xt78930nvw82 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt78930nvw82/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1978-02-08 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers  English   Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel  The Kentucky Kernel, February 08, 1978 text The Kentucky Kernel, February 08, 1978 1978 1978-02-08 2020 true xt78930nvw82 section xt78930nvw82 TOO late . . . Student discount card fails to meet expectations

By JACK WAINWRIGII'I‘
KeraeIStafferer

‘l‘heStudeiaBuyingPower Card,
which was designed to provide
advctisingforlocalbiuinelesand
discointsforstuderls,hasfailedto
meet origkial expectations of the
advctisers as well as Studeit
grist-timers, which append the

Jim Newberry, Student Gave-n-
meriPresidersJaidthecardswere
to be ddivered six to eight weeks
after he talked to L ti B Marketing

Volume LXIX, Number 94
Wednesday, February 8. I978

., which produced the card.
09%,“ would have placed dekvery
somewha-e near the endof Augmt,"
he said. Distribution would have
been easier and we could have
passed out the cards during
registration," he added.

According to Newberry, after
three weeks delay, there was still no
wordfroleiBastowhen the
cards would arrive

“I comacted Jack Blanton (vice
praident for brainess afiairs),” he
said. Newberry said Bianton con-
tacted L 8: B and that later L & B

called and told bin that he would
receive the cards in a matter of
days

”I was told that they would be p

arriving the next day by plane, but
they didn't arrive until the second
week in October. This changed our.
original plan for distribution,” he
said.
Newberry said the cards were to be
distributed to dormitories, frater-
nities and sororities and that the
cardswere advertised to off-campus
students.

“We still have a more than

adequate supuy and we can't be
sure how many we have left," he
said.

Several sponsors of the card also
said they were unhappy with the
delay and the problems it earned.

“We put all of our balls in one
basket and missed out,” said Gino
Guamieri, owner of Gino‘s Formal
Affair, a card sponsor. “We wanted
to advertise to students when they
first came back to campis, but the
cards were two months late and we
missed out," he said.

Lynn Bloomfield, owner of Lynn's

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Winter Rays

While most students braved sub-zero temperatures outside. Laura Hay,
senior advertising major, found a warm spot to enjoy the winter sunshine today with slightly warmer temperatures Thursday.
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Reverse roles
Asking questions may be key to job interview

By GIL LAWSON
Kernel Reporter

What do job recruiters look for in a
UK student during a campus visit?
While most admit poise, grades,
experience and motivation are
important characteristics of a
potential employee, most agree
what you ask dia'ing an interview
may be just as critical.

“The most impressive thing to me
is the qrestions they (the students)
ask," said Dan Minton, a recruiter
for Procter and Gamble, inc, “It’s
indicative of a pason who has some
drive."

Other recruiters said qiestions
from students also help to measure
interest in the company. “Questions
inticate they’ve thoight about the
situation I have to offer," said Reid
Blocher, also of Procter and
Gamble.

While grades still play a major
role in many recruitment decisions,
a GPA is n41 determinative.

Don Orlando, a recruiter for Hill’s
Department Stores, said, “Grades
aren’t that important. What we look
for is whether or not an individinl
can work with and supervise other
peofle.” Orlando, whospent the past
week at UK looking for manager-
trainees for depttment stores, said
aggressivenas and motivation are
also key factors in bi recruiting.

Jolli Everhart, who recruits for
Eastover Minirg Co., said he torts
for a good buts of experience in a
student's background “It would
really help if people would take
summer employment," he said.
qu'hl'tsaidah'ghGPAisalsoa
good indcatiai the student is a hard
wwker.

Minton said the combination of
wakexperienceanda high GPA is

usually a good one. “Work ex-
perience and a GPA above 3.0
usually gets a person in the door,”
he said.

Many recruiters consider a per-
son’s appearance during the in-
terview, but it is not a determinative
factor. Orlando said. his company
likes its employees to look good, but
that appearance has been
overlooked in the past.

In fact, Orlando once interviewed
a student who was cova'ed with
grease. The student explained he
had encountered a flat tire enroute
to the interview and had to clunge it.

yesterday. The weatherman is predicting temperatures in the low 20‘s

The student was eventually hired by
the company and Orlando said he is
doing well.

Of course, the number of job
openings will vary with the field.
Everhart said that becaise of the
energy situation, increased coal
production will place h's company in
need of many new qualified people.

Nearly all the recruiters said they
look for women and minorities when
they interview, but that sex and race
don't guarantee a person a job. “We
have no particular quota and we‘re
not quota chasing,“ Minion said.

Women join ROTC

By GAIL McCULLAH
Kernel Reporter

“...there‘s no greater thrill than
really understanding the problems
your husband faces because you‘ve
been there yourself. You speak his
language, not only in love, but
professionally. That‘s sharing at its
very best."

A line from How To Improve Your
Marriage? No. It‘s a quote from a
pamphlet published by the US. Air
Force that was found on display in
UK‘s Barker Hall. The pamphlet is
designed to attract women to the
military and the ROTC program.

Kathy Stephers. one of UK‘s 15
female AFROTC cadets, said some
women who enroll in ROTC are
more interested in marriage
maneuvers than military ones.
According to Stephens. however,
these women are usually “gone real
ast.“

Still, the coed ranks seem to be
working out. Neither the Army nor

the Air Force spokesmen said there
had been difficulties.

Jobs open to women in both the
Army and Air Force are diverse,
said Stephens. But training for a job
and actual experience are two
sometimes unrelated activities. One
may come out of ROTC an English
major and end up an air weapons
controller.

There are jobs, by virtue of law or
strength. that are off limits to
female cadets. For instance. a
female cadet at UK has yet to break
into the Ranger or the Air Borne
divisions. (The UK Rangers have
two female members, bis they are
honorary.) Army ROTC Sergeant-
Major Donald Sayers said he thinks
it is physically impossible for a girl
to survive the training for these
divisions.

Women are barred by law from
serving in combat duty and are
comeqiently ineligible for training
as Air Force fighter pilots. though
this could change, said Steinem.

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Recruiters said they were pleased
with the UK student turnout. Minton
said his company has had good
success with UK graduates. Ap-
proximately six of the 25 employees
at Procter and Gamble‘s General
Credit Office in Cincinnati are from
UK, he said.

“We wouldn‘t be coming back if
we didn‘t find the people we were
looking for," Minton added.

University Placement Service
posts notices of companies that will
interview on campus. interested
students may sign up for the in-
terviews at the placement office.

ranks

In training, women in ROTC go
through the same basic course as
men. Howeva', in the Army, women
are allowed to do push-ups with their
hands and knees on the floor

When asked how his female cadets
measured up, Lt. Colonel Bobbie
Pedigo, UK professor of military
science, replied that like his men, he
had some “good, bad and in-
different.“ Ile admitted, however,
that perhaps his female cadets could
get help a little faster with a cute
smile than could his male cadets.

Ironically, at least two UK female
cadets are not proud that members
of their own sex have finally entered
the previous all-male Air Force
Academy in Colorado. Paula Fain, a
sophanore AFROTC cadet, and
Stephens both agreed that having
women in the academy breals the
“traditionalism” of it.

Regarding dscrimination and
resentment toward ROTC females,
botti women said the most negative
response is from people outside the
cadet corps.

Hair House, also a spoon, said she
too was disappointed with the late
ddivery and that she thaght L k B
shuild have been checked out more
thoroughly by Student Government
and the sponsors.

But at least one sponsor said
bisineas had improved despite the
late delivery of the cards Lucian
Lafferty, owner of Up Your Ailey,
also a sponsor, said he has had a
steady flow of new customers.

“I‘ve got the advantage of being
closer to campm than the other
sponsors and We received more

benefits than the others,“ he said.

Newberry said he had contacted
Dean of Students Joe Burch and
expressed h's dissatisfaction with
the cards Newberry added that he
planned to relate the problems
encountered with the cards at up
coming student government eon-
ferences

A new discount system is
presently being planned by SC,
Newberry said.“We hope to take the
card idea and improve on it." he
said. “We can't promise it will run
smoothly, but it will be better."

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controversial racial admissions case now before the US. Supreme Court are
represented on page 2.

state

A BILL TO III-ZOULATE DISPOSAL of hazardous waste in Kentucky ran into
stumbling blocks yesterday as a legislative committee discussed whether the
state should ban disposal of hazardous waste from out of state.

Members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
also questioned whether truckers who dispose of hazardous wastes should be
required to obtain state permits, or whether the responsibility for the material
lies with shippers and generators of it.

Kentucky Environmental Protection Commissioner John Roth urged the
committee not to close the door on other states, saying the department needs
flexibility in developing regional disposal plans for hazardous wastes.

Roth said that if Kentucky refused to accept waste materials from other
states. it might be faced with disposing all of its own hazardous materials
within the state.

“We‘re trying to avoid every state in the union shipping their waste to Ken-
tucky," he said, “but restricing waste from out of state would create a lot of
problems for us if we have acceptable sites."

nation

PRESIDENT CARTER WILL ANNOUNCE a major program today to
provide a reported $1.2 billion to college students from middle-income families
because he fears a 71 percent jump in college costs has put their chances for
higher education in jeopardy.

Iloping to staveoffa move in Congress to give a $250 tax credit to the parents
of all collegestudents, Carter will propose a combination of grants and loans for
the aid, said White’House Press Secretary Jody Powell.

Nearly SI billion will go to increase the government's $2.2 billion Basic
Educational Opportunities Grants program. which is now targeted at low-
income students. the sources said. The rest will go to increased funding for the
Guaranteed Student Loan program and campus work-study programs.

A MAN (‘LAIMING TO BE THE HILLSIDE STRANGIJER said in a letter
made public yesterday that he killed a dozen “evil ladies“ because his mother
told him to.

Police, stressing that they did not know whetherthe letter was authentic. said
the writer gave them “another week or so“ to meet his call for help in turning
himself in safely, and threatened "something serious“ if authorities failed to
respond.

Police attribute t2 killingsof girls and young women since early September to
the Hillside Strangler. All the victims were found nude, and several of them
raped, in hillside areas of the northern suburbs. The most recent victim was
killed Dec. 13.

Los Aiigeles Mayor Tom Bradley said at a news conference Monday that
whoever wrote the letter postmarked .lan. l9 “indicates he is the strangler and
wishes to surrender himself and a friend to the mayor's office. He also indicated
he would forward a certain item after he received assurances for his safety
from the mayor."

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT told members of Congress
yesterday that he will not be shy in asking for US. weapons, adding that "I shall
raise hell“ if Congress does not approve them.

Although the comment was made with a laugh after a meeting with the
members of the House of Representatives, he seemed more somber as he
emerged later from a similar session with a Senate group.

"i threatened them," Sadat said after his closed door talks with the senators.

After talking with the House members, Sadat offered the "raise hell“ com»
ment with a laigh. but said in a serious tone about his request to buy us. arms:
“Thelast time I was here I was shy. But I am not shy any more.“

weather

PARTI.Y (‘I.Ol'DY TODAY AND TOMORROW with no rain forecast through
the weekend. High today in the low 20‘s with a low tonight of 5 to to degrees.
Tcm pcratures will rise slightly tomorrow. High in the mid to upper 20‘s

(‘om piled from Associated Press and
National Weather Service dispatches

Eastern Snow Storm

iAPi—When a snowstorm crippled cities throughout the Northeast and
blacked out sections of Boston. families who lived on suburban beachfroats
huddled together and watched the Atlantic Ocean batter their homes.

Waves ripped away porches and washed through at least one dwelling
Monday night, and in Lynn, the shoreline was under more than 20 feet of water

Downtown Boston was a ghmt town. with the front of one bank branch left
wide open early yesterday morning. Its plate—glass windows had blown out. and
witnesss said snow drifts were covering the counters

In the suburb of Revere. police evacuated flood Victims in frontcnd loaders.
carrying out residents in the scoops of the snow vehicles.

In New York. the St. Regis Hotel found itself host to 350 guests who planned to
check out Monday but found they couldn't get out of the city. The hotel bar
responded by creating a fortifier dubbed a Manhattan Blizzard and pouring it
free through yesterday.

At the tip of Long island‘s fork. people found themselves cut off from East
Marion on the mainland after high tides washed out the causeway. Some
residents. undamted. canned across to spend Monty night at a firehouse

Huniieds of stranded motorists in Provideme left their cars on nearby In-
terstate 95 and other roads and wanared into Rhode Island Hospital. making it
their port in a storm

By to p in Monday. the lobbies. cafeteria, rest rooms and phone booths were

acked
p “We've had to make arrangements for staff to stay over in the past because of
storms." said administrator Arthur Peloquin. "But I can't remember people
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’Bakke’ isn’t just black and white issue

Individual merits
must be guaranteed

There is no doubt that increasing
the number of minorities in
profesional occupations is an ex-
cellent goal for America. There is
also no doubt that admissions
policies that are preferential to
blacks and other disadvantaged
groups could accomplish that goal.

But there are better ways to
achieve integration in society, ways
that are fairer and still would allow
individuals tobe judged on their own
merits. As long as there are ef-
fective alternatives, reverse
discrimination must be regarded as
too extreme and unfair.

Plans differ

There is a difference between
affirmative action plans and quota-
enforced programs such as the one
at Cal-Davis. Run properly, af-
firmative action breaks down
traditional patterns of employment.
It opens doors, encourages and
trains individuals to occupy
profesional positions, without in
fringing on the rights of others.

The use of quota systems to uphold
segregation was outlawed years
ago. Court decisions in three early
victories for integration are not
plastic, adjustable to fit any cir-
cumstances. A policy grounded in
racism is not justifiable no matter
how well-intentioned the goal.

If the social structure is aberrent,
must the solution be equally
distorted? If the problem is the
existent: of prejudice, how can the
solution deperd on it?

nights violated

Allan Bakke’s constitutional
rights to equal protection under the
14th Amendment were violated by
the Univesity of California at Davis
medical school.

Under the California-Davis
special admissions programs, 16 of
the 100 positions for the class were
reserved for minority students.
Seveal students in that group (all
were members of minority groups)
had test scores much lower than
Bakke’s, scores that were ever
lower than the minimum standards
used by the regular admissions
process.

The use of quotas as a device for
social engineering would mean
abandon krg this country’s history of
encouraging individualism and self-
ach'evement. How unusual, for a
nation that values freedom, to insist
that it’s social heirarchy represent
racial and ethnic groups in pefect
proportion.

Under quotas, the qualifications of
each individual would lose im~
portance. A system of rights based
on racial or ethnic grounds would be
the determining factor in ad-
vancement.

Decision unfair

It is unfair to arbitrarily decide
that members of certain groups are
entitled to special credit during
college admissiors, that they are
automatically the victims of cen-
turies of oppresiorr.

It is equally unfair to assume that
every Caucasian must pay for the
segregation his race practiced in
earlier centuries. Again the false
emphasis on group identity must be
challenged: what of the descendents
of white societies where slavery was
neve practiced, or where blacks
were not even present? Are they also
guilty merely by being white?

Under admissions plans like the
one at Cal Davis, the quotas do not
insure that all disadvantaged
students are treated fairly. What of
white students in Appalachia who
have been hampered by an im-
poverished rural education and
other economic hardships? No
positiors have been set aside for
them.

Once special treatment is ac-
cordei to one goup, equal treat-
ment should be giver all groups who
may have been disadvantaged. And
again, there is no certainty that

individuals have been treated as
badly as the group as a whole.

Patemalism

The use of quotas to fill medical
school positions is an extremely
paternal app'oach at best. Students
accepted under the programs are
stigmatized as inferior. If they are
able to graduate, they become Black
Doctors, Indian Lawyers, near-
professionals whose abilities are
underestimated because they came
from “special” programs.

Once the policy of reverse
discrimination becomes established
in admissions, when will conditions
be such that it can be discarded?
Who will decide when the groper
percentage of representation has
been achieved?

Who will decide what percentages
of representation must be achieved?
Will the pecentages be equal for
eve-y group, despite differences in
average age, aptitudes and cultural
preferences? Can any gove-nment
or faculty admissions committee be
given the resporsibility of directing
the nation’s social condition?

Rich not hurt

The use of mandatory preferential
admissions programs would do little
do redistribute the levels of society
in America. The white sons of rich
and influential families would still
get admitted to medical school.

Understandably, California-Davis
and other universities defend this
system. They can please the people
who wield influence and power and
still run easy, computerized in-
tegration programs. It is the bor-
derline, middle-class studerts who
would lose out. Under. reverse
discrimination, the next-to-thelast
students would become the last.

The Supreme Court has refused to
accept rigid quota systems in the
past, and have insisted on using
preferential treatment onhr where
there is a compelling interest and no
lo 'cal alternative

ere are logical alternatives to
reverse discrimination.

Idea is vital

Because graduate schools act as
“gatekeepers” to positions of power,
it is important to admit and
graduate more members of minority
groups from them.

In evaluating applicants for
medical school or law school, the
person‘s entire history should be
considered. Test scores, grades,
economic disadvantage,
discrimination and lack of
educatioml opportunity must be
evaluated on an individual bmis, as
the 14th amendment intended.

Minimum standards must be
retained to insure that all students
who are accepted can be presumed
capable of being competent in their
profession.

The determination of minimum
stande'ds is best done by objective
tests, now being used by the
graduate schods. The Carnegie
Council, in a study on selective
admissions, found that the stan-
dardized tests have little remaining
bias against minorities.

Stanley H. Kaplan, the founder of
a nationwide educational service
that teaches students how to take the
tests, said in an interview last weer
that standardized exams are the
most efficient and effective way of
measuring for minimal standards,
adding that the tests have little
prejdice against minorities.
Kaplan also argues against quota
limits simply become the number of
qualified minority studerts may not
be enough to fill the quotas.

Early start

Affirmative action plans are a
needed addition to the process of
admitting graduate students. But
they should be supflemerrtal plans
without strict limits, using govern-
ment grants and remedial programs

 

A dec'arion that could change
racial policies in America is now
being prepared by the US.
Supreme Court. The verdict is
expected this spring.

The case involves explosive
issues like quotas to achieve
integration, special treatment for
minority groups, and reverse
discrimination against whites.
There is much more at stake than
the possible medical career of
Allan Bakke.

A 37-year-old white man, Bakke
applied inn 1973 and 1974 for
admission to the University of
California Medical School at
Davis. He was rejected each
time.‘

Seveal black applicants with
test scores lower than Bakke’s

Verdict due in spring

were admitted under a program
that reserved 16 out 100 openings

for members of minorities.

Bakke sued, charging that he
was discriminated against
becarse of race. The California
Supreme Court upheld Bakke’s
claim, and the university was
ordeed to admit him. The case
was them appealed to the
‘Supreme Court, where arguments
were heard Oct. 12.

The way the Court evertually
rules is likely to affect not only
school admission policies bit also
a wide variety of “affirmative
action” programs that offer
special preference orother help
to black people in obtaining jobs
or in starting businesses.

 

Because of the importance and
controversy surrounding the
Allan Bakke case, Kernel
opinions were written from each
viewpoint The opirion in support
. of Bakke’s position was written

 

by Editor in Chief Steve
Ballinger. Copy Editor Richard

McDonald and Editorial Editor

Charles Main co-authored the
article opposing Bakke.

 

 

 

Admission is not
objective process

It first must be realized that
medical school admission is not now,
nor has it ever been an dijective
process. The admission decision is
based on the applicant’s grade

point average. the score on the
Medical College Admission Test
(MCAT), letters of reccomendation,
interviews and personal
background; in short, it is a long
process of several months which can
be in no way construed as objective.

Ideally, affirmative action
programs shouldbe an extension of
the present type of admission
process. The program shedd, while
reserving a representative number
of spaces for mine-ity candidates,
examine not only the college record,
but the total educational record of
all students.

Past effects

Some questions which should be
considered in the screening of med
school applicants do not receive
enough attention in the admission
process. For example: was the
applicant’s school urban or rural?;
did the school have an adequate
program of math and sciences?;
was the allowed to take these
classes?; were they overcrowded?,
did the applicant show steady
progress during his high schol
years?

More importantly, the admission
process sherld examine the family
and cultural background of the

applicant. The education .of. the.

parents, the family income and the
number of siblings all have a
definite effect on the educatiOn of the
person.

Group's role

Anotherfactor the admission
process should face is whether the
applicant is a member of a group
which has traditionally faced
societal penalties.

The effects of being black—or
indian, or Puetro Rican or ever an
appalachian—in a middle-class
white, Anglo-Saxon protestant
society can't be discounted.

Blacks have faced almost 300

 

’The laws are not flexible . . .’

at earlier grades to help accomplish
it.

If the goal is to increase the
number of black medical and legal
students, the method should not
simply take the best students who
come from the same poor
backgrounds each year. Enrichment
programs should start long before,
to encourage more children to think
about professional careers.

Temple plan

One program that is ac-
complish'ng the goal of integration
without quotas is the Temple
University law school in
Philadelphia. The school’s dean,
Peter Liacouras, describes their
Special Admissions and Curricular
Expeiments Program as one that
seeks both maprity and minority
applicants who “have an out-
standing performance record and an
exceptional aptitude for the study
and practice of law, not necessarily
reflected by their LSAT scores."

Temple’s program, says
Liacouras, is open to “working men
and women, and their children,
irrespective of ethnic or racial or
social or religious heritage, or
favoritism."

High acadenic achievenent is a
requirement for comideration at
Temple. Unthr the program, in a
student body of 1,115, women now
constitute 36 percent instead of the 2
patent of 12 years ago. Minority
students are now less than 8 percent,
instead of 1 percent.

John H. Bunrel, Presidert of San

Jose State University in California,
described the Temple program for
the October, 1977 issue of the
newsletter Measure. He found in its
enrollment:

”A Hungarian refugee whose
family was in a Nazi concentration
camp; a young man of Italian an-
cestry who worked in a gas station 40
hours a week from age 12 through
college; an American Indian raised
on a reservation; children of
working-class ethnic backgrounds;
policemen; black women; black
veterans wounded in Vietnam; a
white woman who, as a teacher.
helped establish an alternative
school: Poles, Lithuanians and
Lebanese from the multi-group state
of Pennsylvania. and a Japanese-
American whose first memories are
of a World War II detention camp.”

Another school which did not have
to use quotas to meet its goals is the
US. Naval Academy. By meansof a
broad search, careful screening and
remedial preparatory schooling, the
academy was able to increase the
pe-centage of entering minorities
from 12.5 percent to 17 percent.
During the same time span, the
entering class dalined from 1,334 to
1.229.

A myth

There is a myth that support of
Allan Bakke’s position is a corr-
servative position, that the liberal
stand is to ask for quota-enforced
minority representation. Bakke,
they say, is a loser who was rejected
time and time again, who has no
right keeping the underprivileged

from a chance at an education.

But Bakke's education is not the
important issue. What is important
is the principle that admissions are
to be determined by the individual’s
worth, and not by membership in a
group.

Progress has been nrade and is
being made without the use of
quotas. According to figures
released last year by the National
Association of Land-Grant Colleges,
the number of studerts has in-
creased 6.8 pecent in the last eight
years. Mina'ities constitute 16.8
pe‘cent of the increase. In the last

two years, minority student
population has grown by about four
pecent.

The eviderce of desegregation is
all around us. There are more black
students, more black teachers, more
black administrators. That
desegregation has been ac-
complished withmt quotas and has
depended largely on the good in-
tentions of most Americans. But the
sentiment and victories that brought
integration cannot be expressed in
legal forms, they must continue to
be carried out by society volun-
tarily.

Years ago, courts ruled that
keeping people out of school became
of their race was unconstitutional.
Those laws forbidding
discrimination are not adjustable.
The decision upholding Allan
Bakke's stand must be continued by
the Supreme Court, or American
society will become subservient to
the norms of a group, and not the
merits of each individul.

years of legally enforced
segregation and discrimination.
O nly in the past three decades have
attempts been made to compensate
for and remove these legal barriers.
This, howeve', doesn’t eliminate
discrimination; it doesn’t
automatically guarantee equality—-
or ever acceptance.

Black schools—particularly urban
black mhools—are still inferior to
white schools. On the average,
nationwide, blacks begin school
behind their white counterparts
but fall steadily behind. in some
areas, by graduation, the average
black studert is several grade levels
beh'nd the average white student.

Blacks still do not have equal
employment opportunities for a
number of reasons, including
vestiges of descrirninatory hiring
practices. As a result, the average
black family cannot provide for its
children educational enrichment
and reinforcement equal to that of
the average white family.

Finally, the psychological
pressure of being black in a white-
dominated, white-oriented society
cannot be ignored. The forms of
racism in American society are
myriad: the nrost insidious forms
being those subliminal remnants of
“jim crow” attitudes that ever
blacks have had to subconsciously
accept. Mass media images—as in
television, of course—are over~
whelmingly white; there are
alarmingly few black role models in
the professional world. It isdifficult
for most-and some find it im-
possible—to be the first or only black
in an endeavor.

It is time society took positive
steps to reverse the pattern of racial
penalties. The black man has waited
centuries to take his fair share of

the benefits of this society—a
society in which black America has
for too long home more than its
share of the burdens.

It is not unreasonable to expect
medical schools to make a special
effort to idertify the black youth who
has shown the desire and ability to
become a competent physician—
abilities which may not be reflected
quantitatively in standardized test
like the MCAT, abilities which may

' not yet have been developed to true

potential.

Many schools, in fact, do exactly
this. Many univesities, including
UK, have programs dsigned to
identify and recruit black high
school studerts who have shown the
capability to ‘bacome competent
premed students.

Such programs are true
fulfillment of of affirmative action.
They do not start at the medical
school door but mount conttinuing,
vigorous effort.

It is grossly mfair to say that
afrrmative action plans will lead to
interior doctors. All students are
still graded by the same standards,
and anyone who can’t survive will be
dropped—this is the way it always
has been and always will be. The
public can be assured that any
graduate d an American medical
school will have the ability and
knowledge to be a competent
physician. The proponents of At-
firmative Action are not interested
in hustling anyone through med
school; they are interestted only in
seeing that minority and other
underprivileged students get the
chance to show their true abilities.
There is a need for competent black
physicians in this cwntry, and that
need is critical.

Finally, to label these plans to fill
that need as reverse dacrimination
is to ignite reality. There have
always been people who thought
they were qualified for professional
school but were denied entrance.
There simply