that his main con
cern was the "unnecessary burden which will
be put on the environment. We feel the Uni
versity should get a disinterested opinion
from someone who doesn't have an ax to
grind. We see a need for a detached, careful
review of the whole matter," he said.
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There are many teams on the UNC
campus that do not involve passing,
dribbling or batting a ball but excel in
academic areas such as the math,
debate, speech, chess and college bowl
teams.
UNCs College Bowl team tied for fifth
at the National College Bowl finals in
Huntington, W. Va., last week.
As a result of his performance, Peter
Heller, a senior from N.Y., and a 4-year
member of the team was chosen for the
east and national all-stars teams.
"We had hoped to do a little better,"
he said. "But the teams tied with Harvard,
Princeton and the University of Wiscon-sin-Eau
Claire."
The questions from the competition
were based on history, literature, sports
and current events. Other members of
the team are: Blair Haworth, captain;
Bruce Graver and Wynn Dough. Ernie
Johnson is the coach.
Peter Heller, with Ed Rak and Webster
Hughes, also represented UNC recently
as members of the math team in the 41st
annual William Lowell Putnam Mathe
matical Competition held in December.
Adviser Tom Brylawski said the results
from the competition arrived this month
and of the six UNC students who took
the test, all but one member finished in
the top 25 percent of the country. The
team finished sixteenth nationwide.
"An example problem from this year's
competition was: Prove that there are
1066 subsets of a set "X" so that every
subset contains one-half the elements of
"X," then there are. 10 elements of "X"
which intersect every subset," Brylawski
said.
The Debate Team had 1 2 people repre
senting UNC in intercollegiate competi
tion recently. In the Southeastern Regional
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team of Carol Winkler, a senior from
Boone and Richard McAdams, a junior
from Charlotte, competed against 18
other teams to place second. Winkler
and McAdams will represent UNC as
one of 62 teams in the National Debate
Tournament in Pamona, CaUf., April
10-13, Coach Virgil Balthrop said.
"While there are schools with better
debate and speech teams, there are few
schools that have both good debate and
speech teams like Carolina," he said.
Balthrop said the greatest requirement
for team members was a willingness to
spend time on research. The team was
made up of speech communication,
English, political science, economics,
philosophy and math majors.
Although Ralph Kennedy is a speech
and political science major, he is not on
the debate team: Kennedy is a member
of UNC's Speech Team.
Kennedy, the thirteenth person in the
country to win 100 college career trophies,
helped give the speech team a first place
award in the AFA Southern Conference
District VI Tournament March 21-22 at
Auburn, Ala.
"There's a great deal of work and a
great deal of fun in the Speech Team. In
the four years that I've been here, the
team has moved from 48th to seventh in
the nation," said Kennedy.
'A team that does not require any spe
cific academic knowledge, but is consid
ered a game of the minds, is the Chess
Club.
A team of four UNC students finished
19th in North Amerjca at the Pan-American
games in Atlanta during December. Tom
Galloway, president of the Chess Club,
was elected president of the Intercollegiate
Chess League of America.
"Chess is not our lives," Galloway
said. "Basically we just enjoy playing
the game and believe it is a good game
for exercising the mind rather than the
body."
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