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February 14 - 20, 2006
Big changes in store for GRE
New test will pose a tougher
challenge for internationals
Maggie McDermott
Staff Writer
A new GRE exam is being
planned to better prepare students
for grad school, but the changes
may present new challenges for
graduate school hopefuls, espe-
cially international students.
Educational Testing Services
will launch the new Graduate
Record Examinations in October
2007, a year after originally sched-
uled, which is harder, longer and
more expensive – just to name a
few changes.
“I think when the new test is
launched students and professors
will appreciate a much improved
test,” said David Payne, the execu-
tive director of the GRE program.
The changes to the exam ques-
tions include using new questions
types, replacing analogies and ant-
onyms with critical thinking and
Ban is over as legislative council gives grapes the OK
CP Photo/Lauren Contillo
Freshman humanities major
Danielle Neale jokingly feeds
herself grapes in the Kittredge
Dining Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
Many students, like Neale, are
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unaware of the grape ban.
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data interpretation with geometry.
Sang Yeon Seo is a masterʼs
degree applicant in civil engineer-
ing and has taken the GRE four
times. He dreads the change for
future applicants.
“It is remarkable that the
new GRE has a great disadvan-
tage to international students: they
reduced the sections which inter-
national students are good at and
increased sections international
students are poor at,” Seo wrote
in an e-mail.
The proctoring of the exam
will also change. The GRE will
now only be offered 30 times a
year and will be a longer exam.
The cost will increase, but a set
price has not yet been decided.
Even though the test might
not be as convenient, Lori
Heintzelman, Testing Coordinator
for CU-Boulder Testing Services,
said, “It looks like the test might
Patricia Kaowthumrong
Staff Writer
Table grapes are returning to
the UMC after a 19-year ban.
On Jan. 24, the University
of Colorado Student Unionʼs
Legislative Council voted to reverse
the bill boycotting the “sale or use
of table grapes in all student-fee
funded facilities at CU Boulder.”
A table grape is any kind of
grape that is not used to make
wine. The sale or use of the small
fruit has actually been banned in
the UMC and its services until
very recently.
The news of the fruitʼs return
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Senior psychology major Claudia Winkler (right) listens during a GRE training class on Tuesday,
Feb. 7 in the School of Law. Winkler plans to take the GRE in April 2005.
be a better measure of studentʼs
abilities.”
These changes in the GRE
will not only pose problems for
to the UMC comes as a shock to
many students.
“What? Grapes are coming
back? I didnʼt even know they
were banned. I donʼt even like
grapes,” said freshman pre-health
major Sean Forrester.
The shock was not because
students were surprised to hear that
the grapes were coming back, but
because students didnʼt even know
they were banned in the first place.
“I didnʼt know grapes went
away. I canʼt believe CU banned
fruit from growing children,” said
Nathan Blu, a freshman business
major.
It may sound slightly silly, but
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graduate student hopefuls in the
United States, but also internation-
al students. The verbal section of
the GRE, the most challenging for
the banning of the table grape was
for no petty reason. UCSUʼs boy-
cott of the fruit was actually direct-
ly connected to Cesar Chavez and
the United Farm Workersʼ fight
for a safer work environment in
the 1980s. According to the bill to
overturn the boycott authored by
UCSUʼs representative-at-large,
Stephanie Jilling, a fifth year polit-
ical science major, the boycott was
in protest of the use of toxic pes-
ticides on California table grapes,
as well as the terrible effects these
toxins had on consumers, farm
workers and their children.
The UFW hoped their actions
would help further enforce the
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international students, will become
more difficult and include quanti-
tative and reasoning problems.
See GRE, page 4
California agricultural laws
restricting the use of toxic pesti-
cides. Since the boycott, four of
the five most toxic chemicals have
been banned, and the fifth has been
strictly restricted.
UCSU Legislative Council
voted to join the boycott in
February 1987. This meant that
grapes were not available at any
the food venues.
John Christensen, a freshman
psychology major and Freshmen
Council legislative liaison was
at the Jan. 24 UCSU Legislative
Council meeting that proposed the
overturning of the bill banning the
See GRAPES, page 4
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