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Tuesday, Sept. 2
What: Sand Volleyball
When: 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: Robinson Center Outdoor Volleyball Courts
About: Sign up in teams of 6 through SUA to compete in a tournament for cash prizes.
Calendar
What: KU Swing Society When: 8 to 11 p.m. Where: Kansas Room, Kansas Union
About: Show up early to learn the lindyhop, east coast, charleston and shag.
What: Volunteer Fair
When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: 4th Level, Kansas Union
About: Students can receive info about the different volunteer opportunities available during college and after graduation.
What: Pre-Law Day
When: 1 to 4 p.m.
Where: Ballroom, Kansas Union
About: Undergraduates can meet with admissions officers from more than 70 law schools.
What: Welcome Back BBQ
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: South lawn of Summerfield Hall
Wednesday, Sept.3
Thursday, Sept. 4
About: The School of Business celebrates the new academic year.
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus Ministries
About: Visit for a free vegetarian meal.
Friday, Sept. 5
What: Red Hot Research When: 4 to 5:30 p.m. Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons About: A networking event between scholars from different disciplines and audience members.
What: Undergraduate Research Office Hours
MCAT to expand into longer test in 2015
Where: Strong Hall, Room 151 About: Collect information about how to get started in research, find a mentor and apply for funding.
DALTON KINGERY
@daltonkingnews
The next time students take the Medical College Admissions Test, it will be a new and expanded version.
The test, which has been offered since 1928, will now contain two additional sections: social, psychological, and biological foundations of behavior, as well as critical analysis and reasoning skills.
"It's a long and difficult test, and that's what.I think it's intended to be," said KU alumna Jen McAllaster, a surgeon at St. Francis General, Vascular, and Bariatric Surgery at Tallgrass Surgical Center in Topeka.
"I think the new MCAT is
pre-med students that will soon be taking the new MCAT have taken notice of the changes.as well.
The addition of more sections to the four-and-a-half hour test will increase the time needed to take the test by approximately two hours. However, the Association of American Medical Colleges' website says the addition "recognizes the importance of socio-cultural and behavioral determinants of health and health outcomes."
a great indicator for how the field of medicine is growing," said Rajvi Shah, a sophomore from Overland Park who is pre-med. "It's being recognized that not everything is a hard science. Medicine is a way of treating people, not just a diagnosis."
"It is a big change," said Paul Crosby, a pre-med advisor at the University. "It's going to have a lot of the same flavor, and some of the questions, content and materials that
had been developed to help prepare for the current test will still be helpful for the future test."
"I'm nervous for it. But if they're adding it then it must be necessary."
GRACIE BINTER
Sophomore from Wichita
drink less, wear seatbelts, wed have much greater life expectancies. So how to influence people to make those behavioral changes is important."
The MCAT is very important to hopeful medical students, because a student's test score wields significant power in medical schools' admissions offices.
Crosby believes that part of the reason these particular changes to the test are being made is the awareness in the medical field that "medicine is not just medicine."
"A lot of health care issues are behavioral," Crosby said. "If we would all eat less, exercise more, stop smoking,
"It's certainly a test with very high stakes," said McAllaster. McAllaster said she thinks that the addition of new material to the test could be driven by the test's aim of finding someone who can perform well across a wide knowledge base and in high-pressure situations.
While the more strenuous test may be a source of anxiety for students, some students concede the importance of keeping the test up to date with the field of medicine.
Police and firefighters work on the scene where five people were killed after an airplane crashed in a field northwest of the main runway at Erie Municipal Airport while coming in for a landing in Erie, Colo., on Sunday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Five killed in plane crash in Colo.
ERIE, Colo. — All five people aboard a small plane that crashed near an airport north of Denver have died, a spokesman for the National Transportation Board said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Piper PA-46 airplane crashed near the Erie Municipal Airport about 11:50 a.m., NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said Sunday afternoon. Shortly after the crash, three people were declared dead at the scene and two were taken to hospitals.
The Boulder Daily Camera reports that their names and ages are being withheld by the Weld County Coroner's Office pending notification of
Erie Police Cmdr. Lee Mathis said the six-passenger plane crashed a few hundred yards northwest of the runway, but he did not know if it was landing or taking off. A photo of the crash site posted on the Boulder Daily Camera's website showed the mangled wreckage of the plane, which crashed into a grassy field.
"We heard it sputtering," she said. "Then there was no sound. We knew it was a crash."
relatives.
Jan Culver told the newspaper she was with a friend in a pasture near the airport when she heard the plane and saw it flying "really, really low."
"It was a plane upside down with some folks already out of the plane," she said. "I could tell there were some bad injuries."
She saw a small cloud of dust as the plane crashed and, because she has some medical knowledge, went to the scene to help, Culver said.
The Denver Post reported that NTSB records show the airport was the scene of three crashes in 2013 and two in 2012. None of those incidents had a fatality.
The last fatality at the airport was in May 2011, when 64-year-old Christian R. Hansen crashed on takeoff in a plane he was demonstrating for a potential buyer, according to the newspaper. The autopsy indicated Hansen had a heart attack.
The NTSB is investigating Sunday's crash. Erie is about 20 miles north of Denver.
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"I'm nervous for it," said Gracie Binter, a sophomore from Wichita. "But if they're adding it then it must be necessary. I think it's important that they make changes for the future."
Shah doubts that a longer test will drastically affect students who have a desire to go to medical school.
"If you want to be a doctor," Shah said, "a longer test isn't going to deter you from reaching that endpoint."
— Edited by Miranda Davis
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