GMU dumps SAT
Clever students applying to George Mason University next fall may get to sleep in on Saturday instead of taking the SAT.
The office of admissions will not require SAT scores for incoming freshmen with a high school GPA of 3.5 or above. Press secretary Daniel Walsh said that although the SAT was designed to evaluate students equally, “Mason has concluded that it is not quite doing that. It’s not as fair as it was initially designed to be.”
With GMUs revamped application process, “We will definitely be looking at each applicant’s entire record instead of how they did one Saturday morning when they took the test,” he said.
So will George Mason be throwing SATs out the window for all students? That depends on how well next years’ freshman perform, but Walsh said the idea was, “on the table.”
—Michael J. Bruns
Names for 9/11
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, the Office of Campus Ministry will hold a memorial service on Healy Lawn in which the Interfaith Council will read the names of students, alumni, faculty members, and friends of the University who died that day.
“We want new names of family members who perished because the names we have are of alumni, faculty, family members of current students,” said Rabbi Harold S. White, Campus Ministry’s senior Jewish chaplain. “We have new students coming in and they have family members who were affected.”
—Anna Bank
Robbers at large
Six suspects are still at large after allegedly robbing a pair of jewelry stores in Northwest Washington, D.C. this month.
On Aug. 14, two men made off with a tray of finery from Treasure Trove Jewelers on G St. A week later, a four-man robbery at Georgetown Fine Jewelry and Art on Wisconsin Ave. made city-wide news when one of the thieves shot and critically wounded the store’s owner. Both crimes occurred in busy commercial districts between the hours of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the afternoon.
The MPD is offering rewards of up to $11,000 for information, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said.
—Anna Ziajka
