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Thursday, April 6, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Nursing school picks only a few students
By DENISE RUPP Staff Writer
Jean Watson believes in having a positive attitude...
As assistant dean of undergraduate programs at the University of Kansas School of Nursing, she needs it. Watson supervises the selection of students for the school, and this year she saw 90 students accented and 140 others turned down.
"But it's not that bad," she says. "It's less competitive than med school, and look at physical therapy. They only take one out of eight."
Those statistics might sound encouraging, but to a student who has spent two years at a university taking pre-nursing courses only to receive one may be lessening their nursing skills. They probably mean very little.
KU'S PROGRAM involves spending two years at university or junior college and three at college.
Even students who have been accepted at some institutions buffer by the whole application.
"It's almost like a gamble," Sue Steitz,
Syracuse sophomore, said recently. "There are so many people with the same grades that it seems like they must drop them in a hat to choose. I'm just glad it is over and I am."
Martha Green, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said that the selection whimsical and that she was fortunate to have been accepted because she knew other people who were as well qualified who had not gotten in.
The most unusual switch she had seen lately, Watson said, was a student who asked for the password.
**STUDENTS WHO are not accepted have a number of choices, according to Watson. She said that many of them applied and were accepted into other nursing programs; some waited a year and reapplied to KG and others received their majors to something different.**
A rejection should not take anyone by surprise because pre-nursing students are cautioned that they have no guarantee of success. They are encouraged to look into other possibilities.
Green said that she had even received names and addresses of other nursing schools in Kansas, and although she did not apply to any of them, she completed another
"IT WAS REALLY silly not to apply anywhere else," she said, "but I just figured that if I didn't get in, that would make the trip more difficult, too, so I would have got a job in that."
Steitz said she had taken the advice and written to other schools so they wouldn't think they were last minute choices if she didn't get accepted at KU.
Although she did not have to use those second and third choices, many other students did, but even those who were not selected were given the choice to think about the selection process.
Ellen Kell, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore, said, "It's too bad that KU can't accept more, but the people I know who have outset in has deserved it."
WATSON SAID the biggest factor limiting the number of students was the size of the classroom.
she said, but the ratio of students to faculty has to be kept low.
we're training these students to take care of actual patients," she said, "so, of course, they have to be closely supervised by the faculty."
She said the budget probably would be increased to allow the addition of 10 or 15 more spaces in the next two or three years, and she would make room for all the qualified applicants.
Students are chosen for interviews from the applications which are submitted in
Watson said selections are made by an eight-member committee and the decisions are based on seven factors including grades, health-related work experience and personal characteristics, such as a commitment to nursing.
Approximately three-fourths of the students are invited to interview, and even a student who is not selected in this group can request and get an interview.
This practice of eliminating some people
Vote cuts Social Security tax rise
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats voted yesterday to reduce Social Security tax raises scheduled to go into effect next month. The federal government set the retirement system from bankruptcy.
The 150 to 77 vote by a House Democratic caucus is not binding on regular legislative authority.
However, the vote puts pressure on the Democrats who control and dominate the committees to push for the changes. Democrats control the House by a 24-0 ratio.
congress last year voted Social Security tax increases to generate an additional $227 billion in revenues over the 10 years beginning in 1979.
The increases, aimed at keeping the system financially solvent, would be particularly high for employees and their employers in the upper-earnings brackets.
THE CAUCUS VOTE came one day after the House budget committee, voted to add to the tax bill an extra 10 cents.
beginning Oct. 1 a $7.5 billion cut in Social
Taxes.
The resolution adopted by the Democratic caucus does not specify any dollar amounts, but does put Democrats on record as favoring "the use of general revenue funds to finance a portion of the Social Security system" and "conductions in Social Security payroll taxes."
Despite the coacus action, any change probably will face opposition from several
EVEN AS HOUSE Democrats were debating the question, Treasury Secretary W.
Michael Blumenthal urged Congress not to change Social Security taxes this year.
Press Secretary Jody Powell said that he also opposed reopening the Social Security bank.
"He thinks it would be a mistake to reopen an extremely complicated matter like this."
Powell noted that the administration proposed using general treasury revenues to fund Social Security programs and he felt that it would allow the program to偕伴 instead for the increased payroll taxes.
On Campus
TODAY: STUDENT SOCIAL WORKERS meet at 11:30 in Alceve B of the Kansas Union. AIR FLORE AFTF meets at 11:30 in Alceve E of the Union. A LAW SCHOOL luncheon is at noon in the Union's English Room. The SCHOOL CLUB meeting at 11:30 in Alceve E of the Faculty LUNCHON is at 1 in the Centennial Room of the Union. THE SOUTHWESTERN CLUB meets at 1 in the Union's Oread Room. UNIVERSITY COUNCIL meets at 3:30 in 108 Blake Hall. CAMPUS CRUSADE meets at 3:30 in Alceve E of the Union, IVCF meets at 1 in Alceve B of the Union, ORMGAS PRI NER is at 3:30 in ARCHITECTURE DINNER is at 3:30 in the Centennial Room of the Union.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TONIGHT: RAPE VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES meets at 6 in the Oread Room of the Union. THE ALL SCHOLARSHIP HALL CORE, meets at 6:30 in the Union's Council Room. STUDENT SERVICES meets at 6:30 in the Council Room of the Union. SUA BRIDGE CLUB meets at 6:30 in Parlors B and C of the Union at 6:30 in the Union. SENATE FINANCE AND AUDIUTING meets at 6:30 in Union's International Room. SENATE SPORTS COMMITTEE meets at 6:30 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. THE SENATE ACADEMIC AFIRAES COMMITTEE meets at 6:30 in the Union. THE SENATE COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE meets at 6:30 in the Pine Room of the Union. THE MIDWEST JUNTO OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE starts at 7 in the Union's Big Eight Room. THE SENATE BOARD MEETS AT 7 in the Female Communications" at 7 in the Joseph R. Pearson Hall cafeteria. THE PRE-MED CLUB meets at 7:30 in Cork of the Union. The SUA BOARD meets at 8 in the Governors Room of the Union. YITZHAK RABIN, former prime minister of Israel, is presenting the Vickers Lecture at 8 in Hoch Auditorium. SHIRLEY GLUKOB, author and editor of art books, is giving an art lecture at 8 in Spencer Museum of Art. JOHN ANDREWS, dramatic teacher, student recital at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall. DAVID AMORE, Kansas City giving a lecture, "An Architect involved in design," at 8:30 in 207 Martin Hall.
Events
TOMORROW: "Innovations in Education: Competency Assessment," an education conference, will last all day in the University. The 23RD ANNUAL STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING CONFERENCE also will last all day in the Union. VITA will give tax assistance from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. VITA will be on staff at 7 p.m. Partitions B and C of the University. SARAH JOHANNSEN, mezzo-soprano, will give a student recital at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Reception Hall.
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New arms limits possible
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Harold Brown said yesterday that there was a reasonable chance the United States and the Soviet Union would reach a new agreement this year on limiting strategic nuclear weapons.
Brown told questioners at an Overseas Writer's Club luncheon that a summit meeting between President Carter and the president might be needed to resolve remaining issues.
The defense secretary indicated the final stages of the negotiations might be crucial, saying that the most important matters were often negotiated at the end.
HOWEVER, THE STATUS of Russia's new BACKKipper bomb, details of Cruise missile definition and limitations, modern weapons and aircraft still are unresolved issues, Brown said.
If the two superpowers fail to reach a new agreement, Brown said, the Soviets would move forward rapidly with strategic programs, forcing the United States to intervene.
Brown said the United States might have to spend a couple of billion more a year, if an annuity based on inflation is used.
Brown said the U.S. Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile force would probably become vulnerable to a Soviet knockout blow in the early 1980s.
However, he said he thought the United States would have more than adequate deterrent capability through the mid-1980s in terms of technology, such as submarine-launched missiles.
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Films
The American Friend is one of the most compelling movies of the year - the one essential movie to see.
Fascinating. Extremely beautiful...plus a good deal of surprise.
Sunday, April 9 2:30 &
DENNIS BRUNO
HOPPER GANZ
Monday, April 10 9:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 16 1:30 p.m.
LISA KREUZER GERARD BLAIN
$2.00 Woodruff Aud.
Brown declined to forecast what U.S. deterrent power might be in the 1990s but said the United States had the capability to maintain an effective deterrent.
Thursday, April 6
Accclaimed San Francisco Independent Filmmaker—Bruce Ballie;
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Friday & Saturday, April 7 & 8
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
Director John Schlesinger with Donald Sutherland, Karen Black
Friday - 3:30 & 9:30 p.m.
before the interviews drew criticism from several students.
Saturday - 7:00 p.m.
THE LAST TYCOON
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Dir. Eliaaz Zaxan with Robert DNeiro,
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Saturday -3:30 & 9:30 p.m.
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Friday - 7:00 p.m.
Dir. Jed Johnson with Carroll Baker, Susan Tyrrell, Rated X.
Midnight $1.25 Woodruff
MIDNIGHT MOVIE ANDY WARHOL'S BAD
SPECIAL ADDITION Wim Wenders'
THE AMERICAN FIRELS with Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz "One of the Ten Best Films of 1977"
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
Sunday, April 9 2:30 &
7:00 p.m.
Monday, April 10
Monday, April 10 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 16 1:30 p.m.
$2.00 Woodruff Aud.
toward nursing and with his work experience.
PICKPOCKET
The anguish, solitude, and discovery of love of a young thief—loosely based on Dostoevsk's *Crime and Punishment* 10:00 m. $1.00 Woodruff
"One of the Ten Best Films of 1977
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Tuesday, April 11
Documentary Films: Endurance Sports.
VIVE LE TOUR
Louis Malie
"JUST FROM the paperwork they eliminate some students," Stieel said. "I think they should look at the people first and then start looking at the paperwork."
THE MARATHON
Marlin Darrah
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Forum Room
KING LEAR
Wednesday, April 12 KING LEAR
Many students seem to see the basis upon which they are judged for admission differ from those who do not.
directed and written by Grigor
Kozintsev Russian Cinema-cinema
scope
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Woods 11
When asked which of the seven factors they thought the most emphasis was placed on, the most common answer students gave was grades.
Watson said that although the committee members wanted to select students who could survive academically, they were more concerned with a person's attitudes
"PEOPLE WITHOUT experience are more likely to drop out because they don't know what they're getting into," she said. "we rarely accept a person who doesn't know how to get around in a small town where there were no opportunities, we would understand that."
Watson is concerned that the small number of students the school is able to accept discourages many people from applying.
"We lose a lot of good people because they think they can't get in and so they don't even try," she said. "But I wish they wouldn't know." The teacher is a couple of stamps to send a transcript.
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