Pre-Professional Revision Denied
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vol. IX, No. 5$lTh6120 ▼ umvers.ty of Observernotre dame - st.mary's college , Wednesday, A Wednesday, April 23, 1975 Pre-professional revision denied by Kathy Mills Bernard Waldman, Dean of the College of actionlon the proposal be delayed until more cern over the fate of students who are not Staff Reporter Science stated that he did not care to opinion from students was sought. The admitted to medical school. Many of these comment on the vote “ at this time.” petition had been ciruculated by Alpha students simply apply to graduate school in The Academic Council defeated a motion Members of the Academic Council who Epsilon Delta, the pre-professional honor the departments of biology and chemistry. to revise the University’s pre-professional aruged for a change in the program con society the Pre-Medical Society, and the It pointed out that the majority of such studies program in its meeting yesterday, tended that the department’s single adviser, Pre-professional Advisory Council. students have followed a “ single-option” by a vote of 39 to 13. who is at present Fr. Joseph Walter, cannot However, the Academic Council voted not to curriculum since they feel that alternatives The change in the program would have sufficiently serve the large number of pre table the proposal on a near-unanimous to medical school are few. required students “Intending to pursue professional students, now approximately decision. The report also mentioned that the professional studies in medical, dental, or 900, including those in the Freshman Year of The proposal to revise the pre presence of a lone adviser in the pre related disciplines” to major or concentrate Studies. The pre-professional students professional program stemmed from a professional office may lower a student to in one of the regular departments or constitute the largest number of students report of a review committee submitted to the level of a number; his grade point programs, “while fulfilling any necessary pursuing any field at the University. the Office of the Provost several months average. Also, the committee stated that pre-requisites.” This change would begin Proponents of the change also maintained ago. This report cited over-consciousness contact between the highly resourceful with the class of 1978. that a regular academic major would lessen about grades as one of the problems in i Counseling and Psychological Services In addition, the Department of Pre- the frustration and increase the career trinsic to the current program. It also noted Centers and the pre-professional office is professional Studies would have been opportunities of those who did not get into that many pre-professionmal students view “apparently slight.” discountinued in 1976 and replaced by an medical school. They noted the abolition of the University solely as a step toward independant office of Pre-professional a pre law major did not harm law school medical school. (continued on page 3) Studies which would include a Director and admissions, and that pre-professional T h e com an Advisory Committee. The tasks of the students not in the College of Science mittee’s report Director would have included: “ counseling already had a regular academic major. also noted HPC plans program all pre-professional students in the Those Council members opposing the problems be - University regarding future professional proposal predicted that it would affect the tween the pre studies and their pre-requisites, main success of the current program with regard professional to medical school admittances. The ac programs in the for summer storage taining academic records for such students, writing letters of recommendation, and ceptance rate to medical school from Notre College of Arts by Shawn Scannell Dame is about 70 per cent, approximately and Letters and maintaining liason with the medical Staff Reporter schools.” The function of the Advisory twice the national average. the College of Opponents of the revision also stated that Science. It Committee, consisting of one faculty A deatiled explanation of the summer storage program was presented the system of having both an academic viewed ‘ ‘ a representative named by each college dean, at the first HPC meeting of the upcoming year. Casey Nolan, spokesman advisor and a pre-professional studies commitment to a would have been to assist the Director in for the program, noted that the costs would be comparable to last year’s advisor would weaken the current closeness coordinated and these tasks. student run operation even though a professional company w ill be han between the chairman of the Department of cooperative The proposal also stipulated that the dling it this year. Pre-professional Studies and the students. approach” as a Director would have reported directly, and The plan calls for all the campus’ summer storage to be placed in four This closeness allows the chairman to vouch probable solution been responsible, to the Office of the large vans which will, in turn, be stored in a warehouse. Casey said effectively for medical school applicants to to these problems. Provost. The Director would have been student’s storage will never leave the vans. admissions personnel. The statement appointed by the Provost after consultation The vans will pick up individual hall’s storage at certain times and The Council received a petition, signed by of the Committee with the Deans of the undergraduate places. The loading w ill take place the following days: Wednesday, May colleges. 307 pre-professional students, asking that expressed con- 7, through Friday, May 9, as well as the following Monday and Tuesday. Halls w ill be notified of the day and place that their respective loading Strike major air base w ill take place. Casey stressed the importance of each hall loading on the day assigned to avoid confusion. A contract will be sent in the campus mail to all students with details of Forces attack in SE Asiathe contract and insurance information. Students moving off campus will also be afforded the service; their things to be stored on May 13. Loading w ill go on from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. each day except Wednesday, which SAIGON (UP1) - Communist forces Tuesday laun of up to 131,000 Vietnam and Cambodian refugees. will start at 9 a.m. ched artillery and grounds attacks against South Those to be granted entry would include up to 50,000 Elton Johnson, new HPC President, opened the meeting, which was Vietnam’s major air base. In the capital itself 14 “ high risk” Vietnamese refugees and their families also the last one of this year. Johnson passed out several pieces of ikn- miles away, the nation’s new president shopped for a whose lives would be imperiled by a Communist formation, including: a list of hall presidents with phone numbers, a six prime minister to negotiate an end to the takeover. point paper on the purposes and goals of the HPC next year, a list of fighting. The committee, meeting in closed session, meeting procedures for greater efficiency, and a resource manual In the wake of the resignation of President Nguyen unanimously approved a formal request from At prepared by the Ombudsman Service. Van Thieu, the shooting slackened somewhat. But torney General Edward H. Levi to permit the ad In toher business at the meeting, Johnson brought up the matter of a Communist troops struck again at Bien Hoa air base ministration to use its “parole authority”, a debt of nearly $300 from An Tostal in connection with plans for a banquet to the northeast, and Americans and Vietnamese fled procedure through which refugees can be admitted for the HPC next week. An approved plan by Tom Porter, HPC executive the country by the hundreds in the heaviest day yet of quickly without red tape and delay. coordinator, w ill raise $500 to cover the banquet costs and the debt. the emergency evacuation. Levi said it was “ essential to begin at once to assist A report was also made on the beginning of the escort service. Political sources said the new chief executive, Tran the departure from Vietnam of appropriate in Women’s halls’ presidents were given small posters to be placed in the Van Huong, and U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin dividuals if such an effort were to be orderly and dorms which outlined the service offered. had tentatively agreed Tuesday to name Defense successful.” Johnson reported that the HPC m ailing address would be Box 639. Minister Tran Man Don, a 58-year-old soldier- Once they are admitted into the country, he said, Johnson also noted that the position of executive coordinator, currently turned politician, to the post of prime minister as the “ Every effort will be made to obtain international filled by Tom Porter, is open. He asked that HPC members interested in man most likely to be able to work out a cease-fire. assistance for all Vietnamese and Cambodian the position see Porter in order that an appointment be made. Thieu’s cabinet members formally turned in their refugees and to arrange their resettlement in third When asked of his plans for the HPC inthe upcoming year, Johnson resignations to Huong. countries.” replied, “ The plan is to concentrate mainly on restructuring the HPC. In Paris, a spokesman for the Viet Cong said there Phnom Penh “ neutral” The concern, at least for the firs t few months, w ill be internal.” would be no negotiation with the Huong government even though Thieu has gone. Chief Viet Cong CAMBODIA (UPI) — Phnom Penh radio, silent for delegate Pham Van Ba said an entirely new ad five days, went back on the air Tuesday as the voice m inistration would have to be set up and all U.S.