8 Wednesday, December 1, 1976 University Daily Kansan Twin doctors fight labels By CHUCK ALEXANDER KANSAS CITY, Kan.—A model, not a stereotype is the way "learned" Karan and Saran Baucom, identical twins and second-year resident physician of the Medical Clinic, themselves. "Wherever we've gone before, unfortunately, we've been the first. And there's a tendency for people to bounce on us," Karan Bcupson said yesterday. The sisters, who attended the University of Kansas from 1968 to 1971, received their M.D.'s in the first graduating class from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School in 1974. Sharon Baucom-Copeland is also a graduate specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. Both doctors said they had decided to enter a health-related profession when they were small children, although both jokingly admitted that the doctor had the desire to become a doctor first. "I HAD THE doctor's kit, and I was so sure she was going to be my nurse," she said. Although both find sugar-sweet accounts of them as two little girls who were challenged to become doctors instead of nurses by their father laughable, the sisters are quick to point out the encouragement given them by their parents. "Basically, my father and mother encouraged us into a health profession because they thought we were interested in it." Bacum-Copeland explained. Twins Sharon and Karan Baucom Baucom-Copeland, who is married to E. Thomas Copeland, a psychologist in the pediatrics department at the Med Center, and Dr. Joanne Maiden name, but because she was constantly confused with her sister and hospital pages failed to give the women's respective first names, she began using her sister. But even that effort fails to stop confusion. "I JUST HAD a lady stop me in the hall and ask me about her daughter," Buom-Copeland said. "But I'm sure she was waunting my sister." The sisters said they sometimes met to brief one another on comments each had made that might irritate someone because they had been known to address the wrong twin. "I'm very outspoken, and sometimes my opinions get carried over to this hospital," Baucm-Copeland, who practices in New York, said. "But we try to antagonize these things." The twins, who come from a family of five children, said they had a younger brother who was a student at Meharry Medical College in Tennessee. When the twins and their brother have finished their studies, the sisters have practiced together in the Kansas City area. WERE WE BORN in Kansas City, and this is where we want to practice. *Baucom* "I want to see kids, adults and grandparents," she said. Baucom-Copeland added that as a family physician, she could conceivably deliver a baby and see that child through adolescence and childhood, and perhaps a family of his or her own. Baucom she chose gynecology and obstetrics as her specialty because she would be able to practice surgery, pediatrics and internal medicine. SHE RESENTS the assumption made by some people that bias in our minds can't be ignored. We can, of course, not ignore it. 01, EXCESS. "We need to get out of the stereotype that only exceptional blacks get anywhere," she Bacum-Copeland added, "We may be exceptional to some, but we didn't start out exceptional. We were persistent. We learned that we had to keep putout." their colleagues who thought the publicity about them was unjustified. But they said that they were used to resistance in some cases and when refused to be treated by a woman doctor. The sisters said that recent publicity had caused them to be criticized by some of Despite the fact they are two black women in a profession dominated by white men, they prefer to be recognized as doctors rather than nurses, and each other—and who happen to be twins. Future historians will call the last 30 years a period of rapid and almost unpredictable change. Joel Colton, director of the Rockefeller Foundation, said last night. By DAVID JOHNSON Colton, the third speaker this semester for the Humanities Lectures Series, described to about 60 people in Woodruff Auditorium changes that had occurred since World War II. —The emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers. Post-WW II changes described -Europe's decline as a world power. Dick Wright, lecturer in music history, will continue as manager of KANU until Hill arrives. Wright was to have left the station Tuesday to devote more time to teaching. Hill, who teaches part-time at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Ill., underwent minor surgery two weeks ago and is recuperating there. Manager's arrival delayed Communists China's emergence as a world power. —The breakdown of colonialism and increasing number of sovereign nations. After World War II, the Third World countries adopted a stance of nonalignment, slightly directed against the United States, Colton said. —The changing relations between white and nowhere peoples of the world. Colton said that 20th century history was marked by "the way northwestern cultures moved in and out of the land." He pointed to the Communist satellites nations of Eastern Europe, which continue to assert their economic independence from the Soviet Union. The advancement of thermonuclear and space technology by an increasing number of countries. He said the increased membership in the United Nations, the Arab oil embargoes, the growing number of nations with nuclear weapons and the economic power of nations and the third World nations began to upset the early post-war dominance of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. in East Europe were indications of the increasing influence of the Third World. In response to a question after the lecture, cotton and he didn't see any cyclical pattern. "My own philosophy of history is that the only thing we can predict in history is that things will happen." The arrival of Howard Hill as station manager will be delayed because of health problems. From nage one Parking... for support in her motion to remove the Eddihill Road spaces. "I hate to be the only bad guy in the bunch," she said. After lengthy debate, all Bayer's request were rejected. The Edgehill Hoad removal project was approved. One of the ordinance changes legalized using "profane, vulgar, obsecrete or obscene language in the streets ... or in the prison or hearing of any female or any child." In other action, commissioners passed 15 ordinances designed to update or eliminate obsolete parts of the Lawrence City Code. The new ordinances and other changes were designed by Marilyn Harbur of Wichita, a third-year law student at KU. Women needed as track officials Barkley Clark suggested that "we could always change it to real b-d-y houses." COMMISSIONERS ALSO legalized cohabitation in Lawrence. A member of the auditorian last remarked, "This is the only way I ever will be able to deal with the Commission meeting. Can we do this now?" Ar angering told the audience member "I should not be so stupid, but he should 'tell the shades down, but that's right." "The Most Brilliant New Movie of the Year!" Ralph Christofferson, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that Hill might not assume his role in 1977. Hill would have started work Dec. 1. Wedding in Blood An invitation to women to attend last night's general membership meeting of the Jayhawk Track and Field Officials Association proved fruitless, but the group plans to keep trying to recruit women officials. MICHEL PRCOLI STEPHANE AJDRIAN NEW YORK CARNEGIE twenty-five men attended the meeting last night, although outgoing association president Rob Miller extended a public invitation to women to attend. Speakers at the meeting-Bob Timmons, head track coach; Ed Elibel, director of officials; and John Quick, president of the college needed for new officials, especially women. Quick said that about 500 people were needed easily to help with the Kansas official effort. New officers of the association were elected at the meeting. Last year's vice president, Quick, automatically became the new president, under association by laws. Wed., Dec. 1, 7:30 & 9:30 Anyone interested in becoming an official can do so, Quick said, by calling him or Woodruff Auditorium 75' Wayne Bly was elected vice president and Craig Criqul was elected secretary-treasury. TOMORROW: UNIVERSITY SENATE meets at 3:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. The UNDERGRADEAN ANTHROPOLOGY ASSOCIATION meets at 3:30 p.m. in 117 Fraser Hall. AN ORIENTAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE CLUB meets at 3:30 p.m. in the Union's Jawahar Room. THE KU SCIENCE FICTION CLUB meets at 7 p.m. in the Union's Governors Room. THE KU SAILING CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Parter A, B and C rooms. THE SUA TEMPORARY POETRY SERIES and the English department present Irish poet J.K. Rowling. THE BOARD OF CLASS OFFICERS meets at 8:30 p.m. in the Union's Groad Room. The Honor Society of Phi @ Kappa Phi TONIGHT: PHI BETA KAPPA initiation begins at 5 in the Kansas Union's Forum Room. The SUA SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE meets at 5:30 in the Union's Governors Room. STUDENT SENATE meets at 6:30 in the Union's Big Ten Classroom. A HEALTH SUPPLEMENT to the KU CHRISTIANS meet at 7 in the Union's Jayhawk Room. THE CLASSICS DEPARTMENT will show the film "Antigone" at 7 in 3139 Wesco Hall. The KU TAEK DWO CLUB meets at 7 in the Lawrence High School wrestling gymnasium. SUA BRIDGE CLUB meets at 7 in the Union's Parlor Rooms. 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