University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 13. 1978
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Hearings
From page one
In its out-of-state travels, the group hau collected $75,000 from industry firms for scholarships for minority engineering students. Reporter said.
Leben's motion to delete the funding was defeated in a voice vote.
THE VOTE on SCoRMEBE ended action on Academic groups and the Senate turned immediately to another controversial issue—the funding of the International Club.
John Regier, Lawrence graduate student, moved to deny funds to the two of the Club's subgroups: The Organization of Arab Students and the Iranian Students Association. He said that these two groups would be better represented by Minister Yitzhak Rabin's right to free speech at KU's J.A. Vickers Memorial Lecture last Thursday.
Rabin's speech was interrupted numerous times by Palestinian sympathizers.
Chris Caldwell, Lawrence junior, then moved that the international Club
--request be sent to a joint Cultural and
Figance and Auditing committee.
"I'm not placing any blame because there may not be any blame," he said, "but the Senate should act carefully when some of the crimes have allegedly interfered with free speech."
"I would hate to see anti-foreign student驮vee evolution from the Senate," Mark Kearney said.
nowhere, some Senators said that if the request were sent back to the joint committee, the matter could be discussed more calmly and thoroughly.
SEVERAL CULTURAL Committee members said the committee had already closely examined the nine groups in International Club, and sending its request back to a joint committee would harm the club.
After the hour-long debate ended at midnight, the Senate voted 40-26 to send International Club's request to the joint committee.
Iranians . . .
From page one
Auditing Committee, the Senate briefly debated it.
Ron Kuby, Lawrence junior, who waved an Israeli flag at Arab and Iranian demonstrators of Rabin's speech last Thursday, said that the Iranians and Arabs had violated the principle of free speech while in Hoch Auditorium.
MARK BERNSTEIN of the Senate Cultural Committee, said the proposal to cut the two group's funding would divide the two groups. The committee will separate nationalities. The Irtians and
Arabs would then receive less than the seven other subgroups, he said.
White began her lecture telling of her experiences in Iran and with the Iranian community.
White went to Iran with a delegation of four international observers that was sponsored by several national human rights organizations.
"I find it impossible to be an objective observer." White said.
White said there are 100,000 political prisoners in Iran and that workers, many of whom earn from 10 to 15 cents an hour, are executed if they strike.
"The Iranian people are going to get rid of that regime whether the U.S. wants them to or not," White said. "The stakes are higher in Iran than Vietnam."
The 150 nervous people who will enter Wescoe Hall early Saturday proLaby will give the impression that they are approaching doom.
Actually, they will be approaching the Medical College Admission Test, which for some will be the death of their hopes of attending medical school.
Hopes rest on med school test
To a pre-med student, the MCAT is everything. Even a 4.0 grade point average can't get a person into medical school if he does poorly on the test.
Bob Goldbider, Lennex senior, does not notice to worry about the test anymore because he has worked with the University of Kansas Medical School. But he knows what he went through during his job as a clinical labist.
There's a lot weighing on that test," he said earlier this week. "It's like a final raised to the fifth power. That's how nerve racking it is."
ALTHOUGH THERE are all kinds of aids to help students prepare for the test, few students ever seem to feel ready for it, and date get dates close to the cramming intensifies.
Last year a pre-med club at the University sponsored review sessions for the test, but the program was discontinued because the group decided it was not worth the effort.
"After all, how much of a whole year of physics can you review in an hour?" Ellen White, Olathe senior, said. "It's just not worth triving."
Most students prepare for the test on their own using old class notes or student handouts. Students also practice and practice the Oread Book Shop carries three or four different study guides and sells about 125 of them each year, accustomed to Marian Holines, a book shop employee.
However, a student who is willing to spend the money can review by taking eight classes from the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center in Mission.
CARLA SULLENS, administrator of the
students will be nervous when they arrive to take the test.
"BUT THE nervousness doesn't last long," Goldberg said. "After six or seven hours, most people wear down, and it doesn't matter anymore."
For juniors taking the test for the first time, the pressure is not quite so great. They know that because the test is given twice a year, they have another chance next fall, and many look at the first attempt as a practice run.
admissions at the KU med school, and. but they should be aware that the last rather than the first school is in attendance.
About 60 students who did not take the Kaplan course attended a free seminar held last month by the pre-med club. They were advised on how to study more effectively for the multiple-choice test and were instructed in deep muscle relaxation.
Hopefully, I'll get a good enough score to re-on, no matter the lawsuits, Lawrence judge, but it's not a him. Students are encouraged to take the test twice if they think they can improve their scores.
BROWN SAID a student's MCAT score carried equal weight with his grade point average and recommendations made by professors. Interviews with admission's boards are of secondary importance, according to Brown and several students.
"I think the interview can hurt you, if anything," Goldberg said. "You definitely shouldn't go into it thinking you're going to personalize in with your sparkling personality."
Several professors of Latin American affairs also told a House International Relations subcommittee that Cuba's military role in Africa was more important to Premier Fidel Castro than relations with the United States.
Cuban threat grows, profs tell Congress
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Cuba has not abandoned subversion in the Western Hemisphere but has developed a foreign policy that is more sophisticated and dangerous than ever, scholars told Congress yesterday.
Africa now has a higher priority than Latin America for both the Soviet Union and Cuba, said Roger Fontaine, director of Latin American studies at Georgetown University's center for strategic and international studies.
But to the students taking the test, the interview seems a long way off. Their main concern this week is hoping they will know what is on the test.
Diane McDermott, associate professor of counseling, who helped plan the seminar, said deep muscle relaxing involved lying on the floor and relaxing each part of the body individually until the whole body was relaxed.
school, estimated that about 25 KU students took the course before each test. The cost of the course is $252 plus a $50 deposit on the study materials which have to be returned
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