Lamar State College, Beaumont, has raised the admission score required on the SAT test from 600 to 700.
A new rule at Odessa College is that students must pay a five dollar fee for a make-up test. That should cut down on absences. Some teachers at Odessa give bonus grades to students with perfect attendance records.
Six out of every ten students at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, received deficiency slips at the end of the nine weeks. Out of 2089 students 1287 received the slips, which means 61 percent of the students were deficient. The FOGHORN student newspaper states that 300 of the students were deficient in three or more subjects. Of the 1341 freshmen, almost 70 percent had one or more deficiencies. Sixty-seven percent of the males who received deficiency slips were working from 21 to 30 hours a week.
TCU’s SKIFF reports that the state of California has bought Hell and plans to pave it—either with asphalt or good intentions. It was cheaper to acquire the 300 acres of Hell, California, than to build an overpass for a freeway extension. Hell is—or was—about 50 miles west of the Arizona border, where the average temperature is well above 100, and it is said that few places in the country are hotter than…