University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. September 18, 1991
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Watkins gives Pre-Med Club place to meet, store materials
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
The KU Pre-Med Club finally has a place to call home.
The club learned this semester that Watkins Memorial Health Center would provide the group permanent office space, said club president Todd Clayman, Overland Park senior.
Watkins provided office space and a bulletin board so that the club could have a focal point, for its activities, and allow staff to attend at Watkins and adviser to the club.
For the past two years, the club has stored its materials in Clayman's apartment. But as the club's membership grew, so did the need for office space.
Since 1989, the club has grown from 50 members to about 160 this semester.
Yockey said the club had existed for decades, but sporadic membership and a lack of established meeting
times left the group without a need for office space until this year.
"Watkins is a logical place to have this club," Yockey said.
The club is open to anyone who is considering a career in medicine, Clayman said.
"We try to focus on general topics to get people interested in medical field." Chaymau. "Clearly."
The club
Todd Clayman
The club meets twice a month at the first floor conference room in Watkins, Clayman said.
He said the tour toured hospitals such as St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., and the University of Kansas Medical Center. The tour-
explore the administrative and clinical aspects of medicine.
The group also has guest speakers who provide professional and personal viewpoints about working in the medical field, Claymansaid.
In addition to the practical information, the group offers a social event once a month. In the past the group has gone to movies, played golf and pinicked at a local park, Clayman said.
Deena Beneda, vice president of the club and Cuba, Kan., senior, said that the club had helped her meet classmates and professors and that it had given her inspiration when she felt overwhelmed with studies.
*One of the biggest advantages about being in the group is that it keeps you enthused about being in medicine, "she said.
For more information about the club call 684-3372 or stop by their office in the Watkins administration office.
North may write book or seek office
Iran-Contra star hopes he can dodge the stand
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Retired Lt. Col.
Oliver North may write a book or run
for political office, but there are
at least two things he plans to avoid in
the future: testifying in court or on Capitol
Hill.
In the years since becoming embroiled in the Iran-contra affair, the former National Security Council deputy has started a successful business, a conservative think tank and a lucrative licutre career.
On Monday, after a federal judge dismissed all charges against him, North hinted that he might write a book.
"I am going to look for a better forum
that is the hot sun here today."
Northridge.
"If you could just give us a sense of why you feel vindicated by all of this," someone asked outside the court-house.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calf., who has known North for 10 years, said it would be natural for him to become an author.
"He has got a lot of name recognition, and people want to know his point
or view behind all of these events of the late 1980s," Rohrabacher said in an interview. "When people saw him testify, he was someone they empathized with. And I'm sure they want to know how he felt on not getting pardoned by Ronald Reagan. I certainly sensed a bitterness in him."
The flamboyant Marine appeared to be a valiant patriot to some observers, turning misty-eyed when he testified of his bravery years ago in his decorated uniform.
North, 47, went out on the political circuit, raising money for Republican candidates and fueling speculation about the race; too, would be on a ballot somewhere.
His conviction on three felony charges would have disqualified him from federal office. But he told audiences from the start that it was all going to end well.
Sure enough, last summer a federal appeals court set aside North's three convictions for destroying documents, accepting an illegal gratuity and aiding the obstruction of Congress.
Then the special prosecutor,
Lawrence Walsh, decided he probably
would not be able to win restatement
of the convictions. On Monday, North
got his reprieve. U.S. District Judge
Gerhard A. Gessell terminated the
case.
"Now that this has passed, he 'reliable' run for office," said Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., another North friend. "He could probably run for the Senate in Virginia, for example, or any number of things."
North said Monday that "I have had my last hearing on the Hill forever, I hope." Asked if he would tell us tessentially what his authorities, he replied, "I can only hope not."
Of his future plans, North said, "I hope to take my kids to lunch." As for making a political bid, he replied, "I am running hard for the toughest office in the land, husband and father, and I have been away from it for too long."
Friends say that North, his wife, Betsy, and their four children have been under enormous pressure in the past few years.
North went out on the lecture circuit to help pay for his defense.
North's White House career was noteworthy for the number of dramatic events in which he played a key role: the secret arms sales to Iran, the diversion of Grenada and the interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship.
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