Death row killers K fa ndeath stay - eals From AP and UPI Convicted copkiller Thomas Andy Barefoot dodged four dates with the executioner, but lost his last and highest appeal yesterday, while the }-death stay request of Earnest Knighton was also rejected a final time by Louisiana's governor. Both men were scheduled to be - '. 'executed shortly after midnight last night. THE SUPREME Court voted 7-2 yesterday against staying Barefoot's execution, and Texas Gov. Mark White appeared to be his last hope. During more than five years of appeals, his 'case was reviewed 11 times and he won 'four stays, one just 11 hours before he .'was to have been put to death. Meanwhile, North Carolina attorneys for Margie Velma Barfield, a convicted W ' poisoner, filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to stop her Friday execution. The 52-year-old f 'grandmother, who admitted killing her mother and three others, would become the nation's first woman executed in 22 'years. Barefoot, a 39-year-old oilfield "roughneck, has refused to name wit- nesses for his death by injection. He predicted God promised to spare him. KNIGHTON, 38, faces "Gruesome Gerdie," nickname for Louisiana's bat- tered electric chair. Knighton's attorneys twice urged Gov. Edwin Edwards to stay his execution, claiming Knighton was drug crazed when he killed Ralph Shell of Bossier City, La., and too $300 from his - service station. The last appeal was rejected early yesterday. Barefoot was convicted in the 1978 shooting death of Harker Heights police officer Carl Leyin. Leyin was shot once in the head while - investigating a case of arson. The .25- caliber pistol used in the slaying was found in Barefoot's pocket when he was arrested. I The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 30, 1984 - Page 5 Med school prices for elite, says study WASHINGTON (CPS) - A student graduating from medical school this year will probably already be some $26,400 in debt, a new study by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) says. Based on its findings, the AAMC war- ns that skyrocketing tuition, along with financial aid cutbacks, may soon keep all but the children of the rich from at- tending medical school. THE CONCERN over med student debts closely parallels college financial aid experts' fears that all students are falling dangerously far into debt to finance their college educations. Officials say the recent restructuring of federal financial aid programs has forced many students to rely on loans, rather than grants, to pay for college. And while the debt problem threatens all college students, medical students are becoming especially vulnerable, according to the AAMC study. TUITION HAS doubled or tripled at most medical schools in recent years, already locking out many middle- and lower-class students, according to the study, which was conducted by a panel of 18 medical school deans. This year, the average medical school graduate left school with more than $26,400 in debts, the study shows, a 10.8 percent increase over last year. Over 30 percent of the new doctors, moreover, graduated $30,000 or more in debt, compared with only 25 percent last vear. OVER EIGHT percent - One out of. every 12 - left school owing more than $50,000. "If this trend continues," the study says, "many students may be denied the opportunity to study medicine. A medical education may become an op- portunity restricted to the affluent." Only 12 percent of this year's med students graduated without debt. com- pared to 14 percent in 1983. MINORITY students particularly are being locked out of the medical field by soaring tuitions and dwindling scholarship funds, AAMC officials say. Since 1974, the report points out, the number of minority students attending medical schools has stalled at 8.3 per- cent of total enrollment. Many lower-income and minority students who would otherwise enter medical school are opting for less- costly business, chemistry, and biology degrees that will bring them high- paying jobs without a huge debt obligation, the medical deans report. And cutbacks in federal aid for medical students promises to exacer- bate the debt problem, says AAMC spokesman Robert Boerner. The main scholarship program for medical students, the National Health Services Corps (NHSC) awards, "is being cut radically and virtually phased out by the Reagan ad- ministration," Boerner says. "There will be fewer than 200 (NHSC) awards annually now," he says, "com- pared to about 1200 four years ago when the program was at its peak." Even one of Ronald Reagan's per- sonal physicians has rebuked the president for the cuts in aid to medical students. Programs such as the NHSC awards "have enabled people with little resources to reach their full potential," says Dr. James Giordano, one of the. physicians who operated on Reagan when he was shot three years ago. Including himself as one of the students who was helped by federal assistance programs, Giordano hopes Reagan "will not abandon the com- mitment that has meant so much to me and my family." Associated Press Reaganabilia Mae McClernon displays one of the many "Reaganabilia" items for sale in the VIP store and Official Reagan Infor- mation Center in Dixon, Ill., the president's boyhood hometown. Campaign From the Associated Press Beginning the final week of the presidential campaign, President Reagan yesterday urged Pennsylvania voters to avoid complacency, while Walter Mondale promised in Oregon to restore human rights as the centerpiece of America's foreign policy. Campaigning at Millersville Univer- sity in Lancaster County, Pa., a Republican bastion in a state where the race is considered close, Reagan told supporters to vote next Tuesday and prevent the Democrats from picking "the American wallet again" with "high taxes, explosive inflation and spending without limits." MONDALE, ON A marathon swing across the country, charged at Portland State University in Oregon that Reagan has bolstered "the very Soviet-backed swings into final week extremism in he professes to detest" by supporting repressive right-wing tyran- ts around the world. "As president, I will make the cause of human rights the cause of America again," pledged the Democrat, who said that he would impose "tough san- ctions" on South Africa and "end the illegal covert war in Nicaragua." Mondale made no mention of the latest national polls, which show him trailing Reagan by 17 to 24 points. But he predicted the pundits "will find out on Nov. 6 that polls don't vote, people do." REAGAN HAD HIS own, worries about those surveys, telling supporters, "Stop reading the polls. Don't let anything keep you on Nov. 6 from get- ting out there and doing what we need to do." Vice President George Bush, stum- ping in Birmingham, Ala., defended Reagan's record on Social Security and urged the election of Republican congressional candidates "who will be free to speak out, who won't be beholden to Tip" - House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill. His counterpart, Geraldine Ferraro, visited a synagogue in New York City and accused Reagan of "disgraceful falsehood" for saying last week that the Democrats lacked the "moral courage" to denounce anti-Semitism. Profs try to get faculty support for Democrats (Continued from Page 1) drive had netted 116 signatures and more petitions are expected before the elections. THE statement is important so people don't just give up after seeing polls that show Reagan leading Mon- dale by as much as 20 percent, Kaplan said. "With all these terrible polls around, people tend to get discouraged. I think its very bad for the attitude of the y voters," Kaplan said. "We feel it's very important to act." Reagan has raised serious questions about whether he is capable of solving the problems the country faces today, .he said. "I DON'T trust (Reagan) at all. I don't think he's smart enough," Kaplan said. He pointed to defense expenditures as one area where Reagan's policies have fallen short. "It's obvious they've been throwing a lot of money at problems without im- proving our defenses," he said. Kaplan thinks that Mondale and Ferraro present a better choice for president and vice president. " > a"MONDALE and Ferraro are much more solid people. I think we're dealing with a much higher level of competen- ce," Kaplan said. Physics Prof. Marc Ross, who is also one of the petition sponsors, said that the action by the faculty members was nothing unusual, and that as citizens, professors they have the right to publicly state their support for a can- didate. He said, however, that some professors are opposed to signing a petition as a University faculty mem- ber. "There are people who feel this is a personal decision, like sex, that shouldn't be discussed in public," Ross said. "I strongly disagree with this view." The petition might make people think more about the election, Ross said, but he doubted it would sway people who had already made up their minds. "But I'm sure there's nothing like it for Reagan. I don't think you could collect one signature for Reagan," Ross said. 1 LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS.... You're Needed All Over the World. Ask Peace Corps volunteers why their ingenuity and flexibility are as vital as their degrees. 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