03 The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, March 25, 1980-Page 7 4.. 4 'U' Vice-Pres. questions release of exam By LORENZO BENET * Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs Alfred Sussman said yesterday he has some reservations with the recent and unprecedented release of Graduate Record Examination Ap- titude Test questions and answers three months after the test was administered nation-wide in January. Although sample tests have been available for many years, this is the fir- st time the questions and answers of the RE have ever been disclosed. SUSSMAN, WHO is also chairman of the Graduate Record Examination Board, sees several problems with releasing the exams shortly after they were given. He said it would have a serious effect on the compatibility of exams over time. "Currently, about one-fifth of the questions in each exam have been used before," explained Sussman. "This allows us to measure the quality of students taking the exam each year, as well as to determine if one year the exam has become easier than the year before. "After a test is made public," Sussman added, "it cannot be used again." Therefore, he said, the number of tests that can be released is deter- mined by the current inventory of the test editions and the rate at which new ones can be developed. HE ALSO added that the economic consequences of test disclosure are also serious. Sussman noted that it takes at least $100,000 to develop a GRE exam and only five secure exams exist for this year. He predicted that all of these "The cost of taking an exam will rise and the number of times the exam is given will decrease," Sussman said. '(:iirreniiiii;(11)4)11 Otte- f ii, of 11 4 f te tu'tiO ls in eneli exam !tar(' been iisel hrf or4' . . . Afte~r a test is madue !nbll(. i cannot n be used( In(1lil. -Actaing JVice I'res.idcn ri ,foe .4ealwde,,,ie the analytical portion of the exam. He said that should the GRE be forced out of existence, or its credibility diminished, students from lesser known schools or who are "late bloomers" would be at a disadvantage because GRE exams are the "great levelers" of the educational world. NEW YORK State Senator Kenneth LaValle, one of the proponents of the New York Admissions Testing Law that requires the release of test questions and answer sheets, said that low- income students will have access to the tests and test questions without having to pay hundreds of dollars to testing agencies that coach students on how to take the exams. In an article he wrote in Today's Education, LaValle said that in the past. few years he has witnessed a growing' movement for open government and for closer scrutiny of public agencies. He concluded that the public's desire for more information about standardized tests is, in part, a product of this movement. 4 Currently, less than 250 requests have " been made for the materials. Order.' forms for the 40-page booklet and an- swer sheet were mailed to all test takers with their test results in early February. A booklet containing the questions and answers used in the April 26 and 28 GRE examination will be available to anyone after July 1. The booklet costs $2 per copy. For $3.50, examinees can also obtain a photocopy of their answer sheet. exams will be exposed in a single year of test administration, resulting in some disadvantages for students. In addition, Sussman there is a problem questions for the GRE, stressed that making new especially for 3 Olympics proposal nixed Ball calls for shift in allied defense load LfDIES "'MIGHT. at 1140 South University 668-8411 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter apparently has rejected a proposal by American athletes who have suggested they can participate in the Moscow Olympics and still protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Members of the Athletes Advisory ouncil to the U.S. Olympic Committee roposed over the weekend a plan that would allow American athletes to com- pete in the Summer Games, but boycott awards ceremonies. BUT A WHite House aide, who asked that he not be identified, said yesterday a similar proposal was considered two months ago, before Carter called for a complete boycott of the Games. The aide said the proposal was rejected. The official said he had not studied She suggestion made by the Athletes dvisory Council, but added, "It's ob- viously unacceptable. The president has made his decision." On Friday, about 100 athletes were summoned to the White House for briefings on the administration's boycott plans and were told by Carter that the decision to stay away from the Moscow Games was not negotiable. "I CAN'T SAY at this moment what other nations will not go to the Summer lympics in Moscow," Carter told the athletes. "Ours will not go. I say that not with any equivocation. The decision has been made." But the advisory council said it felt its proposal ,-to, boycott Olympic ceremonies would have the effect Car- ter wants while not denying Americans their chance to compete in the Games. "We feel, consistent with President Carter's position, that a visible, peaceful demonstration is the most ef- ective means by which the world and the world's athletes can present this message to the people of the Soviet Union," the advisory council said. UNDER THE plan the council proposed, American athletes would not participate in the opening and closing Olympic parades or show up to receive medals. The Americans also would arrive in Moscow just before they were to compete and would leave im- mediately after, shunning tourist ac- tivities. PresidentCarter has insisted the United States boycott the Moscow Olympics to display displeasure over the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. The actual decision not to enter an American team in the Games must be made by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The committee has said it will respect the wishes of the president'but has yet to take the final action. The U.S. com- mittee's House of Delegates meets in Colorado April 11-13, at which time a decision is expected to be made. The entry deadline is May 24. Reagan win expected in N. Y. GOP polling SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Ronald Reagan.campaigned yesterday through the bleak, late-winter landscape of up- state New York in a last day's pitch for delegates in the state's presidential primary election. The former California governor refused at a news conference to predict how well he would do today. "I'd rather not get into the numbers game," he said. BUT HIS CHIEF aide in New York, Roger. Stone, predicted Reagan would get at least 70 and possibly 80 of the state's. 123 delegates to the Republican National Convention at Detroit this July. At a rally in Auburn, with delegates who are pledged, t support him standing at his side, Reagan said, "My name won't be on the ballot. Their names will be. Vote for them." In.New York, the candidates are represented by individual proposed delegates. Voters must know the delegates' affiliations to be able to vote for Reagan or his GOP rival in New York, George Bush, the former U.N. ambassadordand Texas congressman. GOP candidate John Anderson, the Illinois congressman, has no delegate slate in New York. At a news conference, Reagan was asked about a published letter written by several California Republicans criticizing his claims to have saved millions of dollars in welfare costs during his eight years as governor of that state. Of one of the letter writers, whom Reagan did not identify, he said, "I hope he is proven innocent of the ob- scene phone calls he is charged with in California. That's kind of a dirty trick bringing that up, but I wanted everything out on the table." Reagan also refused to say where he would trimggovernment spending to save money inthe federal budget. And he criticized the time it takes to license a nuclear power plant in the United States as a result of environmental and other restrictions. Besides leading in New York, Reagan also was given a chance of doing well in neighboring Connecticut, which also holds a primary election today, although George Bush, a Connecticut native, was favored there. LONDON (AP)-George Ball, former U.S. undersecretary of, state, said yesterday that Japan and West Germany-two nations that have benefitted from redistribution of economic resources-should contribute more to the West's global defense. Ball said Japan should build two aircraft carriers in a new version of America's wartime lean-lease system. He did not say precisely how he thought the Germans should increase their contribution. WEST GERMAN land forces already are the strongest among allied powers in Europe. BALI. MADE HIS remarks in an address to the Trilateral Commission holding a three day conference here. Takeshi Watanabe, a former Japanese foreign minister, said later in an interview that Ball's proposal shockedthe Japanese delegates even though Japan recognizes it should increase its economic and security committments to the non-communist world. . THE TRI-LATERAL Commission, founded in 1972, brings together leading North American, European and Japanese personalities to discuss relations between their regions and the global military balance. Most of the 150 delegates are influential public figures. Ball said the redistribution of wealth in recent years inevitably will generate pressures on Japan and West Germany to contribute more to global security. Watanabe said of Ball's idea, "It will have some shock treatment effect and I don't think Japan can act immediately." -f The Eighteenth Century Semester Presents: "Print Culture and Enlightenment Thought" Professor Elizabeth Eisenstein Department of History, University of Michigan TUESDAY, MARCH 25-4:00 p.m. CLEMENTS LIBRARY TONIGHT AT CINEMA GUILD Our Festival of contemporary Polish films continues tonight with SPIRAL at 7:00. DEATH OF A PRESIDENT at 9:05. Polish with English subtitles. Wednesday: SCARFACE 1932 Thursday: Kubrick's LOLITA Friday: THE GODFATHER Saturday: GODFATHER, PART 11 Each Show $1.50 COLD ARCH. AUD. Each Show $1 .50 OLD ARCH. AUD. I I 1 - "From now on anybody who owns a factory that makes radioactive waste has to take it home with him to his house." He loves you. Do what he says. A MARTIN BREGMAN Production ALAN ARKIN "SIMON" with ADELINE KAKN xecutive Producer LOUIS A. STROLLER- Produced by MARTIN BREGMAN Screenplay by MARSHALL BRICKMAN Story by MARSHALL BRICKMAN & THOMAS BAUM 1