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Thursday, December 1, 1977
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the Kansas editorial staff. Signed columns represent only the views of the writers.
AMA rebuff unfortunate
When the Kansas Legislature considers the shortage of doctors in the state next session, it might lend a more sympathetic ear toward the problems of the University of Kansas Medical Center. The failure of a Med Center residency program in Garden City to gain accreditation indicates that the state's medical manpower crunch is a more complex problem than some legislators have apparently thought.
The American Medical Association (AMA) last week refused to accredit a program under which four KU medical school graduates spend their second and third years of residency training in Garden City. The reasons for the AMA's decision are a true Catch-22 story: Garden City area has too few hospitals and too few patients to have proper training ground for the young doctors the area needs so desperately.
THUS, THE Garden City area cannot get the new, young doctors it needs because it has too few doctors now. The poor get poorer.
But just as importantly, the AMA's decision demonstrates that one of the Med Center's good-faith efforts to ease the manpower capital shortage has been dealt
a stunning blow from the outside. Clearly, the state's doctor shortage cannot be solved merely by prodding the Med Center to send more of its graduates into Western Kansas. This is at least one case in which the AMA has said the graduates cannot go.
The Garden City residency program was one of four established by the Med Center and funded by the legislature last year. Legislators have indicated that they plan to keep funds available for the other residency programs, which have not yet faced the accreditation test. Furthermore, the funding will remain available until June 30 in case the Garden City program can gain accreditation.
THE RESIDENT training programs are a valuable tool for a state that urgently needs to attract doctors to its rural areas. The State Department supports, support, despite accreditation headaches.
Legislators should also remember that the residency program is one of the Med Center's earnest efforts to help solve doctor shortages. The legislature and Med Center must work together to iron out the program's problems and not get caught in the bickering that has marred such efforts in the past.
S.A.T. great for testers but students often suffer
By WARNER V. SLACK
Three Features
BOSTOST What would happen if they held the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and nobody came? If high school students refused to take the S.A.T. $^3$
There would be at least one bankrupt, tax-exempt corporation and a lot of unemployed test designers.
Colleges would have to rely again on grades and letters of recommendation.
There would be fewer forms in the applicants' folders and perhaps a little more hybrid vigor in the classroom; certainly, no dire consequence of institutions of higher learning.
As for the erstwhile test-takers, they would be free on Saturday mornings—no more than once a week. So take the S.A.T.'s; perhaps there would be a little less emphasis on who's smart and who isn't.
Whatever else they may be, aptitude tests are big business in a seller's market.
COLLEGE-BOUND students are captive consumers; most colleges require the S.A.T.s. There are formidable pressures to take these tests, even to take in more ony ones that don't count.
Mysticism surrounds the process. Concerned teachers
plan curricula with the tests in mind. Students worry about their scores. Rumors abound.
It's good for business to keep them guessing. The booklets of background information provided by Educational Testing Service are confusing, specious and stuffy.
The tests themselves are remarkably arrogant. There is no provision for argument, no prompting, and the teacher seems misleading or culturally biased, and no feedback about how the responses to individual students are performed.
Furthermore, there is no rebate, not even a word of thanks, for time and effort spent on questions that don't count in the scores, time spent unknowingly and without informed consent for research on questions to be used in later tests.
AND THE student pays good money for all this. Clearly, the testers are in charge.
The S.A.T.'s are purported to help students deprived or little-known schools, who, by scoring well, can demonstrate competence in the course, students from private and well-to-do public schools score better. They have, after all, had more opportunities to learn how to take the tests; students provide special preparation.
Even the best-prepared students,however,may be
denied admission to the colleges of their choice because of errors in measurement inherent in the tests.
The tests perform a further "service" of distinguishing children whose parents use big words at the dinner table from children whose parents do not—including those who don't have much on the table to begin with. Clearly, the S.A.T.'s put poor students in additional disadvantage, as if they don't have trouble enough.
11'S TIME for the test designers in Princeton to answer some questions for a change.
Why should their vocabularies and experiences with literature and math be used as the basis for judging other people's aptitudes? It's time to dispense with the notion of "essential testing Service has a handle on "mentorious scholarship."
The S.A.T. writers know that their questions are biased and don't really measure intelligence. They want to control the level of intelligence and keep those nonprofit profits rolling in.
High school students unite.
Save your money. Leave your
No. 2 pencils at home. Boycott
these tests.
Warner V. Slack is associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
There have been several hoodjims and social outcasts changing their ways lately and professing their faith in Jesus Christ as Avior. Unfortunately, most Christians seem too skeptical to consider such converts brothers in Christ.
Hoodlum converts taint religion
Charlie: Colson, former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate conspirator, currently is operating an evangelical organization that caters to prisoners. In his sermons he attacks the concept of Christianity as a "white, middle-class religion" for people and procures that Jesus suffered for outcasts such as Colson himself.
More recently, Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler and Chic magazines, professed his commitment to Christ after his death. He was an avid supporter of Carter's sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton.
Flynt said recently his magazines soon would reflect his personal commitment to Christianity, although the content wouldn't be chaned drastically.
"EVERYBODY EXPECTS pictures of the crucifix on the cover of Huster, with some version of the scripture printed in a font that looks like going to be the same. We're going to be
doing what we've been doing, but we'll just do it better."
Rick
Tbaemert
Editorial Writer
Still another convert is Eldridge Cleaver, renowned Black Panther leader of the 1900s. Cleaver, like Colson, has toured the country as an evangelist, preaching the redemptive power of Jesus Christ.
The effects of such miraculous conversions has caused much skepticism among Christians who have found God committing publicized social crimes.
Some obviously feel that the men turned to God because He was a security blanket, something they could cling to as a way of avoiding trouble. After all, what can touch the heart of a society angry with a criminal better than a profession of faith in Christ from that world?
Perhaps that is why, to many Christians, the choice by Colson and
Flynt to follow God seems more like an alternative to punishment than a serious attempt to change lifestyle.
attempt to change lifestyle.
OTHER CHRISTIANS may resent the show business-like atmosphere of such converts. Most persons who commit sins against God and others quietly pray for conversion, then all their commitment by participation in church activities. Perhaps these people resent converted criminally who rate headlines both for their sins and for their recon-
Some prison chaplains, employed by the Bureau of Prisons, have expressed resentment that Colon operate on a evangelical level, which leaves inmates inspired but offers no follow-up. The chaplains say Cologon, because of his influence, easily bypasses regular prison channels to conduct his programs.
Others dislike the big business approach of Colson and Flynt. Colson operates his organization, the Prison Fellowship program, on an annual basis. He sells mostly from the sale of his book, *Born Again*, and personal donations.
IF A CRIMINAL was out to make money and reclaim a good public image, the evangelical field would be the perfect cover for a profitable sham. Such a book would be hard to find in the book and tape-pedding practiced by most persons involved in government or public scandals. And, few people question large amounts of money when they are associated with religions. Even the wonders are welcome in the offering plate.
As for Flynt, his profession can do nothing but improve sales. By dubbing his gynecological displays "beautiful and God-given," he may actually convince some that his magazines are read even by God. Those who already buy the clothes they need are less how Flynt feels; their tastes are generally aren't of an ideological nature.
Despite the shady personalities of both men, the harm inevitably will fall on religion. When the church becomes an institution and Flying Tommy immoral government activities of Colson, many Christians will hit the road and religion's reputation will become more solid.
THE STIUTATION IS paradoxical. Few Christians, whether they admit it, want to go to a church where there is a throng of hoodwuns, thugs and pervers who have not yet paid their dues in the Christian ranks.
Yet, a church, as Colson said, ideally should be the place where such men come for help. Jesus, when accused of associating with tax collectors and other socially despised people, answered that sick who needed help, not the healthy.
Even if Colon, Flynt and the others are sick, it isn't a church's job to judge them. It need only accept them if they are sick or need to profess Christ as their Savior.
Colson and Flynt have done so, yet many Christians feel that to accept them as valid Christians is to place the credibility of relation on the line.
Unfortunately, a church can't win in the eyes of God. For a church to refute the professions of even the worst of criminals is hypocritical. For a church to allow insinister criminals to use God's word is insincerely hypocritical. Blashevmy and shouldn't be permitted.
Obviously, a weeding out is needed before the Christian churches become nothing more than gossiping coffee and making all kinds meet for all kinds of reasons.
But, that probably won't happen. After all, if God himself came, would anybody trust him?
Accents illustrate American diversity
President Jimmy Carter is giving the southern accent a bad reputation. His langual written style listener like a wilted magnolia.
Accents are not bad. They illustrate the country's diversity and its regionalism.
It's not that his accent is so bad or unintelligible. It's the delivery—a pure monotone that makes him sound like a lecturer. Election lessons are called for.
And all Southern accents are not alike. Television and the movies are responsible for those dreadful imitations that one associates with the Southerner.
Paul Newman used an unbelievable accent in "Cat on a Hot Tint Roof" and "Cool Hand Luke." Marilyn Brando
mumbled his way through several movies with what was called a Southern accent, most likely a *Street Car Named Desire*.
AND LETS NOT NOT forget "Miss Scallutt" and "Mistuh Rhett" in "Gone With the Wind." Even Bette Davis, with her almost British manner of speaking, tried it in "Jezebel."
Why didn't these actors try to listen to a real Southerner? Instead, they talked as slowly as possible and pronounced
their "i's" as "ah's" and their "r's" as "h's."
Anyone can do that. Just try it. It takes no special talent. The problem is that it isn't authentic.
Authenticity doesn't matter to outsiders though. To them, all Southern accents sound the same. But when the listener has a Boston accent or a Kansas accent, what else would be needed? The accent isn't ventured south long enough to detect the differences that exist from state to state and from region to region.
The most pronounced Southern accents are not where one would expect. No, not in Alabama or in Mississippi, but in South "Cahalha" and in Jawia."
Sadat's journey a camouflage attempt
To the editor:
Events in the Middle East this weekend have been a chronicle of the war. Sadaf of Egypt, in an attempt to make history in the Nixon fashion, visited a country that has seen his nation's declared enemy.
Just as Nixon initiated his visit to China to shift the public eye from internal problems in the United States to the ceremony and drama of foreign diplomacy, so Sadat is attempting camouflage his desperation with bad economic
Sadat's trip is folly because it is clear that Israel is not ready to compromise on the major issues of reestablishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, return of occupied Jerusalem and the recognition of the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
conditions, military inferiority and poor relations with neighboring Arab countries by neighborly attention or attention in the world press.
In his speech to the Knesset
on Sunday, Begin indicated his unwillingness to compromise on any of these issues at the core of the conflict by his unwillingness to support Israel in the occupied West Bank as Palestinians. His referral to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel makes it clear that he has no intention of occupying his stated commitment to secure borders for
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The Israelis know that Sadat's personal survival and political future are in grave danger as a result of his unilateral actions in defiance of the wishes of the Arab people in visiting with the enemy. His prize is not being sold at the desert. With 80 per cent of Arab lands being desert, Sadat has little use for more sand.
The price he will pay is loss of the support of his people and will lead to his political downfall. Just as Nikon could not hold its own against Samsung, the real issues by creating a subterfuge through international visits, so Sadat cannot hope to pursue selfish, deceptive aims without an ultimate political and personal disguise.
Israel precludes return of the Golan Heights to Syria.
Sadat's visit provides a stimulus to liberal Arab groups to become further entrenched in their positions and will further mobilize revolutionary groups. In his misguided attempt to overcome a procedural stalemate in convening the Geneva Conference, he has created a climate for bilateral agreements with Israel and has, in reality, greatly lessened the possibility of a agreement being reached at a Geneva conference.
Lawrence graduate student
M. Daisy Batdorf
Arab unity fails to back Sadat
To the editor:
Where is the Arab unity when we need it? The Arabs have viciously tried to bring peace to the Middle East for a long time, but for some reason they haven't.
They have been very united in starting simultaneous wars on all fronts against Israel for the Islamic State, and Anwar Sadat came to realize war is not the way and tried an honest initiative for peace, the Arab unity falls apart. Most of the Arab world doesn't back a gun, so give him any credit. Some vowed to assassinate him.
The man is courageous. For the sake of real peace, which the Israelis are longing for and the sacrifice for, I hope he should
South Africa is free world foe
Raphael Goldman Tel Aviv senior
To the editor:
1 refer to Jeff Smith's Nov. 14 letter, "South African blacks should be happy now," which was substantially countered by two other letters of Nov. 17 and 22.
Racism is a highly charged human issue, volatile and in-
flammable even amidst a favorable GNP. South Africa's perpetuation of the venomous aparthid instrument since 1948 has finally provoked the world, hopefully for good.
The latest UN mandate and permanent arms embargo against South Africa is praiseworthy, though its use is questionable. The defiant Vorster has placed his immunity on his trump cards—gold, diamonds, chrome, and the Cape of Good Hope, which survived Hitler's assaults by florent Pretorian officials.
Further, Vorster claims to champion the somewhat oblivious notion of the free world as opposed to communism. But whether or not the demigod Vorster can "stand" against the world would be a fellow Boers, now called Afrikaners, in the face of 18 million oppressed South African blacks, the Organization of African Unity and mounting world opinion is a matter of time. To put it in a nutshell, they literally in the Horn of Africa.
If Jeff Smith is unable to elicit the truth or distrust any form of information available to him, he must visit Soweto and Biko in London.
Norman Anthony
Neither bissful ignorance nor inherent bias can portray "the other side to South Africa."
Singapore graduate student
EVEN IN THOSE states, the pronunciations vary. An Atlantan does not sound like a person from Savannah. A person from people in the rest of South Carolina.
However, North Carolina comes very close to winning the award for the slowest speech and the best Southern drawl. Sam Erwin's recent visit to KU illustrated that point. It was surprising that he didn't employ a blunt tone. He told the Midwestern listeners who, no doubt, had some trouble understanding him.
Remember those tedious Watergate hearings? Well, the South and its varied accents were well represented on the Senate Select Committee. There were Ervin, Howard Baker from Tennessee, Herman Talmade from Georgia and Robert Palmer from Florida. To those who listened with some care, there were marked differences in the accents of these Southerners.
YET IT WOULD require a toss-up to determine whether Sen. Sam or "Hummon" had
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the best drawl. Baker's accent was rather bland in comparison, and Gurney almost had no perceptible accent.
Of course, there are other Southern accents. There's Virginia with the peculiar way of pronouncing "o's" as "aoh.s." Kentucky's accent is a little like Tennessee's—rather bland and not as slow as that of other states.
Louisiana has the Cajun influence, which is a curious mixture of Southernism, French and Indian. What evolved was something obviously akin to a Bronx accent.
Then there are Mississippi and Alabama. There the city dwelling speak with a cute boy on the country have a rednack jargon that sounds like Jim Nabors, Billy Carter or those folks from Texas.
Accents are not something to laugh at or ridicule. They are among the few things we have left that show the wide diversity in our country. Shame on anyone who tries to change his.
This country would be rather boring if we were all alike.
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