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August 29, 2011 | Vol. 49 No. 5

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The Scoop on the New GRE

Football Kicks Off Third Season

Shawn Leonard

Contributing Reporter For many college students, the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) will be an important part of their post-undergraduate planning. In August, Educational Testing Service (ETS), creators of the GRE General Test, began administering the GRE revised General Test in order to present a more “test-taker friendly” version of the GRE. ETS also said that the new edition would be a better gauge of a student’s preparedness for the thinking required in graduate schools. One change to the GRE is the addition of an extra verbal and math section which will lengthen the overall test time to four hours, making mental stamina an even more important part of preparation for the test. In an effort to ease the experience, ETS has also added navigation arrows which allow test-takers to move forward and backward See GRE page 10

The 2011 Football season begins Thursday when the Jags take on the University of West Alabama Tigers at Ladd Peebles Stadium.

Archive Photo Courtesy of Colin McGee

USA Housing Overflows Carey Cox

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Jag Bikes Roll WEEKLY INSIDER

COPY EDITOR Due to a significant increase in housing applications this semester, some students are being housed at USA Brookley campus. The housing is temporary until rooms open up on the main campus, Dr. Christina Vinet, director of housing, said. “We should have everyone assigned to main campus by the end of next week,” Vinet said. 40 students have been living at Brookley, but half have already been assigned a room on the main campus, Vinet said. Rooms are becoming available through a variety of situations. After recruitment for Greeks,

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some students move to the Greek houses. Some students decide to withdraw or can’t register for classes, probably due to financial aid. Housing has chartered a bus to bring students to and from campus four times a day, and police are at the Brookley dorms 24 hours a day. Collissa Smith, a freshman nursing student, has been staying at the Brookley campus since Monday. Smith says the only inconvenient part of living there is having to take the bus. “Most people on campus just wake up and go to class. I have to balance bus times and compare it to my schedule,” Smith See OVERFLOW page 9


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