Ube idto a r Ninety-seven years of editorialfreedom _ _ _ _ _ /'Tl 'Tw~COP Y RI 1 H A T 1987, T THE I t T\ 1NTTA\ r VOLUME XCVII - NO. 117 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - MONDAY, MARCH 23 . 1987 COPYRIGHT 1987, THE MICHIGAN DAILY ., __.,. Shapiro to meet BAM leaders By STEVE BLONDER and MICHAEL LUSTIG After anti-racism protesters disrupted the University's Board of Regents meeting Friday, University President Harold Shapiro and several regents met with protest leaders in a closed meeting and agreed to hold two more meetings this week. The first meeting is scheduled to take place at 7 a.m. this morning with leaders of the Black Action Movement III. University officials refused to comment on the meeting, but a BAM III organizer, Charles Wynder, a first year law student, said Shapiro had agreed to negotiate BAM III's 11 demands. Wynder said the meeting will differ from previous encounters because of its focus on the implementation of the demands, rather than on campus racism in general. "It's a step in the right direction that Shapiro wants to meet in a negotiating stance," Wynder said. Wynder also said that after today's meeting his group will re- evaluate their threat to "shut down the University with BAM III." A SECOND meeting with leaders of the United Coalition Agairnst Racism was also tenta- tively planned for some time this week. See SHAPIRO, Page 5 Re.Jesse speaks at Hill toda By EUGENE PAK Rev. Jesse Jackson, a renowned civil rights leader, will speak at Hill Auditorium today at 4:30 p.m. A rally will precede his speech. According to Whitney Bell, an LSA sophomore, Jackson planned his visit in response to a press conference yesterday held by See JACKSON, Page 5 Daily Photo by SCOTT LiTUCHY UCAR member Barbara Ransby addresses University President Harold at the Union. Ransby and other UCAR members demanded the ad- Shapiro and the Board of Regents at the regents' monthly meeting Friday ministration take action on the recent demands of UCAR and BAM III. Students1 By EDWARD KLEINE At the Stanley Kaplan Educational Center on East Hoover, several students are sitting at banks of cassette players, listening to study tapes. In the lobby, a woman receives one of the home study kits included in the $495 fee for a Stanley Kaplan course. Like many would-be graduate students, Ann Arbor resident Debbie Lloyd came here in search of the 'edge' she hopes a test preparation course will give her. Lloyd is studying for the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) in an attempt to get into the University's doctoral program in education. "You have to have a good score to get into the program, so I want that score," Lloyd said. THE TEST preparation business .has been around almost as long as standardized tests. * Educational Testing Service first offered the GRE in 1937 and the next year Kaplan opened a test preparation school in Brooklyn, N.Y. flood test prep. sites Since then, Kaplan imitators of all stripes, one-third or more of admissions criteria, an avalanche of testing books, mock exams, according to many University graduate school and now a sophisticated computer program, admissions officers. have appeared to calm fears and boost scores. "Whether we're thrilled with the idea or not, AND AT the University - whichtproduces the LSAT is a better statistical predictor than more graduate students than any other school in grades," said University Law School Admis - the nation - the test preparation business is sions Officer Alan Stillwagon. booming. THE IMPORTANCE placed on test At the Student Counseling Office more scores causes many students to think of the students are asking for test preparation tests as life-or-death matters. Some students information than ever before, and the office think that a test prep course is necessary just to plans to offer a variety of test preparation books be competitive. "Everyone else is taking it," to students according to Office Co-Coordinator said LSA Senior David Friedman, who took a Marcy Cozzone, an LSA senior. Kaplan course for the LSAT. "If you don't take The GRE, the Law School Admission Test it, you're kind of behind." (LSAT), the Graduate Management Aptitude Lou Rice, director of pre-professional Test (GMAT), the Medical College Admission advising at the University, says many students Test (MCAT), and the Dental Admission Test come to him with the idea that their entire (DAT) are the most popular graduate admission future is riding on their entrance exams. "Add to exams. the internal condition of being a competitive And the results of these tests often count for See ANXIOUS, Page 3 Conference focuses on medical ethics v By EVE BECKER The 15th Conference on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine, held Saturday on the medical campus, presented discussions on four topics integral to the area of medical ethics to an audience of more than 200 medical students, faculty, and undergraduates. Participants in the first discussion on alternative programs in medical education stressed the importance of incorporating ethics and analytical thinking into medical school curricula. The discussion focused on the lack of integration of the social and ethical aspects of medicine, and examined examples of alternative medical programs from Michigan, State and Harvard Universities. Gus Swanson, director of the the department of academic affairs at the American Association of Medical Colleges, said medical students are not being taught to be independent, creative thinkers. Instead, emphasis is placed on rote memorization of the basic sciences. The speakers said medicine should be a science-based social calling which integrates critical, analytic abilities, along with the basic sciences by creating interdisciplinary teaching programs. The second topic focussed on whether surrogate motherhood is in See PANEL, Page 3 Loving Daily Photo by KARENHANDELMAN University student Tasha Westland, left, and P. J. Felows embrace as, part of the Public Display of Affection Friday. The event was sponsored by the Lesbian and Gay Rights on Campus group. Speaker vreimmber-s' Holocaust, Nazi*s By DAVID WEBSTER Beate Klarsfeld, a German-born Christian, has dedicated her life to the moral rehabilitation of Germ- any, and in doing so, has become one of the foremost Nazi hunters in the world. Klarsfeld gave the keynote address for the Eighth Annual Conference on the Holocaust to an audience of more than 200 people last night at Hale Auditorium. She 1 Asians unite t By TIM OMARZU A new group for Asian American and Asian students has formed to fight racism against Asians, a prejudice that often pegs that minority group as 'too perfect." One of the University of Michigan Asian American Coalition's (UMASC) main goals is to dispel the myth of Asians being a problem-free "model minority." "The model minority myth might seem good. It might seem like praise to Asian people. But if you look at it c1nselv it's reallv being wued against them. )fight racism people make 10 to 15 percent less money." Much of the racism against Asians takes subtle forms according to LSA senior Julie Sasaki, former president of the Asian American Association and a member of UMASC. She said "Asian Americans run across the problem of people questioning their citizenship all of the time. Like 'Where were you born?' and 'Where are you from?' and 'You're not really from Michigan are you?"' The stereotype of Asian Americans can be used to create resentment between Asians and other explained, in a strong German accent, how "national amnesia" in Germany concerning the events of the Holocaust prompted her become a Nazi hunter. Klarsfeld located and exposed SS Captain Klaus Barbie and Kurt Lischka, former head of the Gestapo in France, so that they could be judged for their actions during World War II. See NAZI, Page 2 INSIDE Last year's MSA government proved ineffective. OPINION, PAGE 4 The Beastie Boys taught the crowd a vulgar lesson in sex education at the Fox Theater this past weekend. 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