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Wednesday, December 10. 1975
University Daily Kansan
Med Center students canvassed for problems
By DIANE M. WILSON
KANAS CITY, Kan.-KU Medical Center student leaders send letters yesterday to all medical students asking about the problems of the School of Medicine wigs.
The letters were sent by the Medical Student Assembly (MSA), the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) and the American Medical Students Association (AMS).
Glen Singer, president of MSA, said yesterday there would be an open meeting Friday to decide what to do about the most pressing concerns.
Carol Johnson, vice president of MSA,
and there we were already broad student
speakers.
Curt Calhoun, president of SNMA, said that tradition and red tape made it nearly
Lack of Medical School flexibility is the major concern of the leaders of the drives study groups.
License categories to change next year
As of January 1, 1976, the current format of Karas driver's licenses will change to a classified system, which includes a major change for motorcycle operaters.
Instead of the present system—in which licenses are issued under the categories of Class A, B or C operators—people will find themselves applying for Class A, B, C or D licenses, according to Herman Wulfkühle, license administrator of the Division of Vehicles station in Lawrence.
Motorcycle operators will be placed in a separate category from those seeking an operator's license. Wulfkhle said yesterday.
People will be asked if they operate a motorcycle when renewing their driver's licenses after Jan. 1, he said. If a person does operate a motorcycle, he must pay an additional fee of two dollars and a Class D designation will be applied to his license.
Those who renew their licenses after Jan. 1 and don't plan on operating a motorcycle, but later decide to start operating one, must obtain a license from the licensee's licenses and take a driving test, he said.
"There's no time to get acclimated to the pace," he said.
A person possessing a license that has been renewed after Jan. 1 and is found to be operating a motorcycle without a Class D designation is subject to violation, he said.
Other classifications under the new
System passed by the 1978 Kansas
legislature.
impossible for minority students to get through medical school. He said that the fast pace and the lack of an alternatives for these students who had poor academic backgrounds.
Class A-This classification is similar to the present commercial chauffer's license. Under this classification, one may operate truck tractor and semitrailer combinations, buses, trucks, passenger cars and other lawful combinations.
"If the University is interested in providing minority physicians to treat minority patients," he said, "the administration will have to help them."
Class B—Now known as the regular chauffeur's license, vehicles under this designation are trucks, buses, passenger cars and other lawful combinations.
Class C- This classification is similar to the present operator's license. Vehicles one may operate in this category are trucks registered for a gross weight of not more than 24,000 lbs, passenger cars, com-mmercial vehicles, or other vehicle having a gross weight of not more than 24,000 lbs, and any truck registered as a farm vehicle.
Wulfhake said that people who had renewed their Class C licenses after Jan. 1, and later decided to get a Class A or B license, would have to take a driving test.
The reason for the new classification system, according to Wukfuhe, is to ensure that it complies with other laws.
"Stop and think for a moment," he said.
"It is as it now, you can come in here and ask to take a written test for a chauffeur's license. But would you be qualified to go out?" he asked.
This classified system gets people qualified for the type of license they have," he said.
One problem is the full year a student must wait to repeat if he fails a course. No matter what students do after failing, Johnson said, they're a veard behind.
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"It is uneat to expect all students to go through (medical school) in three years," he said.
The fun filled night went on despite Santa's plea as Mangan rushed out to a car to get more stockings.
The high point of the night came when a bearded man entered ho-ho-honing and asked, "What's the fraternity member's shoulders lifted his hat and beard. Screams of delight continued, however, as Santa was propped shovel on chair and said, "Santa needs a break."
Cboul said, "If a student has personal problems, he can give for him to get the help off for a wife."
The academic committee decides whether the student should stay in medical school, Singer said, and if she's retained the faculty will find ways to help him succeed.
Children's fest . . .
However, the students agreed the best way to get help from the faculty is to fail a course.
Calboun said, "So often you have to flunk to get help."
The letter that was sent to medical students also said, "We are concerned that the curriculum tends to educate medical students to be medical students, often to the detriment of their education to be physicians."
Although students want to learn to be physicians, Calcoun said, they have to concentrate instead on passing exams to survive in school.
One little boy stuck his out the door and said, "You goin'?" After receiving an affirmative reply, he said, "Good night," and shut the door.
"Becoming physicians is secondary to become test takers," he said.
The students want 20 per cent representation on all committees that affect them. All University senate committee on the Lawrence campus have 20 per cent representation.
Johnson said that a position paper detailing the reasons for the request for 20 per cent representation was being developed through AMSA. She said it would be presented to the proper authorities before the end of January.
Singer said students had almost no voice in the admission of new medical students.
Stanley Nelson, chairman of the academic committee, said that there was a student on the admissions committee who worked in the admission process "to a degree."
Students don't interview prospective students or sit on the initial selection panel, but must be offered a job.
E. B, Brown, chairman of the Faculty Promotions Committee said, "Students are welcome on committees in general, but not in the operation of the committee or on a committee that evaluates persons or personalities."
That would include the subcommittees in the interview prospective students, he said.
Students sit on the subcommittees that review proposals recommended for access by faculty.
He said the thought it would be great if students were on the interviewing team. He said they weren't because the students wanted to rotate their members this year.
The interviews are during Christmas vacation, Nelson said, and students don't want to miss more than one vacation day to do interviews.
$ singer said that the students weren't worried about their vacations.
More than the number of students needed to sit on each of the 26 interview teams were ready to serve, he said. The students who wanted to that everyone who wanted to serve could.
The students were almost accepted as members of the interview team last year, Singer said, but the day before Christmas the plan was dropped by the administration.
Nelson said, "I would rather have students than lay people on the (interview)
This year there aren't any students on the interview teams, but people from the local school.
Students do the poorest committee service on the academic committee, he said, and will be allowed to fellow students. The Academic Committee decide student promotions and dismissals.
"The students feel that it's their duty to help them, and their students sometimes. They're very kind."
"It's a tough job." Nelson said.
He said it was unjust to ask students to be on that committee.
Singer disagreed and said that the student on the Academic Committee wasn't allowed to attend.
The letter said "Overall, the teaching quality we experience is less than we expect from medical school and in many instances experienced in our undergraduate education."
The other committee students want representation on the Faculty Promotions Committee.
Events ...
TODAY: THE JAYHAWK ROOM of the Kansas Union will be open for studying all day during finals. The University of Kansas Collegium Musicum will perform Christmas music at 3:30 p.m. in the main gallery. Spencer will lead a national meeting for Alpha Epionis Rho, national broadcasting honorary society, at 7 p.m. in 503 Flint Hall.
The name of an Intersession course, German 753 and Speech and Drama 702, 302, should have been 'Scenes from Conclusion' or 'Conclusion dramat' in today's edition of the Kansan.
Correction ...
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