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Page 6 April 27, 1977 Papert Sun S.A.S.U. News New Student G.R.E/s (Continued from page 9) As you can see we didn’t do too badly. First we had some major restorations in TAP. As you know, Carey had proposed cutting the program by $40,7 million by implementing the following cuts: 1) Reinstate the Jan. 1, 1974 cut-off date for eligibility for TAP. 2) Limit to four semesters the number of TAP awards for associate or masters programs. 3) Cut all TAP awards by $100 for freshmen and-sophomores. 4) Count BEOG, Veteran’s Benefits and Social Security as income. 5) Enact a lowered scale of awards for single emancipated students. Anyone with income above $5,666 would receive no award. These cuts in TAP were our highest priority, especially #4. The good news is that the Legislature did not approve #1-4. In addition, there wre two other more monor cuts Carey had proposed that were not in the actual budget. These two would have: 1) Changed the method for adjusting income when there is more than one student attending college in the family for those on Schedule B (mainly graduate students). This change would reduce awards for these people. 2) Eliminate the Save-Harmless clause, which SASU had added to TAP in 1974, one year earlier than it would otherwise have expired. This would cause certain students, mainly those from ulti-student families, to lose money. The Legislature disapproved both of these two cuts also. So, they added $25.1 million by not enacting six of seven cuts in TAP. Overall, that’s not too bad, and I really believe that our efforts (letter-writing, lobbying, rallying, etc.) had a major effect. Needless to say, we’re unhappy about the change in emancipation and SASU will make that one of its top priorities in the Supplement Budget. The CUNY Studnet Senate and the Independent Student Coalition will be joining us in this fight. For SUNY\ again relatively speaking at least on the program side, we didn't do badly, the budget passed virtually unchanged - only four campuses (Albany - $35,000; U. Buffalo - $330,000; Stony Brook - $40,000; and Old Westbury - $30,000) had any cuts and these were in utilities and research. In previous years, the Legislature has made deeper cuts than this (about $7 million two years ago, almost $2 million last year) - so we did all right. The bad news is on the program side - the Legislature wants SUNY to increase revenue by $2.3 million by imposing a health fee. The budget odesn’t specify the level of the fee, but $2.3 million comes to $15 per student (FTE) per year. This fee was something we first heard about four days before the budget was released, so there was virtually nothing we could do about it. However, SUNY Central is pretty upset with this fee also and seems willing to fight it. Also a source in the Ways & Means Committee said that there is a chance for getting the fee knocked out in the Supplemental Budget. To help us in this fight, please send me material describing the current state of your campus health services and what cuts have' been made this year and what the outlook is for next year. The other item was CUNY, which got $5 million for the senior colleges. SASU will be working on determining its priorities for the supplemental over the next two weeks and we’ll keep you informed of those as well as of strategies and tactics. I have also enclosed a copy of the summary of the final report of the Wessell Commission which was also just released today. There is virtually no change from the preliminary report - just a longer explanation of why they did what they did. More on Wessell comingup, as there is likely to be some hearings run by the Legislature. We did fairly well budget-wise, but there are still a lot of things we have to struggle for - eliminating the health fee, restoring the last TAP cut, more money for EOP, etc. We must keep pressure on the Legislature. Affairs Officer Dr. William R. Kunsela, Presi dent of State University College at Utica/Rome (Upper Division Col lege), announces the appointment of Dr. William J. Murabito as Vice President for Student Affairs, effective August 1, 1977. Dr: Murabito succeeds Ms. Shirley E. Wurz who is retiring this July after 30 years of service to State University. Murabito, a native Utican, came to the Utica/Rome College in 1973 as Director of Admissions, the position he now occupies. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Higher Education from the Uni versity of Illinois. He earned his Master’s degree at SUNY, Albany, and his bachelor’s degree at State University College at Buffalo. He came to the Upper Division College from Alfred State College where he was Director of Counseling Services. He served from 1967 until 1969 as Director of Financial Aid at Mohawk Valley Community College. He is a member of the Kiwanis, State University of New York College Admissions Personnel (treasurer), Our Lady of Lourdes Parents Advisory Council, National Asso ciation of Student Personnel Administration and serves on the University Faculty Senate. Among his published words is “A Model Community/Junior College Program for the Potential Success ful Student.\ In addition to his professional activities, he is a registered softball umpire. He is married to the former Mary E. Simeone of Amsterdam, New York, and resides in Utica. - - - m DINE OUTI U n d e ~ H e n p u $ PANCAKE * ! RESTAURANT TASTE and COMPARE WE BUY THE BEST WHY NOT EAT THE BEST W E SERVE ONLY FEDERALLY INSPECTED U.S.D.A. 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Students, faculty members, and administrators from all over the country were consulted in the various planning stages of the change in the exam. Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the exam for the GRE Board, explains that the additional measure will enable students to demonstrate a wider array of academic talents when they apply for admission to graduate schools. Jan is Somerville, GRE program director at ETS, said, “The new measure will test a student’s skills in a number o f areas. Students will be able to show their ability to recognize logical relationships, draw conclusions from a complex series of statements, and deter mine relationships between inde pendent or interdependent cate gories of groups.” She explained that, like the traditional measures of the GRE, the new test will use various kinds of questions. “Three types will be used in the analytical section: analysis of explanations, logical diagrams, and analytical reasoning ques tions, _each designed to test a different aspect of analytical ability,” she said. Somerville also explained that no formal training in logic or methods o f analysis is required to do well on the new measure. “Some analytical skills are required and developed in virtual ly all fields of study,” she explained. “And, like verbal and quantitative skills, analytical skills- are developed over a long period of time and are not believed to be improved to any. significant degree by intenstive study in a brief period of time.” Somerville also noted that the 1977-78 GRE Bulletin of Informa tion will describe the new measure and will include sample questions and explanations of the answers. The Bulletin is sent free to all students registering for the GRE. In addition, a Sample Aptitude Test containing the same number and types of questions as the actual exam can be offered at one dollar per copy. Both publications will be available on August 1. Despite the new addition, the GRE will remain a three-hour test since the verbal and quantita tive portions have been shortened and the time saved allocated to the new measure. “The same research effort that produced the new measure also yielded shorter versions of the verbal and quantitative sections that are comparable in reliability and usefulness to the earlier and longer sections,” explained Somer ville. The GRE is taken each year by about 300,000 college students as part of the admissions process to graduate school. The exam is offered six times a year, while advanced tests in 20 subjects are offered five times a year through- PHILLIP'S 1MOTORS i«t 520 C o u r t St. at A r t e r ia l 724-1011 U S E D C A R S P E C IA L S 7 3 MUSTANG 7 5 BMW MACH 1 202A 77 CORVETTE 75 MONZA LOADED V-8, 4-SPEED 74 DATSUN 610 7 4 CHRYSLER WAGON NEWPORT CUSTOM 7 2 MG 7 5 JEEP MIDGET PICK-UP, 4 WD WE SERVICE ALL IMPORTS COMPLETE BODY SERVICE
