Luncheon Minority students consider grad school The Michigan Daily-Monday, February 8, 1988- Page 5 Week-long forum focusses on S. Africa By SHEALA DURANT Graduate school is a commit- ment and students should really like what they're doing, Univer- sity graduate student Neil Foley told a group of students Saturday at a luncheon for minority under- graduates who are interested in at- tending graduate school. Foley, an LSA counselor, and 10 other graduate students spoke to undergraduate students at the Rackham Graduate School's eighth annual luncheon in the Vandenberg room of the Michigan League. The approximately 70 students who attended the luncheon were selected because they had a 3.0 or higher grade point average. The number of undergraduate students eligible to be invited has increased every year. The luncheon has two pur- poses: to congratulate students with high GPA's and to give stu- dents who may be considering graduate and professional school a chance to talk informally with faculty members, administrators, staff, and students. Students had time during and after the meal to talk with stu- dents and 20 faculty members from various departments. Monica Smith, an LSA sophomore, said she attended the luncheon because she was con- templating the value of a masters degree. She said she wanted to meet people in the graduate school to examine the various programs. LSA Inteflex sophomore Danielle Pritchett said she was "curious to see the other side and what it's like when you get out of here." Students majoring in various fields came to the luncheon. LSA sophomore Crystal Young, a math major, came because she was hoping to talk to graduate professors and students about graduate school programs. After the luncheon a panel dis- cussion - led by graduate stu- dents from various fields including medicine, philosophy, and politi- cal science - was held to discuss requirements for admittance into graduate school, personal state- ments, letters of recommendation, and mentorship. The discussion also focused on the importance of research experience. Robert Sellers, a third-year graduate student on the panel, told students what a "day in the life" of a Rackham graduate student is like. Speakers stressed for the Daily Photo by LISA WAX LSA junior Yuca Hung talks about graduate programs in Psychology with Prof. William Stebbins Saturday in the Vandenberg room of the Michigan League. Hung was attending a luncheon sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School which was held for minorities interested in graduate and professional schools. students the differences between the experiences in graduate and undergraduate schools. Foley and other panelists of- fered to help undergraduates with the application process, and to ad- vise students when they get ready to make plans for graduate school education. Rackham Associate Dean James Jackson and his office planned the forum. He called the program, "a celebration to honor minority undergraduates here at the University of Michigan." By JIM PONIEWOZIK The Black Medical Association (BMA) will focus on the disparity in political status and standard of living between Blacks and whites in southern Africa during the third annual Southern Africa Awareness Week, which starts today. BMA secretary and second-year medical student Marty Ellington said health issues will be discussed, through a series of films and lectures, in the context of South Africa's apartheid system. "SINCE (the program) was initiated from the medical school, we wanted to deal with health care... but you can't talk about health care, or anything else in South Africa, without discussing apartheid," Ellington said. The disparity in health care in the region - the infant mortality rate for Blacks in South Africa is ten times that for whites - reflects the political and economic inequality which exists in the country, Ellington added. The films and lectures will deal with issues in several countries in southern Africa, including Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique, but will focus on South Africa, Ellington said, because of its status as the predominant economic and military power in the region. ELLINGTON said the week's activities, planned last fall, have become especially timely in light of last week's Michigan Court of Appeals decision to strike down a 1982 law that required state universities to divest their financial holdings in businesses dealing with South Africa. The court's ruling "just makes it ] " Free Pregnancy Testing " Free Counseling " Gynecology " Birth Control - AIl --A* all the more important that people have an understanding of what's happening in South Africa," Ellington said. Divestment is "the only honorable thing for the University to do," he added. A series of films on topics including apartheid, Namibia's struggle for independence, and colonialism in southern Africa will be shown from noon to 1:00 p.m. today through Thursday at the West Lecture Hall of the Medical Science II Building. Also, a film on South African activists Nelson and Winnie Mandela will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Trotter House. SPEAKERS include Lisa Crooms, research director of the American Committee on Africa, who will speak on recent political developments in southern Africa Friday at noon at the West Lecture Hall of the Medical Science II building. At 7:30 on Friday, Dr. Collin McCord of the Mozambique Health Committee and Dr. Salim Abdul- Karim of South Africa's National Medical and Dental Association will conduct a panel discussion., on southern African health care at the University Hospital's Ford Ampitheatre. The American Medical Women's Association, the American Medical Students' Association, Black Student Union, the American Medical Association, and the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee are co-sponsoring the events. CLASSIFIED ADSI Call 764-0557 Low turnout mars health forum By BETH COLQUITT Sparse attendance marred the impact of Markley Hall's first annual Health and Wellness Weekend which organizers hoped would advise students how to cope with the stress of college life. Novelist Norma Klein opened the symposium Friday night by emphasizing the role friends play in dealing with stress. The size of the audience picked up later in the day, but never reached the expectations of the symposium's organizers, Mike Griffel and Brenda Dater, residence staff members at Markley. INDER Soni, an engineering junior who helped coordinate the event, said few people attended the symposium - which cost about $5,000 - because it started too early in the morning. All the workshops had a lower attendance than expected, but the small size allowed the participants to benefit more from the workshops, City contests challen e (continued from Pagel 1)I .rent control proposal, if passed ,would be an ordinance. Charter amendments carry more ant ,.weight than ordinances and can only crt Ibe changed through the ballot. Ordi- As y nances can be created either by city council or by an initiative. mani Robert Henry, the attorney for just g Citizens for Ann Arbor's Future, said flowe the state law applies to both ordi- my V nances and amendments. on V The date for the court hearing has The :not been set. Both the city and Citi- Bouc zens for Ann Arbor's Future would Wes like the issue to be settled quickly so ,the city can have ballots printed for when the April 4 election, Henry said. beau Laidlaw said he does not believe that f the challenge will succeed because, bowl "It's obvious it (the Home Rule Act) Bes only applies to charter amendments.' bouq with penc Soni said. He said no one attended the workshops which started at 10:00 a.m. "You never start anything like this at 10:00 on a Saturday morning. Nobody's awake," he said. Organizers hoped Focus on You would address today's top health issues, centering workshops on mental and physical well-being. IN THE keynote speech, Klein discussed several mental health issues. Both Klein's parents were psychoanalysts. Psychoanalysis was the religion of her family and Sigmund Freud was their God, she said. All through her childhood, at any sign of trouble, her parents rushed her off to see an analyst. Klein suffered a nervous breakdown at her father's death. During her hospital stay, she began to question-male authority figures in her life. As a result, she said, she achieved mental independence and started making her own decisions. Friendships are important because sharing experiences allow one to feel less alone, Klein said. Because friends talk back, they can act as analysts. "I like friendship because it has the intensity and romance of sexual love, without that happening. It can, like marriage, go on forever. It has no rules," she said. THROUGHOUT the day, workshops were held on relationships, dieting, vegetarianism, massage, drugs and drunk driving, and contraception. 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