ACT official says sub-scores
will give added info to colleges
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said Bob Zetocha, assistant director
of admissions.
“It wil! help advisers in doing
more compatible advising," he said.
Zctocha also said he thinks the
new addition of scores w ill be much
more useful and more definitive.
The changes on the test are not
e> -ected to change the admission ot
freshman students, according to John
Beacon, director of admissions.
Beacon said a prospective student
ha three ways to meet admissions
req irements at UNL.
People who graduated in the top
half of their class, or received a score
oi ih.o on me ac, i or nave com
pleted the necessary core courses
during high school arc eligible to at
tend UNL, Beacon said.
The ACT required score at UNL is
based on the national average, he
said.
“The average ACT score here at
UNL is 21.6,” Beacon said, which is
a lot higher than the national average.
Beacon said he is unsure if the
changes will prove to be beneficial.
“You can’t tell if the charges will
be successful until you literally go
through the cycle once," he said.
“You need to compare the scores and
the results.”
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Gibbs
Royal criticism puzzles protessor I
By David Holloway
Senior Reporter
Prince Charles can do more with
his position than just fill English tab
loids, said Dale Gibbs, a member of
the Royal Society of Arts and Great
Britain and professor of architecture
in the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln.
Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince
Charles, recently gave a 75-minute
documentary denouncing modem
architects for “wrecking London’s
skyline,’’ Gibbs said.
“What Prince Charles is finding
offensive are the blocks of concrete
office buildings around the St. Paul’s
Cathedral in London,’’ Gibbs said.
“Many of the post World War II
buildings arc very disagreeable with
the surroundings.’’
Gibbs, who has served as the di
rector of the UNL College of Archi
tecture’s London Program three
times, said the modernism in archi
tecture not only hit London’s sky
lines, but those of cities all over the
world.
Gibbs said his own ideas ol archi
tecture have evolved since earning
his bachelor of arts degree in archi
tecture from UNL and a master s
degree from Yale University in the
early 1950s.
‘All the architects
are angry that
Prince Charles
would speak out
against them like
that’
—Gibbs
“We were interested in designing
buildings that looked modem, re
gardless of the historical context of
the buildings around them, Gibbs
said. “Today, there is more diversity
in the field of architecture and the
history of surrounding buildings arc
being considered more and more.'
“All the architects arc angry that
Prince Charles would speak out
against them like that. I do agree that
for the most part, tnai when England
rebuilt after World War II, the stark
concrete style prevailed.
Gibbs said Charles’ criticism is a
result of his desire to be active and
influential with his new position, but
that he overreacted when he de
nounced the architects of England.
“Many of the postwar buildings
that Prince Charles is criticizing
aren’t designed poorly or ugly,”
Gibbs said. ‘ ‘The buildings surround
ing the St. Paul’s Cathedral would
look normal in a city like Chicago or
New York.”
Gibbs, a native of Nebraska and a
professor in the UNL architecture
department for the past 35 years,
became a member of the Royal Soci
ety of Arts of Great Britain in 1979.
He said was asked to become a
member because of contacts he made
in the architecture field after his sec
ond trip with the UNL architecture
program.
The Royal Society is made up of
architects and artists, With Prince
Phillip as the president, Gib s said.
“They give lectures on u*e proc
essor painting airplanes to the design
of architecture,” Gibbs said.
Gibbs said he doesn’t receive too
many chances to return to England,
but would very much like to go there
again in the future.
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