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English Exam Failures Disregard Instructions
By Marshal Caskey
Refusal to follow instructions was listed by an English professor as the most common cause of English proficiency examination failures.
"The most common error and at the same time the most inexcusable," Carpenter said, "is students refusal to read the instructions regarding the examination. For example, if the instructions on the examination say the theme must be at least 400 words in length, the themes must be at least 400 words in length. Themes of 375 words are just not acceptable."
Certain errors were repeatedly responsible for the examination failures, according to William Carpenter, assistant instructor of English in charge of the writing clinic.
Carpenter said that even when students do, apparently, read the instructions, they often go off on a tangent or a subject of their own rather than following instructions.
"Many of the students simply do not get their thoughts in any logical order. Two hours is plenty of time for one to write a 400 word theme and to take time to organize his ideas before he begins to write." Carpenter said.
IN REGARD TO the actual writing of the themes, Carpenter said many of the papers were not organized at all.
Carpenter said many of the errors on the themes were "careless errors"—simple errors in spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
"Many of the students," Carpenter said, "have forgotten their basic writing skills. Many are seniors and it has been some time since they have done any writing and they are out of practice."
Carpenter said many of the students who took the examination showed a lack of information needed to do an adequate job of covering the theme topics.
"MANY STUDENTS don't read the newspapers enough to have any concrete information on the theme topics," Carpenter said.
"I believe that many students simply 'choke up' when they go to take the examination," Carpenter said, "of course we can't judge this objectively."
Carpenter said the writing clinic is open to anyone who is qualified to take the English Proficiency Examination or to anyone who has taken the examination and failed to pass. He said anyone planning to take the examination during the Spring semester is encouraged to come to the clinic for help.
IMMEDIATELY after the publication of the list of those who passed the test, many of those who are not included on the list start showing up at the writing clinic.
The writing clinic keep on file all the failed English Proficiency Examinations. At the writing clinic, the students who failed the examination may see their papers and discuss with English instructors the errors which caused their papers to be failed.
"Immediately after publication of the test results," Carpenter said, "many students come to the writing clinic. The clinic becomes so crowded we are unable to take care of all the students who come to us."
CARPENTER said that after the examination results are posted, the writing clinic becomes crowded with more students than it can possibly handle.
Carpenter said that after a few days, the stream of students to the writing clinic begins to diminish somewhat and the clinic activities return to normal.
U.S.-Mexico Relations Expected To Improve
Bv Phil Newsom
The forecasts are based on the man who has been selected by the dominant institutional revolutionary party to succeed Adolfo Lopez Mateos as president of Mexico in December, 1964.
UPI—Despite occasional differences over the treatment to be accorded Castro's Cuba, United States-Mexico relations are at their highest point in years. The signs are they are to improve still more.
He is Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Minister of the Interior in the Lopez Mateso government. And since the party has not lost an election in more than 30 years, his election is considered assured.
AS INTERIOR MINISTER since 1958, Diaz Ordaz has cooperated closely with the United States, so much that Communists and Castroites have attacked him as "pro-Yanqui" and a leader of reactionary forces.
Mexico's refusal to go along with U.S. demands for a total break with Cuba, including an economic blockade, is well known.
Less well known is the firm crackdown on Communists and Communist agitation that has been carried out within Mexico under Diaz Oddaz's direction.
While most passengers travelling
TONS OF Communist propaganda carried out of Cuba have been confiscated at the Mexico City airport.
But Mexico has matured politically and its constitutional reforms given lands to previously landless peasants and spread national wealth among a growing middle class, it also has found it less necessary than some Latin American governments to exploit anti-U.S. sentiments.
to Cuba simply use Mexico as a way-point, all have been closely checked for years. Their photographs are taken and their passports stamped.
This in part explains Mexico's reluctance to intervene ir. Cuba, although it has declared internationa Communism incompatible with free democratic institutions.
The Mexican revolution dates from 1911 and Mexican political leaders still insist that theirs is a revolutionary state.
MEMOIRS of U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz and the years of hard feelings which followed Mexican expropriation of U.S. and British oil companies now largely are only memories in a new period of friendly relations.
De Gaulle to Seek Re-election; Sees No Presidential Successor
Mexico is far ahead of most other Latin American nations in her agricultural, educational and tax reforms.
By United Press International
By United Press International It is now all but official. French President Charles de Gaulle, who will turn 73 this Nov. 22, will seek another term as president to carry him at least through 1970.
The word comes from sources close to De Gaulle and is significant for two reasons.
De Gaulle believes the NATO treaty must be refurbished to meet the changing times, including the fact that by that time France will be a full-fledged nuclear force able to strike both by air and from Polaris-type submarines.
- De Gaulie sees no one capable of succeeding him in the years which he regards as crucial for France and Europe.
- Backed by a French nuclear force. De Gaulle believes, Europe then will be able to declare itself independent of the United States.
- THE NORTH Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949, expires in 1969 and must be renegotiated.
This also would include European independence of any two-way agreements reached between Washington and Moscow.
De Gaulle supporters believe that at least two recent events are proving the correctness of De Gaulle's attitude both toward NATO and the question of western negotiations with the Soviets.
ONE WAS THE unexpectedly heavy criticism of the U.S.-proposed multi-nation nuclear fleet which was encountered among European representatives during a discussion of NATO policies. Predictions now are that the U.S. plan will be shelved indefinitely or at least until after British elections.
The Soviet blockade of U.S. convoys on the Berlin Autobahn also is being cited in support of De Gaulle's boycott of disarmament talks with the Soviets until all Soviet threats are removed.
These, along with De Gaulle's concept of a future Europe, represent unfinished business which De Gaulle
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is reluctant to leave in the hands of others.
At home, a decisive demonstration of the strength of the De Gaulle leadership came recently in the National Assembly which approved both his record budget and large appropriations with which to build his nuclear force.
BUT THESE were demonstrations of DeGaulle's personal strength and not necessarily of the Gaullist party or of unity of purpose.
Within De Gaulle's Union for the New Republic (UNR), former Premier Michel Debre, is making a quiet bid for political come-back and is said by political insiders still to hope that he may some day succeed De Gaulle as president. There is no indication that these hopes are being encouraged by De Gaulle.
In the patchwork of French political opinion, efforts to present a united front of opposition to De Gaulle have been successful only between the Socialists and Communists who voted in a bloe against his budget and nuclear plans.
For the opposition to De Gaulle, the wedding of the Socialists and Communists might easily prove more a hindrance than a help. For such a union recalls unhappy memories of coalition governments of the 1930's and the sad state of French preparedness at the start of World War II.
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