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Page 6 Black Ink February 9, 1984 Minorities needed programs by Tamara McDowell Staff Writer Blacks and American Indians com prise 25 percent of North Carolina's minority population. However, there is a grave shortage of minority health professionals and The Medical Edu cation Development Program (MED) and The Summer Academic Advance ment Program (SAAP) strive to reverse the underrepresentation of minorities in all health fields. The MED Program is an intense, rigorous session of summer courses at medical and dental school levels to prepare a prospective medical or dental student of the realities of pro fessional school. SAAP is a profes sional program designed for the pur pose of strengthening a minority's academic skills in order to enhance his competitiveness for admission into professional or graduate health sciences program. Although the two programs are different in that MED features courses on a first year MED/ DENT school level and SAAP offers courses on an undergraduate college level, MED and SAAP both empha size reading skills and reading rate comprehension and the two programs cater to the economically disadvan taged minorities. Evelyn McCarthy is the director of MED and she, along with her assis tant Valerie Moore, work throughout the year recruiting and selecting ap plicants for MED. McCarthy stressed that MED was formed because the health needs of North Carolina's minority population needed to be met. MED is for students who have been admitted to the University of North Carolina's medical or dental schools for the fall and students who will be rising seniors in undergraduate col leges, and post-graduates in the pro cess of submitting applications for medical or dental school. North Carolina residents are given first priority, but out-of-state students are considered if there is room left. McCarthy was quick to state that MED was very flexible in terms of grade point average. She pointed out that MED personnel try to consider and judge each applicant individu ally. Personal interviews are en couraged. The course load for MED includes: gross anatomy and histol ogy, biochemistry, pathology, micro biology, and a dental course for pre dental students. These courses are very demanding because they are on a first year Medical/Dental School level and McCarthy said "that MED students often struggle through 12 to 15-hour days just reviewing and studying." MED helps students to realize the difficulty and intensity of profes sional school, she said. It allows a student to search within himself and ask himself if he is really doctor/den tist material. MED is solely for those students who are economically dis advantaged. There is no cost for the nine-week program. All participants receive a scholarship from The Uni versity of North Carolina's Medical/ Race for presidency by Jerome Morgan More student input into govern ment appears to be the main theme in the race for student body presi dent. Paul Parker, James Exum, and Mark Dalton all see the need for students to have a bigger voice in student affairs. The other two can didates, Chip.Medlin and Gregory Hecht were unavailable for com ment. Parker, a junior from Jacksonville, Fla., advocates getting rid of some of the committees that he says hamper the system. He feels that this elimina tion would give the government the flexibility that it needs. "What we have done is lost the student confidence in government," said Parker. Parker also feels that the universi ty must also own its own phone system to save money for the students, James Exum, a junior from Charlotte, also feels that the govern ment needs more student input. Ex um feels that ^he policy of reacting to things only after they happen is a bad way to inact university policies. Exum does .not advocate ridding the government of its committees but rather have the committees form a partnership with the executive ad- ministratiqnf^so.,that they. yV:puId helve ac(fess^4©> the^saH^e' ffrforrriafiorr and ■ get input from the faculty, ad ministration, and the student body. "Right now we are only getting in put from the faculty and the ad ministration," said Exum. Exum said that he would like to have a homecoming commission to alleviate the problem that minorities have at homecoming. Exum feels that this could keep minority students from having to go to other schools.to enjoy homecoming. The committee would be compos ed of members of the faculty, ad- minstration, and black, white and In dian students. Exum would also like to increase transportation for off campus students, by working with the Chapel Hill Mass Transit system. Mark Dalton, a junior from Kan napolis, was the last to announce his candidacy because he feels students deserve more^thari promises, Dalton says that he won't promise things that he can't deliver. Dalton said tTiat he must explore the structure of the government to see what must be done to function efficiently. Dalton opposes the proposed university legislation to ban the pur chase of alcohol for residence hall functions. Dalton does favor trying to get cable in the residence halls. eLe^ctlot^ is schedufed for feb. \ Dental School. None of the courses are taken for credit, but McCarthy is very positive about MED. "The information that one obtains during MED's nine week period is measureless," she said. SAAP is actually the fourth phase of a four part academic skills enrich ment/retention program: The Health Careers Academic Advancement (HCAAP). It is primarily open to rising seniors but sophomores are welcome to apply if they have had the neces sary chemistry courses. The director of The North Carolina Health Man power Development Program is Dr Lavonia Allison and the associate director is Dr Rena H. Gillespie. Allison and Gillespie, along with others, recruit motivated and quali fied students majoring in health related areas to participate in SAAP's eightweeks program. Gillespie pointed — continued on page 8 — Education school gets funds for Upward Bound program CHAPEL HILL-The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $529,000 over three years for its Upward Bound Program, which provides academic support services to talented, underachieving high school students. "The Upward Bound Program has been successful in helping many talented students with academic problems to overcome these prob lems and gain admission to institu tions of higher learning," said Dr, Frank Brown, dean of the UNC-CH School of Education. The grant, from the U.S. Office of Education, is a continuation of previous grants made to the Univer sity since 1966, Brown said. The Upward Bound Program pro vides academic support services to 70 high school students each year from seven high schools in Orange, Chatham and Durham counties. During the school year, he said, students in the program receive tutoring and academic counseling after school and on weekends. In the summer, all Upward Bound students participate in a six-week residential program of intensive course work on the UNC-CH campus. Brown said that many Upward Bound students go on to attend col leges and universities throughout the state and nation. Without the ser vices provided by the program, he said, many of these students would not have gained admission and enrollment to these colleges and uni versities,■ Colleges Celebrate Black History Black history will come alive in concerts, plays, films and lectures in February as Greensboro's colleges and universities celebrate Black His tory Month, Most of the events will be open to the public free of charge. Julian Bond, a Georgia state sen ator and nationally know black leader, officially will launch activities Tuesday at a convocation jointly sponsored by student leaders from most of the city's colleges and universities. Bond's lecture, "What Next?" will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Aycock Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Bond gained national attention in 1965, when at the age of 25 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives but was barred from . taking his seat because of his public opposition to the Vietnam war. He was seated in 1967 by order of the U.S. Supreme Court and now serves in the Georgia Senate. Other lectures and forums sched uled during the month include: • A lecture by poet, author and feminist Sonia Sanchez, the keynote speaker at Guilford College, at 7:30 p.|Ti today in Sternberger Audi torium, ter of Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City, delivering N.C, A&T State Univel-sity's keynote address at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8 in Harrison Audi torium. • The Rev, Ralph David Abernathy, a founder of the,Southern Christian Leadership Conference and civil rights activist, speaking at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 in Whitley Auditorium at Elon Col lege. • A community forum, "Perspec tives on Blacks in Politics," at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in Room 123, Gibbs Hall, at A&T, At UNC-G, jazz hours will be held in Benbow Lounge, Elliott University Center, at 4 p,m. Friday and Feb. 10, 17 and 24. Also Friday, the Neo-Black Society Dance and Drama Troupe will perform at 8 p.m. in AycockAudi- torium. The drama troupe will per form again at 8 p.m. Feb. 23 in Cone Ballroom, Elliott, University Center The NBS Choir will perform at 3 p.m. Feb, 5 in Aycock Auditorium, , The drama"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" will be performed at 8:15 p,m, Feb. 6 in Aycock Audi torium, At A&T, activities include showing — continued on page 8 —
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