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University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1982
LSAT format changed; score scale lowers to 50
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
Prospective law students taking the Law School Admissions Test this Saturday will be answering questions far different from those asked in previous years, officials said yesterday.
And partly because of this difference, the normal test scale of 200 to 800 has been changed to a scale of 10 to 50, said his, law school admissions director.
The new questions will better test the qualities of incoming law students, she said.
According to LSAT registration information, the new version does not use the same method to evaluate ability that older versions did. Consequently, it is likely scores on old and new versions of the test will not mean the same thing.
THE OLD LSAT scale made distinctions between students who probably were more likely to succeed.
"It gave you the illusion of one kind of beauty, distinctly better than another," she said.
The larger scale created an impression of precision that was not accurate.
The new scale will give more students the same score, forcing law schools to use other criteria, such as those used in admissions, said which students to admit, she said.
Another change from previous LSATs is in testing areas. Six said, "We're using new methods, including algebra and trigonometry, was part of the test. Now
questions on logic take that section's place.
Six said she was not sure why the section was removed, but suggested that many law students have backgrounds in humanities and little math experience. They are also more likely to have strong verbal ability, she said.
Each section should contain between 110 and 129 questions, the report said.
THE STRUCTURE of the test remains basically the same, however. There are six 35- minute sections which include two pretest sections not contributing to the score, according to registration information.
Six said students who wanted to prepare for the test should go over sample questions provided in the text and use the test format would not pursue them.
Although it is too late to register for Saturday's LSAT, registration for the Dec. 4 test will not end until Nov. 4, registration information said.
Those wanting to take the next LSAT should go to the Law School admissions office and pick up a registration packet for the test. The student will receive a ticket for the test.
SIX ADDED that those taking the test will be thumbprinted on their own work.
Registration for the test costs $18,
test fees are $20, and sending a report to
one school costs $18. Each additional
report sent will cost $5, she said.
Each report consists of vital information, test scores and grade point averages, she said. Each time a student has a report sent to a school, he writes a copy of it and is asked to complain if he finds any errors, she said.
A regional director of the American Association of University Professors will tonight at the fall banquet of University of Kansas KUAA Chapter.
Banquet to hear AAUP head
John Slosar, director of the AAUP's Midwest regional office, will speak on, "Faculty Power and Influence in the '80s."
Slosar's lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union, Richard Cole, president of the AAPU chanter at KU, said yesterday. A
dinner preceding the speech will begin at 6 p.m.
ALL AU9M MEMBERS are invited to the talk, Cole said. He also urged faculty who do not belong to the university to be bounded in banning to attend the meeting.
The fall meeting gives new chapter members a chance to acquaint them with the latest developments.
The AAPU is a national organization that works for faculty rights and equity. He said, The KU chapter had 462 members at the beginning of the semester.
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Carlin aide blasts Hardage's crime plan
Republican Sam Hardage's proposal to eliminate the Kansas Adult Authority, which would save taxpayers $400,000 each year, is "impossible," an aide to Gov. John Carlin said yesterday.
Hardage, who is challenging Carlin in the Nov. 2 gubernatorial election, has said the KAA, the state's parole board, would be unnecessary in his administration because of his determinant sentencing initiative.
A determinant sentencing system, the major component of Hardage's four-part crime package, would redefine what a jury could sentence without chance of parole.
Also included in the package are proposals to substitute the insanity plea with a guilty but mentally ill defendant for liability, penalty, and elimination of the KA.
But Mike Swenson, Carlin's assistant press secretary, denounced
"It is impossible to do, and this is simply another instance that shows that Sam Hardage does not under-stake the holding of government." Swenson said.
Hardage's attempt to disband the KAA
THE KAA'S director estimated that a parole board would have to be maintained for at least 17 years so the U.S. could comply with the U.S. Constitution.
"The Constitution prohibits someone from being given a harsher penalty for a crime that he has done," said Elizabeth Denney, KAA director.
People convicted under the current indeterminant system would continue to serve their terms under its guidelines, which ensure the chance for parole, if a determinant term was later passed, Denney said.
"I don't see how the parole board can be extinguished for up to 17 years," she said.
"If the law was passed, someone could commit a crime on June 30 (the year.
Carlin has already toughened sentences for offenders of Class C, D and E felios by doubling the minimum sentence and tripling the minimum sentences for repeat offenders, Swenson said.
final day before new statutes take effect), they might not be sentenced for another year, and then they could serve a minimum 15-year sentence.
DARRELL DAY, Hardage's press secretary, declined to comment on the possible need to continue the KA, and Hardage was unavailable for
Denney also said that if the KAA were eliminated, a parole officer could not notify the five-member guardian who was threaten ing a person's safety.
"If a parole poes a potential or close threat while not committing a new crime, the parole board can require that a person be added to or additional confinement," she said.
Day said determinant sentencing and improved prison rehabilitation would ensure against potential threats from prisoners recently re-engaged.
THE PRISON rehabilitation program teaches inmates new trades and prepares them for a return to society. Syrsperson, said the KAA could be
phased down under the Carlin administration because the governor is pushing for determinant sentencing for certain crimes.
The current secretary of corrections said Hardage's plan is would create greater space problems in state prisons.
THE GOVERNOR also has endorsed a proposal to increase the minimum sentence for first degree murder from 15 to 30 years.
"Minor offenders are the bulk of prisoners, and if they have to serve longer sentences it will create overcrowding since there will be more coming in," Patrick McMaus, secretary of corrections, said.
But Day said determinant sentencing would stabilize prison populations because "career" criminals would remain behind bars.
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