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Students continue test trend
By the Kansan Staff
Almost 94 percent of third-year medical students maintained a five-year trend by passing the first part of the National Examiners Test in June.
A steady improvement in the passing rate for students enrolled in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Kansas has kept the percentage in the 90s for five years. Mary Harrison, director of Universities Relations for the University of Kansas Medical Center, said yesterday.
"It indicates that students are getting the message through our instructors," she said. "Our instructors are effective and the range of material covered encompasses most conventional test makers think is important."
The national board exam evaluates the students' general medical knowledge as well as knowledge about anatomy, physiology, biology, pathology, microbiology, pharmacology and behavioral sciences.
More than 14,500 medical students in the nation and Canada took the exam, which they must pass at the end of their second year of medical school before they can go on to the clinical part of their education.
Medical students will take the second portion of the national board exam at the end of their fourth year of medical school and the third portion after at least six months of residency.
The students' scores in all the disciplines indicated a strong balance among the various areas, Harrison said.
She said that both students and instructors should be credited with the high passing rate.
"It would certainly be remiss if we didn't give credit to the students in the first place," she said.
The rate peaked in 1981 when 95 percent of the KU medical students passed the first part of the exam.
Team aids officers on dutv
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Police Department has brought back its version of the special forces, available for investigations, crowd control and similar tasks.
THE 'OFFICERS ARE TRAINED by one of the department's detectives for crime scene work, photography and fingerprinting. Vic Strnad said. The training lasts from three days to a week.
The unit, called the Special Assignments Team, was responsible for ending two bicycle theft rings and apprehending a rape suspect during the 1982-1983 school government officials said yesterday.
"It allows us flexibility," Oliver said. "The whole idea is to reduce crime with the existing manpower."
The team — reactivated this year — is composed of regular patrol officers who volunteer for the duty. Curt. Ralph Oliver said.
The team is used for a variety of purposes, he said. Team members' hours are scheduled on a day-to-day basis. Team members usually work in groups of two, although more officers may work to cover large areas.
The team can operate either in uniform or plainclothes, Oliver said.
In plainclothes, the team can keep high crime areas under surveillance for long periods of time, he said. The detective in charge reminds the areas to be watched, based on local crime statistics.
IN THE CASE OF the bicycle theft rings, Stirnad said, "We had a pretty good idea of the times when we were being hit. We just set them up there and they caught them."
The team is also used in plainclothes in sensitive situations such as demonstrations, speeches and meetings where the presence of uniformed officers might have adverse effects. Oliver said.
The plainclothes officers can move through the crowd more readily, without being noticed, he said.
In uniform the team is used to fill in on regular patrol shifts that
are shorthanded because of sickness or vacations,he said.
The team can also be used to double the strength of a regular patrol shift, Oliver said.
RECENTLY, UNIFORMED team members monitored busy intersections on campus to draw attention to the department's efforts to enforce traffic laws, he said. This allowed the department to concentrate more officers on traffic without interfering with the duties of the regular patrol officers.
This fall the team has worked in Memorial Stadium during home football games, Oliver said.
The team was first used in the 1982-1983 school year, but a shortage of patrol officers last summer led to the department to deactivate it, he said.
"We hated to give it up before," Strnad said.
During 1982-1983, the team was made up of only one set of officers, he said. This year the team assignments will be rotated, giving more officers the opportunity to gain experience.
"It can't help but make them a better officer." Strnad said.
University Daily Kansan, September 27, 1984
Tower request denied again
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
A proposal to construct a 150-foot communications tower northwest of lawrence was denied again by the Planing Commission last night. Planning commission last night.
The proposal will go back to the Douglas County Commission for a final decision. The request will be acted upon at Monday's meeting.
The proposal was for a conditional use permit, which gives the applicant, United Telespectrum, the right to construct a device such as a communications tower on a piece of property.
The proposed site is at the southwestern corner of Peterson Road and Monterey Way, northwest of Lawrence.
county commission sent the request back to the planning commission to consider additional information about the request.
The planning commission last night listened to an engineer's report from United Telespectrum, which stated that the power would not affect
At the commission's Aug. 22 meeting, the request was unanimously denied after objections from area residents. Residents were concerned that the tower would be an eyesore, devalue property and interfere with television and radio reception
The county commission questioned the validity of a protest petition that had been filed and asked the planning commission to consider recent opinions that the tower would interfere with reception.
THE COMMISSION recommended then that the county commission deny the request. The county commission has the final say in the matter, said David Guntert, city-county planner.
BUT COMMISSION CHAIRMAN Sandra Praeger said that at the Aug. 22 meeting, interference had not been a key concern.
But at is Monday meeting, the
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JOANN VERBURG, portrait photographer, will speak about her work at 3 p.m. in room 211 of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
A 19-YEAR-OLD KU student was arrested early yesterday morning on charges of criminal trespassing and possession of burglary tools after a woman saw him climbing buildings in the alley west of the 900 block of Park Avenue in Philadelphia. Police found the student on the roof of Weaver's Department Store, 901 Massachusetts St. The student was released on $1,500 bond.
ON THE RECORD
A 72-YEAR-OLD Lawrence woman reported that a ring valued at $600 was removed from her husband's left hand between 2 p. Sept. 10 and 2 p. Sept. 11 while he was hospitalized at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, police said. The woman was in the presence of a doctor when she noticed the ring missing and asked her husband where it was. The husband replied that someone dressed in white had taken it, according to a police report. No one at the hospital was available for comment yesterday evening. The husband, 78, died Sept. 14.
A 1981 CHEVROLET pickup belonged to a 37-year-old Oksalaosman was stolen from the 1500 block of West 23rd Street between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Tuesday, police said. The white pickup was valued at $5,000. The owner reported that he had left the keys in the ignition.
CAR STEREO EQUIPMENT valued at $2,800 was stolen from a 42-year-old Lawrence man's car in the 2200 block of Vermont Street
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