University Daily Kansan, October 14, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Carlin postpones mission to Orient until next spring
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin's trade mission to China and Japan will be taken after the 1984 legislative session, probably in May or June, a state official said yesterday.
Jamie Schwartz, secretary of the Department of Economic Development, said that the trip, which was scheduled to begin yesterday, would not be rescheduled this year.
"We haven't given definite dates to the Chinese" he said.
Schwartz said proposals for a trip in November or December were ruled out.
Carlin was scheduled to lead a delegation of 10 state officials and eight journalists to the Far East. The group was to have arrived in Hong Kong on Friday and would have traveled to the People's Republic of China on Sunday. The mission was delayed when Carlin injured his back about two weeks ago in a taxiick accident in Washington, D.C. Carlin is hospitalized. Phillip Baker, advised that the trip be delayed for at least six weeks.
Carlin to speak on high-tech future
Gov. John Carlin will speak next month at a Lawrence conference about Kansas' high-technology future.
The conference, officially titled the Governor's Conference on Applied Remote Sensing, Geographical Data Analysis and Mapping in Kansas, will open Nov. 7 at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 W. Turniptown to educate people about newly developed equipment and techniques.
Jim Merchant, senior remote sensing applications specialist, said, "Our primary objectives are to bring potential users up to date on uses, access and costs of our systems and data, and to inform people about the high-technology task force."
Carlin said he encouraged the development of high-technology equipment in Kansas because of the increasing amount of advanced equipment entering the commercial market.
Exxon gives $15,000 to departments
Exxon Company U.S.A. yesterday presented a check for $15,000 to the School of Engineering and the department of geology
The departments of civil and mechanical engineering each received $2,000. The department of chemical engineering received $5,000, and $6,000 was given to the department of geology.
The University of Kansas has received a gift from Exxon for more than 10 years. However, Ernest Angino, chairman of the geology department, said the gift was not taken for granted.
"With funds being so tight, we assume nothing," he said. "We'll take whatever we can get."
David Kraft, dean of the School of Engineering, said the money be used for virtually anything the needed department.
Elderly legislature OKs 6 proposals
TOPEKA — The state's first Silver-Haired Legislature yesterday passed six advisory measures, including one that would repeal property-tax exemptions on farm machinery and business aircraft.
The legislature's 125 members met at the Statehouse for three days to draw attention to problems facing the elderly. Yet, the measures passed clearly affect virtually all of the state's residents.
Other bills will require all state boards and commissions to include at least one member aged 55 or older, establish a review process for hospital budgets and rate increases and create an in-home program for low-income Kansans not covered by state programs.
Regan to give lecture at KU today
Donald Regan, secretary of the treasury, will speak at 1 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Regan, whose speech is free and open to the public, will speak on industrial policy. A 30-minute question-and-answer session will follow
Regan has been President Reagan's only secretary of the treasury since the president took office in 1981. He is a former chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch & Co. and a former vice chairman and director of the New York Stock Exchange.
ON THE RECORD
THREE CAR STEREOS were reported stolen from cars parked in Lot 111 of GSP-Corbin Residence Hall between Sunday and Wednesday, KU police said. One stereo was stolen sometime between noon Sunday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, another was stolen sometime between 1:30 p.m. Sunday and 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, and the third was stolen between 1:40 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Tuesday. The stereos were valued at a total of $435.
THREE SETS OF WIRE wheel covers were reported stolen from cars parked in Daisy Field parking lots, KU police said. One set was stolen sometime between 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday in Lot 101 of Templin Hall. Another set was stolen between noon Sunday and 6 p.m. Tuesday from Lot 102 of Lewis Hall, and the third set was stolen between midnight and 4 p.m. Tuesday from the same lot. The wheel covers were valued at a total of $1,270.
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A slight drop in the number of first-year students enrolled in KU's School of Medicine this fall reflects a two-year decline in the number of applicants to the school, the associate dean of the school said yesterday.
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Enrollment drops in School of Medicine
Thorikl Jensen, the associate dean,
said the school admitted all the
applicants who initially qualified and
all 30 who had been placed on
the job. Because of this class size was caused by not having enough qualified applicants, he said.
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This fall's class has 198 students, said Ann Brown, a secretary in the office of medical-student admissions. She said that this year was the first since 1976 that the first-year enrollment had slipped below the usual class number of 345.
THE NUMBER OF applicants has declined 21.5 percent since 1981, Brown said, down to 783 this year. There were 998 applicants in 1981 and 895 in 1982.
"There are people who say that maybe it just reflects that some of our bright young people are finding that
"If we don't have enough, then I suppose in the future that the class number will slip down. This is a sensitive area relating to matters that are probably being discussed at the level of the Board of Regents."
there are other fields where they can fulfill their desire for a career without expending such as much time and effort." Jensen said.
"If you look at the fact that you have only 305 Kansans, then you do have a problem," Jensen said. "Eventually you reach that critical point where you can't bring enough state applicants in, that becomes critical in a state school."
JENSEN SAID THAT because the University of Kansas was a state university, the drop in the number of applicants from Kansas was disfavorable. Of 83 percent applicants from the state, down 13 percent from 531 the previous fall.
"There are many other professions, especially in computer and high-tech areas, that young people might see as an alternative and a satisfying one."
THE SCHOOL WILL not ease its admission standards, Jensen said, even if class sizes begin to drop significantly. Rather, the targeted class size would be decreased, and with that might come cutbacks at the school.
The Regents are conducting a five-year review of all academic programs in the Regents schools to determine
how money could be saved. Regents officials yesterday could not be reached to comment on the situation at the medical school.
Any decision on whether to lower the class size in the future would be made by the Regents, he said.
The slight decline in the number of first-year students in the school also reflects a nationwide decline in applicants for the 1982-83 school year, according to data published last month in the AMA journal.
might be discouraged from entering medicine because of a government report published in the past two years in the past month of doctors by 1990, Densen said.
Brown said the median college grade-point average for incoming medical students at KU had been 3.63 for the past two years. The national average, as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last month, was 3.52 for the 1982-83 school year.
The school still is able to attract enough high-quality students to fill or nearly fill its first-year class at its current level, Jensen said.
Although high-quality students are still available, fewer of them are attracted to medicine as a career, Jensen said.
Also, he said, the general state of the economy and reduced availability of financial aid make medical school more difficult for many to afford.
PROSPECTIVE MEDICAL students
There were 35,730 applicants to the 127 accredited medical schools in the United States for the last academic year, about 1,000 fewer than for the previous year. That represents a decline of about 2.7 percent.
Also, there were 90 fewer first-year medical students nationwide in 1982-83 than in the previous year. That was the result of 17 years, according to the magazine.
The total enrollment at the accredited U.S. medical schools, 66,866 students, was up less than 1 percent from the previous year.
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