E b 't ri Percentage of hi BOSTON (AP) - The percentage of "I THINK there's been a general blacks entering U.S. medical schools shift in the social climate, and the im- has fallen during the past decade portance of achieving equality for ven though the percentage of minorities has diminshed on the ninority applicants and their test national agenda," said Dr. Steven cores have risen, according to a new Sheai, an internist at Columbia report. College of Physicians and Surgeons. The authors of the study conclude Shea said medical schools have that a waning commitment to affir- -v %in e cannot admit more native action, not racism, is to blame xj and other minoringe because for the trend, they cannot find qualified applicants. 1+/ "We feel that the data show that really is not a major issue," Shea said in an interview, "since the ap- plications have been rising and the quality of the applicants has been rising, and the acceptance rates have been falling for minority and black applicants." HOWEVER, August Swanson, director of the Association of American Medical Colleges' depar- tment of academic affairs, denied that schools have softened their sup- port for affirmative action. "I think they are still trying," he said. The researchers said about a third of black students and a quarter of black faculty members are concentrated in three predominantly black medical schools: Howard University in Washington, Morehouse College in Atlanta, and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. The Michigan Daily - Th acks entering med school Asian-Americans are WASHINGTON (AP) - Bolstered by waves of Indochinese war refugees, Asians are the fastest- growing segment of America's population and could total nearly 10 million by the year 2000, according to a study released yesterday. By the turn of the century, Asian- Americans "will comprise almost 4 percent of the U.S. population, up from 1.5 percent in 1980," according to the projection by the independent 1 Population Reference Bureau. "BETWEEN 1970 and 1980, a decade in which the total U.S. population increased by only 11 per- cent, the Asian-American population soared by 141 percent," according to the study, based on statistics collected by the Census Bureau. The study estimated that the num- ber of Asians grew form the 3.5 million counted in 1980 to 5.1 million i today, a gain of nearly 50 percent that "reaffirms Asian-Americans' status as currently the U.S.'s fastest growing minority." And, "barring any substantial changes in immigration law, Asian- Americans could total 9.9 million by the year 2,000," says the study by Robert Gardner, Bryant Robey, and Peter Smith. The three are staff members of the Population Institute of the East-West Center in Honolulu. THE GROWTH of the Asian population is closely linked to the great immigration surge in recent years occurring as refugees streamed in following the war in Indochina. The influx also occurred in the wake of liberalized immigration policies that took effect in 1968, the study said. "Successive waves of immigrants have come to the U.S. from Asia for more than a century, beginning with the Chinese and Japanese. More recently, people from the Philippines, fasWst-growg group India and Korea have come in In addition, the image of Asians has growing numbers. Waves oftrefugees also changed sharply from earlier from Indochina ... followed the end of times. the Vietnam War in 1975," the study "Once looked down upon as poorly noted. educated, blue collar Orientals, Asians made up less than 0.3 per- Asian-Americans are now perceived cent of the nation's population early in as a model minority," the report this century, growing only slowly to states. 0.4 percent by 1950, 0.5 per cent in 1960 and 0.7 percent in 1970. But the 1980 OVERALL, Asian-Americans are census found them making up 1.5 per- better educated, occupy higher rungs cent of all U.S. residents, and they are on the occupational ladder and earn estimated at just over 2 percent more than the general population, today. although there are vast disparities EVEN WITH a projected growth to between individuals. about 4 percent of the population by Chinese and Japanese are expected the year 2000, Asians would remain to make up a smaller share of the the nation's third-largest minority, af- overall Asian-American population, ter blacks and Hipanics. the study said. At predominantly white schools, the percentage of blacks in the entering class rose from less than 1 percent in 1948 to 6.3 percent in 1974. But it has dropped since then, and was 5.6 per- cent in 1983. BETWEEN 1970 and 1974, the ac- ceptance rate for black applicants was higher than for whites. But after 1974, the acceptance rate for blacks fell from 43 percent of the applicants to 40 percent in 1983. At the same time, the acceptance rate for whites rose from 35 percent to 50 percent. The acceptance rate for whites has been higher than for blacks since 1978. During this same period, the proportion of blacks among applican- ts rose from 5.6 percent to 7.3 percent. The researchers said that from 1977 to 1983 the scores of both blacks and whites on the Medical College Ad- missions Test improved. Blacks' scores improved more, although they still trailed whites'. "WE CONCLUDE from these data that the commitment of medical schools to affirmative action has ursday, October 10, 1985 -Page 5 drops slackened," they wrote. The report by Shea and Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove of the University of Califor- nia at San Francisco, was published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. Swanson said that over the past decade, the actual number of black applicants has stayed virtually the same, while white applications have fallen sharply. The researchers noted that some af'- firmative action programs were dismantled as a result of a 1978& Supreme Court decision. Allan Bakke, a white, argued that he was twice rejected by the University of Califor- nia medical School at Davis because of his race. The court ruled that the school had failed to show that quotas were necessary to achieve diversity and had violated Bakke's right to equal protection. At the end of World War II, a third of the nation's medical schools were closed to blacks. The color bar was not entirely removed in the South until 1966. Football player detained in armed robbery case :f "" .S J G+Cv . was i^ Ask.." ri DOMIO'S IZZ Free The Bogomolny's in the Soviet Union against their will for nineteen years. - Your letter can make a difference! 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"I'M SURE that they think he had nothing to do with it or they wouldn't have released him," said Ann Arbor Police Capt. Donald Carnahan. Moons would not comment further on the incident until he had time today to speak to head coach Bo Schem- bechler. Schembechler, meanwhile, stressed that a mistake had been made. "Apparently somebody mistakenly identified Pat Moons as a bank rob- ber," the 17-year head coach said. "I mean that is a big mistake. Pat just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time." SCHEMBECHLER, who witnessed the arrest, noted that everything went smoothly between the police and Moons during the arrest. "The police were nice about it," said Schembechler. "They used proper procedure, but they didn't take any chances. "Pat was really good about it, he didn't get upset or anything," the coach added. "I saw him when they had him in the wagon and I asked him 'Were you at the bank?' He said 'Yes, I had to make a withdrawal.' 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